天天学英语之1115

insurgent

adj.（形容词）
Rising in revolt against civil authority or a government in power; rebellious.
起义的，造反的：起来反抗当局或当权的政府的；反叛的
n.（名词）
One that revolts against civil authority.
造反者：反抗国内政权的人
A member of a political party who rebels against its leadership.
政党内部的反对派
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mosque
n.（名词）
A Moslem house of worship.
清真寺院：穆斯林教徒进行圣拜的地方

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a weapons cache
cache
n.（名词）
A hiding place used especially for storing provisions.
贮藏处，暗窖：一个隐秘的空间，尤指用于贮存的预备货物
A place for concealment and safekeeping, as of valuables.
密藏处：用于隐藏和保管贵重品的处所
The store of goods or valuables concealed in a hiding place.
隐藏：将货物或贵重品隐藏在一隐蔽的处所
Computer Science A fast storage buffer in the central processing unit of a computer.Also called In this sense, also called cache memory
【计算机科学】 缓冲存储器：计算机中央处理单元中的快速缓冲存储器也作 在此意义上也可称作 cache memory
v.tr.（及物动词）
cached， cach.ing， cach.es
To hide or store in a cache.See Synonyms at hide 1
贮藏：隐藏或存贮在贮藏处参见 hide1
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uncovered   枪支等没开保险

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corner
vt.
迫至一隅, 垄断, 使陷入绝境, 把...难住
To place or drive into a corner:
置于角落，迫入角落：
cornered the thieves and captured them.
将窃贼逼入角落并擒住他们
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escalate
v.（动词）
es.ca.lat.ed， es.ca.lat.ing， es.ca.lates
v.tr.（及物动词）
To increase, enlarge, or intensify:
增大，增强：使逐步增强、扩大、升级：
escalated the hostilities in the Persian Gulf.
使波斯湾的战争升高
v.intr.（不及物动词）
To increase in intensity or extent:
逐步升级：有级别或程度上增长：
“a deepening long-term impasse that is certain to escalate”(Stewart L. Udall)
“（事态）正在加深为长时间的僵局”(斯图尔特L.尤德尔)
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simultaneous
adj.（形容词）
Happening, existing, or done at the same time.See Synonyms at contemporary
同时的：同时发生的、存在的或做的参见 contemporary
Mathematics Containing variables for which there are values that can satisfy all the equations:
【数学】 联立的：包含变量，有一些值可以使所有方程成立的：
simultaneous equations.
联立方程
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cleric
n.（名词）
A member of the clergy.
神职人员
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confiscate
v.tr.（及物动词）
con.fis.cat.ed， con.fis.cat.ing， con.fis.cates
To seize (private property) for the public treasury.
充公：没收（私人财产）来作为公共财物
To seize by or as if by authority.See Synonyms at appropriate
没收：由政府或好象是由政府没收参见 appropriate
adj.（形容词）
AHD:[k¼n“f¹-sk³t”, k…n-f¹s“k…t]
Seized by a government; appropriated.
充公：由政府没收的；挪用的
Having lost property through confiscation.
被充公了的：由于被没收充公而丧失财产的
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 curfew
n.（名词）
A regulation requiring certain or all people to leave the streets or be at home at a prescribed hour.
宵禁：要求某些人或所有人在规定时间内离开街道或留在家中的规定
The time at which such a restriction begins or is in effect:
宵禁时间：这一限制开始或起作用的时间：
a 10 p.m.  curfew for all residents.
在晚间 十时起对所有居民实行的宵禁
The signal, such as a bell, announcing the beginning of this restriction.
宵禁信号：用一种信号来宣布这一限制的开始，如钟声
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sporadic
adj.（形容词）
Occurring at irregular intervals; having no pattern or order in time.See Synonyms at periodic
不定时发生的，时有时无的：以不规则间歇发生的；无时间顺序或固定模式参见 periodic
Appearing singly or at widely scattered localities, as a plant or disease.
散发性的：呈现单个或更广泛地分散，如植物或疾病
Isolated; unique:
孤立个别的：独特的：
a sporadic example.
偶发的例子

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Fighting Sweeps Iraq's Sunni Heartland

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Explosions and gunfire broke out Monday in Baqouba — the latest in a wave of clashes that has swept Iraq 's Sunni Muslim heartland even as U.S. and Iraqi forces move against the last remaining pockets of resistance in Fallujah. 

Witnesses said insurgents were fighting Iraqi police, and explosions and heavy gunfire were echoing through Baqouba's streets.

The U.S. military said insurgents opened fire on Iraqi police from inside a mosque in Baqouba Monday morning and police forces then stormed and clear out the mosque. The U.S. command said a weapons cache, including rocket-propelled grenades and mortars, was uncovered inside.

Firefights also erupted just south of Baqouba in the town of Buhriz, as insurgents attacked some police stations and a nearby U.S. base, residents said. The two cities are located about 35 miles northeast of Baghdad.

Also Monday, Prime Minister Ayad Allawi's office confirmed that two of his female relatives who were kidnapped last week have been released.

