VOA标准英语2014--联合国叙利亚问题特使赫达尔·卜拉希米辞职
时间：2019-01-14 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2014年(五月)
UN Syria Envoy 1 Brahimi to Resign 联合国叙利亚问题特使赫达尔·卜拉希米辞职
WASHINGTON — The United Nations and Arab League mediator 2 on the conflict in Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, plans to resign his post after a nearly two-year effort that failed to bring peace to the war-torn country. Brahimi managed to get Syrian government officials and the opposition 3 to participate in two rounds of peace talks in Geneva, but both of those ended without an agreement.
During a joint 4 appearance with Brahimi Tuesday in New York, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced that the mediator will step down May 31.
"For nearly two years, joint special representative Brahimi has sought an end to the brutal 5 and still worsening civil war in Syria. He has faced almost impossible odds 6 with a Syrian nation, Middle Eastern region and wider international community that have been hopelessly divided in their approaches to ending the conflict," said Ban.
Despite his struggles in mediating 7 a peace deal, Brahimi expressed confidence the crisis will end.
"The question is only, and this everybody who has responsibility and an influence in the situation have to remember, that the question is: How many more dead, how much more destruction there is going to be before Syria becomes again the Syria we have known," said Brahimi.
Brahimi had been working to restart negotiations 8, but that effort was thwarted 9 with the announcement that presidential elections will be held next month, dealing 10 a severe blow to his efforts.
He replaced former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan as international mediator in August 2012. Annan also failed to obtain a cease-fire.
Meanwhile, Danish Foreign Minister Martin Lidegaard, whose country is providing one of the two cargo 11 ships being used to move chemical weapons components 12 out of Syria, urged Damascus to quickly give up the last of its lethal 13 stockpile.
Lidegaard said the ships are not mandated 14 to stay beyond the June 30 deadline.
"We have actually now gathered 92 percent of the chemical weapons of Syria. That is not enough, we are still having 8 percent remaining and will do whatever we can to get that on board as well, and then transport it away and destroy it as soon as possible," said Lidegaard.
The Danish cargo ship, and another from Norway, are in the eastern Mediterranean 15 taking deliveries of Syrian toxins 16. Command frigates 17 are escorting them. They are awaiting word to head for a Syrian port to pick up the last of the chemicals.
Syria agreed to scrap 18 its chemical weapons to avoid a possible military strike from the United States, after an August chemical weapons attack on civilians 19 outside Damascus. More than 1,400 people were killed.
- 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。
- He always takes the role of a mediator in any dispute.他总是在争论中充当调停人的角色。
- He will appear in the role of mediator.他将出演调停者。
- The party leader is facing opposition in his own backyard.该党领袖在自己的党內遇到了反对。
- The police tried to break down the prisoner's opposition.警察设法制住了那个囚犯的反抗。
- I had a bad fall,which put my shoulder out of joint.我重重地摔了一跤，肩膀脫臼了。
- We wrote a letter in joint names.我们联名写了封信。
- She has to face the brutal reality.她不得不去面对冷酷的现实。
- They're brutal people behind their civilised veneer.他们表面上温文有礼，骨子里却是野蛮残忍。
- The odds are 5 to 1 that she will win.她获胜的机会是五比一。
- Do you know the odds of winning the lottery once?你知道赢得一次彩票的几率多大吗？
- So many factors are mediating. 如此众多的因素在起作用。
- The contrast in mediating noted in the sitting room. 客厅中注重了调和中的对比。
- negotiations for a durable peace 为持久和平而进行的谈判
- Negotiations have failed to establish any middle ground. 谈判未能达成任何妥协。
- The guards thwarted his attempt to escape from prison. 警卫阻扰了他越狱的企图。
- Our plans for a picnic were thwarted by the rain. 我们的野餐计划因雨受挫。
- This store has an excellent reputation for fair dealing.该商店因买卖公道而享有极高的声誉。
- His fair dealing earned our confidence.他的诚实的行为获得我们的信任。
- The ship has a cargo of about 200 ton.这条船大约有200吨的货物。
- A lot of people discharged the cargo from a ship.许多人从船上卸下货物。
- the components of a machine 机器部件
- Our chemistry teacher often reduces a compound to its components in lab. 在实验室中化学老师常把化合物分解为各种成分。
- A hammer can be a lethal weapon.铁锤可以是致命的武器。
- She took a lethal amount of poison and died.她服了致命剂量的毒药死了。
- Mandated desegregation of public schools. 命令解除公立学校中的种族隔离
- Britain was mandated to govern the former colony of German East Africa. 英国受权代管德国在东非的前殖民地。
- The houses are Mediterranean in character.这些房子都属地中海风格。
- Gibraltar is the key to the Mediterranean.直布罗陀是地中海的要冲。
- The seas have been used as a receptacle for a range of industrial toxins. 海洋成了各种有毒工业废料的大容器。
- Most toxins are naturally excreted from the body. 大部分毒素被自然排出体外。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Frigates are a vital part of any balanced sea-going fleet. 护卫舰是任何一个配置均衡的远洋舰队所必需的。 来自互联网
- These ships are based on the Chinese Jiangwei II class frigates. 这些战舰是基于中国的江卫II型护卫舰。 来自互联网
- A man comes round regularly collecting scrap.有个男人定时来收废品。
- Sell that car for scrap.把那辆汽车当残品卖了吧。