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英语课

By David Gollust
Washington
07 September 2006


Serbian President warned Thursday in Washington that independence for the Serbian province of Kosovo would create a dangerous precedent 1 for the Balkans and elsewhere. The Belgrade official is holding talks with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and other senior U.S. officials focusing on the issue of Kosovo's future status. 


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Boris Tadic  
  
Although U.S.-Serbian relations have been strained by that country's failure to apprehend 2 Balkans war crimes figures, Mr. Tadic is getting top-level access on his Washington visit, including meetings with Secretary Rice and Vice 3 President Dick Cheney.


The visit comes as U.N.-mediated talks in Vienna on the final status of Kosovo are entering a critical phase. The Serbian president is stressing his opposition 4 to independence for the majority ethnic-Albanian province of Serbia, which has been under U.N. administration since 1999.


In a talk with reporters after meeting Secretary Rice, Mr. Tadic said his government, which has advocated autonomy, but not independence for Kosovo, has no intention of running the political life of the Kosovo Albanian community.


But he said Serbia wants to uphold the rights of the Kosovo's Serb minority and defend Serbian national interests. And he said making the province independent would have negative implications for the region and beyond.


"Future status of Kosovo is very important for the stability of Kosovo. But, at the some time, that can be a precedent, if Kosovo is going to become an independent country, a precedent very dangerous, not only for the Balkans, but for other regions in the world," he said.


Mr. Tadic, a pro-Western Serbian politician elected in 2004, said the issue of indicted 5 Balkans war crimes suspects still at large is not related to Kosovo.


The fact that former Bosnian-Serb president Radovan Karadzic and his military chief, Ratko Mladic, have not been apprehended 6 has strained Serbia's relations with the United States and the European Union, and led the U.S. Congress to cut aid to Belgrade.


Mr. Tadic and Secretary Rice did sign a status-of-forces agreement defining the legal status of any U.S. military personnel, who may operate on Serbian soil.


The United States has similar accords with more than 100 other countries. The Serbian president said he hoped the agreement would be a springboard to more military cooperation, and open the way to private U.S. investment in his country.



n.先例,前例;惯例;adj.在前的,在先的
  • Is there a precedent for what you want me to do?你要我做的事有前例可援吗?
  • This is a wonderful achievement without precedent in Chinese history.这是中国历史上亘古未有的奇绩。
vt.理解,领悟,逮捕,拘捕,忧虑
  • I apprehend no worsening of the situation.我不担心局势会恶化。
  • Police have not apprehended her killer.警察还未抓获谋杀她的凶手。
n.坏事;恶习;[pl.]台钳,老虎钳;adj.副的
  • He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
  • They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。
n.反对,敌对
  • 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。
控告,起诉( indict的过去式和过去分词 )
  • The senator was indicted for murder. 那位参议员被控犯谋杀罪。
  • He was indicted by a grand jury on two counts of murder. 他被大陪审团以两项谋杀罪名起诉。
逮捕,拘押( apprehend的过去式和过去分词 ); 理解
  • She apprehended the complicated law very quickly. 她很快理解了复杂的法律。
  • The police apprehended the criminal. 警察逮捕了罪犯。
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abdominal organ
accrual principle
advanced strains
agarospirol
Akordat
amoralisms
Andeg
at the top of your voice
azanator maleate
Ba Illi
basket container
biographettes
British Rayon Research Association
bust my chops
by-pass manifold
Chamosan
chapter-by-chapter
chelidon
component source
connection oriented data transfer
constrained restoration
cook-books
decompactification
definite annuity
degree of overlapping
detrital remanent magnetism
diaphyseal aclasis
diffusing type steam valve
direct closing method
disrupted terrane
dolmush
dry rotted
eagernesses
ejector thrust augmentation
electric warning horn
fire resisting cable
four stranded rope
fun-seekers
glandular tissue
had got to
hohenstaufen
huttoe
in accordance with
indumenta
inhelde
insectdom
join the party
Lamina visceralis
late summer
lissy
macrovariable
man machine interactive
meal of flax seeds
medjez
Meta-murmanite
Midhdalsfjall
Mister Nice Guys
multichannel optoanalyzer
music centre
net loss not recognized as pension cost
nightrobes
non-striker
odds and endss
off duty
on-line learning control
Pandora's box
parallel chain of command
passes down
peripheral equipment
permanent experiment
permanent weight
planchonelline
pornoaction
public easement
put sth aside
quarter-pounder
reactor instrumentation and control system
red bridge washer valve
reddick
remote control channel
resolution modification
salen
salt effect
sampled analog data
squamous alveolar cell
suaveolent
superhumanities
tamping drum
three men in a boat
train slack
triple segmental baffle
troglocolous
trophomenata
tying product
v (volt)
ventral surface of cerebrum
Vienna mixture
weadick
written down value
yahoo.com
Yttroepidote
Yushania baishanzuensis