(单词翻译:单击)
听力文本
After an hours-long standoff and siege in Burkina Faso, a terrorist attack by Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb has left at least 23 people dead and 56 injured. The country's government says the victims were from 18 countries.
在布基纳法索长达一个小时的对峙和围攻后，由伊斯兰马格里布基地组织发动的恐怖袭击已造成至少23人死亡、56人受伤。该国政府称遇难者来自18个国家。
At least four terrorists took over a hotel and restaurant near a popular tourist area in the country's capital. Security forces, bolstered by French troops from nearby Mali, eventually stormed the area, releasing 126 hostages and killing the attackers.
首都一处受欢迎的旅游区附近，至少有四名恐怖分子占领了一家酒店和餐馆。最终来自附近马里法国支持的安全部队猛攻该地区，释放出了126名人质并将袭击者击毙。
Witnesses say they played dead in the restaurant as the terrorists fired their weapons; some witnesses reported hearing grenades and detonations. One woman told the press, "they would come back and see if the white people were moving and then they would shoot them again." No official motive has been named for the attack.
目击者称，恐怖分子开火时他们装死，一些目击者称听到手榴弹爆炸的声音。一位妇女告诉媒体，他们会回来的，如果看到还有人在动，他们会再次开枪射击。此次袭击事件没有官方动机。
The U.S. State Department released a statement saying it was doing everything it could "to account for U.S. citizens in the city." The U.K. has warned its citizens to stay away from the area where the attack took place.
美国国务院发布了一份声明称，正在尽一切努力对该城市的美国公民负责。英国警告其公民远离袭击事件发生地。
The same group who claimed responsibility for this attack also took credit for a very similar attack on a hotel in Mali last November that left at least 22 people dead.
声称对此次袭击事件负责的相同组织同样对去年马里一酒店造成22人死亡的袭击事件负责。
Burkina Faso has announced a 72-hour mourning period in response to the attack.
布基纳法索宣布哀悼72小时。
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词汇解析
1、take over
接收，接管(公司)
A British newspaper says British Airways plan to take over Trans World Airways.
一家英国报纸称，英国航空公司计划接管环球航空公司。
(武力)占领，接管，控制
The Belgians took over Rwanda under a League of Nations mandate.
比利时人依照国际联盟的授权接管了卢旺达。
The parliament in Madrid was taken over by civil guards.
马德里议会大厦被国民警卫队接管了。
接替;接任;接手
His widow has taken over the running of his empire, including six London theatres.
他的遗孀已接手管理他创下的帝国，其中包括 6 家伦敦剧院。
In 1966, Pastor Albertz took over from him as governing mayor.
1966 年，帕斯特·艾伯茨接替他担任主管市长。
取代;代替;占上风
Cars gradually took over from horses.
汽车逐渐替代了马匹。
When the final vote came, rationality took over.
最后一轮投票时，理性占了上风。
2、account for
（数量或比例上）占
Computers account for 5% of the country's commercial electricity consumption.
计算机占去该国商业用电的5%。
为…提出理由;对…作出说明
How do you account for the company's alarmingly high staff turnover?
你怎么解释这家公司高得令人忧虑的人员流动率？
He said only 200 of the train's 600 passengers had been accounted for.
他说火车上的600名乘客中仅有200名乘客的信息得已查明。
导致；解释
Now, the gene they discovered today doesn't account for all those cases.
不过，他们现在发现的基因无法解释所有的病例。
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