VOA标准英语2009年-UN General Assembly Holds Emergency Session on
时间：2019-01-13 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2009年(一月)
The U.N. General Assembly sharply criticized Israel's incursion in the Gaza Strip during an emergency session Thursday. Their meeting began just hours after Israeli said its shells accidentally struck the United Nations' main compound in Gaza, destroying tons of medicine and food aid and injuring at least three people.
Palestinian firefighters try to put out a fire at the United Nations headquarters in Gaza City, after it was hit by Israeli shells, 15 Jan 2009
Israel's delegation 1 tried to have the special session canceled, saying that it was illegal under the rules that govern the U.N. body. But the General Assembly's legal advisor 2 disagreed and the meeting was allowed to continue.
General Assembly President Miguel D'Escoto Brockmann opened the meeting with a lengthy 3 statement, most of it an indictment 4 of Israel.
"It seems to me ironic 5 that Israel, a state that, more than any other, owes its very existence to a General Assembly resolution, should be so disdainful of United Nations resolutions," he said. "[Israeli] Prime Minister [Ehud] Olmert's recent statement disavowing the authority of Security Council resolution 1860 clearly places Israel as a state in contempt of international law and the United Nations."
That resolution, passed one week ago, calls for an "immediate 6 and durable 7 cease-fire" in Gaza. So far, both Israel and Hamas have rejected it.
Thursday's special session was called at the request of the 118-member states that make up the non-aligned movement. Among the more than 40 speakers who had requested to address the session there were few friends of Israel.
Member states condemned 8 Israel for its military incursion, the high number of Palestinian civilian 9 casualties, strikes on hospitals and U.N. installations and its failure to heed 10 the Security Council's call for an cease-fire. They also urged Israel to lift its blockade on the occupied territory and withdraw its troops.
The General Assembly is considering whether to adopt a resolution of its own on the situation. But unlike Security Council resolutions, those of the General Assembly are non-binding.
The special session came just hours after Israeli shells damaged the main United Nations compound in Gaza which was sheltering 700 Palestinians. The resulting fire destroyed a warehouse 11 full of medicine and food aid and injured three people.
Israel has called the strike a "grave mistake" and U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon who was in Israel today pressing for an end to the violence said it was an "outrage 12" and demanded a full explanation from Israeli authorities. Last week, Israeli fire struck a U.N.-run school in Gaza, killing 13 more than 40 people taking shelter there.
- 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。
- They employed me as an advisor.他们聘请我当顾问。
- The professor is engaged as a technical advisor.这位教授被聘请为技术顾问。
- We devoted a lengthy and full discussion to this topic.我们对这个题目进行了长时间的充分讨论。
- The professor wrote a lengthy book on Napoleon.教授写了一部有关拿破仑的巨著。
- He handed up the indictment to the supreme court.他把起诉书送交最高法院。
- They issued an indictment against them.他们起诉了他们。
- That is a summary and ironic end.那是一个具有概括性和讽刺意味的结局。
- People used to call me Mr Popularity at high school,but they were being ironic.人们中学时常把我称作“万人迷先生”，但他们是在挖苦我。
- His immediate neighbours felt it their duty to call.他的近邻认为他们有责任去拜访。
- We declared ourselves for the immediate convocation of the meeting.我们主张立即召开这个会议。
- This raincoat is made of very durable material.这件雨衣是用非常耐用的料子做的。
- They frequently require more major durable purchases.他们经常需要购买耐用消费品。
- There is no reliable information about civilian casualties.关于平民的伤亡还没有确凿的信息。
- He resigned his commission to take up a civilian job.他辞去军职而从事平民工作。
- You must take heed of what he has told.你要注意他所告诉的事。
- For the first time he had to pay heed to his appearance.这是他第一次非得注意自己的外表不可了。
- We freighted the goods to the warehouse by truck.我们用卡车把货物运到仓库。
- The manager wants to clear off the old stocks in the warehouse.经理想把仓库里积压的存货处理掉。
- When he heard the news he reacted with a sense of outrage.他得悉此事时义愤填膺。
- We should never forget the outrage committed by the Japanese invaders.我们永远都不应该忘记日本侵略者犯下的暴行。