专业英语四级新闻听力高频词汇例句
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Buffer zone: 缓冲地带
UN peacekeepers
moved in on Tuesday to create a buffer zone
between rival
factions of the Congolese army.
Ration: 定量配给
The agency has
been steadily cutting rations to more than 2.8
million
people in Southern Africa over the
last six months, many of them living
with
HIVAIDS and many of them children. Most have been
surviving on half
a normal ration, or less.
Casualty: 伤亡（人数）
While a slight
majority believe the Iraq war contributed to the
long-term
security of the United States, 70
percent of Americans think these gains
have
come at an cost in military casualties, the poll
（民
意测验）shows.
Head off: 阻止，拦截
In setting up a Commission on Truth and
Friendship, the two countries hope
to head off
a parallel initiative by U.N. Secretary-General
Kofi Annan,
who is weighing （考虑，斟酌） his own
expert commission to review whether
justice
was done after the 1999 violence, their foreign
ministers said
after talks with Annan.
Bravado: 虚张声势
Protected by U.S.
Black Hawk helicopters, Britain's Tony Blair flew
into
Iraq on Tuesday in a surprise show of
political bravado designed to boost
prospects
for Iraqi elections and cheer UK troops before
Christmas.
Round up: 围捕，使集拢
Police rounded up dozens of suspects on Monday
after twin suicide car
bombings killed 66
people in Iraq's Shi'ite holy cities, attacks that
intensified fears of sectarian violence
（宗派暴力）during elections on
Jan. 30.
Brief: 辩护状
Clive Stafford Smith, a
British human rights lawyer, has prepared a
50-page brief which contains advice to take
the case to US courts to ensure
he receives a
fair trial, the Sunday Times reported after saying
it had
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seen the document.
Overturn: 否决
Caitriona Ruane,
who heads the Them Homecampaign that sought the
Irishmen's release, said the court overturned
an earlier decision
clearing James Monaghan,
Niall Connolly and Martin McCauley of
terrorism-related charges.
Ebbed:
退潮，衰落
Israeli troops killed nine
Palestinians during a raid into Gaza, the
bloodiest in two weeks, where fighting has not
ebbed despite expectations
that moderate （温和派）
Mahmoud Abbas will win a presidential poll to
replace Yasser Arafat next month.
2004-12-31
Mudslide: 泥流
A
powerful storm moved along the California's Coast
Monday and Tuesday,
causing highway-blocking
mudslides, flooding and power outages（电力设
施瘫痪）.
Shiite: 什叶派教徒
A main
Sunni Muslim political party withdrew from Iraq's
upcoming
elections on Monday, and a suicide
bomb attack （自杀式炸弹袭击）on the
nation's largest
Shiite party killed at least six people and
wounded 33
others, police said.
Sanitation: 公共卫生设施
The disaster
could be the costliest in history as well, with
billions
of dollars
charge of emergency
relief coordination（紧急救援调控）. Hundreds of
thousands have lost everything, and millions
face a hazardous future
because of polluted
drinking water, a lack of sanitation and no health
services, he said.
Tsunami: 海啸
The earthquake hit at 6:58 a.m.; the
tsunami came as much as 2 12 hours
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later, without warning, on a morning of
crystal blue skies. Sunbathers
（日光浴者） and
snorkelers （潜水这）, cars and cottages, fishing boats
and even a lighthouse were swept away.
Curfew: 宵禁
Emergency powers allow the
government to impose curfews, close borders
and airports and detain suspects without
following normal legal
procedures. The
emergency applies to all regions of Iraq except
the
Kurdish north, which has been relatively
stable.
Unseat: 使失去资格
High humidity, poor air quality and some of
the nation's longest commute
times also helped
Texas' most populous city unseat Detroit, the 2004
heavyweight champion, the magazine said.
Beef up: 加强，补充
But experts
warn the high-tech network of sensors and buoys
would be
useless unless countries like
Indonesia beef up communications links to
the
coastal communities that would be hit by giant
waves.
2005-01-05
Payroll tax: 工资税
The Bush administration is focusing on a
Social Security proposal that
would allow
younger workers to invest nearly two-thirds of
their payroll
taxes in private accounts, with
contributions limited to about $$1,000 to
$$1,300 a year, an administration official said
Tuesday.
