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英语课

By Robert Berger
Jerusalem
16 October 2009
Israel comdemns the United Nations Human Rights Council's approval of the Goldstone Report which accuses Israel and the Palestinian militant 1 group Hamas of war crimes during the Gaza conflict in January.


Israel says the resolution is biased 2 and one-sided, and the charges of war crimes are outrageous 3.


"This diktat is phrased in very extreme terms that try to impose rules that will make it impossible for any country to defend themselves against terror," said Israeli spokesman Yigal Palmor.


Israel says its three-week assault on the Gaza Strip was an act of legitimate 4 self-defense in response to years of Palestinian rocket attacks.


The resolution also accuses Hamas of war crimes, something the Islamic militant group denies. But the international focus is on Israeli actions which killed at least 1,100 Palestinians.


The matter will now be referred to the United Nations Security Council which has the authority to involve the International Criminal Court in The Hague. But that poses a dilemma 5 for the world powers which are trying to revive peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians.


Palmor says any punitive 6 action will have negative consequences. "If this implies any practical steps taken against Israel, it will make it impossible for any Israeli government to take risks for the sake of peace and that will be detrimental 7 for the peace process," he said.


Palestinian officials welcomed the resolution, but chief negotiator Saeb Erekat said the question is what happens next. "I think the most important thing now is the follow-up. The follow-up here is that we want to insure the non-reoccurrence of such massacres 8 against the Palestinian people," he said.


The Palestinians fear that the United States, which voted against the resolution, will bury it in the Security Council.



adj.激进的,好斗的;n.激进分子,斗士
  • Some militant leaders want to merge with white radicals.一些好斗的领导人要和白人中的激进派联合。
  • He is a militant in the movement.他在那次运动中是个激进人物。
a.有偏见的
  • a school biased towards music and art 一所偏重音乐和艺术的学校
  • The Methods: They employed were heavily biased in the gentry's favour. 他们采用的方法严重偏袒中上阶级。
adj.无理的,令人不能容忍的
  • Her outrageous behaviour at the party offended everyone.她在聚会上的无礼行为触怒了每一个人。
  • Charges for local telephone calls are particularly outrageous.本地电话资费贵得出奇。
adj.合法的,合理的,合乎逻辑的;v.使合法
  • Sickness is a legitimate reason for asking for leave.生病是请假的一个正当的理由。
  • That's a perfectly legitimate fear.怀有这种恐惧完全在情理之中。
n.困境,进退两难的局面
  • I am on the horns of a dilemma about the matter.这件事使我进退两难。
  • He was thrown into a dilemma.他陷入困境。
adj.惩罚的,刑罚的
  • They took punitive measures against the whole gang.他们对整帮人采取惩罚性措施。
  • The punitive tariff was imposed to discourage tire imports from China.该惩罚性关税的征收是用以限制中国轮胎进口的措施。
adj.损害的,造成伤害的
  • We know that heat treatment is detrimental to milk.我们知道加热对牛奶是不利的。
  • He wouldn't accept that smoking was detrimental to health.他不相信吸烟有害健康。
大屠杀( massacre的名词复数 ); 惨败
  • The time is past for guns and killings and massacres. 动不动就用枪、动不动就杀、大规模屠杀的时代已经过去了。 来自教父部分
  • Numberless recent massacres were still vivid in their recollection. 近来那些不可胜数的屠杀,在他们的头脑中记忆犹新。
学英语单词
acusticofacial crest
afterbody form
alkaline fermentation
amalgamating language
amylogram
Angie's list
AOIS
artificial dura mater
asynchronies
average field intensity
bel cantoes
bond interest receivalbe
buckling failure
bughouse
Bustillos, L.
cause trouble by spreading rumors
Clyro
conference on disarmament
convenience goods and services
diffraction cross-section
direct excitation
disturbed channel
EAAL
enthalpy rise uncertainty factor
film memory
foreign affiliates
Forest-range
full employment budget
fully directional submersible vehicle
Fursultiamin
G-tolerance
gadolinium sesquioxide
glycerophthalic enamel finish
ground mapping
helping people to help themselves
hexagonal close-packed lattice
i-drawe
imparlance
infrabarreled
initial climbout speed
insees
jejunostomies
keep informed of
kinlochhourn
kraichnan
krenn
leave nothing means untried
linguo-dental
malonylguanidine
man-power
mandlen
marine economic geography
max-stirner
mercury-sealed stirrer
methoxyethylacetylricinoleate
miloslav
Mintoum
mode of arrival code
montipora taiwanensis
muggite
neighbourer
nephrotome plate
nitro-naphthalene-disulfonic acid
noisy peak
non-work
ocular skeleton
overhead compartments
pacquet
parting-line print
pepe cutting machine
prime directive
priority interrupt function
process engineer
public WAIS clients
radioactivity prospecting
radiotelephone (rtf)
replacement texture
reverse arms
screenability
Shimen
slow filling wave of ventricle
soloes
speech analyser
spherical detonation front
sprawling dike
spring gun
step aerarion
straight sesamoidean ligament
subscriber/ exchange
t-rflp
tagores
tapm
test pattern beam
theynt
upfront charge
upward rushing of yellow fluid
Vartemyagi
visible-trades
win to
work the room
yoke cam
zinc caustic