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BBC新闻讲解附字幕:英国禁止索马里飞机入境(2010-11-5)查看原文第一部分：听力文本BBC News with Marion MarshallBritish security officials say the crucial tip-off on the parcel bombs addressed to a Chicago synagogue and discovered on cargo planes on Friday came from a suspected al-Qaeda member. The man is a Saudi Arabian national.More from our security correspondent Gordon Corera.It appears that a member of al-Qaeda who had been to the Saudi rehabilitation programme,then left and went and joined al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula in Yemen,but then left again and left the al-Qaeda grouping and returned to the Saudi authorities.About two weeks ago,we think,and with him came a tip-off and the intelligence about this potential plot which was then shared by the Saudis with American and other authorities,and clearly that was vital because if these devices had got through the initial security screening,and so without that tip-off,they may well have exploded.The British government has introduced new security restrictions in the wake of the parcel bomb discovery.Air passengers will no longer be able to carry printer cartridges in their hand luggage and no unaccompanied air cargo will be allowed into Britain from Somalia.Campaigning is drawing to a close across the United States in national elections that will decide control of Congress.Opinion polls suggest President Barack Obama’s Democratic Party could lose control of the House of Representatives,but the campaign for the Senate is expected to be much tighter.More from Jonny Dymond.After a frantic final four-state swing,President Obama has spent this last day before the elections in the White House,recording radio interviews and rallying volunteers by phone.Up and down the country,the airwaves are heavy with blast and counter-blast from candidates who have outspent any that have come before them.One non-partisan group estimates that the final spend on this election will be$4billion.President Barack Obama has renewed American sanctions against Sudan for another year in an effort to keep the pressure on Khartoum to resolve the conflicts in the country.But a spokesman said the US would reconsider its approach if there was progress in resolving a bitter North-South dispute and improve the humanitarian situation in Darfur.The electoral commission in Ivory Coast has said the turnout in Sunday’s presidential election was about80%,a figure it called“historic”.The election,the first in ten years,is aimed at bringing an end to a civil war which left Ivory Coast divided for several years.John James reports from Abidjan.So far only results for Ivorians who voted outside the country have been partially published.They suggest a second round between current President Laurent Gbagbo and former International Monetary Fund economist Alassane Ouattara.But these results represent a tiny percentage of the overall electorate.A large proportion of the country’s5.7million voters came out to cast their ballots on Sunday,creating long queues in front of many of the voting centres.The head of UN peacekeeping mission said the turnout was one of the highest-ever in Africa.BBC News.American health authorities say the cholera strain which has killed more than330people in Haiti most closely resembles a strain found in South Asia.The US Centre for Disease Control found that Haitian cholera patients had all been infected by the same strain of the disease.The Haitian health minister said it was unlikely to have originated in Haiti.A judge in Uganda has ordered a newspaper to stop publishing the names,addresses and photographs of people it says are homosexual.A Uganda gay rights group minortity requested the injunction after the newspaper published for a second time the identities of some people it said were homosexual.A spokesperson for the group,Pepe Julian Onziema,said the newspaper caused a lot of problems in the gay community."It created a lot of scare.The community were very afraid.For myself,it was like'I cannot keep only living in fear in this country'.My rights have been violated by me being outed in that paper, and my colleagues as well."The newspaper editor last month defended his decision to name homosexuals,saying they were trying to recruit children.The Turkish Kurd militant group,the PKK,has said it had nothing to do with a suicide bomb attack in Istanbul on Sunday,in which32people were wounded.The group said it was out of the question that any of its fighters could carry out a bombing which would hurt civilians.Police in Northern Ireland say a bomb discovered in a car at Belfast International Airport at the weekend could have been there since last year.The device,found in the long-stay car park near the airport,was found to contain flammable liquid.It was made safe by a bomb disposal team.The Catholic Church in Cuba says the government has agreed to release three more dissidents. One of the men has served more than25years in jail for stealing seven rifles when he was19 years old.Under the deal brokered by the church,the three would be exiled in Spain.BBC World Service News提示：文本转自普特听力论坛第二部分：参考翻译周五，一架货运飞机上发现了寄送到芝加哥犹太会堂的炸弹包裹。