Indigenous: 本土的；土产的
The shooting started before dawn on a bridge
on the other side of town
from the captured
police station in Andahuaylas, 275 miles southeast
of
Lima, Radioprogramas radio reported. The
station was seized Saturday by
followers of
Antauro Humala, a retired army major who, along
with his
brother, seeks to establish a
nationalist indigenous movement modeled on
the
ancient Incan Empire.
2005-01-04
Spearhead: 充当先锋，带头
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Although the United States was not among the
first at the scene after last
week's natural
disaster thousands of miles from American shores,
it is
now spearheading the international
relief effort and delivering more
supplies
than any other nation. A U.S. warship strike group
carrying
thousands more Marines was headed in
to help.
Enclave: 被包围的领土
The top Palestinian security official
Wednesday ordered troops deployed
（配置军队） along
the Gaza-Israel frontier（加沙-以色列边境） in an
attempt to curb （控制）attacks from the Arab
enclave, and Prime Minister
Ariel Sharon
reversed course again, approving a
for the
time being headed off （拦截） a possible large-scale
（大规
模） Israeli invasion to curb the surging
violence（升级的暴力）.
Give no ground:
毫不让步
Secretary of State nominee
Condoleezza Rice gave no ground in Senate
confirmation questioning Tuesday, insisting
the United States was fully
prepared for the
Iraq war and its aftermath（后果） and refusing to
give
a timetable for U.S. troops to come home
（撤军时间表）.
Thwart: 阻挠，妨碍
Insurgents in Iraq threatened yesterday to
kill eight Chinese hostages
as Baghdad
officials said they would close land borders and
restrict
traffic across the country in a bid
to （为了） thwart attacks during next
week's
election.
Archbishop: 大主教
The
Iraqi Catholic archbishop of Mosul was kidnapped
at gunpoint on Monday
and the Vatican demanded
his quick release and deplored （表示遗憾） what
it
branded an act of terrorism （恐怖主义色彩）.
Inauguration: 就职典礼，开幕式
An
unprecedented （规模空前的）level of security is planned
for George
W. Bush's inauguration on Jan. 20,
including six thousand police officers,
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2,500 military personnel, and dozens of
federal security agencies on
patrol（巡逻）.
Malaria: 疟疾，瘴气
Health
officials plan to go door to door and tent to tent
with
mosquito-killing spray guns beginning
Friday to head off a looming（潜
在的） threat that
one expert says could kill 100,000 more people
around
the tsunami disaster zone: malaria.
Convoy: 护送队
The White
House on Wednesday said the search for weapons of
mass
destruction （大规模杀伤性武器） in Iraq has ended
without any evidence
of the banned
weapons（违禁武器）, while guerrillas （游击队） attacked
a joint U.S.-Iraqi convoy in Mosul, killing
two Iraqi National Guard.
2005-01-13
Comet: 彗星
A NASA（美国宇航局） spacecraft
with a Hollywood name Deep Impact blasted
off
（点火起飞） Wednesday on a mission to smash a hole in a
comet and
give scientists a glimpse of the
frozen primordial ingredients of the
solar
system.
Hamlet: 小村庄，部落
Rescuers with listening devices sensitive
enough to pick up a whimper or
a faint tapping
searched on Tuesday for victims feared buried in a
mudslide
that sent a thunderous cascade of
trees and dirt onto this seaside hamlet.
Escalate: 冲突逐步升级
The Bradley
Fighting Vehicle is one of the more heavily
armored U.S.
military vehicles, suggesting
that the roadside bomb was more powerful
than
those typically used in recent months. The Defense
Department （国
防部）said last week that
insurgents（反对者） were increasing the size
and
power of the bombs they plant as they escalate
their attacks before
the Jan. 30 election.
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Lay out: 制定，设计
The Massachusetts Democrat, who opposed the
U.S. invasion of Iraq, became
the first
senator to lay out a plan for Bush to start
withdrawing troops
a day after the Pentagon
warned lawmakers that strikes by insurgents may
increase after Sunday's elections.
Stampede: 蜂拥，惊跑
A stampede of
religious pilgrims（宗教朝圣者）, packed along a narrow
road
leading to a Hindu shrine（神庙）, killed at
least 215 people in western
India Tuesday
afternoon, Indian officials said.
Cheerleader: 啦啦队员
For his part, Bush
played cheerleader in chief（拉拉队长） at a rally
before
the march, telling tens of thousands of
anti-abortion protesters（反堕
胎主义者） on the
Ellipse that their approach to the debate this
year would
（堕
胎权）.
