VOA常速英语2008年-Rocket Fire Ends Brief Lull in Israeli-Palestin
时间：2019-01-11 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2008年（三月）
Jerusalem
13 March 2008
A brief lull 1 in Israeli-Palestinian fighting is over. As Robert Berger reports from VOA's Jerusalem bureau, a new spike 2 in violence is eroding 3 hopes for a ceasefire.
The Islamic Jihad group fired rockets at Israel from the Gaza Strip, ending a week-long lull as Egypt worked to mediate 4 a truce 5. The rocket fire came in response to a daring attack by Israeli undercover troops in the West Bank town of Bethlehem. The troops spotted 6 a car with four wanted Palestinian militants 8 and killed them in a hail of bullets.
The local commander of the Islamic Jihad was among the dead. Israel said he was responsible for dozens of attacks on Israeli soldiers and civilians 9, including suicide bombings.
The Islamic militant 7 group Hamas, which rules Gaza, accused Israel of torpedoing 10 efforts for a ceasefire.
"My advice, my recommendation to Israeli policy makers 11 [is] to rethink about the peaceful approach," said Hamas spokesman Ahmed Yousef. "It is better than this belligerent 12 approach.
But Israeli Defense 13 Minister Ehud Barak said the army ambush 14 in Bethlehem was justified 15.
Speaking at a military ceremony, Barak said Israel would continue to pursue and strike at terrorists in Bethlehem, in Gaza and wherever they are.
The Bethlehem ambush came hours after Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh set out terms for a truce. He demanded that Israel halt military activity in all the Palestinian territories and lift its crippling blockade on Gaza.
But Israel is reluctant. It fears that halting raids in the West Bank will lead to Palestinian suicide bombings in its cities. And Israel believes that a truce in Gaza will enable Hamas and other militant groups to re-arm for the next round of conflict.
- The drug put Simpson in a lull for thirty minutes.药物使辛普森安静了30分钟。
- Ground fighting flared up again after a two-week lull.经过两个星期的平静之后，地面战又突然爆发了。
- The spike pierced the receipts and held them in order.那个钉子穿过那些收据并使之按顺序排列。
- They'll do anything to spike the guns of the opposition.他们会使出各种手段来挫败对手。
- The coast is slowly eroding. 海岸正慢慢地被侵蚀。
- Another new development is eroding the age-old stereotype of the male warrior. 另一个新现象是，久已形成的男人皆武士的形象正逐渐消失。
- The state must mediate the struggle for water resources.政府必须通过调解来解决对水资源的争夺。
- They may be able to mediate between parties with different interests.他们也许能在不同利益政党之间进行斡旋。
- The hot weather gave the old man a truce from rheumatism.热天使这位老人暂时免受风湿病之苦。
- She had thought of flying out to breathe the fresh air in an interval of truce.她想跑出去呼吸一下休战期间的新鲜空气。
- The milkman selected the spotted cows,from among a herd of two hundred.牛奶商从一群200头牛中选出有斑点的牛。
- Sam's shop stocks short spotted socks.山姆的商店屯积了有斑点的短袜。
- Some militant leaders want to merge with white radicals.一些好斗的领导人要和白人中的激进派联合。
- He is a militant in the movement.他在那次运动中是个激进人物。
- The militants have been sporadically fighting the government for years. 几年来，反叛分子一直对政府实施零星的战斗。
- Despite the onslaught, Palestinian militants managed to fire off rockets. 尽管如此，巴勒斯坦的激进分子仍然发射导弹。
- the bloody massacre of innocent civilians 对无辜平民的血腥屠杀
- At least 300 civilians are unaccounted for after the bombing raids. 遭轰炸袭击之后，至少有300名平民下落不明。
- The makers of the product assured us that there had been no sacrifice of quality. 这一产品的制造商向我们保证说他们没有牺牲质量。
- The makers are about to launch out a new product. 制造商们马上要生产一种新产品。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- He had a belligerent aspect.他有种好斗的神色。
- Our government has forbidden exporting the petroleum to the belligerent countries.我们政府已经禁止向交战国输出石油。
- The accused has the right to defense.被告人有权获得辩护。
- The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers.战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。
- Our soldiers lay in ambush in the jungle for the enemy.我方战士埋伏在丛林中等待敌人。
- Four men led by a sergeant lay in ambush at the crossroads.由一名中士率领的四名士兵埋伏在十字路口。