BBC双语新闻讲解附字幕：四川茂县发生山体滑坡Rescue workers in Pakistan say at least 125 people have died after an oil tanker caught fire. Many others are in a critical condition in hospital. The blaze started after the tanker overturned in Punjab province.Rescue officials in China have cautioned that it's unlikely anyone else would be found alive after a huge landslide in China's Sichuan province that destroyed a mountain village. A couple and their baby were found in the early hours after the landslide on Saturday. More than 100 people are thought to be dead.The Philippine military is observing a temporary ceasefire in its war against militants in Marawi in the south of the country. It's to allow the predominantly Muslim population displaced by the fighting to celebrate the end of Ramadan.China has called on Afghanistan and Pakistan to meet each other half way to improve their troubled relationship. China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi said China would support both countries in setting up a mechanism to manage crisis.The Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said a list of demands presented to Qatar by its Gulf neighbors is against international law because it interferes in the country's sovereignty. Qatar has described the demands as unreasonable.The spiritual head of the Anglican church has called on the British Prime Minister to set up a cross party commission as a way of, as he puts it, drawing much of the poison from the debate about how Britain leaves the European Union. The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby said the Brexit continued to divide the country.South Korea's President has proposed that North and South Korea form a joint Olympic team to take part in the 2018 Winter Games. Moon Jae-in said he hoped to return to periods when the 2 countries submitted joint teams at international sporting events or march together at Olympic ceremonies.BBC News.。

“孔子才没说一定得什么都听父母啊。

”BBC的纪录片《我们的孩子足够坚强吗?——中国式课堂》第二集在当地时间8月11日晚8点播出后，又在微博上引起了刷屏与吐槽。

这一次，网友不再仅仅聚焦在中英教育孰优孰劣上，更多人质疑片中的戏剧成分：孔子何时说过一定得听父母?现在的中国教师有这么专制?节目是不是在哗众取宠?在第二集中，学生课堂上开始公然反对老师：“父母才不是什么时候都对!”“我觉得每一个人都要去做自己，而不是去适应别人。

”他们的纪律也濒临崩溃，有学生在课上烧水喝茶，中国老师情绪逐渐失控。

在这部被BBC形容为“一场战争”的纪录片第二集，英国学生显示出了更大的反叛，似乎一切都在往不可控的方向发展。

不过，近日BBC回复澎湃新闻时援引博航特校长原话表示，参加这个项目的学生们很享受课程，也收获了很多，“我最近联系了其中一位老师，她写信给我说她有多喜欢博航特中学和她在这里的学生，她认为这段经历升华了她的教师生涯”。

