VOA标准英语2008年-Obama's Running Mate is Respected Voice in Fore
时间：2019-01-09 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2008年（八月）
Senator Joe Biden of Delaware, newly announced running mate of Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama, is a respected foreign policy expert. VOA's Deborah Tate has a profile of Senator Biden, who himself had waged an unsuccessful bid for the Democratic Party's nomination 2 for president this year.
Senator Biden stands near airplane as soldiers unload US military cargo 3 plane carrying humanitarian 4 aid for refugees from South Ossetian conflict zone, in Tbilisi, 17 Aug 2008
Senator Biden is chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and one of the most influential 5 voices in foreign policy in the Democratic Party. His expertise 6 could help counter Republican arguments that an Obama administration would be inexperienced on foreign policy.
Biden has been a vocal 7 critic of Bush administration foreign policy, including the way it waged the war on terrorism. Although he voted in 2002 to authorize 8 the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, which Obama had opposed from the beginning, Biden became a critic of the conflict.
"The administration's basic approach to foreign policy and national security I think has been bankrupted by reality: the fixation on pre-emption, regime change and the simplistic slogans that encompass 9 the war on terror I think literally 10, not figuratively, made us less secure, made us less secure as a nation, rather than more secure," he said.
Biden told reporters earlier this year that President Bush's decisions on foreign policy will leave a more complicated situation for the next occupant of the White House.
"The next president, Democratic or Republican, hopefully from my perspective a Democrat 1, will face an almost unprecedented 11 series of challenges with very little margin 12 for error," he said.
Biden will soon have a personal connection to the war in Iraq. His eldest 13 son, Beau, a captain in the Delaware National Guard, is scheduled to leave for a tour of duty in Iraq in October.
Biden himself has traveled widely, including making numerous trips to Iraq. He recently returned from a visit to the former Soviet 14 republic of Georgia, made at the invitation of the embattled country's president - a trip political experts say helped raise his profile as a potential running mate for Obama.
Senator Biden is known as an outspoken 15 politician.
Before he dropped out of the presidential campaign after a poor showing in the Iowa caucuses 16 in January, Biden said he did not think Senator Obama was ready for the White House. He said the presidency 17 is "not something that lends itself to on-the-job training."
Biden also generated controversy 18 when he described Obama, in a newspaper interview, as "the first mainstream 19 African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice looking guy." He apologized for the remarks, which he said were meant to be complimentary 20 to Obama.
Obama said he did not take the remarks personally, but called them "historically inaccurate 21", citing past African American presidential candidates like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton.
Political experts believe Biden's outspokenness 22 could be an asset for the Obama campaign, and predict he will not hesitate to challenge Republican contender John McCain's positions on the issues. Some Democratic activists 23 believe Obama has not been tough enough on his Republican rival.
Biden ran another brief and unsuccessful campaign for president in 1988, dropping out of the race amid accusations 24 he plagiarized 25 a speech from British Labor 26 Leader Neal Kinnock.
The 65-year-old Delaware Democrat was first elected to the Senate in 1972.
- The Democrat and the Public criticized each other.民主党人和共和党人互相攻击。
- About two years later,he was defeated by Democrat Jimmy Carter.大约两年后，他被民主党人杰米卡特击败。
- John is favourite to get the nomination for club president.约翰最有希望被提名为俱乐部主席。
- Few people pronounced for his nomination.很少人表示赞成他的提名。
- The ship has a cargo of about 200 ton.这条船大约有200吨的货物。
- A lot of people discharged the cargo from a ship.许多人从船上卸下货物。
- She has many humanitarian interests and contributes a lot to them.她拥有很多慈善事业，并作了很大的贡献。
- The British government has now suspended humanitarian aid to the area.英国政府现已暂停对这一地区的人道主义援助。
- He always tries to get in with the most influential people.他总是试图巴结最有影响的人物。
- He is a very influential man in the government.他在政府中是个很有影响的人物。
- We were amazed at his expertise on the ski slopes.他斜坡滑雪的技能使我们赞叹不已。
- You really have the technical expertise in a new breakthrough.让你真正在专业技术上有一个全新的突破。
- The tongue is a vocal organ.舌头是一个发音器官。
- Public opinion at last became vocal.终于舆论哗然。
- He said that he needed to get his supervisor to authorize my refund.他说必须让主管人员批准我的退款。
- Only the President could authorize the use of the atomic bomb.只有总统才能授权使用原子弹。
- The course will encompass physics,chemistry and biology.课程将包括物理、化学和生物学。
- The project will encompass rural and underdeveloped areas in China.这项工程将覆盖中国的农村和不发达地区。
- He translated the passage literally.他逐字逐句地翻译这段文字。
- Sometimes she would not sit down till she was literally faint.有时候，她不走到真正要昏厥了，决不肯坐下来。
- The air crash caused an unprecedented number of deaths.这次空难的死亡人数是空前的。
- A flood of this sort is really unprecedented.这样大的洪水真是十年九不遇。
- We allowed a margin of 20 minutes in catching the train.我们有20分钟的余地赶火车。
- The village is situated at the margin of a forest.村子位于森林的边缘。
- The King's eldest son is the heir to the throne.国王的长子是王位的继承人。
- The castle and the land are entailed on the eldest son.城堡和土地限定由长子继承。
- Zhukov was a marshal of the former Soviet Union.朱可夫是前苏联的一位元帅。
- Germany began to attack the Soviet Union in 1941.德国在1941年开始进攻苏联。
- He was outspoken in his criticism.他在批评中直言不讳。
- She is an outspoken critic of the school system in this city.她是这座城市里学校制度的坦率的批评者。
- Republican caucuses will happen in about 410 towns across Maine. 共和党团会议选举将在缅因州的约410个城镇进行。 来自互联网
- Roosevelt was elected four times to the presidency of the United States.罗斯福连续当选四届美国总统。
- Two candidates are emerging as contestants for the presidency.两位候选人最终成为总统职位竞争者。
- That is a fact beyond controversy.那是一个无可争论的事实。
- We ran the risk of becoming the butt of every controversy.我们要冒使自己在所有的纷争中都成为众矢之的的风险。
- Their views lie outside the mainstream of current medical opinion.他们的观点不属于当今医学界观点的主流。
- Polls are still largely reflects the mainstream sentiment.民调还在很大程度上反映了社会主流情绪。
- She made some highly complimentary remarks about their school.她对他们的学校给予高度的评价。
- The supermarket operates a complimentary shuttle service.这家超市提供免费购物班车。
- The book is both inaccurate and exaggerated.这本书不但不准确，而且夸大其词。
- She never knows the right time because her watch is inaccurate.她从来不知道准确的时间因为她的表不准。
- He wondered whether his outspokenness a liability to John. 他怀疑自己那么心直口快，是否为成为约翰的包袱。
- He wondered whether his outspokenness might a. to his friend. 他怀疑自己那么心直口快，会否使他朋友背上思想包袱。
- His research work was attacked by animal rights activists . 他的研究受到了动物权益维护者的抨击。
- Party activists with lower middle class pedigrees are numerous. 党的激进分子中有很多出身于中产阶级下层。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- There were accusations of plagiarism. 曾有过关于剽窃的指控。
- He remained unruffled by their accusations. 对于他们的指控他处之泰然。
- The poem employs as its first lines a verse plagiarized from a billboard. 这首诗开头的几行抄袭了一个广告牌上的一节诗。 来自辞典例句
- Whole passages of the work are plagiarized. 那作品整段整段都是剽窃的。 来自辞典例句