英闻天下——612 France Probing Bombing near Embassy

 　　France is investigating a car bomb that took place outside the French embassy in the Libya capital Tripoli.

 

　　Two French guards and several residents have been injured in Tuesday's attack.

 

　　French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius has flown out to Tripoli to assess the situation and bring home two the wounded French guards.

 

　　"The target of the attack was the friendship between the people of Libya and France, but also, in the bigger picture, everyone who fights against terrorism."

 

　　The explosion has caused a huge amount of damage to the French embassy compound as well as surrounding buildings.

 

　　The motive¹ for the attack isn't clear at this point.

 

　　France has increasingly become targeted by Islamic extremists, since its intervention² in overthrowing³ al-Qaeda-backed militants⁴ in northern Mali.

 

　　French forces were also very active in the NATO-led mission in Libya which toppled former leader Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.

 

　　There have also been several attacks on diplomatic missions in Benghazi, but Tuesday's attack is the first in Tripoli since the civil war ended with Muammar Gadhafi's death.

1 motive   

n.动机，目的；adv.发动的，运动的

参考例句：

• The police could not find a motive for the murder.警察不能找到谋杀的动机。
• He had some motive in telling this fable.他讲这寓言故事是有用意的。

2 intervention   

n.介入，干涉，干预

参考例句：

• The government's intervention in this dispute will not help.政府对这场争论的干预不会起作用。
• Many people felt he would be hostile to the idea of foreign intervention.许多人觉得他会反对外来干预。

3 overthrowing   

v.打倒，推翻( overthrow的现在分词 )；使终止

参考例句：

• They succeeded in overthrowing the fascist dictatorship. 他们成功推翻了法西斯独裁统治。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• I always delight in overthrowing those kinds of schemes. 我一向喜欢戳穿人家的诡计。 来自辞典例句

4 militants   

激进分子，好斗分子( militant的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The militants have been sporadically fighting the government for years. 几年来，反叛分子一直对政府实施零星的战斗。
• Despite the onslaught, Palestinian militants managed to fire off rockets. 尽管如此，巴勒斯坦的激进分子仍然发射导弹。