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八月份 第 19 课

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  • UN Warns of New Threat of Bird Flu
  • 联合国警告新的禽流感病毒威胁
  •   The United Nations is warning of a possible resurgence of the deadly bird flu virus, including a mutant strain that is spreading in Asia and elsewhere.
  • 联合国警告说,一种致命的禽流感病毒可能再次引发疫情,包括一个正在亚洲和其他地区蔓延的突变病毒。

  •   The world body's Food and Agriculture Organization said Monday that a variant strain of the H5N1 virus ((known as H5N1 - 2.3.2.1)), which appears able to bypass the defenses of existing vaccines, has appeared in China and Vietnam.
  • 联合国属下的世界粮食和农业组织星期一表示,在中国和越南出现 H5N1 禽流感病毒的一种突变病毒,能够避开现有的疫苗防御。

  •   The agency also said bird flu has killed eight people in Cambodia this year, including a 6-year-old girl who died this month.
  • 该机构还说,这种禽流感今年在柬埔寨已造成 8 人死亡,包括一名本月死亡的 6 岁女孩。

  •   The H5N1 virus was first detected in 2003, and by the peak of the outbreak in 2006, had spread to 63 nations.
  • H5N1 病毒 2003 年首次被发现,并在 2006 年进入爆发高峰期,蔓延到 63 个国家。

  •   Before it was eradicated in most of those countries due to a mass culling of domestic poultry.
  • 最后大多数国家通过大规模扑杀家禽而使其销声匿跡。

  •   But the virus continued to infect people in Bangladesh, China, Egypt, India, Indonesia and Vietnam.
  • 但是这种病毒持续在孟加拉国、中国、埃及、印度、印尼和越南传播。

  •   The agency says there were almost 800 cases of bird flu reported between 2010 and 2011.
  • 世界粮食和农业组织说,在 2010 年和 2011 年间,有将近 800 个禽流感病例。

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  • Tibetan Monks Face Trial in Self-Immolation Case
  • 自焚案中藏族僧侣面临审判
  •   Two Tibetan monks faced trial on murder charges Tuesday in a case that is seen as an escalation of Chinese efforts to end protests at a troubled monastery.
  • 两名藏族僧人星期二因谋杀指控面临审判;此案被视為中国為结束一座麻烦不断的寺院中的抗议活动而加强镇压力度的措施。

  •   The monks, named Tenchum and Tsering Tenzin, are accused of "instigating and assisting" in the death of Rigzin Phuntsog, a 16-year-old monk who immolated himself in March at the Kirti monastery in southwestern Sichuan province.
  • 名叫泽让旦纯和旦真的两名僧人被指控今年叁月在四川省格尔登寺 “积极鼓动、帮助” 16 岁的僧人仁增彭措自焚而死。

  •   A third monk, named Drongdru, was sentenced to 11 years in prison Monday on charges of hiding Phuntsog for 11 hours and preventing him from receiving medical care.
  • 第叁个名叫仲周的僧人被控将彭措藏匿了 11 个小时,使其不能接受治疗,星期一被判处 11 年徒刑。

  •   Tibetan exile groups say Drongdru was protecting the young monk from Chinese police who began beating him after extinguishing the flames.
  • 西藏流亡组织说,中国警察在扑灭彭措身上的火后便开始殴打他,彭措被带走是為了保护他免受警察的伤害。

  •   A researcher with Human Rights Watch ((Nicholas Bequelin)) told VOA the rights group was unaware of any previous case in which murder charges were brought over a self-immolation.
  • 人权观察组织的一名研究员对美国之音表示,该人权组织此前从未听说自焚事件能引发谋杀起诉。

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