In custody:
被拘留
An al-Qaida lieutenant in custody in
Iraq has confessed to masterminding
（策划）most
of the car bombings in Baghdad, including the
bloody 2003
assault on the U.N. headquarters
in the capital, authorities said Monday.
A state of panic: 恐慌状态
Widjan al-Khuzri told ABC News recently.
Abductee: 被绑架者 abductor （绑架者） kidnapper
kidnapped
biggest wish now is to hear
my son's voice on the phone, the newspaper
quoted Wei Shoulong, the father of one
abductee, as saying.
Quadrennial: 四年一次的
More than 100,000 people gathered outside
the Capitol in chilly weather
as the
traditional pomp and ceremony of the quadrennial
presidential
inauguration took place under
unprecedented security.
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Staggering: 令人惊愕或沮丧的
Indonesia is reporting a staggering new death
toll(死亡人数) from the
tsunami disaster as
recovery efforts slowly resolve the fates of tens
of
thousands of missing people.
Disclose: 揭露，透露，泄露
Defense Secretary
Donald H. Rumsfeld disclosed Thursday that he had
offered President Bush his resignation twice
during the height of the Abu
Ghraib prisoner
abuse scandal （虐囚丑闻）last year. He said he wanted
the decision on his future to be placed in
Bush's hands.
Homemade:
家庭自制的，本国制的
Leftist rebels attacked a
Colombian marine post in southwest Colombia with
homemade rockets early Tuesday, killing at
least 14 soldiers and wounding
about 25, the
commander of the Colombian navy said.
Minefield: 布雷区
The newly discovered
minefields, some of which border on Honduras and
Costa Rica, were probably laid by U.S.-backed
Contra rebels who fought
to overthrow （推翻）
Nicaragua's leftist （左派） Sandinista government
of the time, the Defense Ministry said.
Mafioso: 黑手党成员
Italian police
raided （搜查） houses and hideouts around the
Sicilian
city of Catania on Monday and
arrested 45 Mafiosi accused of cocaine
trafficking（贩卖毒品）, extortion （敲诈）and
kidnapping.
Inmate: 同住者，同室者，特指囚犯
American troops opened fire to put down a
riot（镇压骚动） Monday at a
prison camp in southern
Iraq that left four inmates dead and six wounded,
U.S. military officials said.
Ransack: 到处搜索，洗劫
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Nearly three dozen people roared up on
motorcycles to the main building
of Karachi's
largest news group Saturday, overpowering（击退） the
security staff and ransacking the reception
area, offices and a relief
camp（难民营） set up to
collect goods for tsunami victims.
Resounding: 彻底的，极大的
In Washington,
President George W. Bush said the election was a
``resounding success'' and ``the world is
hearing the voice of freedom''
from the Middle
East. ``By participating in free elections, the
Iraqi
people have firmly rejected the anti-
democratic（反对民主）ideology
（意识形态） of the
terrorists,'' Bush said. British Prime Minister
Tony
Blair, Bush's main ally in Iraq, later
praised the ``courage'' of Iraqi
voters.
Hominid: 原始人类
Fossil hunters in
Ethiopia have discovered the remains of at least
nine
primitive hominids, nearly 4.5 million
years old, which scientists claim
could help
fill some of the gaps （填补空白）in early human
evolution.
Procession: 行列，队伍
In Lebanon, noisy street processions mourned
（哀悼）former Prime Minister
Rafik Hariri a day
before the funeral that will bring international
leaders to Beirut. Angry Lebanese attacked
Syrian workers in his hometown
of Sidon,
injuring several and shattering the windows of a
Syrian-owned
bakery.
Al Jazeera:
半岛电视台
In the survey of almost 2,000 ad
executives（广告总监）, brand managers
and academics
by online magazine Brandchannel, Apple ousted（取代）
search
engine Google from last year's top
spot（拔得头筹）, but the surprise to
many will be
Al Jazeera's entry into the top five.
Migrate: 移居，移民
Unskilled foreigners
will find it harder to migrate to Britain under
new
proposals（法案）, which also call for
stricter screening（监控） of asylum
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seekers（寻求庇护者） and tighter border
controls.
