VOA标准英语2009年-Kim's Funeral Opens Door to High Level Tha
时间:2019-01-14 作者:英语课 分类:VOA标准英语2009年(八月)
On the day South Korea formally bid farewell to its former president, the country's current president held a groundbreaking meeting with a team of high-level North Korean envoys 2 visiting to pay respects.
A vehicle putting up a portrait of late former South Korean President Kim Dae-jung leads a hearse after the funeral of Kim at the National Assembly in Seoul, 23 Aug. 2009
Senior North Korean envoys departed the South before the start of Sunday's funeral ceremony for the country's deceased former president, Kim Dae-jung-- but first, they paid a visit to current President Lee Myung-bak.
Mr. Lee's spokesman, Lee Dong-kwan, says the delegates met for thirty minutes with the South Korean president, and passed on a verbal message from North Korean leader Kim Jong ll about "cooperation" between the North and South.
President Lee's office has not publicized specific details of the North Korean leader's message.
Spokesman Lee says President Lee explained the South Korean government's consistent and resolute 3 principles on North issues, and asked the delegation 4 to explain them to Kim Jong ll. He also thanked the delegation for coming, and vowed 5 that there is "no problem that cannot be solved" through sincere dialogue between the two sides. The North side echoed that sentiment, says Lee, by expressing the hope that North and South would indeed solve all of their problems together.
Sunday's meeting is widely seen as a breakthrough, considering that North Korea's official media regular refers to Lee Myung-bak and his administration as "traitors 6." Mr. Lee, a conservative, ended the policy of two previous South Korean administrations which sought to engage and befriend the North by providing hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer 7 aid and investment.
The North Koreans were in Seoul to honor the pioneer of that policy, President Kim Dae-jung, who died last week at 85.
S. Korean mourners offer flowers during a memorial service for the late former President Kim Dae-jung at Seoul Plaza 8 in Seoul, 19 Aug 2009
Thousands attended the funeral for Mr. Kim, a devout 9 Catholic, at South Korea's parliament on Sunday.
In a eulogy 10, South Korean Prime Minister Han Seung-soo says "You opened the path for inter-Korean reconciliation 11, exchange, and cooperation throught the first ever South-North Summit since the division of the peninsula. In the year 2000, you received the Nobel Peace Prize, once again putting Korea on the world map."
Mr. Kim's 2000 meeting with Kim Jong ll was credited with profoundly changing the character of North-South relations, paving the way for increased North-South contacts and a set of reunions for families separated by the 1950s Korean War. However, it was later tainted 12 by allegations the South paid the North nearly half a billion dollars to agree to the event.
Prime Minister Han went on to praise Kim Dae-jung's struggle to transition his country from dictatorship to democracy.
He says "often comparing yourself to the honeysuckle that survives the freezing winter, you emerged strong prevailing 13 over the lifetime of hardship from imprisonment 14, house arrest, death sentence and exile."
President Barack Obama sent a U.S. delegation to attend Sunday's funeral, including former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and senior State Depeartment Envoy 1 to North Korea Stephen Bosworth.
- Their envoy showed no sign of responding to our proposals.他们的代表对我方的提议毫无回应的迹象。
- The government has not yet appointed an envoy to the area.政府尚未向这一地区派过外交官。
- the routine tit for tat when countries expel each other's envoys 国家相互驱逐对方使节这种惯常的报复行动
- Marco Polo's travelogue mentions that Kublai Khan sent envoys to Malgache. 马可波罗游记中提到忽必烈曾派使节到马尔加什。
- He was resolute in carrying out his plan.他坚决地实行他的计划。
- The Egyptians offered resolute resistance to the aggressors.埃及人对侵略者作出坚决的反抗。
- 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。
- 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。
- Traitors are held in infamy. 叛徒为人所不齿。
- Traitors have always been treated with contempt. 叛徒永被人们唾弃。
- The new scheme will run off with a lot of the taxpayer's money.这项新计划将用去纳税人许多钱。
- The taxpayer are unfavourably disposed towards the recent tax increase.纳税者对最近的增加税收十分反感。
- They designated the new shopping centre York Plaza.他们给这个新购物中心定名为约克购物中心。
- The plaza is teeming with undercover policemen.这个广场上布满了便衣警察。
- His devout Catholicism appeals to ordinary people.他对天主教的虔诚信仰感染了普通民众。
- The devout man prayed daily.那位虔诚的男士每天都祈祷。
- He needs no eulogy from me or from any other man. 他不需要我或者任何一个人来称颂。
- Mr.Garth gave a long eulogy about their achievements in the research.加思先生对他们的研究成果大大地颂扬了一番。
- 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。
- The administration was tainted with scandal. 丑闻使得政府声名狼藉。
- He was considered tainted by association with the corrupt regime. 他因与腐败政府有牵连而名誉受损。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- She wears a fashionable hair style prevailing in the city.她的发型是这个城市流行的款式。
- This reflects attitudes and values prevailing in society.这反映了社会上盛行的态度和价值观。
- His sentence was commuted from death to life imprisonment.他的判决由死刑减为无期徒刑。
- He was sentenced to one year's imprisonment for committing bigamy.他因为犯重婚罪被判入狱一年。