2011928Edward老师

Libyan National Transitional Council,
It's unclear how many Gaddafi loyalists are still holding out there.
hold out 抵抗
The BBC's Alastair Leithead has been following NTC forces advancing from the east.
a situation in which it seems impossible to settle an argument or disagreement, and neither side can get an advantage
From the east of Sirte, the advance today has been swift. After days of stalemate, the east gate fell, and the National Transitional Council troops have already pushed far along the road towards the city centre.
stalemate = deadlock
There has been some return of fire, some injured, but the momentum is carrying them forward.
momentum：势头the ability to keep increasing, developing, or being more successful
From the west, reports of fighting in the streets inside the city itself.
This is Colonel Gaddafi's birthplace, his hometown.
It's always been a hugely symbolic target for the NTC, and it seems close to being won.
symbolic 象征性的
In Yemen, at least 40 people have been killed in clashes in the capital Sanaa
Sanaa也门首都
as protests continue against President Ali Abdullah Saleh.

A journalist in the city said demonstrators had been caught in the middle of shelling from rival factions of the army.
Hisham Sharaf, the Yemeni minister of trade and industry, told the BBC that the government side was making every effort to minimise civilian casualties.
casualties.伤亡者
"We have taken all kinds of measures to avoid any casualties, but again,
These extremists, these dissident groups,
extremists极端主义者
they call on the population to go to be martyrs.
We are not in that business."
The International Monetary Fund has said that member countries will act decisively and collectively to confront the threat to the global economy.
IMF 国际国币基金组织
After its latest meeting in Washington, the IMF said eurozone countries would do whatever necessary to tackle the debt crisis
while advanced economies generally would support their banks
and undertake reforms to boost jobs and growth.

详细News in detail
The head of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde, said the global economy was only half-way through the work that needs to be done.

So acute are the fears that Europe's debt problems will threaten the health of the global economy that she's saying the fund is ready to help all member nations should they need it.
倒装句So acute are the fears plus if 的虚拟语气
Greece has already received IMF bailout.
bailout救济金
If the turmoil continues, others may also need assistance.

The ministers meeting in Washington are hoping the actions they take here will mean that won't be necessary.
The Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has announced that the current Prime Minister Vladimir Putin should run for president in 2012.
Mr Putin proposed tha

t Mr Medvedev should become the prime minister.
The announcements at the congress of the ruling United Russia party came after months of speculation.（猜测）
One week after an earthquake hit northeastern India, Nepal and Tibet,many remote Indian villages are still cut off.
Continuing rain is triggering fresh landslides and hampering the rescue effort.
The earthquake hit a remote mountainous area, affecting people in Nepal, Tibet and India.
A BBC reporter has spent the last two days travelling in one of the worst affected regions, north Sikkim.
He described the situation there as chaotic.
chaotic.adj. 混沌的；混乱的，无秩序的
Many villages are still inaccessible; some remain completely cut off.
India's army and air force have been deployed and are struggling to meet the need.
eployed 部署
They are dropping food and medical supplies by helicopter to the most remote communities,but the steep mountains make even that a hazardous process.

Nigerian police say they've arrested two men wanted in connection with a gang rape by five men of a woman whose ordeal was then posted on the Internet.
Nigerian 尼日利亚
ordeal [?:'di:l, '?:di:l]
n. 折磨；严酷的考验；痛苦的经验
An online campaign to find the culprits was launched after police shelved their investigation.
Nigerian police say they've arrested two men wanted in connection with a gang rape by five men of a woman whSose ordeal was then posted on the Internet.
shelved v. 搁置（shelve的过去分词）；逐渐倾斜；使上架adj. 搁置的；废置不用的
to decide not to continue with a plan, idea etc, although you might continue with it at a later time
News in detail
Despite the video of the rape being widely watched online,officials in Abia, the state concerned, had declared their short investigations over as the victim had not come forward.
What followed was a sustained campaign on social networks to force the police back into action and to uncover clues from the video.
On Thursday, the Nigerian National Assembly called on the police to reopen their investigation.
Three days later, based purely on names and photos posted online, they have made two arrests.




Indigenous protesters in the Bolivian Amazon have broken through a police blockade to continue a long-distance march on the main city La Paz.
indigenous people or things have always been in the place where they are, rather than being brought there from somewhere else
= native

The protesters are reported to have forced their way through police lines by taking hostage the Bolivian foreign minister, who'd come to negotiate with them.

They oppose government plans to build a road through an indigenous reserve.
indigenous [in'did?in?s]
adj. 本土的；土著的；国产的；固有的