Hospitalization: 住院治疗
The 10-minute appearance at an open
window gave the public its first
glimpse of
the 84-year-old pontiff since his hospitalization,
which
rekindled （重新激起） questions about his
ability to carry on.
Rosy: 光明或愉快的
Bolstered （支持） by a humming economy（经济崛起） and
widespread approval
of his response to the
December tsunami tragedy, Thaksin 's projected win
surpassed even his and his party's rosiest
expectations.
2005-02-07
Clash:
冲突，战斗
Fourteen attackers also died in
the clash that broke out about 10:30 p.m.
in
Mahawil, 50 miles south of Baghdad, police Capt.
Muthana Khalid Ali
said. The dead included
five Iraqi national guardsmen and 17 policemen,
he said.
Stave off: 挡开，延迟
Hungry Zimbabweans are staving off
starvation by selling property and
getting
money from relatives abroad, but rights groups
fear food may still
become a political weapon
ahead of elections in March.
Embolden:
壮胆，鼓励
That could embolden Kurds in
southeastern Turkey, where the Turkish army
has been battling Kurdish rebels since 1984, a
fight that has left 37,000
dead.
Snatch: 攫取，抢夺
An Italian journalist
was snatched from her car Friday in Baghdad,
police
said.
Low-key: 低调的
The
queen planned to stay away to respect the couple's
wish for a low-key
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wedding,
the palace said. But some royal watchers said the
move would
further embarrass the royal family
and add to an air of farce around the
April 8
ceremony.
Flatten: 夷为平地
Under a cold, driving rain（大风雨）, survivors
wailed over the bodies
of the dead and dug
through the ruins of mud-brick houses searching
for
their loved ones after a powerful
earthquake flattened villages in central
Iran
on Tuesday, killing at least 420 people.
Authenticity: 真实性
CNN could not
confirm the authenticity of the video.
Avalanche: 雪崩，山崩
Avalanches and
slides （山体滑坡）triggered （引发）by heavy weekend
snowfall in India's portion of Kashmir have
killed at least 154 people
and left 200
missing, an official said Monday.
De facto: 事实上的
Prospects for
peacemaking （调停）in the Middle East have
strengthened
since Abbas was elected to
succeed Yasser Arafat on a platform of
non-
violence and persuaded the armed factions（武装团体） to
follow a de
facto truce（停战）.
Unilateral: 单方面的，单边的
With the vote,
an Israeli government agreed for the first time
since
capturing the West Bank and Gaza in the
1967 Mideast war to dismantle
（拆除） some of the
dozens of Jewish settlements（犹太人定居点） it has
built there. However, approving the route of
the barrier, Israel acted
unilaterally on what
was to be a key issue in peace talks with the
Palestinians, and signaled it will keep a
chunk of prime West Bank land
（西岸大块土地）close to
Jerusalem, including two large Jewish settlement
blocs.
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Atone: 弥补（过错），赎（罪）
Facing a brewing
revolt by some undergraduate faculty, Summers
posted a
transcript of his remarks on his Web
site along with a letter in which
he again
atoned for the things he said.
besiege:
包围，团团围住
President Bush named John
Negroponte, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, as the
government's first national intelligence
director Thursday, turning to
a veteran
diplomat to revive a spy community besieged by
criticism after
the Sept. 11 attacks.
Mosque: 清真寺
Giuliana Sgrena,
who was abducted in front of a mosque on February
4,
talked in Italian and in French, saying
that action to end the occupation
is the only
way she can be freed.
Concur: 同意，赞成
Otari concurred, saying, challenges we
face in Syria and Iran require
us to be in one
front to confront all the challenges imposed (on
us) by
others.
Unprecedented: 空前的
Two weeks of unprecedented protests
forced the pro-Syrian government of
Prime
Minister Omar Karami to quit on Monday, leaving
officials with a
complex search for a new head
of government.
Outlaw: 宣布„„为非法
A closely divided Supreme Court outlawed
the death penalty (死刑) for
juvenile criminals
on Tuesday, declaring there was a national
consensus
（舆论） such executions were
unconstitutionally （违背宪法）cruel and
ending a
practice that had brought international
condemnation（谴责）.
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Touch off: 触发，激起 trigger
With shouts of 聚集) outside
Parliament in a
dramatic display of defiance（挑衅） that forced out
Lebanon's pro-Syrian prime minister and
Cabinet Monday, two weeks after
the
assassination （暗杀）of a popular politician touched
off increasing
unrest（动荡局面）.