BBC也回应了有关纪录片真实性的质疑：为了呈现学生们对中式教育的真实反映，我们设立固定的摄像机，拍摄保证不影响正常学习生活，并严格遵循“中式学校”的作息时间。

该项目试图探索的不只是课程和教学方式中的区别，更是两国的文化差异。

学生当堂反驳“父母永远是对的”第二集在一片东倒西歪的学生中开场：为了加强学生爱国意识，中国教师将升旗仪式带到了博航特中学。

理化教师杨君认为，“中国的教育不仅仅是在教学生知识，它更加重视对学生的思想熏陶与情操陶冶。

我们教他们如何成为一个明事理，有责任感的祖国下一代。

”然而面对英国国旗，英国学生笑得前俯后仰，一副心不在焉，急得杨君大喊，“能不能站好别动。

”女生Holly认为这是一个很无聊的举动：“我不觉得这有什么意义，反正就是将旗子升上去，然后呢?反正也不会有人去看它，因为学校禁止我们接近操场。

”第二集中，最让网友诟病的情节出现在英语(精品课)老师李爱云身上。

这名来自南京外国语学校的特级教师，在思想品德课上告诉学生：“在孔子思想中，父母永远是对的。

BBC内部文化与其公众立场不一致？上任仅8周，乔治·恩特威斯尔（George Entwistle）就要离开BBC（英国广播公司）总裁的位置。

迫使恩特威斯尔引咎辞职的，是10天前的一次“播出事故”。

BBC网站关于BBC介绍的页面上，至今还显示着恩特威斯尔的一张大幅照片以及他的辞职声明。

离开45万英镑年薪的职位，结束从底层开始奋斗了23年的BBC职业生涯，恩特威斯尔在简短的声明中不忘回忆刚得知被任命时的心情。

他说他曾坚信，为BBC 迎接未来的挑战和机遇，委员会做了最好的人员选择。

然而，才过去8周，他不得不表示：“BBC应该任命一位新总裁了。

”导致恩特威斯尔“闪电离职”的，是过去几周BBC的“丑闻”——《新闻之夜》（News Night）关于英国前保守党上议院议员卷入儿童性侵犯丑闻的失误报道；上个月在媒体中已经掀起巨大波澜的BBC前主持人萨维尔(Jimmy Savile)涉嫌性骚扰一案。

恩特威斯尔将这一系列事件称为“全然异常的事件”。

而这些“异常事件”正使得BBC公信力受到空前挑战。

《泰晤士报》称，恩特威斯尔的辞职让BBC陷入成立90年来最严重的危机。

该报援引下议院文化委员会主席惠廷德尔（John Whittingdale）的话称，BBC在全球享有非常高的声誉是因其新闻报道真实、可信度高，但现在，“这种公信力已严重受损”。

公信力受损《新闻之夜》每天晚上10点30分在BBC第二频道播出，是在BBC有32年历史的黄金节目。

11月2日晚，《新闻之夜》播出了关于批评威尔士一家调查机构的节目，其中节目采访了史蒂夫·梅斯汉姆，一名虐童受害者，在谈到自己童年时候遭到性侵犯的过程中，他提到了上世纪80年代，他曾在威尔士的一家儿童福利院内，遭到过保守党一名资深政治家的性侵犯。

后来他又纠正说，在警方出示施虐者照片时，他认错了人。

虽然该采访中梅斯汉姆并未直接说出那名政客的名字，但节目播出后，保守党上议院议员麦卡尔平（Lord McAlpine）的名字在网上被广泛地与该案牵扯在一起，造成极坏影响。

