听力文本（五）8月14日
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本文对应音频为：BBC NEWS 2023.8.9 （00：00-03：00），共四则短新闻
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NEWS1:
The US state of Hawaii is bracing itself for（正在迎接令人不快的事） a significant rise in casualties following deadly wildfires in which 93 people are now known to have died. Search teams are continuing to scour(搜查) the remains of burnt out buildings and vehicles on the island of Maui with hundreds remaining unaccounted for（下落不明）, Blake Drury is from Lahaina, which has been devastated. He's lost everything to the fires and described the situation for survivors: Everybody stand it. There's a lot of people that are still stranded over there. Nobody has cell service, so they don't even know what's going on this side. For those who don't have cars, it's even harder People are riding their bikes I mean, 20 miles to get to the other side, to even find out What's happening? And just to see that everybody's living a normal life on the other side of the island. It‘s hard to accept.
NEWS2:
Troops have been deployed to Canada’s remote far-north（加拿大远北地区）, to help try to contain（控制、抑制） hundreds of out of control wildfires. Several communities in the Northwest Territories are under evacuation（撤离，撤退） orders. The defence ministers said they'd help with firefighting efforts——transport and coordination.
NEWS3:
American FBI agents have met Ecuadorian police and prosecutors as they begin aiding the investigation into the assassination of the presidential candidate, Fernando Villavicencio（遇刺总统）. So far, six Colombian nationals（哥伦比亚公民）with alleged ties to criminal groups have been charged with his murder. Will Leonardo reports. The outgoing（离职的） Ecuadorian president, Guillermo Lasso(厄瓜多尔前总统吉列尔莫·拉索) had requested help from the FBI in the hours after the killing of Fernando Villavicencio. On Sunday, it was confirmed that agency had arrived and talked with local police and the prosecutors talked with bringing the killers to justice(将罪犯就地正法), the Interior Ministry（内政部） said they discussed the scope of collaboration and support. Mr.Villavicencio assassination days before the election has highlighted a sharp increase in violent crime in Ecuador in recent years, much of it tight to the drugs trade. The candidate（接替比利亚维森西奥的总统候选人新人选也已出炉。8月13日，比利亚维森西奥生前所在政党宣布，将推选曾与比利亚维森西奥有过合作的记者Christian Zurita为新任候选人，参加将于8月20日举行的大选，比利亚维森西奥的选票将根据法律自动转移给Zurita。Zurita强调，自己将“不会与任何黑手党谈判”） investigated corruption as part of his work as a journalist（修饰candidate）, and he said he wasn't afraid of gangs despite receiving threats.
NEWS4:
An Iranian journalist who was sentenced to two years in prison for interviewing the father of Mahsa Amini, whose death in custody（处于被羁押状态） last September sparked months of protests（抗议、示威）, has been freed. The 23 year old Tehran（德黑兰） based journalist Nazila Maroufian was arrested in November after she published an interview with Amjad Amani. Here is Lipika pelham Nazila. Maroufian posted a defiant(挑衅，蔑视的) picture of herself on social media, clutching flowers in one hand and her other hand raised in a victory sign. She's seen without a headscarf, this strict Islamic dress code that Miss Amini had allegedly violated Miss Maroufian wrote this message on Twitter and Instagram: Do not accept slavery. You deserve the best. Shortly after her interview with Mahsa, I mean her father, was published online. She was arrested and sentenced in January on charges of propaganda(宣传) against the system and the spreading false news.
