VOA常速英语2007年-Rice Launches Campaign to Aid Afghan Legal Syst
时间:2019-01-11 作者:英语课 分类:VOA常速英语2007年(十二月)
Washington
14 December 2007
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice Thursday launched an effort to mobilize U.S. private-sector support for rebuilding Afghanistan's legal system. Under a new public-private partnership 1 effort, U.S. law firms would among other things get tax benefits for helping 2 their Afghan counterparts. VOA's David Gollust reports from the State Department.
U.S. policy-makers have been preoccupied 3 in recent months with trying to re-energize international efforts against the Taliban-led insurgency 4 in Afghanistan.
But Rice says the success of the country's new democracy also depends on the building of a fair and transparent 5 legal system, after years of ruinous governance first by a Soviet-imposed communist government and then by the Taleban.
Inaugurating the State Department's Public-Private Partnership for Justice Reform in Afghanistan, Rice told an audience including leaders of top U.S. legal firms and law schools that the needs of the Afghan legal system run the gamut 6 from basic supplies to the training of lawyers and judges representative of the country's population.
"Another challenge is to expand public awareness 7 of legal rights, which is especially lacking in rural areas. Increasing the number of women judges is also a key priority. Afghanistan currently has over 1,500 judges nationwide, yet only 60 are women. It is imperative 8 that Afghanistan develop a well-trained, educated and demographically- representative cadre of judges to serve in courts across the country," she said.
The Afghan government was represented at the event by the country's attorney-general, Abdul Jabar Sabit, a American trained lawyer and economist 9 who is credited by U.S. officials with prosecuting 10 hundreds of cases of corruption 11, bribery 12 and other abuses by Afghan public officials.
Though U.N. agencies estimate that nearly half of Afghanistan's economic output is from the illicit 13 opium 14 trade, Sabit said the government of President Hamid Karzai is working to tackle crime and corruption and deserves international support.
"Our friends outside of Afghanistan believe there is corruption and they should not waste their money to give it to us, the Afghans, to spend on the reconstruction 15 of Afghanistan. I can assure them here and elsewhere that we fight corruption, and we do not have that much corruption as is believed to be there in Afghanistan," he said.
The Afghan attorney general said his government needs help to, among other things, amend 16 legal codes inherited from past governments and revive the institution of defense 17 lawyers, which he said was totally destroyed under communist and Taleban rule.
The United States is already providing significant financial aid for Afghan judicial 18 reform. The new public-private partnership has enlisted 19 two major U.S. law firms and the University of Utah law school to train Afghan personnel, and will be seeking to recruit additional participants in the program.
- The company has gone into partnership with Swiss Bank Corporation.这家公司已经和瑞士银行公司建立合作关系。
- Martin has taken him into general partnership in his company.马丁已让他成为公司的普通合伙人。
- 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。
- He was too preoccupied with his own thoughts to notice anything wrong. 他只顾想着心事,没注意到有什么不对。
- The question of going to the Mount Tai preoccupied his mind. 去游泰山的问题盘踞在他心头。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- And as in China, unrest and even insurgency are widespread. 而在中国,动乱甚至暴乱都普遍存在。 来自互联网
- Dr Zyphur is part an insurgency against this idea. 塞弗博士是这一观点逆流的一部分。 来自互联网
- The water is so transparent that we can see the fishes swimming.水清澈透明,可以看到鱼儿游来游去。
- The window glass is transparent.窗玻璃是透明的。
- The exhibition runs the whole gamut of artistic styles.这次展览包括了所有艺术风格的作品。
- This poem runs the gamut of emotions from despair to joy.这首诗展现了从绝望到喜悦的感情历程。
- There is a general awareness that smoking is harmful.人们普遍认识到吸烟有害健康。
- Environmental awareness has increased over the years.这些年来人们的环境意识增强了。
- He always speaks in an imperative tone of voice.他老是用命令的口吻讲话。
- The events of the past few days make it imperative for her to act.过去这几天发生的事迫使她不得不立即行动。
- He cast a professional economist's eyes on the problem.他以经济学行家的眼光审视这个问题。
- He's an economist who thinks he knows all the answers.他是个经济学家,自以为什么都懂。
- The witness was cross-examined by the prosecuting counsel. 证人接受控方律师的盘问。
- Every point made by the prosecuting attorney was telling. 检查官提出的每一点都是有力的。
- The people asked the government to hit out against corruption and theft.人民要求政府严惩贪污盗窃。
- The old man reviled against corruption.那老人痛斥了贪污舞弊。
- FBI found out that the senator committed bribery.美国联邦调查局查明这个参议员有受贿行为。
- He was charged with bribery.他被指控受贿。
- He had an illicit association with Jane.他和简曾有过不正当关系。
- Seizures of illicit drugs have increased by 30% this year.今年违禁药品的扣押增长了30%。
- That man gave her a dose of opium.那男人给了她一剂鸦片。
- Opium is classed under the head of narcotic.鸦片是归入麻醉剂一类的东西。
- The country faces a huge task of national reconstruction following the war.战后,该国面临着重建家园的艰巨任务。
- In the period of reconstruction,technique decides everything.在重建时期,技术决定一切。
- The teacher advised him to amend his way of living.老师劝他改变生活方式。
- You must amend your pronunciation.你必须改正你的发音。
- The accused has the right to defense.被告人有权获得辩护。
- The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers.战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。
- He is a man with a judicial mind.他是个公正的人。
- Tom takes judicial proceedings against his father.汤姆对他的父亲正式提出诉讼。