BBC News with Jonathan Izard.The United States says the Congolese war crime suspect Bosco Ntaganda has handed himself in at the US embassy in Rwanda and asked to be transferred to the International Criminal Court, the ICC, in The Hague. Our East Africa correspondent Gabriel Gatehouse reports.Bosco Ntaganda walked into the US embassy in Kigali on Monday morning unsolicited according to an official statement from Washington. Neither the United States nor Rwanda is a signatory to the ICC, but a spokeswoman for the state department said the US supported the work of the court and would aim to facilitate his transferal to The Hague. The charges against Gen Ntaganda, who’s nicknamed The Terminator, include rape, murder and the recruitment of child soldiers. They relate not to the current rebellion in the eastern Congo, but to an earlier conflict in the same region.A legal case has begun in New York that challenges the way the city’s po lice conduct a policy of detaining and sometimes searching those they consider suspicious. Critics say the operations known as “stop and frisk” disproportionately target black and Hispanic men. But the policy’s supporters say it’s contributed to a sharp drop in violent crime. Here’s our North America correspondent Jonny Dymond.More than half a million people were stopped on the streets of New York City last year by police. The policy is legal. But now opponents want the way that it’s put into action exam ined and reformed. More than half of those stopped are black, only a quarter of the city’s residents are. A lawyer for the organisation that started the case, the Center for Constitutional Rights, described the stops as a frightening and degrading experience that were arbitrary, unnecessary and unconstitutional.The jailed Kurdish separatist leader Abdullah Ocalan says he’s to make a historic statement on Thursday, raising hopes that he might call a ceasefire after decades of conflict with the Turkish government. James Reynolds sent this report from Istanbul.A delegation of Kurdish MPs was allowed to go and see Abdullah Ocalan in prison. The politicians took back with them to Istanbul a statement from the PKK’s leader. Abdullah Ocalan said that he would make a call, or announcement, during traditional Kurdish New Year celebrations on Thursday. This call will feature satisfactory information on the political and military aspects of the solution, he wrote. Most here take this to mean that Mr Ocalan will call a ceasefire and may also announce the withdrawal of armed PKK fighters from Turkey to their main base across the border in northern Iraq.Finance ministers from the eurozone have asked Cyprus to protect small investors from a proposed levy on savings. Plans for a one-off tax of nearly seven per cent on savings up to 100,000 euros have outraged Cypriots. Banks in Cyprus are to remain closed until Thursday as efforts to revise an international bailout package continue. A parliamentary vote on the package has been repeatedly postponed. It’s now expected on Tuesday.World News from the BBC.The British Prime Minister David Cameron has presented the plan to regulate the press in the wake of a series of scandals over phone hacking by journalists. Mr Cameron told parliament that the plan agreed overnight by Britain’s main political parties would set up a watchdog that could impose heavy fines on newspapers and force them to publish corrections. The leader of the opposition Labour party Ed Miliband said the agreement satisfied the demands of protection for victims and freedom of the press."I don’t want to live in a country where sections of the press can abuse their power to wreak havoc on the lives of innocent people. And equally I want to live in a country that upholds the right of a fearless, angry, controversial press that holds the powerful to account, including in this House. Today’s agreement protects the victims and upholds a free press.”The Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner has made a direct appeal to Pope Francis to intervene on the dispute between her country and Britain over the Falkland Islands. At an audience with the Pope at the Vatican, the Argentine leader said she wanted him to get involved. She accused Britain of militarising the islands. It’s not known how the Pope, who is from Argentina, responded to the appeal. Argentina claims sovereignty over the islands.The Supreme Court in Colombia has revoked a presidential decree which allowed abortions in cases of rape, malformation or risk to the mother’s health. The judge said the decree issued in 2006 was illegal because it meddled in areas for which no law had ever been passed. But a separate constitutional court ruling holds that clinics cannot refuse abortions in such cases.The Bangladesh Cricket Board has banned an international umpire Nadir Shah from the sport for 10 years after finding him guilty of corruption. The board launched an inquiry after a report by an Indian television station alleged that Mr Shah and others were willing to help fix matches in return for bribes. Nadir Shah denies the charges and says he will appeal.BBC News.Jonathan Izard为您报道BBC新闻。

