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英语课
By Scott Stearns
Rostock, Germany
07 June 2007
 


Russian President Vladimir Putin wants to use a Soviet-built radar 1 base in Azerbaijan as part of a U.S. plan for a missile defense 2 system in Europe. VOA White House Correspondent Scott Stearns reports, the Russian leader had previously 3 characterized the U.S. plan as the start of a new arms race.






President Bush, (l), shakes hands with Russian President Vladimir Putin after their meeting in Heiligendamm, Germany, 07 Jun 2007


President Bush, (l), shakes hands with Russian President Vladimir Putin after their meeting in Heiligendamm, Germany, 07 Jun 2007




 


 


After weeks of increasingly harsh rhetoric 4 from the Russian leader, President Putin made a surprise proposal to join the missile defense plan, offering a Soviet-built radar station in Azerbaijan to help protect against rogue 5 missiles.


President Putin said he discussed the idea with the president of Azerbaijan Wednesday before making the offer to President Bush.


"The existing agreement with Azerbaijan makes it possible for us to do this. And the president of Azerbaijan stressed that he will be only too glad to contribute to the cause of global security and stability," Putin said.


President Putin spoke 6 following talks with U.S. President George Bush on the sidelines of the G8 summit in Germany.


President Bush said using the Soviet-era base is an interesting idea, and both men committed to having their respective secretaries of state and defense meet to discuss the details.


The U.S. plan calls for building a radar base in the Czech Republic and installing interceptor missiles in Poland to guard against attacks from missiles from Iran.


U.S. National Security Adviser 7 Steve Hadley says President Putin offered the Azerbaijani radar as part of the plan that would feed data in real-time to the United States and European allies.


President Putin said if that proposal is accepted, he will not follow through on threats to retarget Russian missiles against European sites in retaliation 8 for the U.S. missile plan.


The Russian leader says he and the American president have an understanding about common threats but differ about how to best overcome them.


"I think that if we work together to overcome the threats we are discussing today, and if we take into account the concerns of each other, if we make this work transparent 9 and if we provide for an equal access to the management of this system, then we will have no problems," he said.


It was an unexpected outcome to a highly anticipated meeting between the men as the Russian leader had grown increasingly adamant 10 about opposing a plan that he said was upsetting the global balance of power.


President Bush says President Putin made clear his concerns about missile defense.


"As a result of these conversations, I expect there to be better understanding of the technologies involved and the opportunities to work together," he said.


President Bush said he looks forward to continuing those talks with President Putin at the Bush family compound in Maine early next month.


The G8 members are Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia and the United States. Leaders from China, India, Brazil, Mexico and a number of African countries also are attending the summit.




n.雷达,无线电探测器
  • They are following the flight of an aircraft by radar.他们正在用雷达追踪一架飞机的飞行。
  • Enemy ships were detected on the radar.敌舰的影像已显现在雷达上。
n.防御,保卫;[pl.]防务工事;辩护,答辩
  • The accused has the right to defense.被告人有权获得辩护。
  • The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers.战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。
adv.以前,先前(地)
  • The bicycle tyre blew out at a previously damaged point.自行车胎在以前损坏过的地方又爆开了。
  • Let me digress for a moment and explain what had happened previously.让我岔开一会儿,解释原先发生了什么。
n.修辞学,浮夸之言语
  • Do you know something about rhetoric?你懂点修辞学吗?
  • Behind all the rhetoric,his relations with the army are dangerously poised.在冠冕堂皇的言辞背后,他和军队的关系岌岌可危。
n.流氓;v.游手好闲
  • The little rogue had his grandpa's glasses on.这淘气鬼带上了他祖父的眼镜。
  • They defined him as a rogue.他们确定他为骗子。
n.(车轮的)辐条;轮辐;破坏某人的计划;阻挠某人的行动 v.讲,谈(speak的过去式);说;演说;从某种观点来说
  • They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
  • The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。
n.劝告者,顾问
  • They employed me as an adviser.他们聘请我当顾问。
  • Our department has engaged a foreign teacher as phonetic adviser.我们系已经聘请了一位外籍老师作为语音顾问。
n.报复,反击
  • retaliation against UN workers 对联合国工作人员的报复
  • He never said a single word in retaliation. 他从未说过一句反击的话。 来自《简明英汉词典》
adj.明显的,无疑的;透明的
  • The water is so transparent that we can see the fishes swimming.水清澈透明,可以看到鱼儿游来游去。
  • The window glass is transparent.窗玻璃是透明的。
adj.坚硬的,固执的
  • We are adamant on the building of a well-off society.在建设小康社会这一点上,我们是坚定不移的。
  • Veronica was quite adamant that they should stay on.维罗妮卡坚信他们必须继续留下去。
学英语单词
a knight of the pen
absurdism
accidental count
afternoon session
alkylsulfuric ester
AntonellodaMessina
asked quotation
balloon-borne laser radar
basic module
biotoxicology
Blangy-sur-Bresle
cast ridicule on
catalogers
cathode melting furnace
ceroplast
chemical vapor deposition (cvd)
Chinese Pharmaceutical Association
chromatic scales
claim arising from a breach of the contract
cognitive saturation
connected load factor
constant absolute vorticity trajectory (cavt)
crocheted
dendrodont
depokenes
electrode feeder
emulatable
Engler viscometer of petroleum products
enterer
excretion disease
exhaust-gas purifier
fasting
field direct shear test
freedom of immigration
Friedman test
fugitive disentitlement
genus Macrotyloma
gigaliter
gluten washer
grand base level
grate feed conveyor
hernan
holycrap
hot customer
immediate manoeuvre
kekune oil
kenogeneses
Kuortane
leading edge locus
liquid light pelpolatum
lower side wall
LS cell
lycopodiums
Mansonella ozzardi
maximum royalties
meteorological instrumentation
multiform glioblastoma
navarea warning bulletin
Noerr Pennington doctrine
nondegenerate system
not breathe a syllable
nova rat leukemia
nrao
o.a.r.s
optimum level
pale beside
Picus
plug in interface card
Poisson's ratio correction
precells
query cache
radionuclide contamination
radwaste sump pump
revelation principle
RLLNR
rough slope
SBLI
schubertiades
sleazy
Smedley
so what
soil resistance finsihing
soxhlet(extraction) method
spatial arrangement
start-up condition
statement rearrangement
SUMIF
sussy
symbol manipulation system
taliq
Tamahaq
tectonic unconformity
temporary folder
tooltip
top-coat
two-parameter adaptive control system
ulcerative gingivitis
Undilution
weapon system software development
well-branched
yifter
zendor