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An van has ploughed in high speed into a crowded christmas market in the French city of Nantes injuring at least 6 people, some of them seriously. It's the third such assualt in France in recent days. Lucy Williamson reports.

Local reports suggest the driver of the van may have shouted Allahu Akbar, or god is great before reversing into crowds of shoppers and then stab himslef 9 times accoding to French media. He's currently in the serious condition. On Saturday, a man was shot dead after stabbing police officers near the central city of Tour. A day later, another driver ploughed into pedestrians in Dijon, injuring 13 people. The series of the attacks have left France baffled, none of the three men has so far been found to have any radical regious links, but there's real anxiety here about the number of French citizens drown to violent Islamic groups and the risk they can pose at home.

Pope Francis has used his Christmas speech to Catholic bishops and priets to make a scathing attack on the Vantican bureaucratic machine. The Pope told the symbol clergy that the Curia was middle to what he called existential schizophrenia, social exhibitionism and spiritual Alzheimer's. Our geligous affair's correspondent Caroline White says there is a sense of shock in his words.

This is very very strong stuff, they were absolute silence at the end of the speech perhaps a little typical ploys as well. People were quite shock by the strange of the words that he has used that is a sense of frustration boiling over and he did said that previous Pope did also struggle to try to reform it. This is the place where people have been their positions for dacades or even retired. Cardianl staff bishops still retain influence and power and try to change that is proving perhaps a much harder thing to do than he has thought.

Police in Italy say they have arrested 14 people last night carring a new flashes plot to kill politicians in an attack of public buildings over the christmas period. Doznes of others are under investigation. XX has said the militants were planning to kill several politicians in a single attack.

Construstion of a new canal linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans has began in Nicaragua. The water way will be deeper and wider than the Panama canal and should be ready within 5 years. Arturo Wallace reports from Managua.

It has been built as the largest engineering project in the history of the region and will cost estimated 40 billion US dollars. The ground-breaking opening ceremony for Nicaragua canal is taking place 1 year and half after it was first awarded to a Hong Kong based international construction. However, the constuction of this waterway's proving to be a controversial issue in Nicaragua. The government claims the project will lift the country out of poverty. But many feared the nagetive enviromental impacts and undoubt, economic benefits. News from the BBC.

Experts say North Korea is expering an enormous unprecedented Internet outages, with some saying its online access is totally down. The reports come after Washington said it would launch a propotional response to a cyberattack on Sony pictures, the US company that made the comedy film about the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. Washington blamed Pyongyang for the attack which let Sony to hold the release of the film. the White House has declined comment on any US involvement in the current Internet outaes.

At least 27 people have been killed in separate bomb attacks in Nigeria. The records said explosive deviecs havd been planted near a bus as passengers were boarding it to the Northern city of Gombe killing at least 20 people. Hours later, an explotion shook busy market in Bauchi the capital of the neighoring state. A witness told the BBC he counted 7 bodies and the others had already been taken away to mortuaries.

The man of New York Bill de Blasio has called for public protests so the police tactics towards black suspects to be suspended and until after the funerals of two policemen shot dead last Saturday. Speaking at a police charity, he said it was time to put debate aside and to support the graving famlilies of the two officers. Some monuments in New York police force have strongly criticized Mr. de Balsio.

The English rock blues singer Joe Cocker has died at the age of 70 at San Miguel, Colorado in the US. Joe Cocker roused the fame in the 1960s and was best known for his cover version of a Beatles song--With A Little Help From My Friends. The late Joe Cocker.

And that's the news from BBC world news.

詞匯解析

accelerate

難度：3星常用詞匯，屬常用6000詞

英漢解釋

v.加速；提前；跳級

參考例句

用作動詞 (v.)

We will accelerate the reform of the financial system under these circumstances.

在這一背景情況下,我們將加快金融體制改革。

The decline of her health seemed to suddenly accelerate.

她的健康狀況好像突然提前衰退了。

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procedure

難度：4星核心詞匯，屬常用3000詞

英漢解釋

n.程序；手續；步驟

參考例句

用作名詞 (n.)

What's the procedure for opening a savings account?

開一個儲蓄帳戶有什么手續?

The next procedure is to insert the battery.

接下來的步驟是裝進電池。

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somehow

難度：3星常用詞匯，屬常用6000詞

英漢解釋

adv.以某種方式；不知怎么地

參考例句

用作副詞 (adv.)

We must make up for the lost time somehow.

我們必須以某種方式把損失的時間補上。

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technical

難度：4星核心詞匯，屬常用3000詞

英漢解釋

adj.技術的；專業的；工藝的

參考例句

用作形容詞 (adj.)

On technical matters, I defer to the experts.

在技術問題上，我遵從專家的意見。

It is special craft art technical skill in Yunnan.

這是云南獨特的工藝美術技藝。

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orbit

難度：3星常用詞匯，屬常用6000詞

英漢解釋

n.勢力范圍；眼眶；軌跡

vt.繞軌道而行；進入軌道

vi.盤旋

參考例句

用作名詞 (n.)

Hou Kou district fell into Japanese orbit before the outbreak of the second sino-Japan war.

虹口區在抗日戰爭爆發前就已落入日本人手中。

用作及物動詞 (vt.)

The space shuttle will orbit a weather satellite.

太空梭將把一個氣象衛星送入運行軌道。

用作不及物動詞 (vi.)

Make one more orbit to the left again.

左轉彎再盤旋一圈。

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appearance

難度：4星核心詞匯，屬常用3000詞

英漢解釋

n.出現；露面；外貌；外表；出場

參考例句

用作名詞 (n.)

I don't want to go to the party but I'd better put in an appearance, I suppose.

我不想參加那個聚會，可是我最好還是要露一下面。

The first appearance of Jielun Chou impresses us with showing off coldness and unruliness!

周杰倫一出場給人一種愛耍酷，桀驁不馴的感覺，不喜歡對媒體親近。

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transfer

難度：4星核心詞匯，屬常用3000詞

英漢解釋

v.轉移；調任；轉乘

n.遷移；移動；換車；匯兌

參考例句

用作動詞 (v.)

The exhibition was transferred to another city two days later.

兩天后,這個展會轉移到另外一個城市。

用作名詞 (n.)

International trade involves the transfer of currency from one country to another.

國際貿易涉及貨幣由一國向另一國的匯兌。

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