VOA标准英语2012--Little Expected Out of US, Pakistani Spy Chief Talks
时间：2019-01-13 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2012年(八月)
Little Expected Out of US, Pakistani Spy Chief Talks
A year of frosty relations between Washington and Islamabad is beginning to thaw 1 after Pakistan reopened NATO supply lines into Afghanistan last month.
But analysts 3 expect this progress to be short-lived, as Pakistan's military spy chief Lieutenant-General Zahir ul-Islam visits with CIA director David Petraeus. Both sides strongly differ on U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan and border security with Afghanistan.
Washington refuses to stop using drones against militants 5 in Pakistan or share the technology with Islamabad. At the same time, U.S. officials continue to pressure Pakistan to go after militant 4 safe havens 6 in its territory. Pakistan's Information Minister Qamar Zaman Kaira said the United States has it wrong.
"That border area which is controlled by the American forces, they should concentrate on that. As far as Pakistan is concerned, there is no safe haven," he said.
Kaira says Afghanistan is where the militants have their safe havens. And the Pakistani military blames cross-border attacks from Afghanistan for killing 7 more than 100 people in the past year.
U.S. officials strongly disagree. They want Islamabad to tackle militants, such as the al-Qaida-linked Haqqani network, believed to be based in Pakistan's tribal 8 areas. They blame the group for brazen 9 attacks in Kabul and eastern Afghanistan, like a June 1 attack on a U.S. base near the Pakistani border. The Haqqani network released this video of the assault online. It has not been independently verified.
Ahmad Majidyar is an analyst 2 with the American Enterprise Institute. He said U.S. patience is running low as NATO prepares to pull combat troops out of Afghanistan in 2014. "If Pakistan does not take action against the Haqqani network sometime in the future, the United States will have to take unilateral action because it remains 10 an existential threat to the Afghan government," he said.
Majidyar says this action could take the form of more drone attacks or a commando raid, like the one that killed al-Qaida leader Osama bin 11 Laden 12 in Pakistan. But he cautions that these responses could plunge 13 U.S.-Pakistani relations to a new low.
- The snow is beginning to thaw.雪已开始融化。
- The spring thaw caused heavy flooding.春天解冻引起了洪水泛滥。
- What can you contribute to the position of a market analyst?你有什么技能可有助于市场分析员的职务？
- The analyst is required to interpolate values between standards.分析人员需要在这些标准中插入一些值。
- City analysts forecast huge profits this year. 伦敦金融分析家预测今年的利润非常丰厚。
- I was impressed by the high calibre of the researchers and analysts. 研究人员和分析人员的高素质给我留下了深刻印象。
- 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。
- The militants have been sporadically fighting the government for years. 几年来，反叛分子一直对政府实施零星的战斗。
- Despite the onslaught, Palestinian militants managed to fire off rockets. 尽管如此，巴勒斯坦的激进分子仍然发射导弹。
- Your twenty havens would back out at the last minute anyhow. 你那二十个避难所到了最后一分钟也要不认帐。 来自辞典例句
- Using offshore havens to avoid taxes and investor protections. 使用海面的港口避免税和投资者保护。 来自互联网
- Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
- Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
- He became skilled in several tribal lingoes.他精通几种部族的语言。
- The country was torn apart by fierce tribal hostilities.那个国家被部落间的激烈冲突弄得四分五裂。
- The brazen woman laughed loudly at the judge who sentenced her.那无耻的女子冲着给她判刑的法官高声大笑。
- Some people prefer to brazen a thing out rather than admit defeat.有的人不愿承认失败，而是宁肯厚着脸皮干下去。
- 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。
- He emptied several bags of rice into a bin.他把几袋米倒进大箱里。
- He threw the empty bottles in the bin.他把空瓶子扔进垃圾箱。
- He is laden with heavy responsibility.他肩负重任。
- Dragging the fully laden boat across the sand dunes was no mean feat.将满载货物的船拖过沙丘是一件了不起的事。