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英语课
By Paula Wolfson
Washington
17 December 2007


President Bush says now that Iran has received an initial shipment of nuclear fuel for its Bushehr power plant from Russia, there is no need for Tehran to enrich uranium. VOA White House Correspondent Paula Wolfson has details.


President Bush says he has no objections to the nuclear fuel shipment from Russia. He says it is part of an effort designed to get Iran to suspend uranium enrichment - a process that could ultimately provide Tehran with the materials and know-how 1 to build a nuclear weapon.


"If the Russians are willing to do that, which I support, then the Iranians do not need to learn how to enrich. If the Iranians accept that uranium for a civilian 2 nuclear power plant, then there is no need for them to learn how to enrich."


Russia's foreign ministry 3 has also called for Iran to halt enrichment. In a written statement, the ministry said Moscow believes new conditions have been created that it said would enable Tehran to meet western demands to stop its uranium enrichment program.


Iran has long maintained it has the right to enrich uranium as part of a civilian nuclear-energy program. And top officials in Iran have indicated they are not willing to stop, even with the delivery of Russian fuel.


President Bush says the stand taken by their government is hurting the Iranian people. "They are heading down a path of isolation 4 right now and economic sanctions. We have passed two resolutions out of the U.N. and (US Secretary of State) Condoleezza Rice is working on a third," he said.


But efforts to win support for additional U.N. sanctions may have suffered a setback 5 with the recent release of a U.S. intelligence assessment 6 of Iran's nuclear capabilities 7 and intentions.


The report said Iran halted work on a nuclear weapons program in 2003 and as of mid-2007 had not restarted it.


President Bush says the intelligence assessment proves the Iranian government cannot be trusted. He says it shows Tehran remains 8 a danger because it conducted a nuclear weapons program in secret and can reactivate it at any time.


"What is to say they could not start it up tomorrow? Since they tried to hide their program before, how would we know? And so my point on the Iranian issue is this: they owe an explanation to the world ... they need to tell the world why they had a program that they did not report," he said.


The president spoke 9 during an appearance before community groups in Fredericksburg, Virginia.


Although his formal remarks dealt almost exclusively with economic issues, he was asked about Iran and other matters during a question and answer session with his audience.


On the economy, the president once again sought to reassure 10 the public that the nation's economic health is sound, despite recent turmoil 11 in the housing and credit markets. He said, once again, that the underpinnings of the economy are good.




n.知识;技术;诀窍
  • He hasn't got the know-how to run a farm.他没有经营农场的专业知识。
  • I don't have much know-how about engines.发动机方面的技术知识我知之甚少。
adj.平民的,民用的,民众的
  • There is no reliable information about civilian casualties.关于平民的伤亡还没有确凿的信息。
  • He resigned his commission to take up a civilian job.他辞去军职而从事平民工作。
n.(政府的)部;牧师
  • They sent a deputation to the ministry to complain.他们派了一个代表团到部里投诉。
  • We probed the Air Ministry statements.我们调查了空军部的记录。
n.隔离,孤立,分解,分离
  • The millionaire lived in complete isolation from the outside world.这位富翁过着与世隔绝的生活。
  • He retired and lived in relative isolation.他退休后,生活比较孤寂。
n.退步,挫折,挫败
  • Since that time there has never been any setback in his career.从那时起他在事业上一直没有遇到周折。
  • She views every minor setback as a disaster.她把每个较小的挫折都看成重大灾难。
n.评价;评估;对财产的估价,被估定的金额
  • This is a very perceptive assessment of the situation.这是一个对该情况的极富洞察力的评价。
  • What is your assessment of the situation?你对时局的看法如何?
n.能力( capability的名词复数 );可能;容量;[复数]潜在能力
  • He was somewhat pompous and had a high opinion of his own capabilities. 他有点自大,自视甚高。 来自辞典例句
  • Some programmers use tabs to break complex product capabilities into smaller chunks. 一些程序员认为,标签可以将复杂的功能分为每个窗格一组简单的功能。 来自About Face 3交互设计精髓
n.剩余物,残留物;遗体,遗迹
  • He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
  • The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。
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。
v.使放心,使消除疑虑
  • This seemed to reassure him and he continued more confidently.这似乎使他放心一点,于是他更有信心地继续说了下去。
  • The airline tried to reassure the customers that the planes were safe.航空公司尽力让乘客相信飞机是安全的。
n.骚乱,混乱,动乱
  • His mind was in such a turmoil that he couldn't get to sleep.内心的纷扰使他无法入睡。
  • The robbery put the village in a turmoil.抢劫使全村陷入混乱。
学英语单词
AC asynchronous motor
acuson
airex
amphidiploidies
be sporty
boil-eddy
bounce up and down
bromine pentachloride
bruschettas
built in gauge
carnavals
cinchonidine tannate
coating additive
COCOMO - Constructive Cost Model
coke quenching machine
Commonwealth of Australia
conelike
constant
contemptful
continuous rigid frame bridge
Cyworld
dimethyl thioether
eludes
flue grouping
four examinations
franchement
fricke dose meter
fuck truck
generic formal parameter
go-juice
green peak
grey teals
haematemeses
hammered glass
hard grease
hard twist thread
heavy concentrate
hiccoughings
high-rise manifold
hollow profile
illegal goods
image lag
inductive coded disc
insurance group
integrated propulsion and lift system
Julianehåb
Kleinspitze
kowhai
lavadero
leg row boat
light oil store
load pressure feedback
Lobeliaceae
long - term planning
lube oil packaging
major smuggler
merrillite
Moberly Lake
naturally radioactive nucleus
not give two hoots
nurse balloon
ous-
painful tubercles
Pan-Europeanism
paradisaic
paredrinol
patashnick
peak-lopping station
penfriend
periodontium hypertrophy
pixel order
premature puberty
price level gains and losses
proof-strength
pseudo-starting point
reconstituted veneer
Reinartz crystal oscillator
reliability of forecast
rescure
River Cam
Scorpionidea
sediment sample
sheer lawn
shenzong
skimped
SQL
strabile
Stratiomyidae
sub warhead
suffixoids
sweat it out
tank breather pipe
tently
There's no love lost between them.
Thoma-Zeiss counting cell
tonnage regulations
tricot knitting
undercanvas
unease
usbekite
vastus intermedius muscle
Wadjiri