时间:2019-01-14 作者:英语课 分类:VOA标准英语2009年(七月)


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A major South Korean broadcaster is reporting that North Korean leader Kim Jong Il has a life-threatening form of cancer. His health has been in serious question since his apparent stroke about a year ago. The medical prognosis is a matter of utmost secrecy 1 in the North.
 
This screen grab from North Korean television shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il attending a session of the parliament in Pyongyang, 09 Apr 2009


South Korea's Unification Ministry 2 says it has "no information" about Monday's broadcast report that North Korean leader Kim Jong Il has cancer.


The South's main 24-hour cable network, YTN, has been reporting the cancer is in Kim Jong Il's pancreas. The network says 67-year-old Mr. Kim was diagnosed with the cancer at about the same time as he suffered his apparent stroke a little more than a year ago. The report cites unnamed South Korean and Chinese intelligence officials.


But there are doubts about the report.


Hah Tae-kyoung is the president of Open Radio for North Korea, a private organization that relies on secret sources in North Korea to report on conditions there.


"I don't believe it is true," said Hah.


Doctors say pancreatic cancer is virtually always fatal, and is often diagnosed in its latest stages. For that reason, Hah says he is skeptical 3 about the YTN report.


"If somebody took pancreatic cancer it doesn't take more than one year for him to die... If that might be true, he [Kim] should have already died," he said.


It is widely accepted that Kim Jong Il suffered a stroke around July of last year. In video of Mr. Kim's rare media appearances, he appears gaunt and infirm. However, the North Korean government keeps secret almost all details of Mr. Kim's personal life, including his health.


Yang Moo-jin, a professor at Seoul's University of North Korean Studies, says even though he has been impaired 4, Kim Jong Il has functioned at a higher level than pancreatic cancer might permit.


He says it would have been almost impossible Kim Jong Il to travel around and provide on the spot guidance while suffering cancer pain since last August. He points out the North Korean leader also managed to have an hour-long talk with Chinese envoy 5 Wang Jiarui, and attended last week's memorial ceremony for his father, Kim Il Sung.


Kim Jong Il and parents are the objects of worship in North Korea's official political ideology 6. The North's government structure revolves 7 so completely around Kim Jong Il personally, that the country's regional neighbors view any threat to Mr. Kim's health as possibly destabilizing to the nation.


Recent reports indicate Kim Jong Il has designated his youngest son Kim Jong Un to replace him eventually, but serious questions remain about whether the younger Kim will be able to transcend 8 competing factions 9 in the North and hold the country together.



n.秘密,保密,隐蔽
  • All the researchers on the project are sworn to secrecy.该项目的所有研究人员都按要求起誓保守秘密。
  • Complete secrecy surrounded the meeting.会议在绝对机密的环境中进行。
n.(政府的)部;牧师
  • They sent a deputation to the ministry to complain.他们派了一个代表团到部里投诉。
  • We probed the Air Ministry statements.我们调查了空军部的记录。
adj.怀疑的,多疑的
  • Others here are more skeptical about the chances for justice being done.这里的其他人更为怀疑正义能否得到伸张。
  • Her look was skeptical and resigned.她的表情是将信将疑而又无可奈何。
adj.受损的;出毛病的;有(身体或智力)缺陷的v.损害,削弱( impair的过去式和过去分词 )
  • Much reading has impaired his vision. 大量读书损害了他的视力。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • His hearing is somewhat impaired. 他的听觉已受到一定程度的损害。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
n.使节,使者,代表,公使
  • 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。
n.意识形态,(政治或社会的)思想意识
  • The ideology has great influence in the world.这种思想体系在世界上有很大的影响。
  • The ideal is to strike a medium between ideology and inspiration.我的理想是在意识思想和灵感鼓动之间找到一个折衷。
v.(使)旋转( revolve的第三人称单数 );细想
  • The earth revolves both round the sun and on its own axis. 地球既公转又自转。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • Thus a wheel revolves on its axle. 于是,轮子在轴上旋转。 来自《简明英汉词典》
vt.超出,超越(理性等)的范围
  • We can't transcend the limitations of the ego.我们无法超越自我的局限性。
  • Everyone knows that the speed of airplanes transcend that of ships.人人都知道飞机的速度快于轮船的速度。
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
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a. perinealis
accrued charge
acoustic magnetic mine
adlecting
administration of internal affairs
Aflogualnum
ai chi
alternative procedure
ampholite
art and part
artificial caving
assidue
base of petroleum
black cottonwood
blue-green bacterium
bursting speed
cascading down
centricdiatom
cloud-bases
complementary scale
consistorial
conventional-arms
counter-cast
Crista sacralis intermedia
Cynwyl Elfed
Daphne holosericea
departmental arrangement and distribution in commodity stock
Direct Copper Blue 2R
disinflations
drip channel
event oriented simulation
eye-serve
factorization method
facular
Fentathienil
flower
geomagnetic periodic variation
go yachting.
group demodulator filter
harpending
hepatitis sequestrans
information management program
initial overburden pressure
insulation varnish
intrapore
inverse beta process
journal box lid hinge
lanatest
light pressure separator
Lothair
megalodiscs
merry-go-round
monoethanolamine(surfactant)
moving current-weighted Passche indexes
neutralizing water tank
new staff
Nihon-maru
non-specified-time relay
nuclear quadrupole spectrum
oil pressure switch
one-cancels-the-other order
orbit maneuver engine
output transfer function
Pare's suture
plain shank
plant hole
poikilosmotic character
preregeneration
progressive wave
pushback
put somebody up to
RCITR
reducing capacity
reductive alkylation
regional index call warrant
RFRNA
Rhodiola wallichiana
Richardson's ground squirrel
rosette phyllotaxy
semi-tractor
sexlessnesses
sgd.
shell tuck
sickling diathesis
simple deterministic language
spaces out
spantik
spread back
sugarcane top
system of gravitational unit
tea-tree
telephone bills
tiled mode
use test
vendibler
vertical decomposition
voltage and frequency response
wear plate
Y ligament
Yang Shiying
zori