BBC新闻讲解附字幕:IMF警告美国尽快解决债务危机(2011-07-29)第一部分：听力文本BBC News with Marion MarshallAbout100,000people have gathered in the centre of the Norwegian capital Oslo to remember victims of the attacks,which killed76people on Friday.Many carried flowers;others hugged each other as they sang hymns.From Oslo,Steve Evans.Tens of thousands of people,or one estimated100,000people,have been walking quietly through the streets of Oslo.Most are carrying flowers,and occasionally they hold them aloft as though they are torches.People are congregating at the edge of the cordoned-off zone where the bomb shatter ed buildings,though the barriers have been moved back through the day,leaving a small remaining cordoned area of the worst damage in the city centre.Many more people are congregating at the cathedral in a dense quiet mass of people.Norwegian police are now investigating the possibility of a wider plot after the man accused of carrying out the attacks,Anders Behring Breivik,told a court he was part of a network,including two other cells.The Prime Minister of Norway,Jens Stoltenberg,has said he believes Norway will be changed by Friday's killings,but it will remain an open and democratic society.Speaking to the BBC,Mr Stoltenberg said he'd been due to speak at the island youth camp the day after the shootings and knew personally some of those who were killed or wounded."I knew many of them,and I also knew many of the parents,relatives,friends of those who died. People in Norway are in deep grief.They are still shocked.But we also see a Norway which is very unified and where people are standing together to comfort each other and to take care of each other."The International Monetary Fund has warned the United States that it must resolve its debt crisis quickly or risk a severe shock to the American economy.The IMF said that if American lawmakers failed to agree a new debt ceiling by next week,it would also affect global financial markets.From Washington,Mark Mardell has more.America is this close to the brink because of the ideological chasm between President Obama's Democrats and the newly reinvigorated Republicans,who are in control of the House of Representatives after last year's mid-term elections.Many of the new Republican members were backed by the economically conservative Tea Party movement and campaigned promising to deal with America's ballooning debt and what they see as bloated government spending.Most expect a last-minute deal will be done,but it won't be easy when the system means the two parties have to agree and the political reality is there's very little common ground.President Obama has announced a new strategy to combat international organised crime,saying it represents a growing threat to the United States and its allies.In an executive order,Mr Obama imposed economic sanctions including an asset freeze on four criminal groups:the Italian Camorra,the Japanese Yakuza,the Mexican drugs cartel Los Zetas and the Brothers'Circle,based largely across the former Soviet Union.BBC NewsFlooding in eastern Ghana has forced about10,000people to flee from their homes and has left four people dead.A regional disaster coordination official described the situation as"getting outof hand".He said the Birim River in the eastern region had burst its banks.Several of the main organisers of last week's anti-government protests in Malawi have gone into hiding.Nineteen people were killed in violence as security forces were deployed during demonstrations against the high cost of living.President Bingu wa Mutharika said he would,as he put it,"smoke out"the organisers if they returned to the streets.But one has told the BBC that activists will not be intimidate d.The Vatican has taken the rare step of recalling its ambassador to Ireland amid unprecedented tension with the Irish government over the issue of child abuse by Roman Catholic priests.It follows strong criticism of the Church by the Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny after a report was published accusing the Church of sabotag ing an investigation into the rape of children.Our Ireland correspondent Mark Simpson reports.The historic bond between the Irish government and the Vatican is no more.In fact,where once there was affection,there's now a confrontation.The unprecedented attack on the Church last week by the Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny was designed to provoke a response.The Vatican is taking its time before doing so.But by recalling its papal nuncio from Dublin in order to take part in consultations in Rome,it is publicly recognising the seriousness of the situation.The Turkish Football Federation has delayed the start of the new season for five weeks while investigations continue into match-fixing allegations involving some of the country's leading clubs. The first game in Turkey's top league will now be played on9September.More than30people have been remanded in custody,including the chairman of the champions Fenerbahce.BBC World Service News提示：文本转自普特听力论坛第二部分：参考翻译大约100,000人聚集在挪威首都奥斯陆中心，纪念在周五的袭击中遇难的76人。

