Jihadists in Sri Lanka suicide-bombed three churches and three hotels on Easter Sunday, killing more than 350 people. Islamic State claimed responsibility. The Sri Lankan authorities blamed a little-known local group, which they say may have had external help. The government received several detailed warnings, but does not seem to have acted on them. The president asked his chief of staff and the head of the police to resign. It emerged that the president had been excluding the prime minister and his allies from national security meetings.
claim这个词词义很丰富，在理解时大家要弄清楚分别在什么情况下可以用claim。比如这里就是IS通过“声称自己为这一系列事件负责”而使大家相信“又是他们在捣鬼”。另外，有一个claim的用法可能比较少见，即“to cause sb's death ”，意为“夺走……的生命”，如：The suicide-bombing claimed three lives. 那次自杀式爆炸案导致三人死亡。
意为”鲜为人知的；名不见经传的“；大家应该对它的反义词很熟悉，比如”well-known“
意为” 根据（建议、信息等）行事“，如：Acting on information from a member of the public, the police raided the club. 警察根据一个老百姓的报告，突然搜查了这家俱乐部。
更准确的说法是“Chief of Defence Staff”，即斯里兰卡的“国防参谋长”
意为“辞职；辞去（某职务）”
Kazakhstan’s ruling party named the acting president, Kassym-Zhomart Tokayev, as its candidate for a snap presidential election in June. That all but guarantees Mr Tokayev’s election to a full term. He has been acting president since Nursultan Nazarbayev, the incumbent of 30 years, resigned abruptly in March.
snap election指“提前选举”，即时间早于预期的选举，通常是为了抓住某个特殊的选举时机或是为了决定一项紧迫的政治议程，例如2017年英国首相特蕾莎·梅就发起过提前选举，本意是利用此次提前大选夯实并扩大保守党在议会的领先优势，将有利于新政府以更团结的面貌、更统一的思想、更自由的决策权在“脱欧”谈判中更好地维护英国的利益；但如我们所见，最终结果是特蕾莎·梅的保守党在该次选举中打败。
意为“在职者；现任者”
Myanmar’s highest court upheld the conviction of two journalists from Reuters for breaking the law on state secrets. The journalists say they were framed by the security services for revealing a massacre of civilians by the army.
uphold意为“维持，确认（原判、裁决等）”。这里uphold the conviction即“维持原判”。但要注意，uphold an appeal/a complaint 意为“受理上诉╱申诉”
frame意为“ 作伪证陷害”。这里be framed by即“被……作伪证陷害”
Egyptians voted to approve constitutional amendments that increase the powers of President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi and allow him to stay in office until 2030. Turnout was low, despite bribes of food parcels for many who cast a ballot.
意为“宪法修正案，修宪”
意为“投票人数”
意为“投票”
Jared Kushner, Donald Trump’s son-in-law and adviser, said a long-delayed peace plan for Israelis and Palestinians will be unveiled in June.
意为“女婿”
The Trump administration announced new sanctions on Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela, which it calls the “troika of tyranny”. Americans can now sue people or companies that do business involving property expropriated after Cuba’s revolution in 1959. John Bolton, the American national security adviser, announced that America would further restrict travel to Cuba by people who do not have relatives there.
troika意为“三巨头；三国集团”，tyranny则意为“暴君统治；暴君统治的国家”
意为“征收”，其名词格式为expropriation。expropriate property即“征收财产”
The queen invited Donald Trump to Britain ahead of the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings in June. Mr Trump will hope for a better reception than last year, when he slipped in to sip tea with the queen at Windsor Castle. Protesters then floated a baby-Trump blimp over London.
即“诺曼底登陆，the Normandy landings”，编号为Operation Neptune，也常称为D-Day
即“悄悄潜入”，这里是指2018年特朗普与英国女王会面时为了避开英国的抗议人群，选择一路避开公众场合，比如，虽然特朗普也要见英国女王，但他没有与女王乘坐敞篷马车在白金汉宫前的皇家大道上接受群众夹道欢迎， 而是在远离伦敦的温莎堡与女王见面。
原文链接：https://www.economist.com/the-world-this-week/2019/04/27/politics-this-week
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