时间:2019-02-05 作者:英语课 分类:VOA标准英语2008年(九月)


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The U.N. refugee agency says it finally has succeeded in entering the so-called "buffer 1 zone" north of the town of Gori in Georgia. Lisa Schlein reports from UNHCR headquarters in Geneva the zone is controlled by Russian military forces and has been out of reach during the past weeks due to the unstable 2 security situation.
 
A looted shop in Tkviavi, one of four buffer zone villages visited by UNHCR, 16 Sep 2008


The so-called buffer zone is a strip of land that borders Georgia and its breakaway region of South Ossetia. It is under control of the Russian military and during the past few weeks thousands of residents were forced to flee their homes after being attacked by marauding militia 3 men, many reportedly from South Ossetia.


The area has been off-limits to the U.N. refugee agency until now. Spokesman William Spindler says aid workers who recently ventured into the area to assess the situation were disturbed by what they saw.


"There is still a great deal of fear among the people currently residing in these villages," he said. "Beatings, looting and arson 4 by marauding militias 5 have created an atmosphere of fear and insecurity."


"The destruction of buildings and houses is not as widespread as was initially 6 feared and varies from village to village. In Karaleti, for example, our team counted 29 houses destroyed, out of some 600. In Kitsnisi, only a few buildings have been burned or bombed, while more material and psychological damage has been caused by lootings and destruction inside people's houses," he added.


Spindler says the situation and the needs in the villages north of Gori are similar. He says all of the communities are largely dependent on agriculture for food and income. He says villagers told UNHCR up to 80 percent of this year's harvest is gone.


"This is due to restricted irrigation water coming mostly from South Ossetia and the fact that during the hostilities 7 heavy military equipment passed through many fields damaging the crops," said Spindler.


"In addition, there are still a lot of mines and unexploded ordnance 8 littering the fields and gardens, preventing people from collecting the harvest. As the local gas pipeline 9 is not functioning any longer, the villagers now rely on firewood, both for cooking and heating. As a result, the price of firewood has risen by 50 percent," he continued.


Spindler says the UNHCR plans to conduct regular assessment 10 missions to the buffer zone and to provide aid to the inhabitants. Since the situation has calmed down, he says a number of people who had previously 11 fled have now returned to their homes.


Based on first assessments 12, he says returnees to the villages in the buffer zone need rehabilitation 13 and reconstruction 14 assistance as many of their homes have been burned down or otherwise damaged. He says they also will need supplementary 15 food and firewood.


 



n.起缓冲作用的人(或物),缓冲器;vt.缓冲
  • A little money can be a useful buffer in time of need.在急需时,很少一点钱就能解燃眉之急。
  • Romantic love will buffer you against life's hardships.浪漫的爱会减轻生活的艰辛。
adj.不稳定的,易变的
  • This bookcase is too unstable to hold so many books.这书橱很不结实,装不了这么多书。
  • The patient's condition was unstable.那患者的病情不稳定。
n.民兵,民兵组织
  • First came the PLA men,then the people's militia.人民解放军走在前面,其次是民兵。
  • There's a building guarded by the local militia at the corner of the street.街道拐角处有一幢由当地民兵团守卫的大楼。
n.纵火,放火
  • He was serving a ten spot for arson.他因纵火罪在服十年徒刑。
  • He was arraigned on a charge of arson.他因被指控犯纵火罪而被传讯。
n.民兵组织,民兵( militia的名词复数 )
  • The troops will not attempt to disarm the warring militias. 部队并不打算解除战斗中的民兵武装。 来自辞典例句
  • The neighborhood was a battleground for Shiite and Sunni militias. 那里曾是什叶派和逊尼派武装分子的战场。 来自互联网
adv.最初,开始
  • The ban was initially opposed by the US.这一禁令首先遭到美国的反对。
  • Feathers initially developed from insect scales.羽毛最初由昆虫的翅瓣演化而来。
n.战争;敌意(hostility的复数);敌对状态;战事
  • Mexico called for an immediate cessation of hostilities. 墨西哥要求立即停止敌对行动。
  • All the old hostilities resurfaced when they met again. 他们再次碰面时,过去的种种敌意又都冒了出来。
n.大炮,军械
  • She worked in an ordnance factory during the war.战争期间她在一家兵工厂工作。
  • Shoes and clothing for the army were scarce,ordnance supplies and drugs were scarcer.军队很缺鞋和衣服,武器供应和药品就更少了。
n.管道,管线
  • The pipeline supplies Jordan with 15 per cent of its crude oil.该管道供给约旦15%的原油。
  • A single pipeline serves all the houses with water.一条单管路给所有的房子供水。
n.评价;评估;对财产的估价,被估定的金额
  • This is a very perceptive assessment of the situation.这是一个对该情况的极富洞察力的评价。
  • What is your assessment of the situation?你对时局的看法如何?
adv.以前,先前(地)
  • The bicycle tyre blew out at a previously damaged point.自行车胎在以前损坏过的地方又爆开了。
  • Let me digress for a moment and explain what had happened previously.让我岔开一会儿,解释原先发生了什么。
n.评估( assessment的名词复数 );评价;(应偿付金额的)估定;(为征税对财产所作的)估价
  • He was shrewd in his personal assessments. 他总能对人作出精明的评价。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Surveys show about two-thirds use such assessments, while half employ personality tests. 调查表明,约有三分之二的公司采用了这种测评;而一半的公司则采用工作人员个人品质测试。 来自百科语句
n.康复,悔过自新,修复,复兴,复职,复位
  • He's booked himself into a rehabilitation clinic.他自己联系了一家康复诊所。
  • No one can really make me rehabilitation of injuries.已经没有人可以真正令我的伤康复了。
n.重建,再现,复原
  • The country faces a huge task of national reconstruction following the war.战后,该国面临着重建家园的艰巨任务。
  • In the period of reconstruction,technique decides everything.在重建时期,技术决定一切。
adj.补充的,附加的
  • There is a supplementary water supply in case the rain supply fails.万一主水源断了,我们另外有供水的地方。
  • A supplementary volume has been published containing the index.附有索引的增补卷已经出版。
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accrue
acid ester
anhydrite raw ore
army extension courses
automatic fault isolation tester
average blade ring diameter
awnless wheat
book price
boylesque
cane sugar manufacture
Charleroi à Brussels, Can.de
Chellean
cold-treating process
complex linkage mechanism
crimping roll
dab tros
degate
deiter rod
desplegados
diesel direct-injection engine
dispersion science
down milling
droops
dropkickers
exercise of rights
factory cost sheet
flat-sharing
gerontotoxon lentis
gotten on towards
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Gregory's powder
high frequency spark ion source
hydrocarbons in the reservoir
immunocharacterization
inductivists
inferior polioencephalitis
inland trade
JESRA
Johnaon counter
Labinot-Fushë
late cretaceous
lepromatous
limonia (limonia) esakii
magnetic susceptibility
maleconformation
man operated propulsion
marine engineering geology
mechanical haulage
Mercury program
mess around with
mind-sets
modal transformation
mosteller's k-sample slippage test
multicopying
neuropyra
nna
nonthermal electron
Old Saybrook
operational level of war
optuss
p-type conductivity
phototroller
piloting district
plane gravity
plugging-up
prismane
pulmonary emphysemas
put relegate to the background
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recreandise
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take a dive
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