时间:2019-01-13 作者:英语课 分类:VOA标准英语2008年(十二月)


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The U.S. State Department said it expects a meeting in Beijing next week on ending North Korea's nuclear program to be difficult, but that no consideration is being given to scrapping 2 the six-party talks. The senior U.S. delegate to the talks Friday ended a two day set of preparatory meetings in Singapore with his North Korean counterpart.
 






Christopher Hill in the lobby of his Singapore hotel after meeting with N. Korea's Kim Kye Gwan, 05 Dec 2008



Officials at the U.S. State Department said the Chinese- sponsored meeting due to begin Monday will likely be no less difficult than previous meetings on the North Korean nuclear program. But they said even though China has yet to officially announce the meeting, they do expect the six-party session to go forward as planned.

All six heads of delegations 4 to the long-running talks are to convene 5 in Beijing to approve a verification plan for the declaration of its nuclear holdings and activities North Korea made last June.

Approval of a verification protocol 6 is to open the way to the final phase of the intricate agreement reached last year, under which North Korea is to eventually scrap 1 its nuclear program, including weapons, in return for energy aid and diplomatic benefits from the other parties.

The latest snag in the process involves whether disarmament inspectors 7 can remove samples from North Korea's Yongbyon nuclear complex for outside analysis.

Chief U.S. delegate Christopher Hill said North Korea agreed to sampling, at least verbally, in talks in Pyongyang in July. The North Koreans later said they made no such commitment.
 






Kim Kye-Gwan speaks to reporters after meeting with U.S. nuclear negotiator Christopher Hill, 05 Dec 2008




Hill, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian Affairs, met in Singapore with his North Korean counterpart Kim Kye-Gwan. Both said Friday they had extensive discussions on verification issues but did not indicate they had reached a final agreement.

At a news briefing here, Deputy State Department Spokesman Robert Wood said that would be the goal of the six-way meeting, which will include South Korea, Russia and Japan, along with the United States, North Korea and host China:

"Really where we are now is trying to get those understandings and assurances that the North Koreans provided Chris [Hill], in addition to those understandings on verification, to get all of this on paper and codified 8 at the six-party heads of delegation 3 meeting. So the negotiations 9 on that will take place in Beijing and hopefully we will have a final verification protocol after that meeting," said Wood.

Both Wood and North Korean envoy 11 Kim in Singapore said there was no reason why the Beijing meeting should not go forward, despite the lack of an official announcement.

Wood said Assistant Secretary Hill will go to Seoul on Saturday and then on to Beijing Sunday where he will consult with the Japanese, Chinese, South Korean and Russian envoys 12 on the eve of the opening of the six-way meeting.

Their discussions will also cover a delivery schedule for heavy fuel oil committed to North Korea in return for the disablement of the Yongbyon reactor 13 complex.

North Korea has slowed the disablement process, saying that nearly half the one million tons of fuel it has been promised has not been delivered.

Japan has refused to join other parties in providing oil, because it said Pyongyang has not fully 10 accounted for Japanese citizens abducted 14 by North Korea agents in the 1980's.



