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By Cynthia Kirk


Broadcast: October 25, 2003


This is Steve Ember with In the News, from VOA Special English.
President Bush has returned to Washington after visits to six Asian countries. He met this week with leaders in Japan, the Philippines, Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia and Australia. They discussed ways to strengthen security and trade ties.
On Thursday, Mister Bush spoke 1 to the Australian 1)Parliament in Canberra. He defended the United States' decision to go to war in Iraq. Mister Bush praised Australian Prime Minister John Howard for sending two-thousand troops to Iraq. He also defended the continued holding of two Australians 2)captured during fighting in Afghanistan. They are held at the American prison in Guantanamo, Cuba.
Prime Minister Howard said Australia is a nation divided on the war in Iraq. In parliament this week, forty-one opposition 2 lawmakers signed a letter criticizing President Bush's decision to go to war. They said no clear and present danger existed.
Mister Bush traveled to Australia after a brief stop on the Indonesian island of Bali. Indonesia has the world's largest Muslim population. Mister Bush said President Megawati Sukarnoputri has taken effective steps against 3)terrorism. He promised more than one-hundred-fifty million dollars to support education programs as part of the fight against religious 4)extremism.
Bombings on the island of Bali a year ago killed more than two-hundred people, ninety of them Australian. The Jemaah Islamiyah group in Indonesia is held responsible. That group is linked to the al Qaeda terrorist network.
Mister Bush also met with moderate Indonesian Islamic leaders to answer criticism of American foreign policy in the Middle East. They said it is directed toward Israel. Mister Bush told them it is directed toward peace. He noted 3 he is the first American president to support an independent Palestinian state.
During his stop in Singapore, Mister Bush urged that country to use its financial influence to help strengthen other Asian countries. In the Philippines he promised to help the army modernize 4. In Tokyo, Mister Bush urged Japan to halt efforts to weaken the Japanese yen 5.
And, in Bangkok, the president attended a two-day meeting of APEC, the Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation group. The United States and the twenty other APEC members agreed on ways to speed the war against terrorism.
They also called for the renewal 6 of world trade talks that ended without agreement in Cancun, Mexico. And they agreed to work to restart talks about ending North Korea's nuclear weapons program.
Mister Bush faced protests in several countries. There was anger about the decision to go to war in Iraq. On his way back to Washington, the president met with Pacific island leaders in Hawaii. He also raised money for his re-election campaign.
In the News, from VOA Special English, was written by Cynthia Kirk. This is Steve Ember.


注释:
1) parliament [ 5pB:lEmEnt ] n.国会, 议会
2) capture [ 5kAptFE ] n.俘虏
3) terrorism [5terErIz(E)m] n.恐怖主义, 恐怖行动
4) extremism [ iks5tri:mizEm ] n.过激主义, 极端论



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.反对,敌对
  • The party leader is facing opposition in his own backyard.该党领袖在自己的党內遇到了反对。
  • The police tried to break down the prisoner's opposition.警察设法制住了那个囚犯的反抗。
adj.著名的,知名的
  • The local hotel is noted for its good table.当地的那家酒店以餐食精美而著称。
  • Jim is noted for arriving late for work.吉姆上班迟到出了名。
vt.使现代化,使适应现代的需要
  • It was their manifest failure to modernize the country's industries.他们使国家进行工业现代化,明显失败了。
  • There is a pressing need to modernise our electoral system.我们的选举制度迫切需要现代化。
n. 日元;热望
  • He wanted to convert his dollars into Japanese yen.他想将美元换成日币。
  • He has a yen to be alone in a boat.他渴望独自呆在一条船上。
adj.(契约)延期,续订,更新,复活,重来
  • Her contract is coming up for renewal in the autumn.她的合同秋天就应该续签了。
  • Easter eggs symbolize the renewal of life.复活蛋象征新生。
学英语单词
abbeyhills
access mask register
al-midhar
alternate angles
an infant in arms
angoleses
artificial alimentation
at war
Auchencorth Moss
balance-of-payment
baton rompu
bendazac
BIET
Bohol Sea
Bolbec
Brown Act.
carpometacarpal
chamiso
chief checker
chinese mushrooms
collaborative product commerce
column constraint
conus coronatus
cortex pseudolaricis
da Vinci, Leonardo
distance signal
distensibility
double colonization
earth leakage circuit breaker
electromagnetic recorder
Euro rate
excessive displacement
extraction mark
Faslodex
Fifie
flat-rate system
frees
Gazelle Pen.
genus Cymbidium
group starter
Guy Fawkes Night
hairline
heat evil
hegemonicon
hemipharyngectomy
hewin
in a good cause
inquire out
intratympanic
investment decision economics
iron boride
jaguars
Jewish holy day
joint cargo system
lateral reactivity
logically cohesive module
low five
maximum service rating
metagreywacke
Miały
mistake
moll-buzz
moral imperatives
musculi thoracis
neutralizing zone
nicotine-lime dust
nozzle inclination
par-four
passivisable
payment in international trade
photon excited X-ray fluorescence analysis
plate flow sheet
precedings
primary microhardness standard machine
ramus ophthalmicus infer. n. trigem.
recovery period of added investment
reinforcing action
reshuffling
reversible cell
salaries tax payer
sated
scardace
scrap briquetting
scribe coating
separate thrust collar
sequential selection
shallow-brained
smoothness of operation
styloideum
suppressed carrier
tempi
The United Nations Packaging Symbol
topology console
tramazoline
two-man concept
unharrowed
unpunched paper tape
vicinal rule
voting-methods
whip-tail
Wintocaine
Woodward-Hoffmann rule