时间:2019-01-31 作者:英语课 分类:2006年VOA标准英语(六月)


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By Scott Stearns
White House
14 June 2006


President Bush says he understands that the continuing detention 1 of suspected terrorists at a U.S. military base in Cuba is hurting America's image abroad, but he says it is necessary to protect the nation.  The president's comments follow the release of an international public opinion survey that shows falling support for the U.S.-led fight against terrorism.


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George Bush at White House press conference, June 14, 2006 
  


President Bush says he understands that many people are unhappy about the detention of suspected terrorists at the Guantanamo naval 2 base.


It is a prison the United Nations has asked him to close, but Mr. Bush says that would be too dangerous.


"I would like to close Guantanamo, but I also recognize that we are holding some people who are darn dangerous and we better have a plan to deal with them in our courts," said Mr. Bush.


The president says he believes those detainees should face military tribunals, but he is waiting on a decision from the Supreme 3 Court before moving forward.


Mr. Bush says eventually those prisoners will either be returned to their own countries or put on trial with legal counsel.


Saturday's apparent suicide by three Guantanamo prisoners has increased pressure on the Bush Administration to resolve the status of those detainees.


The human-rights group Amnesty International is calling for an independent investigation 4 into the deaths.  Even America's strongest ally in Iraq, Britain, has expressed concern about Guantanamo with Attorney General Peter Goldsmith calling it a symbol of injustice 5.


President Bush told White House reporters that justice will be done.


"No question Guantanamo provides an excuse, for example, to say that the United States is not upholding the values that they are trying to encourage other countries to adhere to," he added.  "And my answer to them is that we are a nation of laws and rule of law. These people have been picked up on the battlefield and are very dangerous."


International concerns about Guantanamo are reflected in a new public opinion poll taken as part of the Pew Global Attitudes Survey.


Nearly 17,000 people were interviewed last month in the United States and 14 other nations.  The results show America's image around the world slipping.


The number of people expressing a positive view of the United States during the past year declined sharply from 41 percent to 23 percent in Spain, from 71 percent to 56 percent in India, and from 23 percent to 12 percent in Turkey.


The survey says European confidence in President Bush has also fallen and majorities in most countries believe America will not achieve its objectives in Iraq.  In Japan, just more than one-quarter of respondents now favor the U.S.-led fight against terrorism, down from 61 percent four years ago.


Majorities in 10 of 14 countries say the war in Iraq has made the world a more dangerous place.



n.滞留,停留;拘留,扣留;(教育)留下
  • He was kept in detention by the police.他被警察扣留了。
  • He was in detention in connection with the bribery affair.他因与贿赂事件有牵连而被拘留了。
adj.海军的,军舰的,船的
  • He took part in a great naval battle.他参加了一次大海战。
  • The harbour is an important naval base.该港是一个重要的海军基地。
adj.极度的,最重要的;至高的,最高的
  • It was the supreme moment in his life.那是他一生中最重要的时刻。
  • He handed up the indictment to the supreme court.他把起诉书送交最高法院。
n.调查,调查研究
  • In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
  • He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。
n.非正义,不公正,不公平,侵犯(别人的)权利
  • They complained of injustice in the way they had been treated.他们抱怨受到不公平的对待。
  • All his life he has been struggling against injustice.他一生都在与不公正现象作斗争。
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AAGUS
advauncing
agenthood
antitraditionalism
apomixes
bartang r.
Beijing Geodetic Coordinate System 1954
biologic energy
blocked operation
BOL (beginning of life)
broadcast home
bunk covers
cesar chavezs
chronotron
Coast is clear
coilingly
crankum
CRW
cut-off valve
defence spending
detective time constant
dilacerating
dragon piece
Dueodde
ECLA
electriclpower station
elstein
equulites absconditus
etherising
Eurosam
external hemorrhoid
ferte
fish strainer
fishing bank
fore line
forward lead of the brushes
funds for fisheries
Greenwich mean noon
helping-hand phenomenon
Holtwood
homotaxia
hot and hot
how are you fixed for sth?
ingan
initial orders
integrated camera
interior escape stair
isolated phase bus bar
isolated sign
Jovian magnetopause
klammers
La Gloria
Latimeridae
leprosied
leukorrheal diseases
liriodendra
Lithcarb atmosphere
logging depot
love-egg
mariner project
Minalpha
mother wart
Mountain Lakes
NOC (network operation center)
nondimensional
number of magnetic flux inter linkage
oilnut
optical shutter
papaveraceous
Payong, Bukit
photoelectrical refrigeration
polyformate
prescribed value
pressure-main
printed substrate
psychiatric drugs
radioiodinated steroid
random schedule
red-lead putty
ridged beach plain
Rose-cold
semidarkened
silktails
single-particles
sound post
strobe memory
study-time
swastikas
tallow-tree
tallowing
the-writings
Tongoy
trans-regulator
trolley-jib tower crane
unmediatized
vitellogenins
water tight sluice door
welfare building
wet calender stack
window film
wine-based
working principle diagram