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英语课

By Barry Wood
Washington
21 January 2006


Ibrahim Rugova   
  
Kosovo President Ibrahim Rugova, the father of the province's movement to gain independence from Serbia, died of lung cancer on Saturday. He was 61 years old.

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A heavy smoker 1, Mr. Rugova was diagnosed in September, 2005 with lung cancer. He received treatment in Germany and then returned to Pristina to tell his countrymen he had no plans to step down as president.

Kosovo is the disputed province of Serbia, which has been administered by the United Nations since 1999. That was the year NATO carried out an aerial bombing campaign against what was then Yugoslavia in defense 2 of Albanians who were being pressured by Serbian forces. After 78 days of bombing, the Serb-dominated Yugoslav government agreed to withdraw its troops from Kosovo.

Mr. Rugova was a soft-spoken academic, who first gained prominence 4 as an author and literary critic while a professor of literature at the Albanian language University of Pristina, the provincial 5 capital. His political career began in 1989, when Slobodan Milosevic suspended the broad autonomy Kosovo had enjoyed within the Yugoslav federation 6. In that same year, Mr. Rugova founded the Democratic League of Kosova, which remains 7 the largest political party in Kosovo.

David Binder 8 was The New York Times Balkans correspondent when he first met Mr. Rugova in the early 1990s. Mr. Rugova will be remembered, says Mr. Binder, for his single mindedness in promoting Kosovo's independence.

"He got up in the morning preaching Kosovo's independence, and he went to bed at night preaching independence for Kosovo," said David Binder. "And, probably, he dreamed of independence for Kosovo when he was asleep."

Mr. Rugova spoke 3 about independence for Kosovo during a 2005 visit to VOA's Albanian service.


One of Mr. Rugova's trademarks 9 was a silk scarf draped around his neck. For David Binder, the scarf was a sign of his independence.

"He cultivated the image of an intellectual from Paris, where he studied briefly," he said. "And he continued that in a place where his people-that is, the Kosovo Albanians-never wore silk scarves, or anything resembling it."

Mr. Rugova's death comes at a sensitive time in Kosovo, where negotiations 10 on its future status - likely to be conditional 11 independence - are under way.

Mort Abramovitz, a retired 12 U.S. diplomat 13 who founded the International Crisis Group, which does independent research on global issues, calls Mr. Rugova a unifying 14 figure in Kosovo, where 90 percent of the population is ethnic 15 Albanian.

Ridiculed 16 by young Albanians for his opposition 17 to the 1998 insurrection against Serbian rule, Mr. Rugova staged an electoral comeback to twice defeat political parties linked to the Kosovo Liberation Army, the militant 18 group that took up arms against Serbia, and later entered the political fray 19. Mr. Abramovitz says these election victories over younger rivals are a tribute to Mr. Rugova's political skills.

"He was much better known, and had much better organization," said Mort Abramovitz. "And because the others were so divided and acted so miserably 20 in their first six months of rule in the way they sort of provisionally took over the country."

Ibrahim Rugova, the father of the ethnic Albanian independence movement in Kosovo, is dead.