National terror alert level: 国家安全警戒级别
The
government has no immediate plans to raise its
national terror alert
level, Roehrkasse said.
But, he said, the intelligence
desire by al-
Qaida and its associates to target the
homeland.
2005-03-01
Fiery: 激烈的，热烈的
Thousands of demonstrators massed in central
Beirut overnight to defy a
government ban on
protests on Monday ahead of a fiery debate in
parliament
over the assassination of the
country's former prime minister.
2005-02-28
Reactor: 反应堆
Iran and Russia
ignored U.S. objections and signed a nuclear fuel
agreement Sunday that is key to bringing
Tehran's first reactor online
by mid-2006.
Penalize: 处罚，罚款
World Bank
investigators said on Thursday they had penalized
more than
300 firms and individuals for fraud
and corruption since 1999 but did not
know the
full extent of the problem in bank-financed
projects.
Tracheotomy: 气管切开术
The pontiff（罗马教皇） was conscious in his
hospital room after the
tracheotomy, breathing
with the help of a respirator, the Italian news
agency ANSA reported.
Bleak:
阴冷的；无遮蔽的
Thousands of survivors of the
magnitude 6.4 quake, many angry at the slow
pace of relief efforts（救援）, faced another
bleak night on freezing and
rain-soaked slopes
amid the mud and rubble that used to be their
homes.
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Perpetuate: 使永久
By intervening in
northern Uganda's 18-year civil war, the
International
Criminal Court is in danger of
perpetuating it, according to NGOs and
international bodies concerned about the
court's fledgling
investigation.
Ward
off
As the world scrambled to the rescue,
survivors fought over packs of
noodles in
quake-stricken Indonesian streets Wednesday while
relief
supplies （救援物资）piled up at the airport
for lack of cars, gas or
passable roads to
move them. The official death toll across 12
countries
soared to near 77,000 and the Red
Cross predicted it could pass 100,000.
Bodies were piled into mass graves in the
belief that burial would ward
off disease.
Paramedics in southern India began vaccinating
thousands of
survivors against cholera,
typhoid（伤寒）, hepatitis A（甲肝） and
dysentery（痢疾）, and authorities sprayed
bleaching powder on beaches
where bodies have
been recovered. In Sri Lanka, reports of
waterborne
disease such as diarrhea caused
fears of an epidemic.
Ward
off表示“防止，挡住，避开”，例如：ward off an
assault（击退一次
攻势）。
Beef up
A
tsunami warning system could be built in the
Indian Ocean in just a year
and cost as little
as $$20 million, a scientist said Tuesday.
But experts warn the high-tech network of
sensors and buoys would be
useless unless
countries like Indonesia beef up communications
links to
the coastal communities that would be
hit by giant waves.
Many coastal
villages that bore the brunt of last month's
earthquake and
tsunami lack modern
communication networks. Many don't even have
telephones.
Beef up是口语用法，表示“加强，补充”，因
为beef作动词时有“使（菜牛）
长膘，加强”的含义，例如：beef up the air f
orce（加强空军力量）。此外，
beef还有“发牢骚（美俚）；告发；密告”等含义，例如：Wo
men can always find
something to beef
about.（女人们总会找点什么由头发发牢骚。）
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Spearhead
U.S. helicopters rescued dozens
of desperate and weak tsunami survivors,
including a young girl clutching a stuffed
Snoopy dog, as the American
military relief
operation reached out to remote areas of Indonesia
with
cartons of food and water on Monday.
Although the United States was not among
the first at the scene after last
week's
natural disaster thousands of miles from American
shores, it is
now spearheading the
international relief effort and delivering more
supplies than any other nation. A U.S. warship
strike group carrying
thousands more Marines
was headed in to help.
Spearhead的名词含义是“先
头部队，前锋，矛头”，在此表示“充当先锋，带
头”，例如：Spearhead the
effort to offer classes in settlement houses
and provide lecturers to women's
clubs（带头在定居区提供课堂并为妇女俱
乐部配备演讲者）。
Anonymity
一名不希望透露名字的北约官员10月20日透露，北约下个月将在挪
威和德国培
训一批伊拉克军官。外电报道如下：NATO will begin training
Iraqi officers
in Norway and Germany next
month, as part of a NATO mission offered to
the new interim government in Baghdad,
officials said Wednesday.
