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英语课
By Margaret Besheer
Irbil, Iraq
17 July 2007





Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki gestures as he speaks during a press conference in Baghdad, 14 July 2007


Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki



Political pressure on Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is growing in Washington as well as Baghdad. VOA's Margaret Besheer reports from Iraq that the coming weeks could be make or break for the Maliki government.


Last week, the White House issued an interim 1 progress report on Iraq. It found Mr. Maliki's government has made satisfactory progress on only eight of 18 security and political benchmarks set by the U.S. Congress.


Mr. Bush says he still has confidence in Mr. Maliki, but at home political support for the prime minister continues to deteriorate 2, and talk of a Cabinet re-organization and possibly a no-confidence vote continues to grow.


Iraqi parliament member Safia Taleb al-Suhail, of the Iraqi National List of Iyad Allawi, says it is still unclear what will happen in the coming weeks.


"There are some negotiations 3 taking place between different political groups, including al-Dawa, which is Prime Minister Maliki's group," said al-Suhail. "The change might be having again al-Maliki heading the Cabinet, but the changing of the ministries 4. Or we might have a fully 5 changed Cabinet. But it depends on the negotiations which are taking place right now in Baghdad. It is not clear yet."


Until recently, Mr. Maliki received strong backing from legislators loyal to Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr. But in April, six Sadrist ministers quit the Cabinet and since then relations with Mr. Maliki have continued to deteriorate.


A member of the Sadrist bloc 6 in parliament, Bahaa A'raji, says a major Cabinet re-organization is necessary.


"We think the next six weeks are very hot in Baghdad," said A'raji. "Al-Maliki must do something or he must change all the cabinet and he must bring ministers [who are] independent technocrats 7."


But A'raji says he does not think Maliki will be able to make the necessary changes, and ultimately will be replaced.


Independent Kurdish legislator Mahmoud Othman agrees the prime minister and his government have not been up to the job.


"I think he has failed. This government has failed," said Othman. "Since long ago, not now, really. From the start they were not capable of doing the job. Neither Maliki nor his ministers are capable of doing the job. I think they have failed their test since months, not now."


Othman says the prime minister could be in jeopardy 8 of losing his job beginning in September, when the next progress report on the surge of U.S. forces in Iraq is due in Congress.


Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh dismisses the possibility of a no-confidence vote against Mr. Maliki, but concedes that a Cabinet re-organization is in the works.


"There is a deficiency in the government. Some of the ministers are not qualified 9 enough to provide the services which Iraqis want," said al-Dabbagh. "That is why the prime minister is thinking of reshuffling, and a major reshuffling, to have better and efficient and intellectual ministers, in order to have better services for Iraqis."


The Iraqi parliament is scheduled to recess 10 for the month of August. Most think a change is likely when the assembly reconvenes in September.




adj.暂时的,临时的;n.间歇,过渡期间
  • The government is taking interim measures to help those in immediate need.政府正在采取临时措施帮助那些有立即需要的人。
  • It may turn out to be an interim technology.这可能只是个过渡技术。
v.变坏;恶化;退化
  • Do you think relations between China and Japan will continue to deteriorate?你认为中日关系会继续恶化吗?
  • He held that this would only cause the situation to deteriorate further.他认为,这只会使局势更加恶化。
协商( negotiation的名词复数 ); 谈判; 完成(难事); 通过
  • 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。
(政府的)部( ministry的名词复数 ); 神职; 牧师职位; 神职任期
  • Local authorities must refer everything to the central ministries. 地方管理机构应请示中央主管部门。
  • The number of Ministries has been pared down by a third. 部委的数量已经减少了1/3。
adv.完全地,全部地,彻底地;充分地
  • The doctor asked me to breathe in,then to breathe out fully.医生让我先吸气,然后全部呼出。
  • They soon became fully integrated into the local community.他们很快就完全融入了当地人的圈子。
n.集团;联盟
  • A solid bloc of union members support the decision.工会会员团结起来支持该决定。
  • There have been growing tensions within the trading bloc.贸易同盟国的关系越来越紧张。
n.技术专家,专家政治论者( technocrat的名词复数 )
  • Few business barons remained. They were replaced by "technocrats," who became the heads of corporations. 企业巨头所剩无几,大多已被“技术专家”所代替,这些人成了公司的领导。 来自英汉非文学 - 政府文件
  • However, bankers called the technocrats' bluff and proceeded to lend with gusto. 但是,银行家们称技术专家官员不过在虚张声势,并且还会乐观的继续借贷业务。 来自互联网
n.危险;危难
  • His foolish behaviour may put his whole future in jeopardy.他愚蠢的行为可能毁了他一生的前程。
  • It is precisely at this juncture that the boss finds himself in double jeopardy.恰恰在这个关键时刻,上司发现自己处于进退两难的境地。
adj.合格的,有资格的,胜任的,有限制的
  • He is qualified as a complete man of letters.他有资格当真正的文学家。
  • We must note that we still lack qualified specialists.我们必须看到我们还缺乏有资质的专家。
n.短期休息,壁凹(墙上装架子,柜子等凹处)
  • The chairman of the meeting announced a ten-minute recess.会议主席宣布休会10分钟。
  • Parliament was hastily recalled from recess.休会的议员被匆匆召回开会。
学英语单词
above-quota purchase
alicyclic acid
amphoriscid
Araqua
artemia salinas
autesiodorum (auxerre)
authigenesis
base of neck
bottom ramming machine
burhinidaes
coarse braking
compressed air installation
context-independent
cuellar
cyberbanks
Cypridea
decision logic translator
deion extinction of arc
depreciation rate of tooling
desose
distance liner
Donzenac
dual detector
duck mold packing
eccentric type pickup
equilibrate
Eschscholtzia californica
event-by-event
exponential subroutine
export labo(u)r power
extenders
fog-navigation
geared brake motor
gebhart
genus lutras
health-consciousness
hercostomus lunlatus
heterogenous graft
Hindostan
holding braking effort
horsecrap
Hutchinson's patch
inhearing
insert film
insurance share
Kidd blood group system
Kodoris K'edi
kuvasz
lakon kabach boran (cambodia)
latent load
leaned
left divisor
liberalizers
licea kleistobolus
lot by lot
Malolo
man-millinery
mannoheptitol
master file table
mazelyn
mine accident
molybdenic acid
nanpa
nature strips
nnfa
objectives of financial statement
Ohiwa Harb.
operator trunk
Origanum dictamnus
paleoepibiotic endemism
peripheral arteriosclerosis
perosplanchnia
planchering
point softening
Pomadasyidae
poor-spirited
reference wedge
self feeding carburetor
shorthandedly
single ported slide valve
Skebobruk
soft margarine
soil metabolism
sound intermediate frequency
spillage oil
Spinacia oleracea Mill.
steel-bar header
stern ornament
stratifiable
surface recombination admittance
Surinsk
telegraaf
threepeater
tisdell
Tombila, Gunung
Trichosanthes quinquangulata
troched
v-shaped antenna
vestibular nuclei
whose'n
wolfhounds
work space layout