2021国际英语新闻

由于世界上一些高速增长的石油消费国面临着削减碳排放的压力，主要产油国已经开始为原油收入的长期下降发愁。With some of the world's fastest-growing oil consumers under pressure to cut carbon emissions, big petroleum-producing states are beginning to fret over a long-term drop in crude-oil revenue.多年来，产油国一直担心美国等发达国家通过节能措施降低能源消耗，或使用乙醇和其他生物燃料等非石油替代能源。For years, oil-producing states have worried about rich nations like the U.S. cutting back on energy consumption through conservation or turning to nonoil alternatives such as ethanol and other biofuels.而现在，在数十国家齐聚哥本哈根、努力达成碳减排协议之际，沙特阿拉伯和其他主要波斯湾国家担心，新兴市场国家的原油需求也可能下降，其中包括作为世界石油消费增长最大引擎的中国。But Saudi Arabia and other big Persian Gulf states now fear that emerging markets like China--the biggest driver behind the growth in world oil consumption--may also cut crude demand as dozens of countries converge in Copenhagen to try to hammer out a pact to reduce carbon emissions.

BBC News with Iain Purdon The International Committee of the Red Cross says the Syrian government has given it permission to enter the besieged district of Baba Amr in Homs tomorrow just hours after opposition fighters retreated. Carla Mardini is a spokeswoman for the ICRC in Geneva. "We'll be bringing in food and medical aid. As to the figures of the teams, this is being organised right now, so I can't give you more. We also don't have the figures of how many people were seriously wounded or dead. We'll have to see what the situation is on the spot . It's a priority for us to enter so we can assess the situation on the ground and decide how we're going to respond the most efficiently and the most rapidly."Earlier, opposition fighters in Homs announced that they were staging what they called a " tactical withdrawal" from Baba Amr. It's been a major opposition stronghold and has faced weeks of heavy shelling from government forces with reports of hundreds of deaths. Syrian officials say the army is now in control of the area. In another development, the United Nations Security Council has unanimously demanded immediate humanitarian access to Syria, and the statement was backed by China and Russia, who until now have resisted any moves to condemn Syria or take action against it. Jane O'Brien reports from Washington.国际红十字委员会(ICRC)称，反对派武装人员撤退后，叙利亚政府已允许该组织进入受困的胡姆斯巴巴阿姆鲁地区。Carla Mardini是ICRC驻日内瓦女发言人。“我们将提供食物和医疗援助，由于马上就要组织好，所以救援人数不会很多。我们还不知道多少人严重受伤或死亡，必须马上了解情况。重要的前提就是能够进入这个地区，这样才能实地评估情况，然后决定如何有效、快速做出反应。”早些时候，驻胡姆斯的反对派武装人员宣称正从巴巴阿姆鲁发起所谓的“战略撤退”。该地区曾是反对派的重要据点，数周来一直遭受政府军的猛烈轰击，据悉有数百人丧生。叙利亚官员称军队现已控制该地区。同时，联合国安理会一致同意迅速向叙利亚提供人道主义援助，中国和俄罗斯都支持该声明，不过这两国目前仍反对任何谴责叙利亚的言论和行动。Jane O'Brien在华盛顿报道

2021旅游业遭受重创，相应地，人也受到了影响，尤其是旅行者的精神面貌，也变得憔悴抓狂。这里是国家地理采访的一些被迫不能旅游的人们的一些感悟； 摘要一些重点词语和表达。 短时间内 brief period 被迫久坐不移动 forced sedentariness 烧香  burn incense (how  much incense I brun ) 点蜡烛 lit candle  翻阅旅游杂志和Ins日志 thumbing through the old journals and Instagram feeds 自我催眠/欺骗 self-delusion  沉溺于失望中 dwell so much on disappointment  例句1 ： we are not grounded. 我们没有被禁足 grounded 接地的，有基础的；动词ground ，停，在这里确实一个十分地道优秀的表达。例句2：a dash of self delusion helps.一点自我催眠是有帮助的。 关于量词，这个描述自我催眠的小词dash确实令人印象深刻，a dash of wit/kindness 一些聪慧 /善良；a dash of milk 少许牛奶；at a dash 一鼓作气