Continuing a crackdown following last month’s failed coup,Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, decreed that the government could issue direct orders to military commanders, bypassing the chief of the general staff.
Separately, Germany’s highest court upheld a police request to stop Mr Erdogan from addressing a 40,000-strong rally in Cologne by video link, for fear of provoking violence.
Crackdown: 镇压
Coup:政变
Decree:颁布法令
Commander:指挥官
Bypass:绕开
General staff:参谋部
Uphold:支持
Rally:集会
夏说晨读2016年08月11日【Thursday】
A Russian court handed down a 22-year sentence to Nadia Savchenko, a Ukrainian military pilot accused of directing artillery fire which killed two Russian journalists.
Asked if she understood the sentence, she stood on a bench and sang the Ukrainian national anthem.
Ukraine and Western countries say Ms Savchenko was abducted, the charge are nonsense and the trial farcical.
Hand down a sentence: 宣布判决
Artillery fire:炮火
National anthem:国歌
Abducted: 被绑架
Farcical:闹剧
夏说晨读2016年08月12日【Friday】
The Bank of England halved its base rate to a wafer-thin 0.25% and announced a big monetary stimulus: buying £60 billion of British government bonds and £10 billion from selected companies.
A recruitment survey said the jobs market was in “freefall”.
Halve:减半
Wafer-thin:特别薄
Monetary stimulus:货币刺激
Government bond:政府债券(国债)
Unprecedented:史无前例的
Recruitment:招聘
Freefall:自由落体
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