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英语课

By Paula Wolfson
Paris
14 June 2008


U.S. President George Bush is calling on Iran's leaders to drop their objections to a modified package of incentives 1 put forward by the five UN permanent Security Council members plus Germany. From Paris, VOA White House correspondent Paula Wolfson reports the dispute over Iran's nuclear program and other Mideast issues dominated the agenda when Mr. Bush met with French President Nicholas Sarkozy.
 






US President George Bush and French President Nicolas Sarkozy in Paris




The president is touring Europe in an effort to win even more support for U.S. policies on the Middle East.

He is urging unity 2 on Iran, where a government spokesman has rejected the set of incentives delivered to Tehran by the European Union's foreign policy chief Javier Solana. The spokesman says Iran will not suspend uranium enrichment.

President Bush says he is disappointed. "It's an indication to the Iranian people that their leadership is willing to isolate 3 them further," said Mr. Bush, "and our view is we want the Iranian people to flourish."

Iran was one of many international issues that dominated Mr. Bush's talks with French President Nicholas Sarkozy.

At a joint 4 press conference in Paris, both leaders expressed their strong support for Lebanese sovereignty. Mr. Bush also called on Syria to not only stop its interference in Lebanon's affairs, but to rethink ties between Damascus and Tehran. "My message would be stop fooling around with the Iranians and stop harboring terrorists," he said.

Mr. Bush was also asked about the prospect 5 for a U.S. security agreement with Iraq, which would provide a legal basis for American troops to remain after the current U.N. mandate 6 expires. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki says negotiations 7 are deadlocked 8.

The president said he remains 9 hopeful. "If I was a betting man, [I would say] we will reach an agreement with the Iraqis," he added.

The Iraq war created tensions between the United States and France which have eased since Nicholas Sarkozy became French president last year. He says both the American and French governments are known for their strong opinions, but they have realized they can listen and learn from each other.

"We can talk very frankly 10 when we have points of disagreement," said Mr. Sarkozy, "but we have to do so as allies and as friends."

Later in the day, President Bush paid tribute to American and French troops killed in the line of battle.

His schedule included a trip to a U.S. military cemetery 11, and a French monument to the resistance fighters of World War II.



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
n.团结,联合,统一;和睦,协调
  • 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。
vt.使孤立,隔离
  • Do not isolate yourself from others.不要把自己孤立起来。
  • We should never isolate ourselves from the masses.我们永远不能脱离群众。
adj.联合的,共同的;n.关节,接合处;v.连接,贴合
  • I had a bad fall,which put my shoulder out of joint.我重重地摔了一跤,肩膀脫臼了。
  • We wrote a letter in joint names.我们联名写了封信。
n.前景,前途;景色,视野
  • This state of things holds out a cheerful prospect.事态呈现出可喜的前景。
  • The prospect became more evident.前景变得更加明朗了。
n.托管地;命令,指示
  • The President had a clear mandate to end the war.总统得到明确的授权结束那场战争。
  • The General Election gave him no such mandate.大选并未授予他这种权力。
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。
陷入僵局的;僵持不下的
  • The plan deadlocked over the funds. 这个计划由于经费问题而搁浅了。
  • The meeting deadlocked over the wage issue. 会议因工资问题而停顿下来。
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。
adv.坦白地,直率地;坦率地说
  • To speak frankly, I don't like the idea at all.老实说,我一点也不赞成这个主意。
  • Frankly speaking, I'm not opposed to reform.坦率地说,我不反对改革。
n.坟墓,墓地,坟场
  • He was buried in the cemetery.他被葬在公墓。
  • His remains were interred in the cemetery.他的遗体葬在墓地。
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8-hydroxyquinoline(oxine)
allotropical
alumina zirconate fibre reinforcement
ambocyte
amount of foreign exchange overbought
anglepoise lamp
animeverses
back course
bailout
barterable
Bataguacu
bismuth hydroxynitrate
boiler control
breeding place
brondbies
callable shares
car-tools
casassa
catechetical instruction
chopped beam method
close of financial year
codonanthum
collective rotation
compressed solar wind
concrete placement
contractual saving
corner grocery
corpus albicans
corrego do ouro
cotton lamp wicks
creep grazing
ctDNA
curvilineal drawing die
date of approval by senate
dealkylation catalyst
direct manure
document cabinet
doillon
enter into an engagement with
Eurya cuneata
forged and welded vessel
free from ship
freight to collect
geebung
grease gelling
Great Firewall of China
groser
gynecological physiology
hobo camps
implicated
iniforis poecila
intermediate valve
kennes
Lantana camara
like a bad halfpenny
malstrom
marine pollution in special form
Martiniquan, Martinican
mechanical flotation machine
mohsin
Muslimology
Nadezhdino
no-buffer queue
ogdohedra
oheloberries
oxidation rule
parallel spin
pass sentence upon sb
peeled resurfacing
penalty schedule
perform a study
pinching agent
plasmature
plotter step size
radiotelegraph room
radowitz
raston
rate control
reflected value
regional navigation(rnav)
relational structure record
runaway reaction
sassarara
skate through
south-african ruby (cape ruby)
squailing
standard vertical-tubes evaporator
survey and geological exploration
tak
tetraconta-
the dawn
to size
treehugger
trinity rivers
truncated icosahedra
tubal ligations
v.o
vacuum induction
verification process
visual synthesis of colour
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