时间:2019-01-03 作者:英语课 分类:VOA常速英语2013年(八月)


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Arabs Brace 1 for Possible US Strike on Syria 阿拉伯人支持美国可能对叙利亚的打击


CAIRO — The threat of a U.S. military strike on Syria in response to an alleged 2 chemical weapon attack by the Assad government has set an already tense Middle East further on edge.


The carnage near Damascus last week has appalled 3 many throughout the Middle East. But possible retaliation 4 by the United States, acting 5 alone or in partnership 6, has left others equally unsettled.


Policy analyst 7 Joel Rubin, of the Ploughshares Fund, says Washington might wait until it has broader support for any military action.


"It is possible that the administration will want to go to the United Nations, will want to seek some level of affirmation for those efforts to get some legitimacy 8 from an international body. It’s not 100 percent clear that they will do that," he said.


The U.S. has failed to get regional backing. The Arab League - which two years ago approved Western military intervention 9 in Libya - is pressing for a diplomatic resolution. 


"Clearly a lot of members of the Arab League probably unofficially support these strikes but, in terms of the domestic message, American strikes and Western military operations in the Middle East are still very contentious 10 and potentially sources of instability and discontent,” said Syria analyst Torbjorn Soltveldt, of Maplecroft Risk Assessment 11, speaking to VOA via Skype.


Many nations in the Middle East are already facing political unrest, with anti-American sentiment running high. A U.S. strike before U.N. inspectors 12 have determined 13 who carried out the chemical attack could spark more anti-American feeling.


Also, some of the evidence being cited against the Syrian government is reportedly coming from Israel and that only heightens doubt in a region deeply suspicious of America's ally.


"In the U.S. you have a problem with your political credibility in dealing 14 with Arab countries," said Mustafa Labbad, the director of the Al-Sharq Center for Regional and Strategic Studies in Cairo. "Iraq was accused of having weapons of mass destruction and, after the invasion, all the world saw it was a lie."


He says people across the region could take to the streets over what they see as hypocrisy 15.


"There is no evidence that Syria used chemical weapons. That Bashar al-Assad is a dictator? He is. But other U.S. allies are also as well dictators," he said.


Labbad says there is one saving grace to reported U.S. plans to use military strikes - that they're apparently 16 not aimed at toppling Assad.  He says the alternative - the possibility of anarchy 17 or of jihadi successors, and an even more Syrian refugees, has many in the already unstable 18 region alarmed. 




