英国议会大厦外发生恐怖袭击

　　背景阅读：

　　3月22日，在英国伦敦的议会大厦外，救援人员将伤者运送至救护车上。新华社发(蒂姆·爱尔兰摄)

　　英国警方22日晚宣布，已有4人在伦敦市中心的袭击事件中死亡，另有20多人受伤。

　　英国伦敦警方22日说，伦敦市中心议会大厦附近发生的袭击事件为“恐怖袭击”。警方发出警告，让人们不要靠近市中心区域。

　　The police officer killed in a terror attack at Westminster has been named by the Met Police as PC Keith Palmer.

　　The 48-year-old husband and father was among five people who died, including the attacker, near the Houses of Parliament.

　　The attacker, whose identity police believe they know, stabbed the unarmed officer before being shot dead.

　　Forty other people were injured after a car struck pedestrians on nearby Westminster Bridge, before it crashed.

　　Acting Deputy Commissioner and head of counter terrorism at the Metropolitan Police, Mark Rowley, said they were working on the assumption the attacker was "inspired by international terrorism".

　　PC Palmer was a member of the Met's parliamentary and diplomatic protection command and had 15 years service.

　　'Never give in'

　　Mr Rowley paid tribute to PC Palmer, saying: "He was someone who left for work today expecting to return home at the end of his shift - and he had every right to expect that would happen."

　　He said the parliamentary protection team are a combination of armed and unarmed officers and "sadly the officer who lost his life today was unarmed".

　　unarmed

　　adj.

　　徒手的; 未武装的; <动>(昆虫)无突的;

　　v.

　　缴械，放下武器( unarm的过去式和过去分词);

　　例句：

　　The soldiers concerned were unarmed at the time.

　　涉及其中的士兵当时并未携带武器。

　　其他:

　　原型： unarm

　　Mr Rowley added: "He was supported by armed colleagues who shot and killed the attacker."

　　The acting deputy commissioner said specially-trained family liaison officers were supporting the families of the three members of the public who lost their lives.

　　Three police officers were among those injured, two of whom were in a serious condition, he added.

　　Speaking in Downing Street after chairing a meeting of the government's Cobra emergencies committee, Prime Minister Theresa May said it was a "sick and depraved" attack on the heart of the capital and attempts to defeat UK values were "doomed to failure".

　　Mrs May paid tribute to the "exceptional men and women" of the police force who responded to the attack, saying: "We will all move forward together, never giving in to terror and never allowing the voices of hate and evil to drive us apart."

　　The prime minister added: "The location of this attack was no accident. The terrorist chose to strike at the heart of our capital city where people of all nationalities, religions and cultures come together to celebrate the values of liberty, democracy and freedom of speech."

　　Earlier, Mr Rowley, said a major investigation was under way into the "marauding terrorist attack".

　　investigation

　　n.

　　侦查; (正式的) 调查，研究; 科学研究; 学术研究;

　　例句：

　　We are making a thorough investigation.

　　我们正在进行彻底调查。

　　其他:

　　复数：investigations

　　He said emergency services were called at 14.40 GMT after the car was driven over Westminster Bridge, hitting and injuring a number of members of the public and the three police officers, who were on their way back from a commendation ceremony.

　　After the car crashed into the railings of the Houses of Parliament, a man armed with a knife "continued the attack" and tried to enter the building.

　　Eyewitnesses said police fired three or four gunshots as the knifeman lunged towards a second officer. Parliament went into lockdown.

　　Foreign Office minister Tobias Ellwood - a former Army officer whose brother died in the Bali terrorist bombing in 2002 - attempted mouth-to-mouth resuscitation of an injured police officer.

　　terrorist

　　n.

　　恐怖主义者，恐怖分子，恐怖分子;

　　adj.

　　恐怖主义的;

　　例句：

　　One American was killed and three were wounded in terrorist attacks.　在几起恐怖袭击中，一名美国人遇难，三人受伤。

　　其他:

　　复数：terrorists

　　The officer who was killed was said by Mr Rowley to have been armed - but police later confirmed that was not the case.