布朗菲尔德谈国际毒品管制战略报告-英语课

时间：2019-01-03 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2017年(三月)

英语课

The United States is in the midst of its most severe drug epidemic 1 since the 1980s. Nonetheless, the country is positioning itself within the international system to fight it, thanks to close cooperation with its international partners, and with mechanisms 2 created over the past decades to fight drug trafficking, said Assistant Secretary for International Narcotics 3 and Law Enforcement Affairs, William Brownfield.

He spoke 4 at a press conference to introduce the congressionally-mandated 2017 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report, submitted annually 5 by the State Department. The report describes the efforts of key countries to attack all aspects of the international drug trade. This year's report, said Assistant Secretary Brownfield, “is a story of 40 years of building capabilities 6, intelligence, coordination 7, specialized 8 units, new laws, and relationships around the world.”

So for example, the United States and Mexico have developed cooperative mechanisms, coordination, joint 9 operations and intelligence sharing that have improved the ability of both countries to address the issue of drug trafficking across the U.S.-Mexico border.

“We are better positioned to deal with it today, as this annual report demonstrates, because we have mechanisms, cooperation,” said Assistant Secretary Brownfield.“We have regional groupings; we have equipment and technology; we have specialized units; we have legislation and statutes 10 on the books in more than 100 different countries that allow us to address the issue internationally, multi-nationally, regionally, and bilaterally 11 among governments. It is much better that we are confronting this situation, this historic opioid crisis today, with the architecture that we have in place now than it would have been 20 years ago,” he said.

“I believe we have a good strategy. I believe this international drug report lays out a good global architecture for more than 100 nations of the world to cooperate and work together to address the drug issue.”

1 epidemic

n.流行病；盛行；adj.流行性的，流传极广的

That kind of epidemic disease has long been stamped out.那种传染病早已绝迹。
The authorities tried to localise the epidemic.当局试图把流行病限制在局部范围。

2 mechanisms

n.机械( mechanism的名词复数 )；机械装置；[生物学] 机制；机械作用

The research will provide direct insight into molecular mechanisms. 这项研究将使人能够直接地了解分子的机理。来自《简明英汉词典》
He explained how the two mechanisms worked. 他解释这两台机械装置是如何工作的。来自《简明英汉词典》

3 narcotics

n.麻醉药( narcotic的名词复数 )；毒品；毒

The use of narcotics by teenagers is a problem in many countries. 青少年服用麻醉药在许多国家中都是一个问题。来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
Police shook down the club, looking for narcotics. 警方彻底搜查了这个俱乐部，寻找麻醉品。来自《简明英汉词典》

4 spoke

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说