n.碎片;废料;v.废弃,报废
  • A man comes round regularly collecting scrap.有个男人定时来收废品。
  • Sell that car for scrap.把那辆汽车当残品卖了吧。
刮,切除坯体余泥
  • He was always scrapping at school. 他在学校总打架。
  • These two dogs are always scrapping. 这两条狗总是打架。
n.代表团;派遣
  • The statement of our delegation was singularly appropriate to the occasion.我们代表团的声明非常适合时宜。
  • We shall inform you of the date of the delegation's arrival.我们将把代表团到达的日期通知你。
n.代表团( delegation的名词复数 );委托,委派
  • In the past 15 years, China has sent 280 women delegations abroad. 十五年来,中国共派280批妇女代表团出访。 来自汉英非文学 - 白皮书
  • The Sun Ray decision follows the federal pattern of tolerating broad delegations but insisting on safeguards. “阳光”案的判决仿效联邦容许广泛授权的做法,但又坚持保护措施。 来自英汉非文学 - 行政法
v.集合,召集,召唤,聚集,集合
  • The Diet will convene at 3p.m. tomorrow.国会将于明天下午三点钟开会。
  • Senior officials convened in October 1991 in London.1991年10月,高级官员在伦敦会齐。
n.议定书,草约,会谈记录,外交礼节
  • We must observe the correct protocol.我们必须遵守应有的礼仪。
  • The statesmen signed a protocol.那些政治家签了议定书。
n.检查员( inspector的名词复数 );(英国公共汽车或火车上的)查票员;(警察)巡官;检阅官
  • They got into the school in the guise of inspectors. 他们假装成视察员进了学校。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Inspectors checked that there was adequate ventilation. 检查员已检查过,通风良好。 来自《简明英汉词典》
v.把(法律)编成法典( codify的过去式和过去分词 )
  • In the meantime, however, Kennecott had been codified elsewhere in the Act. 然而,“肯尼考特”一案已被编人法案。 来自英汉非文学 - 环境法 - 环境法
  • Congress has since codified this holding. 从那时以来,国会编纂整理了最高法院的这一裁定。 来自英汉非文学 - 行政法
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。
adv.完全地,全部地,彻底地;充分地
  • The doctor asked me to breathe in,then to breathe out fully.医生让我先吸气,然后全部呼出。
  • They soon became fully integrated into the local community.他们很快就完全融入了当地人的圈子。
n.使节,使者,代表,公使
  • 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。
使节( envoy的名词复数 ); 公使; 谈判代表; 使节身份
  • the routine tit for tat when countries expel each other's envoys 国家相互驱逐对方使节这种惯常的报复行动
  • Marco Polo's travelogue mentions that Kublai Khan sent envoys to Malgache. 马可波罗游记中提到忽必烈曾派使节到马尔加什。
n.反应器;反应堆
  • The atomic reactor generates enormous amounts of thermal energy.原子反应堆发出大量的热能。
  • Inside the reactor the large molecules are cracked into smaller molecules.在反应堆里,大分子裂变为小分子。
劫持,诱拐( abduct的过去式和过去分词 ); 使(肢体等)外展
  • Detectives have not ruled out the possibility that she was abducted. 侦探尚未排除她被绑架的可能性。
  • The kid was abducted at the gate of kindergarten. 那小孩在幼儿园大门口被绑架走了。
学英语单词
aneroid-barometer
annual bulletin
antitypical
askewness
atonied
autogiros
automatic grid generation
automatically tuned shortwave transmitter
bargeese
barometric observation
belieffulness
Bernard-Soulier syndrome
bipolar bit-slice microcomputer
body tender bolster
bum fuck nowhere
bush-buck
cassava silkworm silk
castroviejo
catch-penny
cold-extrusion die
comparative analyses
constant pressure cycle
continuous hot-strip mill
continuous physical inventory
dead battery
dishpan experiments
division of peritoneal adhesions
dmd method
doctrine of descent
duesseldorf
dust cap
excitation ammeter
exocoeloma
farkled
fienden
fined tube exchanger
first-aid room
friction cone drive
Geissler's potash bulb
genus blastomycess
gibes
give witness on behalf of someone
given the circumstances
Gorbymania
Groupous inflammation
hammering chorea
have one's tongue in one's cheek
hella-
horizontal scanner
hybrid composite
hyphedonia
incidence cut-set
indigenous tradition
inverter power
irreversible deformation
lally column
lasting significance
lava lake
Levenshtein distances
lifts-on
lithium manganese oxide
lurago
Maghreb
mahout
management techniques
manams
microwave attenuative ceramics
mirages
Mumbaikar
my lips are sealed
nonadecamers
observation function
old stage
on-line monitor
opt out
optical data
overlapping concept description
paroxysmal
pebble-bed core
pennone
porina
profits realized
qualitative relation
representation formula
rolling cylinder gate
romanticizers
rubber-neckings
rug-cutter
rushwork
screw thread miller
simple linkage brake mechanism
stock-control system
Swertia mileensis
TCCF
television
the civil rights movement
the crossroads
unbalanced masses
undulatory current motor
unlessened
utopianization
woodshop