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英语课

By Daniel Schearf
Hua Hin, Thailand
23 October 2009


 
A Thai military police officer talks on his radio while guarding a hotel where the ASEAN Summit is taking place in Cha-Am of Hua Hin district, southern Thailand, 23 Oct 2009
Leaders of Southeast Asian nations are again gathering 1 in Thailand for meetings expected to focus on regional integration 2 and human rights issues.  Security at the summit is tight to prevent embarrassing protests that forced the cancellation 3 of meetings in April.


The Association of Southeast Asian Nations opened its annual meetings Friday with traditional music and dance that organizers said had roots across the region.


Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva told delegates that ASEAN had come a long way in promoting regional cooperation in everything from trade to emergency response. He said ASEAN should be proud of its achievements.


"ASEAN has delivered and thrived through the many global and regional challenges it has come to face with. What remains 4 is the onus 5 that lies on ASEAN to prove that it can implement 6 whatever has been agreed, declared, or envisioned," said Mr. Abhisit.


The group of 10 countries on Friday inaugurates its first human rights body. The ASEAN intergovernmental commission on human rights has been criticized for being powerless against rights abusers such as member Burma. 


But Mr. Abhisit says the body will help generate momentum 7 to protect the people of Southeast Asia.


"It will also increase the comfort level of our ASEAN member states to be able to accept [a] more enhanced role of this body in the future," he said.


During three days of meetings Southeast Asian leaders will sign more than 40 agreements, many of them on trade.


More than 35,000 soldiers and police have been deployed 8 in Bangkok and at the summit in Hua Hin to prevent protesters from disrupting the meetings.


The summit had to be canceled in April after anti-government protesters stormed the venue 9 and leaders had to be evacuated 10 by helicopter.


The Thai hosts have vowed 11 to prevent a similar occurrence.


"Now this is the last chance and, it's the last chance also for Thailand, to show its leadership in ASEAN, if it has any leadership left," said Pavin Chachavalpongpun, a visiting researcher at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore.


Pavin says having the meetings in Hua Hin, the location of the Thai king's summer palace, should help prevent a repeat of anti-government protests.


The revered 12 81-year-old king has been hospitalized for more than a month with a lung infection, but the palace says he is slowly recovering.


ASEAN's members are Burma, Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.



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.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.删除,取消
  • Heavy seas can cause cancellation of ferry services.海上风浪太大,可能须要取消渡轮服务。
  • Her cancellation of her trip to Paris upset our plan.她取消了巴黎之行打乱了我们的计划。
n.剩余物,残留物;遗体,遗迹
  • 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。
n.负担;责任
  • The onus is on government departments to show cause why information cannot bedisclosed.政府部门有责任说明不能把信息公开的理由。
  • The onus of proof lies with you.你有责任提供证据。
n.(pl.)工具,器具;vt.实行,实施,执行
  • Don't undertake a project unless you can implement it.不要承担一项计划,除非你能完成这项计划。
  • The best implement for digging a garden is a spade.在花园里挖土的最好工具是铁锹。
n.动力,冲力,势头;动量
  • We exploit the energy and momentum conservation laws in this way.我们就是这样利用能量和动量守恒定律的。
  • The law of momentum conservation could supplant Newton's third law.动量守恒定律可以取代牛顿第三定律。
(尤指军事行动)使展开( deploy的过去式和过去分词 ); 施展; 部署; 有效地利用
  • Tanks have been deployed all along the front line. 沿整个前线已部署了坦克。
  • The artillery was deployed to bear on the fort. 火炮是对着那个碉堡部署的。
n.犯罪地点,审判地,管辖地,发生地点,集合地点
  • The hall provided a venue for weddings and other functions.大厅给婚礼和其他社会活动提供了场所。
  • The chosen venue caused great controversy among the people.人们就审判地点的问题产生了极大的争议。
撤退者的
  • Police evacuated nearby buildings. 警方已将附近大楼的居民疏散。
  • The fireman evacuated the guests from the burning hotel. 消防队员把客人们从燃烧着的旅馆中撤出来。
起誓,发誓(vow的过去式与过去分词形式)
  • He vowed quite solemnly that he would carry out his promise. 他非常庄严地发誓要实现他的诺言。
  • I vowed to do more of the cooking myself. 我发誓自己要多动手做饭。
v.崇敬,尊崇,敬畏( revere的过去式和过去分词 )
  • A number of institutions revered and respected in earlier times have become Aunt Sally for the present generation. 一些早年受到尊崇的惯例,现在已经成了这代人嘲弄的对象了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The Chinese revered corn as a gift from heaven. 中国人将谷物奉为上天的恩赐。 来自辞典例句
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