时政新闻学英语之1：美国大使馆爆炸

长久不能将英语用于实战，导致听说读写全方位倒退，因此打算从今天开始用分析和仿写句子的形式巩固一些时政常用词汇，培养自身的英语敏感度；同时，也给基础在四级左右的同学提供英语学习的参考。学习最鲜活的语言，就要读最新时政要闻。

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1. 原文

本文原文出自中国日报，链接如下Firework-like device explodes near US embassy in Beijing。

A man, surnamed Jiang, detonated a suspected fireworks-like device near the US embassy at the junction of Tianze Road and Anjialou Road in Chaoyang district in Beijing at around 1 pm on Thursday, according to Beijing police.

The man's hand was injured in the explosion and he was sent to hospital. His life is not in danger. The man is 26–year-old and from Tongliao, Inner Mongolia autonomous region. No other person was injured.

The police are investigating the case.

Visa service at the embassy was temporarily affected but it soon resumed, visa applicants waiting outside the embassy for scheduled interviews in the afternoon told China Daily.

"I was waiting to go inside the embassy when I heard a loud bang behind me. I thought someone had lighted up a firecracker. Then I noticed the smoke rising," a visa applicant surnamed Li who had was waiting outside the embassy for an interview at 1:15 pm told China Daily.

The police immediately evacuated the area. Later the visa applicants were allowed to go back to the embassy, Li added.

Blood and glass debris were visible at the crossroad, which is about 30 meters from the embassy's entrance for visa applicants. The incident did not damage any embassy property, China Daily reporters said.

FM: Incident near US embassy an isolated one

Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said on Thursday that the incident happened at a crossroad near the US embassy is an isolated one, and police dealt with it in a timely and appropriate manner.

US embassy: No casualties or damage from blast

A US embassy spokesperson said in a statement that no other person was injured other than the bomber and there was no damage to embassy property.

The statement said there was an explosion at about 1 pm on Thursday on the street outside the South East corner of the embassy compound. There was one individual who detonated a bomb.

The police immediately responded to the incident, it added.

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2. 句子分析与仿写

2.1 A man, surnamed Jiang, detonated a suspected fireworks-like device near the US embassy.

一姜姓男子在美国大使馆附近点燃了一个疑似爆竹装置。

这句话主要有两个要点。

一是名词后加一个done的结构，形成后置定语，修饰前面的名词，名词特征更加精确。

A teacher called Yu Minghong created New Oriental School in 1993 in Beijing.

二是detonate这个词，动词，使...爆炸，是一个比较专业的词汇。

2.2 Visa applicants waiting outside the embassy for scheduled interviews in the afternoon told China Daily.

下午在使馆外等待签证面试的申请者如此告诉中国日报。

这句话和上面那句类似，也是名词后接一个非谓语，不过是doing的结构，修饰前面的visa applicants。申请签证的同志估计被吓得不轻，不知这一爆炸，有多少人被拒签。

另外要注意的是schedule这个词，可名词可动词，表示安排，尤其是作动词用时，非常灵活。比如，Yu Minghong scheduled the listing day on Sep 7, 2006. 或者 I will write an article on English study everyday based on my schedule.

2.3 I was waiting to go inside the embassy when I heard a loud bang behind me.

我正要进大使馆里面，这时听到我身后一声巨响。这里是be doing...when...的结构，正在做某事时，发生了什么什么事情。

He was having dinner with his parents when he received the admission letter of Qsinghua University. 老家县一中今年有两个同学考入清华，对于这个百万人口大县，着实不容易，希望他们能有更辉煌的未来。

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3. 题外话

用英语来写写，别荒废了自己的底子。

After the incident took place, the Foriegn Ministry announced that it is an isolated one, meaning that it is done not out of political purpose but rather a civil/criminal case.The local police is still investigating it so it is not appriopriate to define the nature of this indident.

Nevertheless, it reminded me of what happened to China's Embassy in the League of Communists of Yugoslavia on May 8, 1999, when NATO lauched an accurate attack on our embassy with JDAM. Casulties rose to more than 20 and subsequent loss in terms of economic and diplomatic area can not be measured easily. One critical reason why America-led did that is China is not strong enough at that time. But now, after more than 4 decades of prosperous development in all respects, we are entitled to respect and recognition from those so-called powers around the world.