VOA标准英语2008年-Bush Ends Israel Visit, Heads to Kuwait
时间：2019-01-13 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2008年（一月）
Jerusalem
11 January 2008
President Bush says he will return to the Middle East in May to help push the peace process forward and mark Israel's 60th anniversary. VOA's Paula Wolfson reports the president spoke 1 at Israel's main airport as he prepared to leave for Kuwait.
A military honor guard took its place on the tarmac of Ben Gurion airport as President Bush approached Air Force One.
He walked over to reporters standing 2 at the foot of the plane and told them he saw a real chance for peace. He thanked his hosts and told Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and President Shimon Peres that he wants to help.
The comments came at the end of an historic three-day visit to Israel and the West Bank during which Mr. Bush spent hours in separate discussions with Prime Minister Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
In a statement Thursday, he said his conversations convinced him an agreement is possible by the time he leaves office next January. He said the objective must be an end to Israeli occupation, and he warned both sides that difficult political concessions 3 will be necessary.
After all the official business, Mr. Bush ended his trip to Israel Friday on a symbolic 4 note - paying homage 5 to the victims of the Nazi 6 holocaust 7.
The president stood in the great stone hall of remembrance at Yad Vashem - Israel's holocaust memorial - as a children's choir 8 sang a song of hope. He reignited a memorial flame and placed a wreath on a concrete slab 9 that covers the ashes of victims of six concentration camps.
There was a moment of silence, and then a chanted prayer.
As he emerged from the hall, Mr. Bush said Yad Vashem is a sobering reminder 10 that evil exists and must be resisted.
"I was most impressed that people in the face of horror and evil would not forsake 11 their god, and in the face of unspeakable crimes against humanity, brave souls - young and old - stood strong for what they believe," he said.
After his visit to Yad Vashem, President Bush helicoptered to the Galilee region for a tour of Christian 12 holy sites.
The next stop on the president's Mideast journey is Kuwait - the first of five Arab states on his itinerary 13. Mr. Bush will hold private talks with the Emir, and will travel to a U.S. military installation near Kuwait City. While at the base, he will consult with his top military commander in Iraq, General David Petraeus, and the senior U.S. diplomat 14 in Baghdad, Ambassador Ryan Crocker.
- They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
- The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。
- 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。
- The firm will be forced to make concessions if it wants to avoid a strike. 要想避免罢工，公司将不得不作出一些让步。
- The concessions did little to placate the students. 让步根本未能平息学生的愤怒。
- It is symbolic of the fighting spirit of modern womanhood.它象征着现代妇女的战斗精神。
- The Christian ceremony of baptism is a symbolic act.基督教的洗礼仪式是一种象征性的做法。
- We pay homage to the genius of Shakespeare.我们对莎士比亚的天才表示敬仰。
- The soldiers swore to pay their homage to the Queen.士兵们宣誓效忠于女王陛下。
- They declare the Nazi regime overthrown and sue for peace.他们宣布纳粹政权已被推翻，并出面求和。
- Nazi closes those war criminals inside their concentration camp.纳粹把那些战犯关在他们的集中营里。
- The Auschwitz concentration camp always remind the world of the holocaust.奥辛威茨集中营总是让世人想起大屠杀。
- Ahmadinejad is denying the holocaust because he's as brutal as Hitler was.内贾德否认大屠杀，因为他像希特勒一样残忍。
- The choir sang the words out with great vigor.合唱团以极大的热情唱出了歌词。
- The church choir is singing tonight.今晚教堂歌唱队要唱诗。
- This heavy slab of oak now stood between the bomb and Hitler.这时笨重的橡木厚板就横在炸弹和希特勒之间了。
- The monument consists of two vertical pillars supporting a horizontal slab.这座纪念碑由两根垂直的柱体构成，它们共同支撑着一块平板。
- I have had another reminder from the library.我又收到图书馆的催还单。
- It always took a final reminder to get her to pay her share of the rent.总是得发给她一份最后催缴通知，她才付应该交的房租。
- She pleaded with her husband not to forsake her.她恳求丈夫不要抛弃她。
- You must forsake your bad habits.你必须革除你的坏习惯。
- They always addressed each other by their Christian name.他们总是以教名互相称呼。
- His mother is a sincere Christian.他母亲是个虔诚的基督教徒。
- The two sides have agreed on the itinerary of the visit.双方商定了访问日程。
- The next place on our itinerary was Silistra.我们行程的下一站是锡利斯特拉。