时间:2019-01-13 作者:英语课 分类:VOA标准英语2009年(一月)


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The European Uninion efforts to resolve a bitter gas dispute between Russia and Ukraine foundered 1 on Thursday when Russia reportedly refused to agree to a EU proposal to send independent monitors to check Russia's gas flow through Ukraine. Moscow's gas cuts have left some European countries facing shortfalls during a bitter winter.
 






Gas pressure gauge 2 on the main gas pipeline 3 from Russia in the village of Boyarka, Ukraine,03 Jan 2009



Efforts to resolve Russia-Ukraine price dispute seemed to be making headway earlier in the day during European Union (EU) sponsored talks between Moscow and Kiev. The EU have proposed to send monitors to check the flow of Russian gas through Ukraine after Moscow accused Kiev of stealing gas bound for Europe.

Ukrainian Vice 4 Prime Minister Hryhoriy Nemryrya told reporters the two sides had reached a breakthrough.

"I'm pleased to inform you that we agreed with the European Union that the EU monitors will be sent to Ukraine which we consider a positive and quick response on the initiative of the Ukrainian government that we highly value, because in our view, that could provide and help to restore a confidence and to prevent the collapse of trust that would be totally harmful for the frozen negotiations 6 between [Ukraine gas company] Naftgaz and [Russia's] Gazprom," he said.

But later , the Czech Republic that currently holds the EU Presidency 7 said Russian energy giant Gazprom had rejected the EU proposals for monitors. Russia in turn blamed Ukraine.

More than a week since Russia cut its gas supplies for Kiev,a number of European countries are feeling the fallout of reduced gas supplies imported via the Ukraine. More than a dozen countries have reported a halt in gas shipments, with some citizens in Bulgaria, Bosnia and Serbia have been left without heat in icy winter weather.



v.创始人( founder的过去式和过去分词 )
  • Three ships foundered in heavy seas. 三艘船在波涛汹涌的海面上沉没了。 来自辞典例句
  • The project foundered as a result of lack of finance. 该项目因缺乏资金而告吹。 来自辞典例句
v.精确计量;估计;n.标准度量;计量器
  • Can you gauge what her reaction is likely to be?你能揣测她的反应可能是什么吗?
  • It's difficult to gauge one's character.要判断一个人的品格是很困难的。
n.管道,管线
  • The pipeline supplies Jordan with 15 per cent of its crude oil.该管道供给约旦15%的原油。
  • A single pipeline serves all the houses with water.一条单管路给所有的房子供水。
n.坏事;恶习;[pl.]台钳,老虎钳;adj.副的
  • He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
  • They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。
vi.累倒;昏倒;倒塌;塌陷
  • The country's economy is on the verge of collapse.国家的经济已到了崩溃的边缘。
  • The engineer made a complete diagnosis of the bridge's collapse.工程师对桥的倒塌做了一次彻底的调查分析。
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。
n.总统(校长,总经理)的职位(任期)
  • Roosevelt was elected four times to the presidency of the United States.罗斯福连续当选四届美国总统。
  • Two candidates are emerging as contestants for the presidency.两位候选人最终成为总统职位竞争者。
学英语单词
annual assay
antisocordist
atmosphere temperature
barley covered smut
beam attenuation
blossom blight
boisei
bottomry and respondentia bonds
brain machine
broker's loan rate
byelaya tserkov (belaya tserkov)
caddying
canister purge line
cassioberry
castor-oils
cetrella
coarsest
coilspring
correlogram
cupp
currency house
editor-at-large
edvinson
endoangiitis
enrich the top-soil layer
Erlian
family Sphyrnidae
fanlisting
Feather-joint
flame resonance spectrometer
fleet
floating-point operation stack
fog detector
fusion-evaporation reaction
gear cone
go on board a ship
grid-current capacity
hare lips
heel height
herefordshires
homing procedure
horn of variation of flare angle
huang j?n ting
human and animal excreta
hyperkeratomycosis
hyponatr(a)emia
Indirect Collision
inspection note
intracistronic complementation test
inventory stock report
jump test
kringles
ktvu
lanceted
life of rotor
Mach hold mode
making headway
marriage-visa
melted wax bath
miltiple access sequential selection
morphologic correlation
moving die insert
NCARMD
nedved
negative color-separation
no reference
offset optical square
outer shielding
overdried
Pere Marquette R.
periphorium
phage type
phosphonic acid type resin
phrasings
Pirani
poher
precision meter
Presumption of Fault
proclination
pseudofluctuation
ratchet knife
rate of foreign exchange
relaxation allowance
repetition method
resources potentiallly exploitable
roentgenotherapia superficialis
round-bar
scheiner disc
shorter rail
split reticle
stable series
suction-cup
symphonic ballet
tetramerum
thread root
trespass on sth
type-faces
umbrella plants
unburden oneself to sb
valach
vermicular motion