VOA标准英语2010年-US Missionary Still Missing in North K
时间：2019-01-13 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2010年(一月)
It was exactly one month ago that American Christian 1 activist 2 Robert Park made his illegal crossing into North Korea. His fate still remains 3 all but completely unknown to his friends and family.
A close associate of Robert Park says more than 2,000 people from various nations may attend a February 25 rally in Seoul to support the missing American missionary 4.
Jo Sung-rae, head of an activist group in the South Korean capital, says he has faith Park will be all right.
He says he is not worried at all, since God will take care of him.
Colleagues say Park, a resident of the U.S. state of Arizona, walked into North Korea across a frozen river on Christmas day, December 25. They say he brought a bible and a letter for North Korean leader Kim Jong Il urging him to embrace Christ's love and close down labor 5 camps where experts believe about 200-thousand North Koreans are held for political crimes.
Pyongyang's official news agency released a report last month acknowledging a U.S. citizen had been taken into custody 6, but the North has never publicly referred to Park by name.
North Korea tolerates no uninvited foreign influences or criticism of the official state ideology 7, which worships members of the ruling Kim family as demi-gods. Human rights activists 8 say Christians 9 are singled out for especially severe punishment.
Activist Jo says Park's parents are standing 10 by their son.
He says Park's parents respect the purpose with which their son entered North Korea.
U.S. special envoy 11 on North Korean human rights Robert King said during his recent visit to Seoul that Washington is working with friendly governments to seek information on Park's welfare.
"We have requested that our protecting power in Pyongyang determine his condition and we have not heard what that is," he said.
The phrase "protecting power" refers to Sweden's embassy in the North Korean capital. Sweden occasionally fulfills 12 certain diplomatic functions on behalf of the United States, which has no formal relations with North Korea.
- 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。
- He's been a trade union activist for many years.多年来他一直是工会的积极分子。
- He is a social activist in our factory.他是我厂的社会活动积极分子。
- 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。
- She taught in a missionary school for a couple of years.她在一所教会学校教了两年书。
- I hope every member understands the value of missionary work. 我希望教友都了解传教工作的价值。
- We are never late in satisfying him for his labor.我们从不延误付给他劳动报酬。
- He was completely spent after two weeks of hard labor.艰苦劳动两周后，他已经疲惫不堪了。
- He spent a week in custody on remand awaiting sentence.等候判决期间他被还押候审一个星期。
- He was taken into custody immediately after the robbery.抢劫案发生后，他立即被押了起来。
- The ideology has great influence in the world.这种思想体系在世界上有很大的影响。
- The ideal is to strike a medium between ideology and inspiration.我的理想是在意识思想和灵感鼓动之间找到一个折衷。
- His research work was attacked by animal rights activists . 他的研究受到了动物权益维护者的抨击。
- Party activists with lower middle class pedigrees are numerous. 党的激进分子中有很多出身于中产阶级下层。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Christians of all denominations attended the conference. 基督教所有教派的人都出席了这次会议。
- His novel about Jesus caused a furore among Christians. 他关于耶稣的小说激起了基督教徒的公愤。
- 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。
- 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。