时间:2019-01-13 作者:英语课 分类:VOA标准英语2009年(四月)


英语课

President Barack Obama and Mexican President Felipe Calderon have pledged to work together to fight drug trafficking, border violence, environmental dangers and other shared challenges. The two leaders met at the country's presidential residence.
 
President Obama (left) with Mexican President Felipe Calderon, 16 Apr 2009


Emerging from a 1 1/2 hour meeting, Presidents Obama and Calderon announced a flurry of bilateral 1 understandings, proposals, and pledges on a wide range of issues.


President Obama said he has great admiration 2 for Mexico's leaders in their fierce and prolonged battle against drug traffickers. "But I will not pretend that this is Mexico's responsibility alone. The demand for drugs in the United States is what is helping 3 to keep these cartels in business. This war is being waged with guns purchased, not here, but in the United States," he said.


Mr. Obama said he wants the U.S. Congress to ratify 4 a treaty limiting U.S. gun exports to the Americas and continue funding for a program that would provide Mexico with military helicopters to assist in the drug war.


The president reiterated 5 his support for reinstating the expired U.S. ban on assault weapons, but acknowledged Congressional resistance makes that unlikely. Instead, he pledged to boost enforcement of existing laws. "Trafficking illegal firearms, sending them across a border, is illegal. That is something that we can stop," Mr. Obama said.


President Calderon has repeatedly urged the United States to crack down on arms shipments south of its border, saying 90 percent of weapons in the hands of drug traffickers originate in the U.S.


The Mexican leader said the United States and Mexico must combine efforts to fight climate change and reduce carbon emissions 6. He also hailed what he termed the complimentary 7 nature of the two nations' economies, saying that both can be made more competitive through cooperation and integration 8. To that end, he said he and Mr. Obama discussed ways to improve infrastructure 9 along the U.S.-Mexico border to facilitate bilateral trade.


For years, Mexico has urged Washington to address the status of more than 12 million undocumented workers in the United States, more than half of whom are Mexican. President Obama reaffirmed his commitment to pursuing comprehensive immigration reform -- an initiative that appears stalled in the U.S. Congress.


"I am committed to fixing our broken immigration system in a way that upholds our traditions as a nation of laws, but also as a nation of immigrants. And I am committed to working with President Calderon to promote the kind of bottom-up economic growth here in Mexico that will allow people to live out their dreams here [in Mexico], and as a consequence will relieve some of the pressure that we have seen along the [U.S.-Mexico] border," he said.


Overall, President Calderon said his meeting with Mr. Obama was ground-breaking.


He said it was a historic event and that he is certain it will inaugurate a new era and a new relationship between the two countries.


After an overnight stay in Mexico, President Obama departs for Trinidad and Tobago Friday to attend the Summit of the Americas.



adj.双方的,两边的,两侧的
  • They have been negotiating a bilateral trade deal.他们一直在商谈一项双边贸易协定。
  • There was a wide gap between the views of the two statesmen on the bilateral cooperation.对双方合作的问题,两位政治家各自所持的看法差距甚大。
n.钦佩,赞美,羡慕
  • He was lost in admiration of the beauty of the scene.他对风景之美赞不绝口。
  • We have a great admiration for the gold medalists.我们对金牌获得者极为敬佩。
n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的,辅助的
  • The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
  • By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。
v.批准,认可,追认
  • The heads of two governments met to ratify the peace treaty.两国政府首脑会晤批准和平条约。
  • The agreement have to be ratify by the board.该协议必须由董事会批准。
反复地说,重申( reiterate的过去式和过去分词 )
  • "Well, I want to know about it,'she reiterated. “嗯,我一定要知道你的休假日期,"她重复说。 来自英汉文学 - 嘉莉妹妹
  • Some twenty-two years later President Polk reiterated and elaborated upon these principles. 大约二十二年之后,波尔克总统重申这些原则并且刻意阐释一番。
排放物( emission的名词复数 ); 散发物(尤指气体)
  • Most scientists accept that climate change is linked to carbon emissions. 大多数科学家都相信气候变化与排放的含碳气体有关。
  • Dangerous emissions radiate from plutonium. 危险的辐射物从钚放散出来。
adj.赠送的,免费的,赞美的,恭维的
  • She made some highly complimentary remarks about their school.她对他们的学校给予高度的评价。
  • The supermarket operates a complimentary shuttle service.这家超市提供免费购物班车。
n.一体化,联合,结合
  • We are working to bring about closer political integration in the EU.我们正在努力实现欧盟內部更加紧密的政治一体化。
  • This was the greatest event in the annals of European integration.这是欧洲统一史上最重大的事件。
n.下部构造,下部组织,基础结构,基础设施
  • We should step up the development of infrastructure for research.加强科学基础设施建设。
  • We should strengthen cultural infrastructure and boost various types of popular culture.加强文化基础设施建设,发展各类群众文化。
学英语单词
adverse weather condition
afterburn
ammonium imines
amphidrome
aptocholecystectomy
as drunk as an owl
basualdo
biscogniauxia formosana
blockheadisms
bring it on!
British Export Board
by the log
Cassia acutifolia
circular economy
core exit pressure
deposition sedimentation
destination task
direct viewingtype
direction of deviation
do justice to a dinner
Dulong and Petit's rule
electrostatic displacemen
ellipticity angle
estrategia
falcn
flow value
furnace atmosphere
future public land mobile telecommunications systems
glacier lake
govanianum
Granadilla foetida
Hematol
high speed plough
Huazhong
huyr
hybrid watch
impeller seals
intensity modulation scan
intrinsic redshift
Jhunjhunu
Lalimbuë(Lalimboee)
leaf tree
Leonurus heterophllus
long - term performance
look on the dark side of things
lundahl
make a victim of
medium grained
Michaelmastide
monoballism
n-max
neurocoeles
non-adiabatic rectification
normal spectral measure space
note for growth habit
numerical reservoir model
nyberg
of little worth
one-dimensional disorder
oxygen ratio
pandemic planning
Penapolis
phase of crystallization
pleurosigma strigosum
politican
postmortem wound
primordians
pristipomoides typus
protentomon
purchasing-manager
radial stay
randomized complete-block design
reiterative
rubus peltatus maxim.
saccoes
sales received in advance
satellite electronic countermeasures system
ship integrated power system
shoot range
soft-server
sopas
spermine
ST_moving-up-or-down_up-and-upward
stage party
stargazy pies
start on
stinky pinky
subcritical reactivity
tax on sales and turnover
touch-screen terminal
treasurydirect.gov
ultraviolet microspectrometry
unfutured
uninterruptible
unremembers
vareniki
Verrucomorpha
very low-density lipoprotein
warve
whole body autoradiograpy
yanbaru