本期重點詞匯：援引

CITE

VERB

citing

(present participle)

1. quote (a ? ? ?passage, book, or author) as evidence for or justification of an argument ? ? ?or statement, especially in a scholarly work:

“authors who are highly regarded by their peers tend to be cited”

2. praise ? ? ?(someone, typically a member of the armed forces) for a courageous act in ? ? ?an official dispatch:

“he has been cited many times for his contributions in the intelligence area”

3. summon ? ? ?(someone) to appear in a court of law:

“the summons cited four of the defendants”

新聞報道中，常常會見到援引各種消息源，以保證新聞的可靠性。

如路透社的報道：

An earthquake of about 7.2 magnitude shook Tajikistan at 8:37 a.m. (0037 GMT) on Thursday at a depth of 10 km (6 miles), Chinese state television CCTV reported，citing the China Earthquake Networks Center.

試譯：

據(jù)中國國家電視臺CCTV援引中國地震臺網(wǎng)中心的報道，周四上午8時37分（格林尼治標(biāo)準(zhǔn)時間0037），塔吉克斯坦發(fā)生7.2級左右的地震，震源深度10千米。