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第397期：主餐一道：泛听练习
以下段落是摘自新闻里的一些重要信息,并不是一个段落的听写。空内信息可在本新闻中全部找到,大家可以根据这些信息复述新闻。
一、泛听建议：
1、完整听一遍，掌握大意。
2、继续听，特别注意关键信息。遇到相似的词，写下来。
This is a very disturbing incident. It is profoundly _1_ that innocent people should be held hostage by an armed person _2_ political motivation.
COHEN: Sydney's Muslim leaders quickly condemned the act. Police identified the gunman as Man Haron Monis, a 50-year-old Iranian refugee and self-styledcleric. He was convicted of sending hate mail to the families of Australian soldiers killed overseas and was out on bail for a string of violent offenses, _3_ being an accessory to the murder of his ex-wife. His former lawyer, Manny Conditsis, told Australia's national broadcaster this was the act of a desperate man.
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MANNY CONDITSIS: Knowing that he was on bail for very serious offenses, I thought that he may consider that he's got nothing to lose. This is a one-off, random individual. It's not a concerted terrorism event or act. It's a damaged-goods individual that's done something quite outrageous.
COHEN: Police say they still have much more investigating to do to clarify why and how the events unfolded. The New South Wales Premier _4_ people to continue on with their normal lives. But for many Sydney residents, the shock of the hostage siege, whether a terrorism-inspired attack or just the act of a violent criminal, will leave them shaken for some time to come. For NPR News, I'm Stuart Cohen in Sydney.
这起事件令人非常不安。无辜者被怀有政治动机的持枪者劫持做人质，这是极其令人震惊的。
科恩：悉尼穆斯林领袖立即对这起事件表示了谴责。警方确认枪手为自诩为“教长”的伊朗难民曼•哈龙•莫尼斯，现年50岁。他曾因向在外国阵亡的澳大利亚士兵家庭邮寄恐吓信被判有罪，而且他还涉嫌多起暴力犯罪，并曾被控是谋杀前妻的从犯，但最终都获得保释。曾担任他律师的曼尼·康帝提接受澳大利亚国家电视台采访时表示，这是一个绝望男人的行动。
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曼尼·康帝提：我知道他涉嫌严重的犯罪却仍然获得保释，我想他可能认为他已经没有什么可失去的了。这是一次性的个人随机行动，不是集体恐怖事件或行动。这是“不健全的个人”进行的残暴行动。
科恩：警方表示，他们要进行更多调查，查明这些是事件是如何展开的。新南威尔士州总理呼吁民众如往常一样生活。但是对大多数悉尼居民来说，无论是恐怖主义引发的袭击还是只是暴力犯罪行为，人质劫持事件的冲击给他们造成的震荡都需要一段时间来平复。NPR新闻，斯图尔特·科恩悉尼报道。
词汇解析：
1、be convicted of
给…定罪；宣判…有罪；
eg. He has been blacklisted since being convicted of possessing marijuana in 1969.
他自从1969年因持有大麻而被定罪后就被列入了黑名单。
eg. Carter was dubiously convicted of shooting three white men in a bar.
卡特被判定在酒吧枪杀3名白人男子，这一罪名似有不妥。
2. one-off
一次性的；
eg. And the benefits are enduring, rather than one-off.
而且这种利润是持久的，而不是一次性的。
eg. They tend to work part-time on one-off projects.
他们倾向于在一次性项目上发展兼职工作。
3. continue on
继续；
eg. Both reports said those aboard were allowed to continue on their way.
这两个报导都说，飞机上的乘客都被准许继续他们的行程。
eg. We can stay in a motel overnight, then continue on to Copenhagen tomorrow.
我们可以在一家汽车旅馆过夜，然后明天再继续出发到哥本哈根。
