时代选评之2011国际十大新闻.docVIP

时代杂志评选之2011年国际十大新闻事件 来源：时代网，新华网 1．The Arab Spring Blooms in Tunisia and Egypt The spectacle of Tunisians ousting their long-ruling President, Zine el Abidine Ben Ali, gave courage to myriad Egyptian dissident groups. A huge mass movement finally led to Hosni Muburaks oustal. Mr Mubarak, who served longer than any ruler in modern Egypts history, was overthrown in a popular revolution in February. 一名突尼斯年轻男子在1月点燃了阿拉伯世界的愤怒和革命之火。突尼斯总统本·阿里下台后，埃及前总统穆巴拉克也在2月11日宣布下台。11月27日，埃及举行了首次民主选举。 2．The Killing of Osama bin Laden The mastermind behind the deadly 9/11 attacks, Osama bin Laden was killed by United States Navy Seals on May 2, 2011, He was shot and killed inside a private residential compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan in a covert operation ordered by US President Barack Obama. 5月1日，美国总统奥巴马发表电视讲话，宣布美军发现??击毙本·拉丹。此后，本·拉丹的尸体被海葬。 3．Japans Triple Disaster An earthquake measuring 9 on the Richter scale and the associated tsunami devastated Japans north-eastern region Tohuku. The tsunami overwhelmed the limited seawall around the Fukushima nuclear plant, knocking out all its power supplies and triggering a massive nuclear crisis 3月11日，日本东北部海岸发生了灾难性的海啸和地震。9.0级地震是近代历史上最严重的自然灾害，而地震引发的福岛核电站危机更导致全世界对放射性污染人心惶惶。 4．Europes Financial Crisis Not in decades has Europe so gripped investors the way it did this year. The state of the US economy, normally the focus of global markets, has become almost an afterthought. 2011年，欧元区第三大经济体意大利的经济接近崩溃边缘，丑闻迭出却稳坐总理宝座的贝卢斯科尼最终败给了欧洲债务危机。和他具有相同命运的是“笨猪五国”的领导人，他们先后因债务危机而不得不下台。 5．The Fall of Gaddafi Muammar Gaddafis four-decade-long dictatorial rule in Libya ended this year. The dictator was killed as fighters battling the vestiges of his fallen regime wrested control of his hometown of Sirte after a prolonged struggle. The report of Colonel Gaddafis death put an end to the fierce manhunt for the former leader who remained on the lam in Libya for weeks after the fall of his government. 10月20日，统治了利比亚40年的卡扎菲中枪而亡，倒在了血泊中，结束了他在利比亚42年的执政生涯。他的尸体随后在米苏拉塔的一个肉铺中展出。 6．The Ara