时间:2018-12-02 作者:英语课 分类:2011年NPR美国国家公共电台12月


英语课

 Obama Administration has signed a deal to sell Saudi Arabia nearly 30 billion dollars in fighter jets.NPR Michelle Kelemen reports it designs to listen part to send signal to Iran now US troops are out of Iraq


 
 
The white house says US is selling Saudi Arabia 85 advanced combat plan and modernize 1 in another 70.It is said the jets would be built by Being and deal would support more than 50000 American jobs. The assistant secretary of state, Andrew Shapiro calls it major boost Saudi Arabia security.
 
These sales would send strong message to countries in the region. The United States is committed to its duty in Gulf 2 and broader Mideast. Shapiro says it is not just aimed to Iran .The announcement comes at time tighten 3 tension with Iran. Iran is threatening to close the key oil supply if US goes ahead with tougher sanction.US officials think Iran is failing the pinch. Michelle Kelemen, NPR news, the state department.
 
Opposition 4 demonstrators in Russia are planning more protests. For Moscow, just reports they plan rally against the detention 5 of Leftist activist 6 chosen frail 7 health. Thousands of people signed up on social media to protest jailing of Sergey Udaltsov. He was arrested following rally contesting the country parliamentary election on December1st, but receiving extended jails sentence last Sunday. After thousands of protesters attended massive rallies against Russian Prime minister Vladimir Putin ruling party United Russia win the country's parliamentary election. Prosecutors 8 say the extended sentence was given to Udaltsov because he failed to complete the sentence received after attending another protest in October. Udaltsov’s supporters are demanding his release and they say he is in frail health for hunger strike. Demonstrators say Udaltsov sentence is too strict .And they also protest against other sentence. Opposition leaders have received dimi mass protests. For NPR news ,I'm in Moscow

1 modernize
vt.使现代化,使适应现代的需要
  • It was their manifest failure to modernize the country's industries.他们使国家进行工业现代化,明显失败了。
  • There is a pressing need to modernise our electoral system.我们的选举制度迫切需要现代化。
2 gulf
n.海湾;深渊,鸿沟;分歧,隔阂
  • The gulf between the two leaders cannot be bridged.两位领导人之间的鸿沟难以跨越。
  • There is a gulf between the two cities.这两座城市间有个海湾。
3 tighten
v.(使)变紧;(使)绷紧
  • Turn the screw to the right to tighten it.向右转动螺钉把它拧紧。
  • Some countries tighten monetary policy to avoid inflation.一些国家实行紧缩银根的货币政策,以避免通货膨胀。
4 opposition
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。
5 detention
n.滞留,停留;拘留,扣留;(教育)留下
  • He was kept in detention by the police.他被警察扣留了。
  • He was in detention in connection with the bribery affair.他因与贿赂事件有牵连而被拘留了。
6 activist
n.活动分子,积极分子
  • He's been a trade union activist for many years.多年来他一直是工会的积极分子。
  • He is a social activist in our factory.他是我厂的社会活动积极分子。
7 frail
adj.身体虚弱的;易损坏的
  • Mrs. Warner is already 96 and too frail to live by herself.华纳太太已经九十六岁了,身体虚弱,不便独居。
  • She lay in bed looking particularly frail.她躺在床上,看上去特别虚弱。
8 prosecutors
检举人( prosecutor的名词复数 ); 告发人; 起诉人; 公诉人
  • In some places,public prosecutors are elected rather than appointed. 在有些地方,检察官是经选举而非任命产生的。 来自口语例句
  • You've been summoned to the Prosecutors' Office, 2 days later. 你在两天以后被宣到了检察官的办公室。
学英语单词
abstracting process
acoustic conductivity
anxious delirium
AOG
association of flight attendants
averett
bakir
benigna
biased diode
Bishkek
boysie
brace for
Canucks
capital letters
check gauge
compulsory education law
coralsnake
counter-controlled photograph
counterbalance
coxswin's box
croaks
damage control locker
decimal floating point value
deep fade
demissa
demolition expense
direct-writing oscillograph
disconnection register
dolders
double-ended break without separation
endoproteinases
family ostreidaes
final working drawings
flood tuff
forced warm air heating
fractionalize
go head to head
golda
governor of velocity
hyperfiber
i'nt
id-ul-fitr
independent-counsel
knapsack lever-type sprayer
labor and management
let out a sigh
load-magnitude
measured lubrication
medical frequency band
Mikir Hills
molecular sieves adsorbing tower
mould(mold)
neutral absorber
owego
pathomolecular
pluvionivation
positive displacement metering valve
President George W. Bush
print statement
priori restrictions
pugged clay
Pulex cheopis
quite circular in outline
reaction cycle
Reblochons
red coloration
reflux ratio
Rhamnoliquiritin
rhombohedral hemimorphic class
roll feeder surge bin
S5
Saussurea robusta
scruffled
Scutellaria oligophlebia
single step call transfer
Slǎnic Moldova
Sommerfeld theory
speywoods
Spinagnostus
Staggergrass
standard voltage generator
stauntonia obovata hemsl.
superficial dentin caries
supplementary log book
sympathies
symphysions
table look up instruction
tender negotiation
the means of relay protection
Thetford-Mines
time-current characteristics
torn-apart
triggering energy
uniformly most accurate confidence interval
unparasitized
vas communicans
Vasvar
Vazzola
velum medullary
voluntary payment
vouchsafed
worthiness