BBC新闻讲解附字幕:金正日之子被委以重任(2010-10-4)查看原文第一部分：听力文本BBC News with Jonathan Wheatley.The youngest son of the North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has been appointed to two top jobs.Kim Jong-un was named as a member of the central committee of the ruling Workers'Party and also included in the National Defence Commission.He had already been made a four-star general,and the promotions are widely seen as the beginning of a gradual transfer of power from Kim Jong-il to his son.Andre Vornic reports.At27or28-even his age is a mystery-Kim Jong-un may now be the most senior young man on the planet.Of the three posts,the Defence Commission one is key.It is the highest policy-making body in this most militarized of countries.Taken together,Mr Kim's three new jobs mark him out as the future leader of a state that is isolated as it's ever been.But unlike during the previous dynastic transition,it now also comes with nuclear weapons and a collapsed society.A landslide triggered by heavy rain has engulfed a town in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, burying about300homes as residents slept.A municipal official,Cipriano Gomez,said more than 100people were known to be missing,but many more were feared buried.Julian Miglierini reports from Mexico City.Speaking on the only functioning phone line in the town,Mr Gomez described a disastrous scene in Santa Maria Tlahuitoltepec.It's thought300homes have been buried by the collapsed hillside, and rescue teams sent by the federal government have yet to arrive in the isolated area."We are doing what we can to advance the rescue operation,"Mr Gomez said.But rain continues to fall, and there are fears that other landslides could occur.Therefore,Mr Gomez said that they were organizing a massive evacuation to higher ground.The United Nations says only a third of the people in the world who need life-saving drugs to fight HIV are actually getting them.The World Health Organization and two other UN agencies said only eight developing countries,including Cambodia,Romania and Rwanda,had met the target of providing access to antiretroviral drugs by2010.Jane Dreaper reports.The WHO,Unicef and the UN's Aids programme estimate that5.25million people in developing countries now receive vital combination therapy to slow down HIV.That represents more than a million extra patients in the past year,but the agencies believe14.5million people in total need drug treatment,so the gap remains big despite some of the strides that have been made by getting more medicine to pregnant women to prevent them from passing HIV to their babies.A court in Iran has sentenced an Iranian-Canadian blogger,Hossein Derakhshan,to more than19 years in prison.The media advocacy group Reporters Without Borders said it was the longest sentence ever handed to a blogger in Iran.Mr Derakhshan was arrested during a visit to the country in2008.Local reports say he was accused of spying for Israel.World News from the BBC.The former Prime Minister of Iceland Geir Haarde is to face a special court over his role in the country's financial crisis.The Icelandic parliament narrowly voted to send Mr Haarde before the court,which will decide whether he should be charged with alleged negligence.A report commissioned by the parliament earlier this year found that more should have been done to limit the damage from the collapse of Iceland's biggest banks in2008.In his first major speech since becoming leader of Britain's opposition Labour Party,Ed Miliband has said the party must change,learn from its mistakes and win back the trust of voters.He was speaking at the party's annual conference five months after Labour lost the general election.Mr Miliband said Labour should have done far more to reduce the disparity in the incomes of rich and poor people in Britain."This is something we didn't confront in government.You see,the gap between rich and poor does matter,and it doesn't just harm the poor;it harms all of us.If you look at those societies that are healthiest,happiest,most secure,it is the more equal societies.And what does it say about the values of our society?What have we become that a banker can earn in a day what a care worker earns in a year.It's wrong conference."About100,000people have marched in Pakistan's southern city of Karachi,demanding the release of a scientist imprisoned in the United States.The woman,Aafia Siddiqui who's a neuroscientist, was sentenced last week by a New York court to86years in prison.She has been convicted of the attempted murder of US government agents in Afghanistan.Gunmen in southern Nigeria have abducted15school children and demanded a ransom of nearly $130,000for their release.The children were seized when their bus was hijacked in the town of Aba in Abia state on the edge of the oil-rich Niger Delta.Nigerian police said they'd launched a big operation to rescue the children.BBC World Service News提示：文本转自普特听力论坛第二部分：参考翻译朝鲜领导人金正日最小的儿子金正银被委任两项重要职务。

BBC新闻听力BBC 10.30 :犯错后如何改正错误Scotland awoke yesterday a broken-hearted and bewildered nation.苏格兰整个国家都陷入心碎和迷茫。

given a cat’s chance by anybody, were leading the mighty Australia with a minute to go.原本没有任何悬念，离比赛结束一分钟的时候还领先于强大的澳大利亚。

A borderline penalty was given against them, which wasn’t referred to the television referee for a second opinion, and they lost by a single point.他们被判边界发球，并没有向电视裁判征求意见，他们以一分之差落败。

The after-game is half the fun. The chat often settles on blaming the referee.比赛后的讨论也有一半的乐趣。

聊天的焦点通常是谴责裁判。

We just need the same rules for everybody.’我们只是想要所有人遵守同样的规则。

”follow the letter of the law?遵守法律条文？You should let the game flow and not blow the whistle all the time.’你应该让比赛顺畅地进行下去，而不是总是吹哨。

”they’re expressing the two rival schools of ethics.他们表达的是两种敌对的伦理学派。

setting aside anxiety about right and wrong, and instead evaluating which course of action is likely to produce the most positive consequences.另外一个学派是关于结果的——抛开关于对错多的焦虑，而是评估哪种行为可能产生最积极的影响。

