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叙利亚再次爆发反政府抗议活动

There's been another day of widespread anti-government protests in Syria. Official media said a number of policemen had been shot and one had died. Unconfirmed reports from activists said at least 16 demonstrators were killed by the security forces in several locations. Much of the worst violence took place in the city of Homs, with film of it posted on a social media website.

Disturbances were reported from nearly all parts of Syria, including in the second biggest city Aleppo. Meanwhile, in the north of the country, the Syrian military has continued its operations. About 10,000 people who've fled their homes are camping on the Syrian side of the border with Turkey. Our correspondent Matthew Price reports from one of the Syrian camps.

There are a number ofmakeshiftshelters here, and there's a rather large tent. These are all people who've moved here in the last few days, and they all say that they are frightened, frightened of their army, frightened of their president. In one tent, Saad Fatemi Khabchi, elderly and frail. "I came here because of the violence," she said, "because of the army." The tactic is to crush the rebellion, but for now at least the crackdown seems to be fanning its flames.

阿根廷最大传媒集团掌门人养女养子疑是政治犯遗孤

The heirs to Argentina's main media group have agreed to DNA tests to establish whether they really are the children of left-wing prisoners killed by the armed forces in the 1970s. Marcela and Felipe Noble Herrera, the adopted children of the owner of the Clarin group, areabiding bya court ruling that they give DNA samples to a national database. They'll then be compared with DNA from people who disappeared or were killed under military rule.

德国态度转变 希腊危机现曙光

Financial markets appear to have settled a little after the German Chancellor Angela Merkel softened her position on moves toprop upthe Greek economy. The German government wants private sector banks to shoulder more of the burden by giving Greece more time to make repayments on its huge debts. Andrew Walker reports.

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越南开始清理越战时遗留橙剂 美将出手援助

Vietnam is beginning a joint operation with the United States to remove traces of the toxicdefoliantAgent Orange. The initial focus is a former US military base, which is still contaminated with the chemical, which was used to destroyvegetation coverfor communist forces during the Vietnam War. Vietnam and the US are improving relations amid shared concern about China's growing power.

英国研究人员试图寻找帕金森病的方法

Researchers in Britain who are trying to find a cure for Parkinson's disease are creating a bank of artificially-grown brain cells from patients suffering from the illness. Parkinson's disease is adegenerativedisorder, which attacks parts of the brain that control movement. Scientists are using a new stem cell technique allowing them to turn skin from patients into small pieces of brain. The aim is to build up a brain bank, enabling researchers to study how Parkinson's develops and to test new drugs. Dr Richard Wade-Martins is leading the study.

"The brain is an inaccessible organ. You can't get bits of somebody's brain in life. So now for the first time we can grow in a dish the neurons that are very closely related. They're identical essentially to the neurons inside the brain of a patient that we couldn'tget access tobefore."

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makeshift n. 权宜之计；临时措施；凑合；将就

adj. 临时的；权宜之计的；凑合的

The makeshift fare would have to sustain him through the night.

今天他就得靠这些七拼八凑的食物过夜了。

defoliant n. （美）[农药] 落叶剂；[农药] 脱叶剂

The crash had spilled a noxious defoliant into the planet's ecology, ravaging the native flora.

这次坠毁将一种有害的落叶剂洒入星球的生态系统中，破坏着当地的植物群。

degenerative adj. 退化的；退步的；变质的

A degenerative disease.

一种变性疾病

abide by :遵守；信守；承担…的后果

She do not abide by the term of the agreement.

她没有遵守协议的条款。

prop up v. 支撑；支持

Money would prop up your head?

钱能支起你的头来吗？

vegetation cover :植被（覆盖）；植物覆盖层

Poor vegetation cover, serious soil erosion.

植被覆盖差，水土流失严重。

get access to :获得；接近；可以使用

Though online learning , we get access to many new patterns of thinking.

通过网上学习，我们接触到了许多新的思维模式。