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VOA标准英语2011--Palestinians Sign Unity Deal in Cairo - 英语课
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Palestinians Sign Unity 1 Deal in Cairo


The leaders of the Palestinian factions 2 Hamas and Fatah have agreed to reconcile, under a deal criticized by Israel.

The reconciliation 3 deal aims to unify 4 the rival Palestinian governments with an interim 5 government leading to elections next year. After a brief, last minute delay, the ceremony got underway with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal and foreign dignitaries in attendance.

While the planned caretaker government has been described by Fatah officials as an independent body of technocrats 6, Meshaal struck a more political tone.

The Hamas leader told the gathering 7 that "the black page of division" was behind them, and that the only real battle is with "the occupier" - a reference to Israel.

Israel has condemned 8 the deal, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday saying it is "a tremendous blow to peace and a great victory for terrorism,"

Netanyahu has urged Abbas to choose "peace with Israel" over any deal with Hamas - considered a terrorist organization by Israel and the United States.

Hamas, which does not recognize Israel, is said to be willing to honor an unofficial truce 9.

But Meshaal's statement, as well as continued attacks from Gaza on Israel, are likely to undermine any Israeli confidence in that position.

President Abbas also took the occasion to challenge Israel, saying it must choose between peace and settlements. Israeli building on Palestinian lands has proved a key obstacle to the peace process.

Among supporters of Palestinian statehood, the deal in Cairo is seen as the only way to move forward and end the rivalry 10 which has split the Palestinian movement for the past four years amid fighting over control of Gaza.

"The real issue is to get together, speak with one voice, to pave the way for the future," said Hassan Nafae, a political science professor at Cairo University. "And this is a very, very important step and I think without it nothing will happen at all."

Egypt's role in cementing the deal comes as the new government in Cairo indicated it would open the Rafah border crossing to Gaza and ease the pressure of an Israeli blockade.

Whether this played a role in bringing the two sides together is unclear, although Egypt had worked in vain for reconciliation for years.

"Once you have a unified 11 government there will be no pretext 12 at all to continue the closure of Rafah," said Nafae.

Egypt under former President Hosni Mubarak had closed Rafah after the Hamas victory in Gaza in 2007, citing Cairo's commitments to existing peace deals. The old government also used the threat of militancy 13 spilling into Egypt as another reason to keep the crossing strictly 14 controlled.



n.团结,联合,统一;和睦,协调
  • When we speak of unity,we do not mean unprincipled peace.所谓团结,并非一团和气。
  • We must strengthen our unity in the face of powerful enemies.大敌当前,我们必须加强团结。
组织中的小派别,派系( faction的名词复数 )
  • The gens also lives on in the "factions." 氏族此外还继续存在于“factions〔“帮”〕中。 来自英汉非文学 - 家庭、私有制和国家的起源
  • rival factions within the administration 政府中的对立派别
n.和解,和谐,一致
  • He was taken up with the reconciliation of husband and wife.他忙于做夫妻间的调解工作。
  • Their handshake appeared to be a gesture of reconciliation.他们的握手似乎是和解的表示。
vt.使联合,统一;使相同,使一致
  • How can we unify such scattered islands into a nation?我们怎么才能把如此分散的岛屿统一成一个国家呢?
  • It is difficult to imagine how the North and South could ever agree on a formula to unify the divided peninsula.很难想象南北双方在统一半岛的方案上究竟怎样才能达成一致。
adj.暂时的,临时的;n.间歇,过渡期间
  • The government is taking interim measures to help those in immediate need.政府正在采取临时措施帮助那些有立即需要的人。
  • It may turn out to be an interim technology.这可能只是个过渡技术。
n.技术专家,专家政治论者( technocrat的名词复数 )
  • Few business barons remained. They were replaced by "technocrats," who became the heads of corporations. 企业巨头所剩无几,大多已被“技术专家”所代替,这些人成了公司的领导。 来自英汉非文学 - 政府文件
  • However, bankers called the technocrats' bluff and proceeded to lend with gusto. 但是,银行家们称技术专家官员不过在虚张声势,并且还会乐观的继续借贷业务。 来自互联网
n.集会,聚会,聚集
  • He called on Mr. White to speak at the gathering.他请怀特先生在集会上讲话。
  • He is on the wing gathering material for his novels.他正忙于为他的小说收集资料。
n.休战,(争执,烦恼等的)缓和;v.以停战结束
  • The hot weather gave the old man a truce from rheumatism.热天使这位老人暂时免受风湿病之苦。
  • She had thought of flying out to breathe the fresh air in an interval of truce.她想跑出去呼吸一下休战期间的新鲜空气。
n.竞争,竞赛,对抗
  • The quarrel originated in rivalry between the two families.这次争吵是两家不和引起的。
  • He had a lot of rivalry with his brothers and sisters.他和兄弟姐妹间经常较劲。
(unify 的过去式和过去分词); 统一的; 统一标准的; 一元化的
  • The teacher unified the answer of her pupil with hers. 老师核对了学生的答案。
  • The First Emperor of Qin unified China in 221 B.C. 秦始皇于公元前221年统一中国。
n.借口,托词
  • He used his headache as a pretext for not going to school.他借口头疼而不去上学。
  • He didn't attend that meeting under the pretext of sickness.他以生病为借口,没参加那个会议。
n.warlike behavior or tendency
  • Full of militancy and revolutionary ardour, the people of all nationalities in the country are working hard for the realization of the four modernizations. 全国各族人民意气风发, 斗志昂扬,为实现四个现代化而奋战。
  • The seniority system is another factor that leads to union militancy. 排资论辈制度也是导致工会好斗争的另一因素。
adv.严厉地,严格地;严密地
  • His doctor is dieting him strictly.他的医生严格规定他的饮食。
  • The guests were seated strictly in order of precedence.客人严格按照地位高低就座。
学英语单词
active relay
aggat
anisoceratid
attestors
authorials
automatic reducing valve
bald patch
be frightened
beer garden
besotting
book man
bumbailiff
calorous
capitalistic production
center of connected group
city library
cnicus benedictuss
comparator circuit
compot
continuous thick juice sulfitation
coraeensis
cracked constituent
dermatitis desquamativa generalisata subacuta
design type
digital differentiation
direct transducer
divergent aggregate
down antiquark
downhole vibrating wire strain gauge
dutch clovers
embeddedness
endonexine
Europlugs
exudative pulmonary tuberculosis
fact in rule-based dedution system
figure of fun
flexibility of exchange rates
Fluidran
focusser
gedda
genus plectorrhizas
go the length of
going road
handhelds
health care providers
hierarchized
hypodermic microthermistor
i don't get it
iatroepidemic
indicated air speed knots
interface detection
iTunes Store
jack-chain
journaled file system
kinesthetic after-effect
Landtag
leafscraper
liability dividend
lonicera alsenosm-oides graebn.
lose her reason
low(lower)back
magent
Marbella
Memantlne
mud rush
nervous impulse
off-broadways
once-luxurious
orthopaedically
paper twine
pastoralize
paths
phleocidin
photoexcited nucleus
political accountability
pseudophilosophies
purchasing power risk
quick-opening gate valve
ras malai
ratio of current income to current expense
reinstrumentation
Santiuste
sea inlet
semi-socialism
shot-holes
simulated space environment
single-acting cylinder
skidtestn
slipper dip
social security compensation
square roots
standard color match function
starflex hub
sterilized absorbent points
Taehǔng
tape-recorders
terata cata-anadidyma
theory of the second best
underspecifications
universal-joint splined shaft
vertaplane
windy cirrus