时间:2019-01-12 作者:英语课 分类:VOA标准英语2008年(九月)


英语课

Senior U.S. and Russian officials say the two powers will continue cooperation on ending the Iranian and North Korean nuclear programs despite their bitter disagreement over Russian intervention 1 in Georgia. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met in New York Wednesday for their first face-to-face meeting since the Georgia crisis last month. VOA's David Gollust reports from our U.N. bureau.
 
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (right) and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in New York, 24 Sep 2008


Neither side appears to be giving ground on Russia's invasion of Georgia and recognition of two breakaway Georgian regions, which the United States calls a grave mistake.


But U.S. officials describe the Rice-Lavrov meeting at New York's Waldorf-Astoria hotel as polite and businesslike and say they agreed to continue working together in multilateral efforts to curb 2 the Iranian and North Korean nuclear programs.


A decision earlier this week initiated 3 by Moscow to cancel a New York meeting on Iran by the five permanent U.N. Security Council member countries and Germany, the P5+1, gave rise to speculation 4 the Georgia dispute has had broad spillover effects on U.S.-Russian relations.


However, briefing reporters after the meeting between Rice and her Russian counterpart, Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs Daniel Fried said the discussion on Iran was constructive 5, and that they will continue a two-track strategy of offering Tehran incentives 6 to stop enriching uranium, and imposing 7 escalating 8 sanctions if it refuses.


"They discussed the way ahead and the two-track approach, but also the need to send Iran a very clear signal that the P5+1 process is intact and that the P5+1 stand by all of their work to date. And I think under the circumstances that would be an important signal, and that's what they discussed,"
he said.


Fried said the United States, Russia and the other members of the group will continue discussions on Iran at the political-director level, with the aim of holding a ministerial meeting on a new U.N. sanctions resolutions at some future date.


He said Moscow also committed to making a similar signal of its continuing commitment to the six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear program in light of the Rice-Lavrov meeting.


Mr. Lavrov himself, in an appearance at New York's Council of Foreign Relations gave a similar assessment 9 of the meeting, saying while the sides differ on Georgia they agree on the need to be pragmatic and work cooperatively on issues of common concern including Iran and North Korea.


"We want to resolve peacefully both situations. We want to de-nuclearize the Korean peninsula, and we want to establish that the Iranian nuclear program is entirely 10 peaceful, through the offices of the IAEA. These goals are unchanged, and it would be just irresponsible if because of some disagreements on the Caucasus, our countries should drop these over-riding goals," he said.


At the same time, Lavrov decried 11 what he called the very emotional reaction by western countries and especially the United States to what he described as Russian action to stop Georgian aggression 12 against South Ossetia.


The Russian foreign minister said the intervention was firmly rooted in the right of self-defense as enshrined in the U.N. Charter.


But Assistant Secretary Fried called the invasion and ensuing recognition of South Ossetia and Abkhazia by Russia an attempt to change Georgia's borders by force and a grave mistake on the part of Moscow.


Fried, who took part in the Rice-Lavrov meeting, said they discussed Georgia in a completely professional manner.


He said he came away from the meeting with a somewhat higher degree of confidence that Russia will adhere to its commitment under a French-brokered cease-fire deal and remove checkpoints in Georgia beyond the confines of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.


But he said he fears Russia will not abide 13 by its truce 14 obligation to reduce troop levels in the two disputed regions to those that prevailed before the crisis began August 7. Fried said Russia has publicly declared it will keep much larger forces in the areas, and that this would institutionalize a cease-fire violation 15.