n.吸烟者,吸烟车厢,吸烟室
  • His wife dislikes him to be a smoker.他妻子不喜欢他当烟民。
  • He is a moderate smoker.他是一个有节制的烟民。
n.防御,保卫;[pl.]防务工事;辩护,答辩
  • 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。
n.(车轮的)辐条;轮辐;破坏某人的计划;阻挠某人的行动 v.讲,谈(speak的过去式);说;演说;从某种观点来说
  • 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。
n.突出;显著;杰出;重要
  • He came to prominence during the World Cup in Italy.他在意大利的世界杯赛中声名鹊起。
  • This young fashion designer is rising to prominence.这位年轻的时装设计师的声望越来越高。
adj.省的,地方的;n.外省人,乡下人
  • City dwellers think country folk have provincial attitudes.城里人以为乡下人思想迂腐。
  • Two leading cadres came down from the provincial capital yesterday.昨天从省里下来了两位领导干部。
n.同盟,联邦,联合,联盟,联合会
  • It is a federation of 10 regional unions.它是由十个地方工会结合成的联合会。
  • Mr.Putin was inaugurated as the President of the Russian Federation.普京正式就任俄罗斯联邦总统。
n.剩余物,残留物;遗体,遗迹
  • He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
  • The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。
n.包扎物,包扎工具;[法]临时契约;粘合剂;装订工
  • The cloth flower snaps on with a special binder.这布花是用一种特殊的粘合剂固定住的。
  • Purified water was used as liquid binder.纯净水作为液体粘合剂。
n.(注册)商标( trademark的名词复数 );(人的行为或衣着的)特征,标记
  • Motrin and Nuprin are trademarks of brands of ibuprofen tablets. Nuprin和Motrin均是布洛芬的商标。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Many goods in China have the trademarks of a panda. 中国的许多商品都带有熊猫的商标。 来自《简明英汉词典》
协商( negotiation的名词复数 ); 谈判; 完成(难事); 通过
  • negotiations for a durable peace 为持久和平而进行的谈判
  • Negotiations have failed to establish any middle ground. 谈判未能达成任何妥协。
adj.条件的,带有条件的
  • My agreement is conditional on your help.你肯帮助我才同意。
  • There are two forms of most-favored-nation treatment:conditional and unconditional.最惠国待遇有两种形式:有条件的和无条件的。
adj.隐退的,退休的,退役的
  • The old man retired to the country for rest.这位老人下乡休息去了。
  • Many retired people take up gardening as a hobby.许多退休的人都以从事园艺为嗜好。
n.外交官,外交家;能交际的人,圆滑的人
  • The diplomat threw in a joke, and the tension was instantly relieved.那位外交官插进一个笑话,紧张的气氛顿时缓和下来。
  • He served as a diplomat in Russia before the war.战前他在俄罗斯当外交官。
使联合( unify的现在分词 ); 使相同; 使一致; 统一
  • In addition, there were certain religious bonds of a unifying kind. 此外,他们还有某种具有一种统一性质的宗教上的结合。
  • There is a unifying theme, and that is the theme of information flow within biological systems. 我们可以用一个总的命题,把生物学系统内的信息流来作为这一研究主题。
adj.人种的,种族的,异教徒的
  • This music would sound more ethnic if you played it in steel drums.如果你用钢鼓演奏,这首乐曲将更具民族特色。
  • The plan is likely only to aggravate ethnic frictions.这一方案很有可能只会加剧种族冲突。
v.嘲笑,嘲弄,奚落( ridicule的过去式和过去分词 )
  • Biosphere 2 was ultimately ridiculed as a research debade, as exfravagant pseudoscience. 生物圈2号最终被讥讽为科研上的大失败,代价是昂贵的伪科学。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • She ridiculed his insatiable greed. 她嘲笑他的贪得无厌。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.反对,敌对
  • The party leader is facing opposition in his own backyard.该党领袖在自己的党內遇到了反对。
  • The police tried to break down the prisoner's opposition.警察设法制住了那个囚犯的反抗。
adj.激进的,好斗的;n.激进分子,斗士
  • 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。
v.争吵;打斗;磨损,磨破;n.吵架;打斗
  • Why should you get involved in their fray?你为什么要介入他们的争吵呢?
  • Tempers began to fray in the hot weather.大热天脾气烦燥。
adv.痛苦地;悲惨地;糟糕地;极度地
  • The little girl was wailing miserably. 那小女孩难过得号啕大哭。
  • It was drizzling, and miserably cold and damp. 外面下着毛毛细雨,天气又冷又湿,令人难受。 来自《简明英汉词典》
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acidus
aeschynite-(Ce)
air-cooling machine
aircraft passenger seat
Ban Nam Chan
BHL
Bohmer's hematoxylin stain
Breviscapinun
Broughtonia
Cameia
cantharene
carburetor air scoop
coelom(coeloma)
cross channel monitoring
crossing system
cylinder expansion indicator
desktop security
drapur
Eleocharis liouana
elevation number
emonapride
estimated premium income
etherealness
ethical guideline
European Southern Observatory
excitontransition
fiszbach
Florentine
focary
fragilize
fuel grab
ghost bat
gnophomyia (protogonomyia) confluenta
Google Deskbar
guhrl
halbania juniperi sawada
heptylenes
hexagonal diamond
high on the list
hollingsworths
hollingworth
immunosuppressive factor
integrated filter
Investigator Ridge
irritate
Mahican
marches on
maxillary teeth
maximum seismic intensity
meliola clerodendricola
morazan
motoneurons
Noceran
non staple foodstuff
nonlinear circuit analysis
nonspatially
nonstaged
null indicating double-beam system
obstupefied
operational research team
orientation of growth
overall cell resistance
oversecrete
payment schedule
periarterial pad
Philippe
production possibility curve
progressive wave tube
proportionate sharing of the revenue
pyralin
QDL
quantum correction
rabbitite
recloak
refrigerated industry
relevant clinical info.
rhodio-chloride
rolled-top
sandblindness
sealing work
sence
sessional indemnity
Shimatari
shoe lifts
short-duration acceleration
simple crossing
sinkers
standby unattended time
standing fire
stone-block paving
system support
tatahumaras
The longest way about is the nearest way home.
threelayer
tower control center
Tājābāra
utas
valve dissipation
villagewards
vladilen
war-games
yarn beam