(单词翻译:单击)
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BBC news with Nick Kelly.
The Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi says at least 120 people have been killed in the earthquake that struck towns and villages in a mountainous region overnight. Rescue teams in central Italy are searching the rubbles for survivors in the provinces of Umbrio, Lazio and Marche.
Turkish-backed Syrian rebels say they've captured the town of Jarablus in a major offensive against Islamic State group. But Turkey says its intervention is not only intended to target IS, it also wants to counter what Ankara regards as a security threat posed by Kurdish militants.
Security forces in the Afghan capital, Kabul, said they are working to clear a private university compound of any remaining attackers, hours after militants launched an attack there. Gunmen got inside the heavily-fortified American University and witnesses reported a huge explosion and volumes of gunfire.
Riot police have been reported of repeated clashes with anti-government protestors in the Zimbabwean capital, Harare. Police used tear gas and water canon to disperse the supporters of the main opposition movement for democratic change, who demanded that Zimbabwe's president, Robert Mugabe, step down.
The Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has signed into a law a bill which caps interest rates charged by commercial banks. Under the new law, banks will be prevented from charging more than 4 percentage points above the central bank's base rate.
The Indian government has unveiled a draft law to ban commercial surrogacy in an attempt to regulate the industry. If approved by parliament, the law will block foreigners, people of Indian origin, single parents and homosexuals from having children through surrogacy.
And space scientists have discovered a planet just outside our solar system that might host life. The leader of the team hailed the discovery of the planet, which is named Proxima b as the experience of a lifetime.
And that's the latest. BBC news.
词汇学习
1.clash with 与……起冲突,与……不协调(可为名词短语或动词短语)
例:Those black shoes clash with that white skirt.
那些黑鞋与那条白色的裙子很不协调 。
2.fortify vt.设防御于……,加强……的防御(文中用的是heavily-fortified)
例:Choose margarine or butter fortified with vitamin D.
选择人造黄油或用维生素D强化了的黄油 。
3.surrogacy n.代孕行为
例:Hanson and Wilson decided on surrogacy after being inspired by another gay couple.
在另一对同志伴侣的启发下,Hanson和Wilson也决定找人代孕 。
4.hail vt.欢迎,称赞,致敬
例:Faulkner has been hailed as the greatest American novelist of his generation.
福克纳被赞颂为他那一代人中最伟大的美国小说家 。
5.counter vt.对抗,抵抗,反驳,还击,抵消
例:The leadership discussed a plan of economic measures to counter the effects of such a blockade.
领导层讨论了一项经济措施计划来抵消如此封锁的影响 。
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