Allawi's cousin, Ghazi Allawi, 75, his cousin's wife and his cousin's pregnant daughter-in-law were abducted at gunpoint last Tuesday in western Baghdad's Yarmouk neighborhood.

On Sunday, U.S. Marines found the mutilated body of a Western woman as they searched for militants still holding out in Fallujah. The woman could not
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be immediately identified, but a British aide worker and a Pole are the only Western women known to have been taken hostage.

The week-old offensive in Fallujah, the city that came to symbolize resistance to the U.S.-led occupation, has left at least 38 American troops and six Iraqi soldiers dead. The number of U.S. troops wounded is now 275, though more than 60 have returned to duty. U.S. officials estimated more than 1,200 insurgents have been killed.

On Monday, U.S. forces resumed heavy airstrikes and artillery fire, with warplanes making between 20-30 bombing sorties in Fallujah and surrounding areas. U.S. ground forces were trying to corner the remaining resistance in the city.

American forces had attacked a bunker complex Sunday in the city's south where they discovered a network of steel-reinforced tunnels and underground bunkers. The tunnels connected a ring of facilities filled with weapons, an anti-aircraft artillery gun, bunk beds and a truck, according to a statement from the U.S. military.

Civilians seeking medical care were told through loudspeakers and leaflets to contact U.S. troops. A second Iraqi Red Crescent convoy was expected to travel to Fallujah Monday with food and supplies.

In an interview with The Associated Press, the Marine general who designed the ground attack on Fallujah said it had gone far more quickly than expected and that troops had fought their way across the city in just six days.

Maj. Gen. Richard Natonski on Sunday described the ground war as a "flawless execution of the plan we drew up. We are actually ahead of schedule."

As fighting in Fallujah neared its conclusion, insurgent attacks escalated elsewhere in Sunni Muslim areas of Iraq.

Clashes between gunmen and Iraqi security forces early Monday south of Baghdad killed seven Iraqi police and national guardsmen and injured five others, police said.

Gunmen carried out near-simultaneous attacks on a police station and an Iraqi National Guard headquarters in Suwayrah, about 25 miles south of Baghdad, police said. Two from the police and five National Guardsmen were killed.

The dead included Maj. Hadi Refeidi, the director of the Suwayrah police station.

Before the clashes, National Guardsmen opened fire at a boobytrapped car approaching their headquarters, killing the driver. The car was loaded with 880 pounds of TNT.

In the insurgent-heavy city of Ramadi, 70 miles west of the capital, heavy fighting erupted on Monday between militants and U.S. forces, residents said.

Sunni clerics at several mosques called on residents to kick out bands of armed men who have come from outside the city, claiming that the clashes inside Ramada are having a negative impact on the economic situation of citizens.

The clerics also said that Ramadi residents want to send their children to schools and to have state offices reopened. Residents in one neighborhood, Aziziyah, confiscated the weapons of some gunmen roaming in their area, witnesses said.

North of Ramadi, a U.S. convoy came under attack near the town of Baghdadi, with one Humvee destroyed, according to a Baghdadi police Lt. Mohammed Abdel Karim. There was no confirmation from the U.S. military about the incident.

In Mosul, where an uprising broke out last week in support of the Fallujah defenders, militants raided two police stations, killing at least six Iraqi National Guards and wounding three others. One insurgent was killed and three others were wounded before Iraqi security forces regained control of both stations, witnesses said.

Insurgents also set fire to the governor's house, destroying it and damaging his car in northern Mosul. Governor Duraid Kashmoula also said the curfew will continue to be imposed on the city from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. in the morning.

A gunbattle erupted Sunday between militants and U.S. troops in the main market in the northern town of Beiji, killing at least six people and wounding 20 others, according to witnesses.

The clash followed an attack in Beiji against American soldiers, who responded with tank rounds and Hellfire missiles, the U.S. military said.

Saboteurs set fire Sunday to four oil wells in Iraq's northern fields, setting off successive explosions in Khabbaza, 12 miles northwest of Kirkuk, oil officials said.

Heavy explosions rattled central Baghdad near the Palestine and Sheraton hotels after nightfall Sunday, followed by bursts of sporadic gunfire. The U.S. military said initial reports indicated rockets or mortars had struck the area, killing two Iraqis and wounding another.

About an hour later, about four more large explosions rocked the Green Zone, headquarters of the U.S. and Iraqi leadership. At least one private security guard was killed. Clashes were also reported on Haifa Street, a center of insurgent support in the heart of the capital.

More than a dozen insurgents attacked the Polish Embassy in Baghdad with automatic weapons Sunday, and embassy guards returned fire in an exchange that lasted for a half hour, a Polish Foreign Ministry spokesman said in Warsaw. No one was reported killed or wounded.

The disemboweled body of the woman was wrapped in a blood-soaked blanket on a street in Fallujah, Marines said. Margaret Hassan, 59, director of CARE international in Iraq, and Teresa Borcz Khalifa, 54, a Polish-born longtime resident of Iraq, were abducted last month but the body could not be identified without further tests.