Some 20 senior
Iraqi army officers will travel to Stavanger in
southwestern Norway for a week's training at
NATO's newly-created Joint
Warfare Centre at
the start of November.
Meanwhile another
group of Iraqi officers will undergo military
doctrine
instruction at a NATO centre in
Oberammergau, southern Germany, said an
official, requesting anonymity.
Anon
ymity表示“匿名，隐姓埋名，作者不明”；还可表示“匿名者，无名氏”。
例如：He
wanted the anonymity of suburban life where his
reputation was
not
known.（他希望在他的盛名鲜为人知的郊区过一种隐姓埋名的生活。）
Kidnapper
Kenneth Bigley, 62, appeared on
the tape chained and squatting in a cage,
pleading to the prime minister for help while
accusing him of lying over
the hostage has
said repeatedly he will not negotiate with
the
kidnappers, who demand release of women prisoners
held in Iraq.
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kidnapper的意思是“拐子、 绑匪”。例如：The boy's
kidnappers demanded
an enormous ransom.（绑架男孩的歹
徒索要一大笔赎金）。它的动词形式是
kidnap，其近义词是abduct。
Franchise
5月20日，“飞人”迈克尔·乔丹向媒体透露
，他的下一个目标是花钱买下一
个篮球队，而不是做教练，因为他自称缺乏耐心。外电是这样报道的：M
ichael
Jordan, widely described as the
greatest basketball player of all time,
has no
desire to move into coaching and would rather own
an NBA franchise.
Franchise常见的意思是“公民权；选举权；参政权；
专卖权”，但是在体育用
语中，franchise特指“职业运动队”。
Abuse
最近，美军虐待伊拉克战俘一事被炒得沸沸扬扬，据美联社报道，5月
4日，五
角大楼就此事举行了新闻发布会，美国防部长拉姆斯菲尔德在会上表示，涉嫌参
与虐待
战俘的美军玷污了同仁及国家的声誉，必将受到严厉惩处。他还表示将采
取一切措施确保类似事件不再发
生。
US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld
said he will take
necessaryto ensure that
abuse of detainees（虐囚） such as what a
Pentagon
（五角大楼） report says took place at Abu
Ghraib prison in Iraq
not happen again.
abuse既可以作名词也可以作动词，意思是“虐待”，abuse
detainees意思就
是“虐待战俘”。abuse还可以解释为“滥用，妄用”，例如：to
abuse one's
power（滥用职权）。
Patrol
美军官员4月25日表示，美军将与伊拉克安全部队成员在巴格达西
部城市费卢
杰共同巡逻。此外，美军将向伊拉克什叶派圣城纳杰夫派兵，对抗什叶派领袖萨
德尔
领导的武装力量。外电中的报道是这样的：U.S. troops will be on patrol
with Iraqi security forces in Fallujah, as the
United States backed down
from warnings of an
all-out assault （全面攻击）that could spark new
bloodshed and deepen anti-American
sentiment.“巡逻，巡查”的英文就是
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patrol，常用的固定搭配是：be on
patrol，例如：Warships were on patrol in
the North
Atlantic.（多艘军舰在北大西洋巡逻。）
Armed to the
teeth
Armed to the teeth，按字面意思翻译就是：“武装到牙
齿”，可以引申为“全
副武装，装备齐全”。这个短语是怎么来的呢？
1849年，armed to the teeth第一次出现。英国实业家和政治家理查德·科布<
br>登在演讲中谈到英国的国防预算问题时说
be armed to the
teeth?，从此，armed to the teeth就被广泛使用。
例如：
Hitler was armed to the teeth when he launched
the Second World War, but
in a few years, he
was completely defeated.
希特勒在发动第二次世界大战时全副武装，可是不过几年，就被彻底打败了。
The students went into the examination room,
armed to the teeth with pens,
pencils,
erasers, calculators and so on.
同学们带着钢笔、铅笔、橡皮、计算器等走进了考场。他们个个准备齐全。
其实，to the
teeth本身也是一个短语，意思是“完全地，充分地”。例如：
Daddy and Mummy
fought a war to the teeth.
（爸爸和妈妈大吵了一场。）
还有一些相关短语：be dressed to the
teeth（浓妆艳抹），be fed up to the
teeth with
sth.（对某事及其厌倦）。
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