2006年VOA标准英语-Lawmakers Offer Conflicting Assessments on Iraq
时间：2019-01-31 作者：英语课 分类：2006年VOA标准英语（七月）
By Dan Robinson
Capitol Hill
11 July 2006
Republicans and Democrats 1 in Congress continue to put forward conflicting assessments 3 of the situation in Iraq. Lawmakers also considered a new report from the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office regarding reconstruction 4 and other efforts.
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Just back from their latest trip to Iraq, two Democratic senators used a news conference to underscore their view that the situation in Iraq is not improving.
Senator Jack 5 Reed
Pointing to what he calls the primitive 6 capacity of Iraqi government ministries 7 to deliver essential services and security, Senator Jack Reed gives this assessment 2:
"Reality has disabused 8 all but the most ideologically 9 obsessed 10 that our presence in Iraq would be non-contentious and that Iraq can be transformed spontaneously into an oasis 11 of democracy and market economics which will, in turn, transform the region," said Jack Reed.
Senator Reed sites what he calls lagging training of Iraqi police and security forces, and slow progress in disbanding militias 13.
While impressed by the commitment of U.S. troops, Senator Joseph Biden says the success of their mission remains 14 as he puts it, a prisoner to terrible and growing violence.
He echoes Senator Reed's observations, and reiterates 15 concerns about the need for a political solution among Iraqis to end violence:
"In the absence of a political solution, Sunni insurgents 16 are not going to stand down and the Shia militia 12 violence won't stop," said Joseph Biden. "We have to cut this Gordian knot [difficult problem]. The Shia-led government has to take significant steps to bring the Sunnis in, and they have to move against the Shia militia and guarantee the Sunnis a share of the oil revenue. I know of no other way [that] you get from here to there.
House Majority Leader John Boehner told reporters Tuesday that while there are concerns about increasing violence, there is also optimism.
However, officials of the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) testified to a congressional panel about a new report outlining key shortcomings hampering 17 efforts to stabilize 18 and rebuild Iraq.
GAO criticisms include inadequate 19 U.S. planning and accountability in Iraq, along with waste, abuse and mismanagement in U.S. contracting.
David Walker of the GAO summarizes one key point regarding the Bush administration's National Strategy for Victory in Iraq:
"It does not fully 20 address how U.S. goals and objectives will be integrated with those of the Iraqi government and the overall international community, nor does it detail the Iraqi government's anticipated contribution to its future security and reconstruction needs," said David Walker.
Republican Congressman 21 Christopher Shays says that while there have been mistakes, progress is being made.
"We made mistakes in our efforts to secure and rebuild the country," he said. "But we are correcting those mistakes and progress is being made. Yes, the task is difficult but that only reinforces the need to closely examine our roadmap for success."
Among other things, GAO official Walker told lawmakers Iraq will require continuing U.S. support in repairing its oil infrastructure 22 if there is to be any hope for oil revenues supporting reconstruction.
- The Democrats held a pep rally on Capitol Hill yesterday. 民主党昨天在国会山召开了竞选誓师大会。
- The democrats organize a filibuster in the senate. 民主党党员组织了阻挠议事。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- 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？
- He was shrewd in his personal assessments. 他总能对人作出精明的评价。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Surveys show about two-thirds use such assessments, while half employ personality tests. 调查表明，约有三分之二的公司采用了这种测评；而一半的公司则采用工作人员个人品质测试。 来自百科语句
- The country faces a huge task of national reconstruction following the war.战后，该国面临着重建家园的艰巨任务。
- In the period of reconstruction,technique decides everything.在重建时期，技术决定一切。
- I am looking for the headphone jack.我正在找寻头戴式耳机插孔。
- He lifted the car with a jack to change the flat tyre.他用千斤顶把车顶起来换下瘪轮胎。
- It is a primitive instinct to flee a place of danger.逃离危险的地方是一种原始本能。
- His book describes the march of the civilization of a primitive society.他的著作描述了一个原始社会的开化过程。
- Local authorities must refer everything to the central ministries. 地方管理机构应请示中央主管部门。
- The number of Ministries has been pared down by a third. 部委的数量已经减少了1/3。
- Ideologically, they have many differences. 在思想意识上，他们之间有许多不同之处。
- He has slipped back ideologically. 他思想退步了。
- He's obsessed by computers. 他迷上了电脑。
- The fear of death obsessed him throughout his old life. 他晚年一直受着死亡恐惧的困扰。
- They stopped for the night at an oasis.他们在沙漠中的绿洲停下来过夜。
- The town was an oasis of prosperity in a desert of poverty.该镇是贫穷荒漠中的一块繁荣的“绿洲”。
- First came the PLA men,then the people's militia.人民解放军走在前面，其次是民兵。
- There's a building guarded by the local militia at the corner of the street.街道拐角处有一幢由当地民兵团守卫的大楼。
- The troops will not attempt to disarm the warring militias. 部队并不打算解除战斗中的民兵武装。 来自辞典例句
- The neighborhood was a battleground for Shiite and Sunni militias. 那里曾是什叶派和逊尼派武装分子的战场。 来自互联网
- 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。
- The Chinese government reiterates that the question of Taiwan is China's internal affair. 中国政府重申，台湾问题是中国的内政。 来自汉英非文学 - 汉英文件
- Wang Jianzhou reiterates a fact and a viewpoint in Davos. 王建宙在达沃斯重申一个事实和一个观点。
- The regular troops of Baden joined the insurgents. 巴登的正规军参加到起义军方面来了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Against the Taliban and Iraqi insurgents, these problems are manageable. 要对付塔利班与伊拉克叛乱分子，这些问题还是可以把握住的。 来自互联网
- So fraud on cows and development aid is seriously hampering growth. 因此在牛问题上和发展补助上的诈骗严重阻碍了发展。
- Short-termism, carbon-trading, disputing the science-are hampering the implementation of direct economically-led objectives. 短效主义，出售二氧化碳，进行科学辩论，这些都不利于实现以经济为主导的直接目标。
- They are eager to stabilize currencies.他们急于稳定货币。
- His blood pressure tended to stabilize.他的血压趋向稳定。
- The supply is inadequate to meet the demand.供不应求。
- She was inadequate to the demands that were made on her.她还无力满足对她提出的各项要求。
- The doctor asked me to breathe in,then to breathe out fully.医生让我先吸气，然后全部呼出。
- They soon became fully integrated into the local community.他们很快就完全融入了当地人的圈子。
- He related several anecdotes about his first years as a congressman.他讲述自己初任议员那几年的几则轶事。
- The congressman is meditating a reply to his critics.这位国会议员正在考虑给他的批评者一个答复。
- We should step up the development of infrastructure for research.加强科学基础设施建设。
- We should strengthen cultural infrastructure and boost various types of popular culture.加强文化基础设施建设，发展各类群众文化。