时间:2019-01-06 作者:英语课 分类:2006年VOA标准英语(一月)


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By Gary Thomas
Washington
19 January 2006



US Vice 1 President Dick Cheney shakes hands with Pakistan's President, Pervez Musharraf, left   
  
Pakistan's prime minister is in the United States and is scheduled to meet with President Bush next week.  But in conjunction with the visit, a new audiotape of al-Qaida leader Osama bin 2 Laden 3 surfaced.  The hunt for terrorist leaders has created political troubles for Pakistan's president Pervez Musharraf.

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Osama bin Laden's new audiotape surfaced just after Pakistani Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz's arrival in the United States.
 
Analysts 4 say that in light of the tape the Bush Administration may ratchet up pressure on Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf and his government to do even more to clear the Pakistani border areas of al-Qaida and Taliban fighters.

Larry Goodson of the U.S. Army War College, says Mr. Musharraf has been caught in a dilemma 5 ever since the terrorist strikes on the United States on September 11th, 2001. President Musharraf's cooperation with American anti-terrorist efforts have spawned 6 opposition 7 at home, where there is sympathy among the population for both bin Laden and the Taliban, which ruled neighboring Afghanistan until 2001.

"If I'm President Musharraf, the way I'm playing this is I'm going, 'okay, I'm on the American team, although I don't much want to be," said Mr. Goodson.  "But back on 9/12 [2001], they held a gun to my head and said, you're on our team, aren't you?  Meanwhile, these other chaps like bin Laden are holding a gun to my other vital body parts.  And so I'm sort of caught between these two guns.'"

On January 13, U.S. officials launched a missile on a village along the Pakistan-Afghan border.  The missile strike was apparently 8 aimed at bin Laden's deputy, Ayman al-Zawahri, who was believed to be in the village.  Zawahiri appears to have escaped. But several people, reportedly including both al-Qaida operatives and local civilians 9, were killed, sparking protest demonstrations 10 across Pakistan. Pakistani officials have officially said they had no advance warning of the attack. 

Appearing on VOA's "Press Conference USA," former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage called President Musharraf "the real deal" and praised his support to the U.S.-led anti-terrorist effort.

"Remember, he's got difficult situations on both his borders," said Mr. Armitage.  "He's the one who's got to make the determination on the pace and the speed, et cetera, of reform and of assistance to the United States.  But I can assure you that we'd be nowhere without his and his colleagues' assistance in the war on terror."

But former CIA officer Michael Scheuer says the Pakistani leader may have gone as far as he can go in helping 11 the United States. The only alternative, Scheuer says, is for the United States to go after the al-Qaida leadership on its own.
 
"He has really done quite a lot for the United States, and we keep expecting him to do more," he said.  "I guess the bottom line here is that if we're going to get bin Laden and Zawahiri, and I think that it is important to do so, then we're going to have to do it ourselves.  And that involves, not only once, but probably repeatedly, violating Pakistani sovereignty to try to kill them inside of Pakistan."

However, unilateral U.S. action could ignite a political firestorm in Pakistan, perhaps even bringing down President Musharraf.  Analysts say that whoever replaced him would in all likelihood not be as friendly to American anti-terrorist efforts.
 



n.坏事;恶习;[pl.]台钳,老虎钳;adj.副的
  • He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
  • They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。
n.箱柜;vt.放入箱内;[计算机] DOS文件名:二进制目标文件
  • He emptied several bags of rice into a bin.他把几袋米倒进大箱里。
  • He threw the empty bottles in the bin.他把空瓶子扔进垃圾箱。
adj.装满了的;充满了的;负了重担的;苦恼的
  • He is laden with heavy responsibility.他肩负重任。
  • Dragging the fully laden boat across the sand dunes was no mean feat.将满载货物的船拖过沙丘是一件了不起的事。
分析家,化验员( analyst的名词复数 )
  • City analysts forecast huge profits this year. 伦敦金融分析家预测今年的利润非常丰厚。
  • I was impressed by the high calibre of the researchers and analysts. 研究人员和分析人员的高素质给我留下了深刻印象。
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。
(鱼、蛙等)大量产(卵)( spawn的过去式和过去分词 ); 大量生产
  • The band's album spawned a string of hit singles. 这支乐队的专辑繁衍出一连串走红的单曲唱片。
  • The computer industry has spawned a lot of new companies. 由于电脑工业的发展,许多新公司纷纷成立。
n.反对,敌对
  • The party leader is facing opposition in his own backyard.该党领袖在自己的党內遇到了反对。
  • The police tried to break down the prisoner's opposition.警察设法制住了那个囚犯的反抗。
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。
平民,百姓( civilian的名词复数 ); 老百姓
  • the bloody massacre of innocent civilians 对无辜平民的血腥屠杀
  • At least 300 civilians are unaccounted for after the bombing raids. 遭轰炸袭击之后,至少有300名平民下落不明。
证明( demonstration的名词复数 ); 表明; 表达; 游行示威
  • Lectures will be interspersed with practical demonstrations. 讲课中将不时插入实际示范。
  • The new military government has banned strikes and demonstrations. 新的军人政府禁止罢工和示威活动。
n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的,辅助的
  • The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
  • By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。
学英语单词
-osin
abrotanums
aiding and abetting
araban
araunahs
area of transom
articulationes cotylica
bajo
baragona
battening
beal an atha (broadford)
Betz cell area
bivouac pk.
bogong
bohmer
breath-testing
carrier fibre
charr-
Chinese cinnamonoil
Choiseul Sd.
color coding
compilates
comrades-in-arms
concave profile
conditioned flavor aversion
crethism
dekalogy
denga
development history
diastral type
dormant spray
ducation
eczymatous
electrode-travel motor
Elohimic
emboldening
exchange degeneracy
fertiloscopic
fibre optic patch panel
fitted for
forestry education
freeboard exceedance frequency
Frequency Bands
gbrowse
give eloquent proof of...
glandular secretion
glyoxosome
grahas
Haring, Keith
harris-todaro model
Holarrhena antidysenterica
horsetail fault
idfu
imide chloride
Indocalamus guangdongensis
JENKINSON
Lifamatola, Pulau
light-reflectance apparatus
manual telegraph
margin knot
medievalist
Mischobulbum cordifolium
myositis ossificans traumatica
Nakatomi
non-ionic detergents
OOV
oracularness
oranite (perthite or-an)
paper blotter press
PBB
placental prolactin
plate circuit
pleistocene ice age
pneumatic guide line tensioner
power-sleep
pre-combustion
project benefit
proof rule
pump transition
rail flat car
rami descendens nervi hypoglossi
rejuvenated river
reverse jato
ripraps
round-robin stories
rufous.
saturation steam table
seal interface
Security characteristic line
segmenting size
single-eyed
SmartArt
stamp taxes
symmetric part
tonta
triangulation tower
unbound book
uncorrected error
underlapping
vanger
wallfish
warprofiteer