时间:2019-01-07 作者:英语课 分类:VOA标准英语2008年(十月)


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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says she will explore every possibility in her quest for a peace deal between Israelis and Palestinians before the end of this year. Secretary Rice made the remarks before a conference on Palestinian business investment Tuesday in Washington. VOA correspondent Meredith Buel has details.

President Bush and Secretary Rice launched the latest effort to boost peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians nearly a year ago at a conference in Annapolis, Maryland.
 






Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, October 14, 2008



On Tuesday, Secretary Rice told a U.S. conference on investment in the Palestinian Territories that since then, the parties have engaged in sustained, substantive 1 negotiations 2 to achieve a two-state solution to their conflict.

She said, "We must do everything that we can with the negotiating partners to get to the Annapolis solution and that would be to find an agreement between these parties by the end of the year. It is very difficult. There is a hard road ahead. But if we do not try, we certainly will not succeed."

The gathering 3 of U.S. business leaders, sponsored by the Chamber 4 of Commerce, was a follow-up to a conference held in May in Bethlehem where investors 5 pledged to pump more than $1 billion into the Palestinian economy.

Rice noted 6 in her speech that she and President Bush leave office in January and vowed 7 to continue her efforts to make progress toward peace. "Until that moment when I leave office, I will leave no stone unturned to see if we can finally resolve this conflict between peoples."

Secretary Rice has made numerous trips to the Middle East, but negotiators have made little public progress. Israeli and Palestinian leaders have expressed doubt they can achieve an agreement by the end of the year.

Rice said the Palestinians and Israelis need to redouble their efforts for peace. "The Palestinian Authority has to continue to dismantle 8 the infrastructure 9 of terrorism and to promote an atmosphere of tolerance 10. Israel must also halt settlement activity, which can be seen as prejudging the outcome of negotiations and undermining its negotiating partner."

Rice also urged the Israelis to make more progress in reducing roadblocks and other impediments to Palestinian movement to allow businessmen and workers to operate in an environment in which Palestinian people and their economy can thrive.

Major issues in the conflict continue to be the borders of a future Palestinian state, the fate of Palestinian refugees and the status of Jerusalem.



adj.表示实在的;本质的、实质性的;独立的;n.实词,实名词;独立存在的实体
  • They plan to meet again in Rome very soon to begin substantive negotiations.他们计划不久在罗马再次会晤以开始实质性的谈判。
  • A president needs substantive advice,but he also requires emotional succor. 一个总统需要实质性的建议,但也需要感情上的支持。
协商( negotiation的名词复数 ); 谈判; 完成(难事); 通过
  • negotiations for a durable peace 为持久和平而进行的谈判
  • Negotiations have failed to establish any middle ground. 谈判未能达成任何妥协。
n.集会,聚会,聚集
  • He called on Mr. White to speak at the gathering.他请怀特先生在集会上讲话。
  • He is on the wing gathering material for his novels.他正忙于为他的小说收集资料。
n.房间,寝室;会议厅;议院;会所
  • For many,the dentist's surgery remains a torture chamber.对许多人来说,牙医的治疗室一直是间受刑室。
  • The chamber was ablaze with light.会议厅里灯火辉煌。
n.投资者,出资者( investor的名词复数 )
  • a con man who bilked investors out of millions of dollars 诈取投资者几百万元的骗子
  • a cash bonanza for investors 投资者的赚钱机会
adj.著名的,知名的
  • The local hotel is noted for its good table.当地的那家酒店以餐食精美而著称。
  • Jim is noted for arriving late for work.吉姆上班迟到出了名。
起誓,发誓(vow的过去式与过去分词形式)
  • He vowed quite solemnly that he would carry out his promise. 他非常庄严地发誓要实现他的诺言。
  • I vowed to do more of the cooking myself. 我发誓自己要多动手做饭。
vt.拆开,拆卸;废除,取消
  • He asked for immediate help from the United States to dismantle the warheads.他请求美国立即提供援助,拆除这批弹头。
  • The mower firmly refused to mow,so I decided to dismantle it.修完后割草机还是纹丝不动,于是,我决定把它拆开。
n.下部构造,下部组织,基础结构,基础设施
  • We should step up the development of infrastructure for research.加强科学基础设施建设。
  • We should strengthen cultural infrastructure and boost various types of popular culture.加强文化基础设施建设,发展各类群众文化。
n.宽容;容忍,忍受;耐药力;公差
  • Tolerance is one of his strengths.宽容是他的一个优点。
  • Human beings have limited tolerance of noise.人类对噪音的忍耐力有限。
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a. perinealis
accrued charge
acoustic magnetic mine
adlecting
administration of internal affairs
Aflogualnum
ai chi
alternative procedure
ampholite
art and part
artificial caving
assidue
base of petroleum
black cottonwood
blue-green bacterium
bursting speed
cascading down
centricdiatom
cloud-bases
complementary scale
consistorial
conventional-arms
counter-cast
Crista sacralis intermedia
Cynwyl Elfed
Daphne holosericea
departmental arrangement and distribution in commodity stock
Direct Copper Blue 2R
disinflations
drip channel
event oriented simulation
eye-serve
factorization method
facular
Fentathienil
flower
geomagnetic periodic variation
go yachting.
group demodulator filter
harpending
hepatitis sequestrans
information management program
initial overburden pressure
insulation varnish
intrapore
inverse beta process
journal box lid hinge
lanatest
light pressure separator
Lothair
megalodiscs
merry-go-round
monoethanolamine(surfactant)
moving current-weighted Passche indexes
neutralizing water tank
new staff
Nihon-maru
non-specified-time relay
nuclear quadrupole spectrum
oil pressure switch
one-cancels-the-other order
orbit maneuver engine
output transfer function
Pare's suture
plain shank
plant hole
poikilosmotic character
preregeneration
progressive wave
pushback
put somebody up to
RCITR
reducing capacity
reductive alkylation
regional index call warrant
RFRNA
Rhodiola wallichiana
Richardson's ground squirrel
rosette phyllotaxy
semi-tractor
sexlessnesses
sgd.
shell tuck
sickling diathesis
simple deterministic language
spaces out
spantik
spread back
sugarcane top
system of gravitational unit
tea-tree
telephone bills
tiled mode
use test
vendibler
vertical decomposition
voltage and frequency response
wear plate
Y ligament
Yang Shiying
zori