 



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.场外证券市场,场外交易;vt.制止,抑制
  • I could not curb my anger.我按捺不住我的愤怒。
  • You must curb your daughter when you are in church.你在教堂时必须管住你的女儿。
n.思索,沉思;猜测;投机
  • Her mind is occupied with speculation.她的头脑忙于思考。
  • There is widespread speculation that he is going to resign.人们普遍推测他要辞职。
adj.建设的,建设性的
  • We welcome constructive criticism.我们乐意接受有建设性的批评。
  • He is beginning to deal with his anger in a constructive way.他开始用建设性的方法处理自己的怒气。
激励某人做某事的事物( incentive的名词复数 ); 刺激; 诱因; 动机
  • tax incentives to encourage savings 鼓励储蓄的税收措施
  • Furthermore, subsidies provide incentives only for investments in equipment. 更有甚者,提供津贴仅是为鼓励增添设备的投资。 来自英汉非文学 - 环境法 - 环境法
adj.使人难忘的,壮丽的,堂皇的,雄伟的
  • The fortress is an imposing building.这座城堡是一座宏伟的建筑。
  • He has lost his imposing appearance.他已失去堂堂仪表。
v.(使)逐步升级( escalate的现在分词 );(使)逐步扩大;(使)更高;(使)更大
  • The cost of living is escalating. 生活费用在迅速上涨。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The cost of living is escalating in the country. 这个国家的生活费用在上涨。 来自辞典例句
n.评价;评估;对财产的估价,被估定的金额
  • This is a very perceptive assessment of the situation.这是一个对该情况的极富洞察力的评价。
  • What is your assessment of the situation?你对时局的看法如何?
ad.全部地,完整地;完全地,彻底地
  • The fire was entirely caused by their neglect of duty. 那场火灾完全是由于他们失职而引起的。
  • His life was entirely given up to the educational work. 他的一生统统献给了教育工作。
v.公开反对,谴责( decry的过去式和过去分词 )
  • The measures were decried as useless. 这些措施受到指责,说是不起作用。
  • The old poet decried the mediocrity of today's writing. 老诗人抨击了现代文体的平庸无奇。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
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。
vi.遵守;坚持;vt.忍受
  • You must abide by the results of your mistakes.你必须承担你的错误所造成的后果。
  • If you join the club,you have to abide by its rules.如果你参加俱乐部,你就得遵守它的规章。
n.休战,(争执,烦恼等的)缓和;v.以停战结束
  • The hot weather gave the old man a truce from rheumatism.热天使这位老人暂时免受风湿病之苦。
  • She had thought of flying out to breathe the fresh air in an interval of truce.她想跑出去呼吸一下休战期间的新鲜空气。
n.违反(行为),违背(行为),侵犯
  • He roared that was a violation of the rules.他大声说,那是违反规则的。
  • He was fined 200 dollars for violation of traffic regulation.他因违反交通规则被罚款200美元。
学英语单词
above-quota purchase
alicyclic acid
amphoriscid
Araqua
artemia salinas
autesiodorum (auxerre)
authigenesis
base of neck
bottom ramming machine
burhinidaes
coarse braking
compressed air installation
context-independent
cuellar
cyberbanks
Cypridea
decision logic translator
deion extinction of arc
depreciation rate of tooling
desose
distance liner
Donzenac
dual detector
duck mold packing
eccentric type pickup
equilibrate
Eschscholtzia californica
event-by-event
exponential subroutine
export labo(u)r power
extenders
fog-navigation
geared brake motor
gebhart
genus lutras
health-consciousness
hercostomus lunlatus
heterogenous graft
Hindostan
holding braking effort
horsecrap
Hutchinson's patch
inhearing
insert film
insurance share
Kidd blood group system
Kodoris K'edi
kuvasz
lakon kabach boran (cambodia)
latent load
leaned
left divisor
liberalizers
licea kleistobolus
lot by lot
Malolo
man-millinery
mannoheptitol
master file table
mazelyn
mine accident
molybdenic acid
nanpa
nature strips
nnfa
objectives of financial statement
Ohiwa Harb.
operator trunk
Origanum dictamnus
paleoepibiotic endemism
peripheral arteriosclerosis
perosplanchnia
planchering
point softening
Pomadasyidae
poor-spirited
reference wedge
self feeding carburetor
shorthandedly
single ported slide valve
Skebobruk
soft margarine
soil metabolism
sound intermediate frequency
spillage oil
Spinacia oleracea Mill.
steel-bar header
stern ornament
stratifiable
surface recombination admittance
Surinsk
telegraaf
threepeater
tisdell
Tombila, Gunung
Trichosanthes quinquangulata
troched
v-shaped antenna
vestibular nuclei
whose'n
wolfhounds
work space layout