BBC新闻100篇BBC News Item 1[ti:][ar:][al:][by:人人听力网][00:00.00]The BBC has learned that the British Prime Minister Gordon Brown [00:03.44]has decided that the British general election will take place on May 6th. [00:07.56]Mr. Brown will go to Buckingham Palace tomorrow Tuesday[00:11.41]to ask Queen Elizabeth to dissolve parliament,[00:13.53]and then make a formal announcement of the election date.[00:16.34]That will start the official election campaign,[00:18.96]which, a BBC correspondent says,[00:21.32]will be dominated by issues of taxation and spending[00:24.31]in the wake of the global recession.BBC新闻100篇BBC News Item 2[ti:][ar:][al:][by:人人听力网][00:00.00]Less than six months before a general election in Britain,[00:04.71]the governing Labour Party is embroiled again in internal strife.[00:08.20]Two former cabinet ministers have called for secret ballot of members [00:12.11]to decide whether the Prime Minister Gordon Brown[00:14.66]should continue as party leader.[00:16.53]Mr. Brown has called a general election by June this year.[00:19.27]Our political correspondent Rob Watson reports.[00:22.44]The two former cabinet ministers Geoff Hoon and Patricia Hewitt [00:26.98]had stunned everyone at Westminster[00:29.22]with their last-minute efforts to challenge Gordon Brown's leadership. [00:32.64]But Downing Street and Labour Party officials[00:35.81]have moved quickly to quash any revolts.[00:38.18]Most importantly, current cabinet ministers[00:42.03]have come out and backed the prime minister,[00:44.40]orbiting some cases with little apparent enthusiasm.[00:48.19]So the latest challenge looks likely to be short lift.[00:51.86]Although many within the Labour Party doubt[00:54.60]Mr. Brown's leadership qualities,[00:56.28]they also seem to think it would only make things worse[00:59.58]to get rid of him before the general election.[ti:] BBC新闻100篇 BBC News Item 3[ar:][al:][by:人人听力网][00:00.00]The British Prime Minister Gordon Brown[00:03.89]is offering to scale back Britain's nuclear deterrence[00:06.81]if an international agreement is reached[00:09.30]to cut the world's nuclear arsenals.[00:11.35]Mr. Brown is expected to tell a special[00:13.72]session of the United Nations Security Council on Thursday [00:17.14]that he'll be willing to give up one of four royal navy submarines [00:21.24]that carry Trident nuclear missiles.[00:23.23]Officials are insisting that cost isn't a factor here.[00:26.47]Here's our defence correspondent Nick Childs.[00:28.58]Gordon Brown is saying he'll be ready to[00:31.51]throw part of the trident force into the port[00:33.37]in the context of a much bigger global disarmament deal.[00:35.92]He said so in general terms before.[00:38.60]This offer though is more concrete.[00:40.59]There is a growing sense that to avoid what some fear[00:44.07]could be a sudden cascade of new nuclear states,[00:46.50]the established nuclear powers need to do more[00:48.99]in terms of disarmament[00:50.35]to keep the proliferation regime intact.[00:52.34]The Prime Minister will hope his move[00:54.40]will be seen as an important gesture.[00:56.08]But the key to the process will be the actions of the big players, [00:59.44]the United States and Russia.BBC新闻100篇BBC News Item 4[ti:][ar:][al:][by:人人听力网][00:00.00]The British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is expected to confirm [00:04.60]that he is sending hundreds more troops to Afghanistan,[00:07.09]bringing the total number of British troops there to about 9,500.[00:10.76]Britain has the second largest NATO contingent in Afghanistan[00:15.12]after the United States.[00:16.92]Our defense correspondent Caroline Wyatt reports.[00:19.41]In his statement on Afghanistan,[00:21.90]it's believed Mr. Brown will say he's agreed in principle[00:24.26]to send around 500 extra British troops to Helmand.[00:27.74]The military advice says that extra forces are needed[00:30.67]to help maintain progress[00:31.97]and dominate the ground more effectively[00:34.03]to keep the Taliban out of key areas.[00:36.08]However, there will be caveats.[00:38.50]The Prime Minister will want assurances from military chiefs[00:41.37]that the extra troops will be properly equipped.[00:44.10]But he'll also expect Britain's NATO partners to follow suit[00:47.27]by offering more forces themselves.[00:49.33]NATO defense ministers are likely to discuss troop levels[00:52.69]on a meeting formally in Bratislava next week.BBC新闻100篇 BBC News Item 5[ti:][ar:][al:][by:人人听力网][00:00.00]Stock markets in Europe and the United States have fallen sharply [00:04.11]in response to further signs that the debt crisis in Greece is intensifying [00:08.46]and could spread to other countries.[00:10.51]Share prices in New York, London, Frankfurt and Paris[00:13.81]fell by more than 2% after a major international credit rating agency [00:18.41]Standard & Poor's downgraded Greek debt[00:21.40]to a level known informally as junk.[00:23.33]Nils Blythe has more.[00:24.82]Standard & Poor's downgraded its assessment[00:27.56]of Greek bonds to the so-called junk status[00:30.04]because of the growing danger[00:31.97]that the bond holders will not be paid back in full.[00:34.59]Many big investment funds have rules[00:37.45]that forbid them from holding junk bonds,[00:39.13]says the move is likely to trigger a further round of selling.[00:42.17]Share markets have taken fright,[00:44.16]fearing that if Greece does default on its debts,[00:46.78]it would hit many European banks which hold Greek bonds[00:50.01]and could trigger a wider financial crisis.[00:52.75]Already pressure is mounting on Portugal[00:55.86]which has also seen its credit rating downgraded today,[00:58.84]although it remains above junk status.BBC新闻100篇BBC News Item 6[ti:][ar:][al:][by:人人听力网][00:00.00]The International Monetary Fund[00:02.91]has told governments across the world[00:04.46]that further action is needed[00:06.08]to help return the global financial system to stability.[00:08.75]In a fresh estimate of the scale of the problem,[00:11.37]the IMF says global losses on toxic assets[00:14.35]could total four trillion dollars. Andrew Walker reports.[00:18.02]This report does identify[00:20.26]what it calls some early signs of stabilization in financial systems,[00:23.56]but there are not many of them.[00:25.55]And the IMF says further action will be needed[00:27.79]if they're to be sustained.[00:29.41]In two key areas, it says that progress by governments[00:32.45]has been piecemeal and reactive,[00:34.44]dealing with the problem assets held by financial institutions[00:37.43]and how to handle banks that need extra capital.[00:40.67]For that problem the report says[00:42.97]temporary government ownership may sometime be necessary.英语名篇名段背诵精华 07 ShakespeareShakespeare is above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of nature; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life. His characters are not modified by the customs of particular places, unpractised by the rest of the world; by the peculiarities of studies or professions, which can operate but upon small numbers; or by the accidents of transient fashions or temporary opinions: they are the genuine progeny of common humanity, such as the world will always supply, and observation will always find. His persons act and speak by the influnce of those general passions and principles by which all minds are agitated, and the whole system of life is continued in motion. In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual; in those of Shakespeare it is commonly a species.Except from The Major Works by Sammuel Johnson参考译文莎士比亚的才华高于一切作家，至少高于当今的所有作家。

