VOA标准英语2013--俄罗斯关切格鲁吉亚总统大选
时间：2019-02-01 作者：英语课 分类：VOA常速英语2013年(八月)
Russia Concerned Over Georgia's Presidential Election 俄罗斯关切格鲁吉亚总统大选
TBILISI — Before Russia fought a shooting war with Georgia, it fought a trade war with its small neighbor.
First, Russia lifted a 7-year-old ban on Georgian wine - and wine bottles started flowing north this year to Moscow.
Next, Russia re-opened its borders to Georgian mineral water.
Here is Gennady Onishchenko, Russia’s chief sanitary 1 inspector 2, welcoming Georgian wine:
But, on Friday, trade normalization 3 between Russia and Georgia hit a big "road bump."
Onishchenko said he would not lift Russia's embargo 4 on Georgian fruits and vegetables.
He repeated charges that a “secret” U.S.-funded laboratory outside Tbilisi Airport is behind the African swine fever epidemic 5 that is spreading 2,000 kilometers to the north, in European Russia.
Earlier, Georgian officials showed VOA around their new laboratory complex, the Richard G. Lugar Center for Public Health Research.
Owned by Georgia’s National Center for Disease Control, the lab tracks polio, measles 6 and other infectious diseases.
Adam Kotorashvili came home to Georgia from the United States to run the lab’s Genome Center.
“This machine is unique for Georgia and the whole region. Before if you wanted to sequence something you had to send sample to the United States or in West Europe somewhere. And now you don't need to do that. You can just bring the DNAs here and then we can sequence it," said Kotorashvili.
General Director Amiran Gamkrelidze rejects the accusations 7 coming from Moscow.
“We have no secrets here. We are not doing anything connected with biological weapons," said Gamkrelidze.
The director, who studied in Moscow in the 1980s, then invited Russia’s chief sanitary inspector to fly down to Tbilisi and tour the lab.
Indeed, politics - not science - may be behind the trade fight.
Two months from now, Georgians vote for a new president.
Mikheil Saakashvili, who tangled 8 with Moscow for almost a decade, steps down due to term limits.
From Moscow, Chris Weafer analyzes 9 the Kremlin’s strategy:
“The message could not be clearer: if you elect a different president with a more friendly stance to Russia, then these economic problems will disappear. If you elect somebody that maintains this belligerent 10 attitude toward Russia, then economic ties will deteriorate," said Weafer.
Meanwhile, out of the spotlight 11, the same Russian food safety agency that banned Georgian fruits and vegetables back in 2006, quietly sent its inspectors 12 back to Georgia in August.
- It's not sanitary to let flies come near food.让苍蝇接近食物是不卫生的。
- The sanitary conditions in this restaurant are abominable.这家饭馆的卫生状况糟透了。
- The inspector was interested in everything pertaining to the school.视察员对有关学校的一切都感兴趣。
- The inspector was shining a flashlight onto the tickets.查票员打着手电筒查看车票。
- The visit signalled the normalization of relations between the two countries.这次访问显示两国关系已经正常化。
- He was pleased to the normalization of relationship between the police and the people.他很高兴警方和人民之间关系的正常化。
- This country put an oil embargo on an enemy country.该国对敌国实行石油禁运。
- During the war,they laid an embargo on commerce with enemy countries.在战争期间，他们禁止与敌国通商。
- That kind of epidemic disease has long been stamped out.那种传染病早已绝迹。
- The authorities tried to localise the epidemic.当局试图把流行病限制在局部范围。
- The doctor is quite definite about Tom having measles.医生十分肯定汤姆得了麻疹。
- The doctor told her to watch out for symptoms of measles.医生叫她注意麻疹出现的症状。
- 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。
- This approach analyzes management by studying experience usually through cases. 这个学派通常从实例获得经验，用以分析管理。 来自辞典例句
- The econometrician analyzes statistical data. 经济计量学者要分析统计材料。 来自辞典例句
- He had a belligerent aspect.他有种好斗的神色。
- Our government has forbidden exporting the petroleum to the belligerent countries.我们政府已经禁止向交战国输出石油。
- This week the spotlight is on the world of fashion.本周引人瞩目的是时装界。
- The spotlight followed her round the stage.聚光灯的光圈随着她在舞台上转。
- 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》