时间:2019-01-27 作者:英语课 分类:2007年VOA标准英语(八月)


英语课
By Phuong Tran
Dakar
17 August 2007

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is urging the U.N. Security Council to approve a new peacekeeping force for the volatile 1 border region between Chad and Central African Republic. The newly revised proposal would address the concerns of Chadian President Idriss Deby, who opposed Mr. Ban's original proposal for deployment 3 of a U.N. military force. Phuong Tran brings us this report from VOA's West African Bureau in Dakar.


Under the new proposal, a unit of Chad's police force would maintain law and order in refugee camps, key towns and areas that have large numbers of displaced civilians 4 in eastern Chad.


U.N. staff would mostly offer support from the capital, N'Djamena, rather than be posted on the ground in eastern Chad.


The European Union would provide military forces, most likely to come from France, to serve with Chad forces on the border, for a period of at least one year.


Chad originally had rejected having U.N. peacekeepers on the border, saying it preferred to have its own security forces watch over the camps. But last month, President Idriss Deby agreed to an EU peacekeeping force.


Mr. Ban said the main cause of insecurity is not clashes between government troops and rebel forces, which have occurred only sporadically 5 in recent months, but "widespread criminality and banditry and an associated breakdown 6 in law and order."


 


The U.N.'s top official in Chad, Kingsley Amaning, says while leaders negotiate, the security of about 400,000 refugees and displaced persons living in Chad's poorly guarded camps suffer.


"What is important for us is that at least there is restoration of state protection," he said. "The state has becoming increasingly weak because of its military operations. Its focus has been diverted from state to regime protection. It is important for the international community to strengthen the capacity of the state to protect its citizens."


Humanitarian 7 workers in eastern Chad report on-going inter-ethnic violence, even during heavy rains that usually halt fighting.


Amaning says the European Union is expected to send a delegation 8 next week to Chad to decide whether it will deploy 2, how many troops, and which countries would participate.


He says the United Nations cannot move forward without this EU decision.


The U.N. and African Union are hoping to get all the rebel groups in Darfur and the Sudanese government to the peace table in September to try to end the four-year conflict that has claimed over 200,000 lives and uprooted 9 2.5 million people.




adj.反复无常的,挥发性的,稍纵即逝的,脾气火爆的;n.挥发性物质
  • With the markets being so volatile,investments are at great risk.由于市场那么变化不定,投资冒着很大的风险。
  • His character was weak and volatile.他这个人意志薄弱,喜怒无常。
v.(军)散开成战斗队形,布置,展开
  • The infantry began to deploy at dawn.步兵黎明时开始进入战斗位置。
  • The president said he had no intention of deploying ground troops.总统称并不打算部署地面部队。
n. 部署,展开
  • He has inquired out the deployment of the enemy troops. 他已查出敌军的兵力部署情况。
  • Quality function deployment (QFD) is a widely used customer-driven quality, design and manufacturing management tool. 质量功能展开(quality function deployment,QFD)是一个广泛应用的顾客需求驱动的设计、制造和质量管理工具。
平民,百姓( civilian的名词复数 ); 老百姓
  • the bloody massacre of innocent civilians 对无辜平民的血腥屠杀
  • At least 300 civilians are unaccounted for after the bombing raids. 遭轰炸袭击之后,至少有300名平民下落不明。
adv.偶发地,零星地
  • There are some trees sporadically around his house. 他的房子周围零星地有点树木。 来自辞典例句
  • As for other aspects, we will sporadically hand out questionnaires. 在其他方面,我们会偶尔发送调查问卷。 来自互联网
n.垮,衰竭;损坏,故障,倒塌
  • She suffered a nervous breakdown.她患神经衰弱。
  • The plane had a breakdown in the air,but it was fortunately removed by the ace pilot.飞机在空中发生了故障,但幸运的是被王牌驾驶员排除了。
n.人道主义者,博爱者,基督凡人论者
  • She has many humanitarian interests and contributes a lot to them.她拥有很多慈善事业,并作了很大的贡献。
  • The British government has now suspended humanitarian aid to the area.英国政府现已暂停对这一地区的人道主义援助。
n.代表团;派遣
  • The statement of our delegation was singularly appropriate to the occasion.我们代表团的声明非常适合时宜。
  • We shall inform you of the date of the delegation's arrival.我们将把代表团到达的日期通知你。
v.把(某物)连根拔起( uproot的过去式和过去分词 );根除;赶走;把…赶出家园
  • Many people were uprooted from their homes by the flood. 水灾令许多人背井离乡。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The hurricane blew with such force that trees were uprooted. 飓风强烈地刮着,树都被连根拔起了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
学英语单词
alas and alack
american hackberries
ATAF
atrial synchronized pacemaker
be incident to
Biocortar
blink speed
boats
bottle cap
boy-meets-girl
broad-gauge
carbonite-gneiss
censure
Cepovan
charger feeder
Cliff, Loch of
come in contact with
concur with
contract of brokerage
cool hunting
cross off an account
cucinas
culex (culex) whitei
Deut
directional drilling
discharge abstract
doctrine of supremacy of law
domesticized
emanated from
EOF, eof
ex-core
exa-joule
fish mouth toe close
flangeless tyre
four-packs
god-bairn
gone home
graduation dial
group-specific
half round bar steel
hand fettle
hargraves
histamine phophate
hydraulic power capsule
inmarsat (international maritime satellite)
irreducible continuum
kasten
ludmilla
machine time allowance
maoecrystal
methylphenylalanine
mitochondrial inner membrane
molinelli
N.A.n.a.
national information center for education
non-ira
non-sliding vane pump
nonagnostic
not somebody's scene
nutritional hypochromic anemia
ophiolepidinae
outharbors
overflourished
overwhelm with
oxidation system of microsome
Pardo, Embalse del
pastinate
pneumatic logic elements
polybiuss
prashad
propulsive jet
pyruvic acid-enol-phosphate
qi-hernia
quercus kelloggiis
Radio determination.
receive register
reference sound pressure
regenauto
rehem
repeater configuration
rescigno
reversing plasma arc welding process
rhyme scheme
scabrida
self-forgivenesses
shamanists
sipster
small-barrel
spiceries
stench-trap
supramembrane
technology transformation
terrestrial hydrology
Tetranium
TFAI
to fire a transition
to load material
tropical wood
turn-by-turn directions
vacuum thawing
vital organs
vitiating