时间:2019-01-20 作者:英语课 分类:VOA2004(下)--新闻盘点


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By Cathy Majtenyi


A spokesman for the former, but little-recognized, Somali government is confident Somalia's new government will uphold a pledge of troops and equipment to the African Union's standby peacekeeping force. Somalia is on record as being one of 13 eastern African countries that earlier this year pledged to contribute peacekeeping troops to the African Standby Force.


Despite Somalia being embroiled 1 in conflict, the then-Transitional National Government's offer to make available 150 troops plus 10 gun-mounted vehicles was well received by the other countries.


A seven-nation regional grouping called the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development, known as IGAD, is organizing the 4,500 troop Eastern Africa Standby Brigade that will be available for African Union peacekeeping operations.


IGAD's Conflict Prevention, Management, and Resolution Chief Peter Malwa explains why Somalia's offer was welcomed. "We took it in good faith that here is a country that expresses interest first of all. It rightly belongs within Africa. Secondly 2, it [Somalia] was invited by us who are coordinating 3 the structure. We saw it just as a statement of good intent."


The Transitional National Government was formed following a peace process that took place in 2000. The T.N.G., as it is known, was supposed to rule the whole country but was rejected by many, so that it actually only ended up having control over certain sections of the capital, Mogadishu.


According to the terms of the peace process, the T.N.G.'s mandate 4 expired in the middle of 2003. But it continued performing certain government functions.


Mr. Malwa says his organization and the other countries viewed the T.N.G. as being Somalia's legitimate 5 government. It has now been replaced by a new 275-seat parliament that is in the process of selecting a speaker and president.


T.N.G. spokesman Ahmed Isse Awad says he is confident the new government will uphold the promise made earlier this year. "Somalia has been away from the international scene, from the African scene for a long time so this, for them, will be another sign that Somalia is back. They will be very much willing to contribute."


Mr. Awad says it is important for the new government to be an active member of the African Union and regional initiatives, in part to establish its legitimacy 6. He calls the troop and vehicle pledge a symbolic 7 gesture. But it is not known where these troops will be drawn 8 from. Mr. Awad adds that Somalia needs outside forces to secure peace in his country.


Somalia has endured 13 years of anarchy 9 and bloodshed, with clan-based factions 10 controlling specific areas of the country.


Cathy Majtenyi for VOA news, Nairobi.


注释:
Somali 索马里
uphold 支持,赞成
peacekeeping force 维和部队
African Standby Force 非洲预备部队
embroil 使卷入
Mogadishu 摩加迪沙,索马里首都
symbolic 象征的
anarchy 无政府状态,混乱
bloodshed 流血



adj.卷入的;纠缠不清的
  • He became embroiled in a dispute with his neighbours. 他与邻居们发生了争执。
  • John and Peter were quarrelling, but Mary refused to get embroiled. 约翰和彼得在争吵,但玛丽不愿卷入。 来自《简明英汉词典》
adv.第二,其次
  • Secondly,use your own head and present your point of view.第二,动脑筋提出自己的见解。
  • Secondly it is necessary to define the applied load.其次,需要确定所作用的载荷。
v.使协调,使调和( coordinate的现在分词 );协调;协同;成为同等
  • He abolished the Operations Coordinating Board and the Planning Board. 他废除了行动协调委员会和计划委员会。 来自辞典例句
  • He's coordinating the wedding, and then we're not going to invite him? 他是来协调婚礼的,难道我们不去请他? 来自电影对白
n.托管地;命令,指示
  • The President had a clear mandate to end the war.总统得到明确的授权结束那场战争。
  • The General Election gave him no such mandate.大选并未授予他这种权力。
adj.合法的,合理的,合乎逻辑的;v.使合法
  • Sickness is a legitimate reason for asking for leave.生病是请假的一个正当的理由。
  • That's a perfectly legitimate fear.怀有这种恐惧完全在情理之中。
n.合法,正当
  • The newspaper was directly challenging the government's legitimacy.报纸直接质疑政府的合法性。
  • Managing from the top down,we operate with full legitimacy.我们进行由上而下的管理有充分的合法性。
adj.象征性的,符号的,象征主义的
  • It is symbolic of the fighting spirit of modern womanhood.它象征着现代妇女的战斗精神。
  • The Christian ceremony of baptism is a symbolic act.基督教的洗礼仪式是一种象征性的做法。
v.拖,拉,拔出;adj.憔悴的,紧张的
  • All the characters in the story are drawn from life.故事中的所有人物都取材于生活。
  • Her gaze was drawn irresistibly to the scene outside.她的目光禁不住被外面的风景所吸引。
n.无政府状态;社会秩序混乱,无秩序
  • There would be anarchy if we had no police.要是没有警察,社会就会无法无天。
  • The country was thrown into a state of anarchy.这国家那时一下子陷入无政府状态。
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
学英语单词
1-nonene
airframe bearing
all bank data telecommunication system
Allegheny chinkapin
amido fast orange
Aram Eugene
astro-geodetic undulation
avener
awem
baloda bazar
Banatski Karlovac
be kept alive
beggar-thy-neighbor policy
behavior description interview (bdi)
bill birds
bolshaya atnya
cable package
callass
camera control room
Catholicised
climbing-speed
coffeecake
coupon register
Dapchi
diagnostic teaching
direct marketing by integration
dirtsider
discrimination filter
ehlens
elrage
exhibitability
fixed spherical radio telescope
foretokening
forth estate
forward signaling path
foure
glass fiber reinforced polyester sheet
gueldre
gullane
heating funnel
hillside open pit
histiocytomata
hypoplastic leukemic syndrome
Ille-et-Vilaine, Dép.de l'
infrared decoy system
intializtion applets
iron(iii) hydrogen pyrophosphate
jackrabbits
kingpost antenna
knappy
lades
landlord's lien
leptomycin
letterss
Mapiri, R.
marsh fever
microcera fujikuroi
multiband solar cell
Nono, Luigi
Nurpur
nyquist stability criterion
oldenlandiopsis callitrichoides
palatinus
pallasades
passing loop
physical system
piezoelectric charging
plain steels
platform for epsetting
poly (diphenyl ether sulfone)
Porphyrula
psychological well - being
Quaddafi
radial-flow blower
relativistic stabilized electron beam
ronfeldt
sandwicensine
Sarroca-de-Lleida
scowing
singultuss
small memory
sodium iodoacetate
Sotome
Stanislavskian
Star-shake
start data traffic
tail wheel boot
tcha
tedy
the Lost and Found
themistella fusca
Tibbett, Lawrence
tom-fool
tragedy of the commons
true to life
vagary
Walden
wastewaters
whittall
working pit edge
woythal
zoantharia