本拉登之死英文报道的用法分析

 "JUSTICE(正义，很多同学不会说正义得到了伸张，其实很简单就是用个done就好了，当然也可以用 bring somebody justice to justice,这里的somebody就是罪人) has been done." Thus Barack Obama announced the death of Osama bin Laden, putting an end to a decade-long(名词＋形容词的复合形容词，例如还有ice－cold) manhunt that had bedeviled(devil我们都知道是恶魔的意思，be前缀通常是变动词，恶魔通常是不好的，所以bedevil就是造成巨大破坏的意思) America's intelligence(通常来说intelligence是智慧的意思，但是其实他还有情报的意思，例如美国最著名的CIA,中间的i就是情报的意思，那就是情报局) agencies. Though the terrorist leader's operational capabilities(大家都知道是能力的意思，但是这个词不止是指人的能力，还有物的能力，例如电脑或者武器之类) were substantially(既可以形容数量多，又可以等于important) diminished as a result of America's war on terror, his elusiveness had been an open wound(字面上清楚，但是这里引申意思就是隐痛，粗俗点的话就是 pain in the ass) in the years following the attacks of September 11th. In a late-night address to the nation that was televised around the world Mr Obama called Mr bin Laden's death "the most significant achievement to date(这里是till now，直到现在的意思)" in America's effort to defeat al-Qaeda.

As the president explained, a group of American operatives killed Mr bin Laden and took possession(=own) of his body after a firefight at a heavily-secured compound（这里是有防卫的地方） in the Pakistani city of Abbottadad(藏身之处的意思), about an hour north of Islamabad. The operation took less than 40 minutes and no Americans were harmed (though one of the team's two helicopters broke down and was destroyed). According to officials, four other people were killed during the raid(rapid，surprise attack), including one who is believed to be Mr bin Laden's son and a woman who was used as a human shield(盾牌，也可以引申为提供保护的人和物)