President Obama has urged Americans to reject despair over racial tension, saying the nationis not as divided as it seems. He was speaking at a memorial service for five Dallas policemenshot dead by a sniper who want to avenge the killing of black man by police. Mr. Obama said the police should not be stereotyped as biased or bigoted.We know that the overwhelming majority of police officers do an incredibly hard and dangerous job fairly and professionally, they are deserving our respect and not our scorn. But he said the concerns of many minority groups should be taken seriously. We can not simply turn away and dismiss those in peaceful protest as trouble makers or paranoid. They can simply dismiss it as a symptom of political correctness or reversed racism. To have your experience denied like that, dismissed by those in the authority, dismissed perhaps even by your white friends, coworkers, fellow members again and again and again, it hurts.
Bernie Sanders has officially endorsed his rival Hillary Clinton as the Democratic candidate for president of the United States. At a campaign rally in New Hampshire, Mr. Sanders said he would do all he could to ensure her victory in November. Hesaid it was vital to stop the Republican Donald from winning. Mrs. Clinton praised Senator Sanders for bringing people off the sidelines and into the political process.
Britain's main opposition Labor Party has decided that the current leader Jeremy Corbyn can automatically stand for reelection in the phase of a challenge by the MP Angela Eagle. Many of Mr. Corbyn's parliamentary colleagues argue that he needed their endorsement. Only 20% of them backed him in a confidence vote last week. Robert reports.Labors bruising civil war over the party's very purpose and role in British politics has taken another term. It's a twist that seems to guarantee a showdown between the hard left of the party as represented by Jeremy Corbyn and many activists who support him in the country and the party's more moderate MPs. Last year it was a contest Mr. Corbyn easily won. His opponents hoped to doubt through his growth last year about his ability to ever be elected prime minister. Whatever the outcome, there seems certain to be a hard fought and bad tempered contest with both sides describing it as an existential struggle.
The Venezuelan military has started monitoring ports and food processing plants in an effort to ease chronic shortages of basic goods. The move follows President Nicolas Maduro's announcement on Monday that the armed forces would take a leading role by distributing food, medicine and other essential supplies. World news from the BBC.
The Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi has visited the site of a train crashed that killed 23 people in southern Italy. He promised a full investigation into how two trains came to be onthe same single track in the town of Bari. The high-speed head on collision pulverized the front carriages of both trains. Some of the injured are in a critical condition. Our reporter Dan Johnson is at the scene of the crash. Now recovery effort is still going on here into the night.This is the privately run line with decent safety records so the key question is how could two trains have ended up on the same line speeding towards each other. The prime minister has promised that he will get the answers for the victims' families and for this country.
The German president says his country's diplomats in Chile should have said something about the human rights violation at a secretivecolony of ethnic Germans in the 1960s and 1970s. Speaking in Chile, Joachim Gauck said he deplored the atrocities committed at Colonia Dignidad but Germany did not share responsibility. The enclave was set up by a former Nazi officer as an agricultural commune of German migrants. It was used as a torture center during the Pinochetera.The Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington has asked visitors to refrain from playing the hit mobile phone game Pokemon Go on its premises. The augmented reality app allows users to hunt and catch digital creature in real life locations. The museum said it was extremelyinappropriate to play Pokemon Go in memorial to victims of the Nazis. The nearby Arlington military Cemetery has made the same plea.
In a surprised reversal of its original vote, the Anglican Church of Canada has narrowly approved same sex marriage after a recount. There have been scenes as despair on many of the delegates of the general senate when the gay marriage provision failed by a single vote on Monday. Reversal came about when some delegates doubted the votes have been tallied correctly. BBC news.
词汇解析1.memorial service n.phrase 追悼会例句:At the memorial service, she’d even refused the folded flag offered her by the honor guard.
在葬礼服务时,她甚至拒绝了礼仪卫队提供给她的那折叠好的国旗。2.be stereotyped as v.ph 被窠臼化地视为……,被模式化的看作……例句:It is worth mentioning that journalists are often stereotyped as liars.值得一提的是新闻记者总被(模式化地)看做骗子。3.turn away v ph. 离开,避开,把……拒之门外例句:Then we will not turn away from you; revive us, and we will call on your name.
这样,我们便不退后离开你。 求你救活我们,我们就要求告你的名。4.in an effort to ... prep ph.为了……,企图……,试图要……例句:Even his name is a pseudonym, all in an effort to protect his family, friends and contacts, he said.
甚至他的名字也是假的,他说这一切都是为了保护他的家人、朋友和联络人。5.end up v ph. 结束例句:You should end up with something similar to what I have below.
操作结束后,你应该会得到与下图相似的结果。
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1.The high-speed head on collision pulverized the front carriages of both trains.pulverize vt. 使……成粉末,摧毁例句:The pigment is introduced into the airbrushing gun and using low pressure the gun will pulverize the makeup on the surface of the skin.
将粉底颜料装入喷枪中,使用低压将粉碎后的粉底颜料喷到皮肤表面。例句:In the event of a precise hit, the kinetic energy of the EKV and the missilewill pulverize the warhead and destroy any nuclear, chemical, or biological agents itmight be carrying.
在精确拦截的情况下,EKV的动能和导弹会粉碎弹头并摧毁任何导弹可能携带核能、化学能或者生物能的杀伤制剂。2.Bernie Sanders has officially endorsed his rival Hillary Clinton as the Democratic candidate for president of the United States.endorse vt. 背书,支持例句:I can endorse their opinion whole heartedly.
我可以全心全意地支持他们的观点。例句:Allow me to get the standard disclaimer out of the way, which is that, in fairness to other treatments of my work, I cannot endorse any of them, including this one.