时间:2019-01-12 作者:英语课 分类:2006年VOA标准英语(十二月)


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By David Gollust
State Department
26 December 2006


The United States said Tuesday Ethiopia has genuine security concerns in Somalia and has intervened at the request of that country's legitimate 1 governing authority. But the State Department called on the Addis Ababa government to show restraint and urged the Somali parties to return to peace talks. VOA's David Gollust reports from the State Department.


 
Transitional Federal Government soldiers patrol in Burhakaba, Somalia, 26 Dec 2006
The United States had previously 2 declined to confirm Ethiopian intervention 3 in neighboring Somalia.


But in the wake of air strikes against Somali targets since Monday acknowledged by Ethiopia, the State Department is defending the action as a response to aggression 4, and says Addis Ababa has acted at the request of Somalia's legitimate administration, based in Baidoa.


In a talk with reporters, acting 5 State Department spokesman Gonzalo Gallegos urged restraint by Ethiopia and a resumption of peace talks between the transitional administration and the Islamic Courts movement.


He said, "Ethiopia has genuine security concerns with regard to developments in Somalia and has provided support at the request of the legitimate governing authority, the Transitional Federal institutions."


"We, the U.S., have urged, and continue to urge the Ethiopian government to exercise maximum restraint in intervening or responding to developments in Somalia and to assure the protection of civilians 6. However no Somali party should use external actors as an excuse to avoid further dialogue," he continued.


 
A destroyed truck belonging to Islamic Courts soldiers lies beside a road at Burhakaba, Somalia, 26 Dec 2006
The spokesman said Ethiopia started its military operations in Somalia in response to aggression by the Islamic militiamen, who have been on the offensive against the Baidoa administration despite a U.N. Security Council resolution adopted three weeks ago.


That measure called on the Islamists to cease further military expansion, while authorizing 7 an East African protection and training force to shore up the embattled Baidoa authority.


Gallegos said the United States is concerned by the deteriorating 8 security conditions and the humanitarian 9 impact of the latest Somali fighting, and is working with partners in the international Somalia Contact Group to urge all Somali parties to cease further hostile action.


He said U.S. ambassadors in East Africa are making similar appeals to host governments, and said the United States does not believe the situation can be resolved on the battlefield.


The United States sponsored the December 6 U.N. resolution on Somalia, under which Ugandan troops would supply the core of the East African protection force.


The White House said President Bush telephoned Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni Tuesday to discuss Horn-of-Africa tensions and to thank him for supporting the envisaged 10 mission.


The resolution eased the U.N. arms embargo 11 against Somalia to permit introduction of the force, but was otherwise designed to discourage intervention by Ethiopia and by its regional rival Eritrea, which has given aid to the Islamic Courts.


Spokesman Gallegos said the United States continues to support the terms of Resolution 17-25, though its implementation 12 has lagged and may be further set back by Ethiopia's open military role.



adj.合法的,合理的,合乎逻辑的;v.使合法
  • Sickness is a legitimate reason for asking for leave.生病是请假的一个正当的理由。
  • That's a perfectly legitimate fear.怀有这种恐惧完全在情理之中。
adv.以前,先前(地)
  • The bicycle tyre blew out at a previously damaged point.自行车胎在以前损坏过的地方又爆开了。
  • Let me digress for a moment and explain what had happened previously.让我岔开一会儿,解释原先发生了什么。
n.介入,干涉,干预
  • The government's intervention in this dispute will not help.政府对这场争论的干预不会起作用。
  • Many people felt he would be hostile to the idea of foreign intervention.许多人觉得他会反对外来干预。
n.进攻,侵略,侵犯,侵害
  • So long as we are firmly united, we need fear no aggression.只要我们紧密地团结,就不必惧怕外来侵略。
  • Her view is that aggression is part of human nature.她认为攻击性是人类本性的一部份。
n.演戏,行为,假装;adj.代理的,临时的,演出用的
  • Ignore her,she's just acting.别理她,她只是假装的。
  • During the seventies,her acting career was in eclipse.在七十年代,她的表演生涯黯然失色。
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。
授权,批准,委托( authorize的现在分词 )
  • Letters of Marque: Take letters from a warning friendly power authorizing privateering. 私掠许可证:从某一个国家获得合法抢劫的证书。
  • Formal phavee completion does not include authorizing the subsequent phavee. 阶段的正式完成不包括核准随后的阶段。
恶化,变坏( deteriorate的现在分词 )
  • The weather conditions are deteriorating. 天气变得越来越糟。
  • I was well aware of the bad morale and the deteriorating factories. 我很清楚,大家情绪低落,各个工厂越搞越坏。
n.人道主义者,博爱者,基督凡人论者
  • 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。
想像,设想( envisage的过去式和过去分词 )
  • He envisaged an old age of loneliness and poverty. 他面对着一个孤独而贫困的晚年。
  • Henry Ford envisaged an important future for the motor car. 亨利·福特为汽车设想了一个远大前程。
n.禁运(令);vt.对...实行禁运,禁止(通商)
  • This country put an oil embargo on an enemy country.该国对敌国实行石油禁运。
  • During the war,they laid an embargo on commerce with enemy countries.在战争期间,他们禁止与敌国通商。
n.实施,贯彻
  • Implementation of the program is now well underway.这一项目的实施现在行情看好。
学英语单词
3-furylmethylamine
abrooks
All 's well that ends well.
annabergite
arsenate of lead
arteria perinealis
asmal
autocontrol
balance account book from last year
baldface
be concentric with...
Bernreuter personality inventory
bestroke
Bromfield tenaculum
Burnpur
cap code
cargo sheet clerk
chaperonages
connatre
consortium creditor
constriction nozzle
continuus
controlled extraction turbine
corticoafferent
critical incident technique
cross-checked
cyanoses
danger latch
deposit concrete
diem perdidi
efiss
enchastened
Enderby Land
fabric bias cutting machine
fernham
flexible pipeline pig
flower whorl
food stylists
good standing
hit probability payoff
inaequivalvular
innatist
intercrystalline fluid
Joint Tort feasors
Kloedonellocopina
knife blade
li-li
logarithmic average
ludmilla
marl earth
mear
mineral paint thinner
minimum carrier level
navicula zostereti
nekulturny
neoprene seal
neotropical floral kingdom
nutating
oouen
OTW
out-box
PA-AO2
pandemics
Patrinia villosa
permian clay
phosphonium ion
play ball
pottered
protestant denominations
PSCM
Pseudolarix raempferi Gordon
pyrometer cone
radiophototelegraphic transmitter
rahzel
ramdas
reaction-water turbine
rebid
repaster
repository design
respiration pick-up
rhus aromatica ait fragrant sumac
ruddy turnstones
Schuman,William Howard
segment data buffer
ship theory
short term
snail-shaped
snap-on red filter
soapier
tachygraphs
thalassion
throwout bearing
transistor parameter meter
trisulphides
turtleneck
ultra-democracy
unhipness
variety theater
vitreous materials
whistle in the dark
wind river pk.
zanyisms