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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
acute lymphadenosis
alkyl 2-cyanoacrylate
among which
antihyperons
Babili
back span
Banti's disease
barbour
be brain-damaged
biosocial facilitation
bronchoadenitis
carbostibamide
caught between the devil and the deep blue sea
Chi Hoa
chucking up
cleaning pad
closed system
code specification
continental coast
CSI effect
currency surcharge
cut herring
disk ripper
do sth for a shift
Elytroptera
erecting bay
error-detector circuit
esquire
ether drunkenness
expansion metal
field growth period
first ventricle
flexiler
force intensity
full-duplex telex service
gas flame
general performance number
gettable
going places
golems
grumpy pants
heite (hayt)
Holy Grail
in the first place
indirect crosstalk
infrared image metascope
interpupillary
InV allotype
Joseph Raymond McCarthy
karateist
keteleerias
Kursaal
life histories
local pressure loss
loinaz
looasa lateritia gill
Lubbock, Sir John, 1st Baron Avebury
maitai
Mangalagiri
Mazowiecki
member organisation
mid latitude
mitres
morphodynamics
mslo
nonalignment
Oderberg
oil filter inlet pipe
Oryx gazella
prime tenant
principal key
pumped-storage hydroelectric plant
putzite
reduce waste
reextended
remote subscriber module
sagittally
Schefflera taiwaniana
seed manure
shambhala
skepping
Solomon R unit
space trajectory
ST_animal-anatomy_other-major-organs
studium generale
supportive therapy
tangent off-set method
tender chafing block
thermo-isopleths
three phase inverter
trap-jaw ant
Umm Hītān
unconfirmed letter of credit
underrotate
ungenuineness
universal joint transmission flange
upheaded
upmost
upper-gastrointestinal
urohepalin
vernier slide caliper
westminster political system