n. 支柱,曲柄,大括号; v. 绷紧,顶住,(为困难或坏事)做准备
  • My daughter has to wear a brace on her teeth. 我的女儿得戴牙套以矫正牙齿。
  • You had better brace yourself for some bad news. 有些坏消息,你最好做好准备。
a.被指控的,嫌疑的
  • It was alleged that he had taken bribes while in office. 他被指称在任时收受贿赂。
  • alleged irregularities in the election campaign 被指称竞选运动中的不正当行为
v.使惊骇,使充满恐惧( appall的过去式和过去分词)adj.惊骇的;丧胆的
  • The brutality of the crime has appalled the public. 罪行之残暴使公众大为震惊。
  • They were appalled by the reports of the nuclear war. 他们被核战争的报道吓坏了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.报复,反击
  • retaliation against UN workers 对联合国工作人员的报复
  • He never said a single word in retaliation. 他从未说过一句反击的话。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.演戏,行为,假装;adj.代理的,临时的,演出用的
  • Ignore her,she's just acting.别理她,她只是假装的。
  • During the seventies,her acting career was in eclipse.在七十年代,她的表演生涯黯然失色。
n.合作关系,伙伴关系
  • The company has gone into partnership with Swiss Bank Corporation.这家公司已经和瑞士银行公司建立合作关系。
  • Martin has taken him into general partnership in his company.马丁已让他成为公司的普通合伙人。
n.分析家,化验员;心理分析学家
  • What can you contribute to the position of a market analyst?你有什么技能可有助于市场分析员的职务?
  • The analyst is required to interpolate values between standards.分析人员需要在这些标准中插入一些值。
n.合法,正当
  • The newspaper was directly challenging the government's legitimacy.报纸直接质疑政府的合法性。
  • Managing from the top down,we operate with full legitimacy.我们进行由上而下的管理有充分的合法性。
n.介入,干涉,干预
  • The government's intervention in this dispute will not help.政府对这场争论的干预不会起作用。
  • Many people felt he would be hostile to the idea of foreign intervention.许多人觉得他会反对外来干预。
adj.好辩的,善争吵的
  • She was really not of the contentious fighting sort.她委实不是好吵好闹的人。
  • Since then they have tended to steer clear of contentious issues.从那时起,他们总想方设法避开有争议的问题。
n.评价;评估;对财产的估价,被估定的金额
  • This is a very perceptive assessment of the situation.这是一个对该情况的极富洞察力的评价。
  • What is your assessment of the situation?你对时局的看法如何?
n.检查员( inspector的名词复数 );(英国公共汽车或火车上的)查票员;(警察)巡官;检阅官
  • They got into the school in the guise of inspectors. 他们假装成视察员进了学校。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Inspectors checked that there was adequate ventilation. 检查员已检查过,通风良好。 来自《简明英汉词典》
adj.坚定的;有决心的
  • I have determined on going to Tibet after graduation.我已决定毕业后去西藏。
  • He determined to view the rooms behind the office.他决定查看一下办公室后面的房间。
n.经商方法,待人态度
  • This store has an excellent reputation for fair dealing.该商店因买卖公道而享有极高的声誉。
  • His fair dealing earned our confidence.他的诚实的行为获得我们的信任。
n.伪善,虚伪
  • He railed against hypocrisy and greed.他痛斥伪善和贪婪的行为。
  • He accused newspapers of hypocrisy in their treatment of the story.他指责了报纸在报道该新闻时的虚伪。
adv.显然地;表面上,似乎
  • An apparently blind alley leads suddenly into an open space.山穷水尽,豁然开朗。
  • He was apparently much surprised at the news.他对那个消息显然感到十分惊异。
n.无政府状态;社会秩序混乱,无秩序
  • There would be anarchy if we had no police.要是没有警察,社会就会无法无天。
  • The country was thrown into a state of anarchy.这国家那时一下子陷入无政府状态。
adj.不稳定的,易变的
  • This bookcase is too unstable to hold so many books.这书橱很不结实,装不了这么多书。
  • The patient's condition was unstable.那患者的病情不稳定。
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abreactive therapy
adrenal-cortical insufficiency
aerobicize
age group
anagraph
anaphothrips sudanensis
anchoritesses
Antilipoxygenase
asphalting
assweed
attillas
bahia piassavas
balanced anesthesia
barn yard
bestead 2,bested
borrowing area
budget amendment
callen-symanzik equation
cickness
Clematis platysepala
closed shelf
contact-glass
converging polarized light
counterfeit note
dead hang position
diatonicisms
electric locomotive crab reel
electronic contactor
Etna Volcano
fiber-optic ring
garland crabs
genus epidendrums
Geoffrey Chaucer
hand-knitting yarn
horizontal-direction formation
impetigo contagiosa
islandly
Italophile
jacor
juzgado
Krasnyy Chikoy
labour agreement
law-abidding
Lezoux
ligusticumic acid
link line equipment
liquid solid chromatography
loans on actual estate
magic-bullet
management scientist
mesogenacerores
metallgesellschafts
microcrystallization analysis
mirchi
mnila hawser
Mons (Bergen)
Myosotidium
net rent
newly industrializing country
no protest
nowra
numbness of lower lip
on home ground
onerarious
opposite sense
Orbignya spesiosa
outpoises
Pasirlaja
perfunctoriously
phasing control
phobist
pricky
professional class
protoaetioporphyrin
pseudohallucinations
radiometric techology
Radoszyce
reasonest
reciprocating positive displacement pump
recommondation
rectifier relay
resegregation
roxi
self-exited oscillation
skar
Slurpee
soft material
special handling considerations
spotted dogs
spurring on
St. Crispin
stonebench
submultisets
teef
to dismast
transcondylar amputation
uncontinuous change
vaso-occlusive crisis
vernicles
whip line
wiluite
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