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英语课
By Margaret Besheer
Washington
15 May 2007





IAEA Board of Governors, Vienna, Austria


IAEA Board of Governors, Vienna, Austria



Despite U.N. Security Council sanctions and international demands that Iran suspend its nuclear enrichment work, diplomats 1 and international inspectors 2 say the Islamic Republic is enriching uranium on a much larger scale than before. From Washington, VOA's Margaret Besheer has more.


A published report in a leading American newspaper says inspectors from the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency visited the Iranian underground nuclear facility at Natanz Sunday and found evidence suggesting Iran may have resolved most of its technological 3 issues and has started enriching uranium on a significantly larger scale.


The report, in Tuesday's New York Times, cited top officials from the International Atomic Energy Agency. The paper says the examination was conducted with short notice, and the inspectors found Iranian engineers were already using some 1,300 centrifuges and were producing fuel that could be used in nuclear reactors 4.


A single centrifuge can only enrich a very small amount of uranium, so many are linked to form a chain, called a "cascade 5." When uranium is highly enriched, it can be used to form the explosive core of a nuclear weapon.


Andrew Grotto 6, senior national security analyst 7 at the Washington-based Center for American Progress, says about 3,000 centrifuges are needed to produce enough highly enriched uranium to make one bomb a year.


"What is still unclear is how good Iran is at running these centrifuges for a long period of time, which is ultimately what you want if your goal is to produce a reliable supply of uranium."


Grotto says centrifuge technology is very complex. "They [centrifuges] are very delicate; they are hard to work with. Iran's made a lot of progress in the last six or seven years, but they still have a way to go before they are in a position to really produce uranium on a large scale and at a reliable pace," he said.


Iran denies accusations 8 that it is seeking to secretly build nuclear weapons and says it is only pursuing nuclear energy for peaceful, civilian 9 purposes.


Next week, the International Atomic Energy Agency is to report to the Security Council on Tehran's nuclear work, which could lead to further U.N. Security Council sanctions.


U.S. State Department Spokesman Tom Casey says the fact that Iran is moving forward in defiance 10 of the international community's wishes and efforts proves the United States needs to move forward with its own policy.


"We need to continue to apply pressure, and in fact increase pressure, with an additional Security Council resolution if in fact they don't comply and don't change their mind," he said.


Security analyst Grotto says no one expects Iran to comply with Security Council demands to suspend uranium enrichment, and that a third round of sanctions are likely.


"People are already talking about the next round of sanctions. From what I hear from diplomats, the conversation is not about whether there will be a third resolution, but what the content of that resolution will be. So there will definitely be more Security Council action on Iran," he said.


But diplomatic efforts aimed at ending the nuclear standoff with Iran continue. Iranian media are reporting that European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana will hold talks on May 31 with Iran's top nuclear negotiator.




n.外交官( diplomat的名词复数 );有手腕的人,善于交际的人
  • These events led to the expulsion of senior diplomats from the country. 这些事件导致一些高级外交官被驱逐出境。
  • The court has no jurisdiction over foreign diplomats living in this country. 法院对驻本国的外交官无裁判权。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.检查员( inspector的名词复数 );(英国公共汽车或火车上的)查票员;(警察)巡官;检阅官
  • They got into the school in the guise of inspectors. 他们假装成视察员进了学校。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Inspectors checked that there was adequate ventilation. 检查员已检查过,通风良好。 来自《简明英汉词典》
adj.技术的;工艺的
  • A successful company must keep up with the pace of technological change.一家成功的公司必须得跟上技术变革的步伐。
  • Today,the pace of life is increasing with technological advancements.当今, 随着科技进步,生活节奏不断增快。
起反应的人( reactor的名词复数 ); 反应装置; 原子炉; 核反应堆
  • The TMI nuclear facility has two reactors. 三哩岛核设施有两个反应堆。 来自英汉非文学 - 环境法 - 环境法
  • The earliest production reactors necessarily used normal uranium as fuel. 最早为生产用的反应堆,必须使用普通铀作为燃料。
n.小瀑布,喷流;层叠;vi.成瀑布落下
  • She watched the magnificent waterfall cascade down the mountainside.她看着壮观的瀑布从山坡上倾泻而下。
  • Her hair fell over her shoulders in a cascade of curls.她的卷发像瀑布一样垂在肩上。
n.洞穴
  • We reached a beautiful grotto,whose entrance was almost hiden by the vine.我们到达了一个美丽的洞穴,洞的进口几乎被藤蔓遮掩著。
  • Water trickles through an underground grotto.水沿着地下岩洞流淌。
n.分析家,化验员;心理分析学家
  • What can you contribute to the position of a market analyst?你有什么技能可有助于市场分析员的职务?
  • The analyst is required to interpolate values between standards.分析人员需要在这些标准中插入一些值。
n.指责( accusation的名词复数 );指控;控告;(被告发、控告的)罪名
  • There were accusations of plagiarism. 曾有过关于剽窃的指控。
  • He remained unruffled by their accusations. 对于他们的指控他处之泰然。
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.挑战,挑衅,蔑视,违抗
  • He climbed the ladder in defiance of the warning.他无视警告爬上了那架梯子。
  • He slammed the door in a spirit of defiance.他以挑衅性的态度把门砰地一下关上。
学英语单词
abdominal discomfort
accumulator room
acetyl-number
ADPP (automatic data processing program)
African oat
air-to-air laser ranging
altiloquent
altitude angle
approximate process
aquatic grass
asterina koshunensis
automatic load-frequency control
bowling shoe
bring something under control
Buang, Pulau
built-for-purpose tools
by ambulance
by hook or crook
c.ross
Casearia glomerata
cataloging
cataput
coastlined
color-match
combined logic function
commissioner of Inland Revenue
confidential adviser-advisee relation
continuous compounding
converso
crepidotus variabilis
danse caracteris?es
de-lice
degradational
detector lamp
double blade
effective horsepower
electron image amplifier
electron jet
etching reagrnt
execution statement
expansive illusion
fingerindex
first voyage
flip-charts
forcer
frack us
give hostage to fortune
glare interference of light source
graph database
gun-firings
house-physician
in-court
inconsistency
incrustation pseudomorphosis
indic nitrate
interest burden for end-borrowers
Kinιk
lapstreak planking
liquidation profit and loss
long distance supervisory control
Mach limit altitude
macroporous silica gel
macroprolactinoma
marble-wood
Mihai Eminescu
molecular gauge
Montr.
nase
never-outs
optional length specification
Osaka-wan
osmophilia
pattern mold
performance standard zoning
permeable crib dike
photoelectric pickup
photoluminescent polymer
power system emergency control and restoration
quenching boiler
rataplans
reception diagram
rose-apple tree
ryazanov
Scale in
Sejanus, Lucius Aelius
september dawn
skellig
slit viscometer
slot and key
St Paul, C.
stage of attack
STESS
superfluousnesses
toned-down
tool setter
topic type
trachelospermums
track structure
traction transformator
us tea party
white rouge
zaldivar