BBC新闻讲解附字幕:援救人员开始从“协和号”游轮上抽取燃油BBC News with Gaenor HowellsPolice and protesters in Greece have fought pitched battles outside parliament in Athens as MPs debated another round of austerity measures. Police fired tear gas at demonstrators who hurled stones, petrol bombs and flares. Several buildings were set ablaze. One person at the demonstrations, Thomas Lamaris, explained why he was protesting."Mainly we're against our politicians. They decide for us without asking us. They don't make elections. They don't make the referendum. They don't give a damn about the people."Parliament is expected to vote in the next few hours on further budget cuts needed if Greece is to secure billions of dollars more in bailout money from the European Union and the International Monetary Fund. Mark Lowen, in Athens, sent this assessment.In reality, the bailout package is likely to pass because the coalition commands a large majority of MPs inside the parliamentary chamber, so even if there is a rebellion of sorts, it will probably still win the majority approval. But all eyes really among Europe are on Athens tonight because if Greece were to declare bankruptcy, to potentially leave the euro, then the whole ideological basis of the European project could start to unravel. This is where Europe's sovereign debt crisis began about two years ago, and once again tonight, Athens is taking centre stage.在希腊雅典，议员们就新一轮紧缩政策进行辩论之时，警察和抗议者在国会外面发生冲突。