"Stop

rioting

, stop

destroying

": victim's grandmother calls for calm in France

The grandmother

of a teenage boy,

(

whose

fatal

shooting by police

)

sparked

five nights of rioting in France,

has called for calm

(

as authorities said the scale and

intensity

of the violence appeared to be

waning

, despite an

arson

attempt on a mayor's home

)

.

Gérald Darmanin

, the Interior Minister,

said

(

the police deployment would be unchanged, with 45,000 officers

on duty

around the country, after protesters again

torched

cars,

looted

shops, damaged infrastructure and

clashed

with police on Saturday night

)

.

生詞/組：

rioting 鬧事;發(fā)生騷亂;暴亂;riot的現(xiàn)在分詞

destroying 破壞;摧毀;destroy的現(xiàn)在分詞

fatal 致命的;毀滅性的;災(zāi)難性的;導(dǎo)致失敗的

sparked 引發(fā);觸發(fā);;spark的過(guò)去分詞和過(guò)去式

intensity 強(qiáng)度;強(qiáng)烈;緊張;烈度

waning 減弱;衰落;虧;缺;wane的現(xiàn)在分詞

arson n.縱火;放火

on duty 值班;值勤

torched 放火燒，縱火燒;torch的過(guò)去式

looted 打劫，搶劫；loot的過(guò)去分詞和過(guò)去式

clashed 沖突;比賽;抵觸;爭(zhēng)論，辯論

譯文：

“停止暴亂，停止破壞”：受害者的祖母呼吁法國(guó)保持冷靜

一名十幾歲男孩被警察開(kāi)槍打死，引發(fā)法國(guó)五晚騷亂，其祖母呼吁保持冷靜，法國(guó)當(dāng)局表示，盡管一名市長(zhǎng)的家中發(fā)生了縱火未遂事件，但暴力的規(guī)模和強(qiáng)度似乎正在減弱。內(nèi)政部長(zhǎng)熱拉爾德·達(dá)爾馬寧（Gérald Darmanin）表示，周六晚上，抗議者再次焚燒汽車、搶劫商店、破壞基礎(chǔ)設(shè)施并與警方發(fā)生沖突后，警方的部署將保持不變，全國(guó)各地有45000名警察執(zhí)勤。 來(lái)自衛(wèi)報(bào)（The Guardian）