VOA标准英语2008年-Fayyad Presses for Fulfillment of Palestinian A
时间：2019-01-12 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2008年（九月）
Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, at a meeting Monday on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly, urged donor 1 countries to make good on pledges to assist the Palestinian Authority. Only a fraction of the more than $7 billion promised at the Paris donors 2 conference last December has been delivered. VOA's David Gollust reports from our U.N. Bureau.
Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad at the United Nations, 22 Sep 2008
The Paris donors meeting yielded $7.7 billion in pledges. But Palestinian Prime Minister Fayyad told a gathering 3 of donor nations and the Middle East principals that less than $1.4 billion has been delivered, leaving the Ramallah-based administration with a unfunded budget gap for the last quarter of this year.
Fayyad, an economist 4 and former finance minister of the Palestinian Authority, became prime minister last year with the collapse 5 of a Hamas-led unity 6 government after the militant 7 Islamic group took over the Gaza strip.
At a U.N. meeting of the Ad Hoc Liaison 8 Committee, or AHLC, which is made up of donor countries and the principals in the Middle East conflict, Fayyad said he was grateful for the aid received thus far but that the authority needs additional help to continue functioning the rest of the year.
He also said Palestinian economic progress has been hampered 9 by what he said was Israel's failure to fulfill 10 commitments from last year's Annapolis conference to dismantle 11 security barriers and roadblocks in the West Bank.
Similarly, he said Israeli controls on Gaza checkpoints - though they have been eased in recent months - have all but choked off business activity in the densely-populated Gaza strip.
"As you know, there are no exports out of Gaza," said Salam Fayyad. "Virtually none, and depriving our people there - maybe 1.5 million of them - of the income that is associated with export activity. So the situation there continues to be dreadful. The misery 12 index is extremely high, has not been higher in recent memory and definitely something that can only be corrected if the passage operation is restored."
Israeli Foreign Minister Director-General Aharon Abramowitz, who appeared alongside Fayyad an AHLC news conference, said Israel cannot ease Gaza controls as long as Hamas fails to abide 13 by terms of an Egyptian-brokered truce 14 accord reached in June.
"The Palestinians in Gaza are not standing 15 to their commitments to the Egyptians," said Aharon Abramowitz. " Smuggling 16 of weapons and ammunition 17 into Gaza continues. Attacks on Israel continue. Only yesterday, we had Kassam [rocket] attacks against Israel. So with such a situation in Gaza, you cannot expect that the life there is going to be as normal as a place where you do not have attacks from."
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice joined in the meeting as did former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who is the envoy 18 of the international Middle East Quartet, which consists of the United States the European Union, Russia and the United Nations. The Quartet holds a ministerial-level meeting here at the U.N. on Friday.
Blair conceded that political upheaval 19 in Israel and the looming 20 change of U.S. administrations make it unclear whether an Israeli-Palestinian peace accord can be reached by year's end as envisaged 21 at the Annapolis conference. But he said there are no grounds for excessive pessimism 22, given that the two sides remain engaged on the core issues of the peace process backed by a supportive international community.
- In these cases,the recipient usually takes care of the donor afterwards.在这类情况下，接受捐献者以后通常会照顾捐赠者。
- The Doctor transplanted the donor's heart to Mike's chest cavity.医生将捐赠者的心脏移植进麦克的胸腔。
- Please email us to be removed from our active list of blood donors. 假如你想把自己的名字从献血联系人名单中删去，请给我们发电子邮件。
- About half this amount comes from individual donors and bequests. 这笔钱大约有一半来自个人捐赠及遗赠。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- He called on Mr. White to speak at the gathering.他请怀特先生在集会上讲话。
- He is on the wing gathering material for his novels.他正忙于为他的小说收集资料。
- 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 country's economy is on the verge of collapse.国家的经济已到了崩溃的边缘。
- The engineer made a complete diagnosis of the bridge's collapse.工程师对桥的倒塌做了一次彻底的调查分析。
- When we speak of unity,we do not mean unprincipled peace.所谓团结，并非一团和气。
- We must strengthen our unity in the face of powerful enemies.大敌当前，我们必须加强团结。
- Some militant leaders want to merge with white radicals.一些好斗的领导人要和白人中的激进派联合。
- He is a militant in the movement.他在那次运动中是个激进人物。
- She acts as a liaison between patients and staff.她在病人与医护人员间充当沟通的桥梁。
- She is responsible for liaison with researchers at other universities.她负责与其他大学的研究人员联系。
- The search was hampered by appalling weather conditions. 恶劣的天气妨碍了搜寻工作。
- So thought every harassed, hampered, respectable boy in St. Petersburg. 圣彼德堡镇的那些受折磨、受拘束的体面孩子们个个都是这么想的。
- If you make a promise you should fulfill it.如果你许诺了，你就要履行你的诺言。
- This company should be able to fulfill our requirements.这家公司应该能够满足我们的要求。
- He asked for immediate help from the United States to dismantle the warheads.他请求美国立即提供援助，拆除这批弹头。
- The mower firmly refused to mow,so I decided to dismantle it.修完后割草机还是纹丝不动，于是，我决定把它拆开。
- Business depression usually causes misery among the working class.商业不景气常使工薪阶层受苦。
- He has rescued me from the mire of misery.他把我从苦海里救了出来。
- 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。
- 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。
- After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震过后只有几幢房屋还立着。
- They're standing out against any change in the law.他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改。
- Some claimed that the docker's union fronted for the smuggling ring.某些人声称码头工人工会是走私集团的掩护所。
- The evidence pointed to the existence of an international smuggling network.证据表明很可能有一个国际走私网络存在。
- A few of the jeeps had run out of ammunition.几辆吉普车上的弹药已经用光了。
- They have expended all their ammunition.他们把弹药用光。
- Their envoy showed no sign of responding to our proposals.他们的代表对我方的提议毫无回应的迹象。
- The government has not yet appointed an envoy to the area.政府尚未向这一地区派过外交官。
- It was faced with the greatest social upheaval since World War Ⅱ.它面临第二次世界大战以来最大的社会动乱。
- The country has been thrown into an upheaval.这个国家已经陷入动乱之中。
- The foothills were looming ahead through the haze. 丘陵地带透过薄雾朦胧地出现在眼前。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Then they looked up. Looming above them was Mount Proteome. 接着他们往上看，在其上隐约看到的是蛋白质组山。 来自英汉非文学 - 生命科学 - 回顾与展望
- 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。