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英语课
12 December 2007

Vietnam has released three of the four Vietnamese-born United States citizens it arrested in November and accused of involvement in terrorism. The release comes a day after the U.S. ambassador criticized the detentions 1. Matt Steinglass reports from Hanoi.


Vietnamese television reported Wednesday morning that Leon Truong had left Vietnam, bound for his home in the United States. Truong had been arrested in Ho Chi Minh City November 17 with five other activists 2 from the Viet Tan party, a U.S.-based pro-democracy group.


Also released were Le Van Phan and his wife Nguyen Thi Thinh, arrested at Ho Chi Minh City's airport November 23 after a gun was allegedly found in their luggage. They were scheduled to return to the U.S. today.


The U.S. Embassy in Hanoi said Wednesday it welcomed the releases.


In a press conference Tuesday, U.S. Ambassador Michael Michalak had said that if the Americans were not released, the U.S. would protest.


Michalak expressed the view that the U.S. citizens had been detained for peaceful political activism, and questioned Vietnam's terrorism allegations.


"Vietnam has said that Viet Tan is on their list of terrorist organizations. Viet Tan is not on any list that I know of, of American terrorist organizations," he said.


One American Viet Tan member, Quoc Quan Nguyen, has not been released.


Vietnamese officials say, and a U.S. Embassy official acknowledged, that Nguyen had entered Vietnam using a forged Cambodian passport, complicating 4 the charges against him.


The release of Phan and Thinh leaves unsolved the question of the gun they are alleged 3 to have imported into Vietnam. Vietnamese press reports say the couple confessed to carrying the gun, but Michalak said Thinh had denied the charge.


The United States enjoys increasingly warm relations with Vietnam, and has been seeking Vietnamese cooperation on counter-terrorism efforts and on efforts to halt nuclear proliferation.




拘留( detention的名词复数 ); 扣押; 监禁; 放学后留校
  • Teachers may assign detention tasks as they wish and some detentions have been actually dangerous. 老师可能随心所欲指派关禁闭的形式,有些禁闭事实上很危险。
  • Intimidation, beatings and administrative detentions are often enough to prevent them from trying again. 恐吓,拷打和行政拘留足以阻止请愿者二次进京的脚步。
n.(政治活动的)积极分子,活动家( activist的名词复数 )
  • His research work was attacked by animal rights activists . 他的研究受到了动物权益维护者的抨击。
  • Party activists with lower middle class pedigrees are numerous. 党的激进分子中有很多出身于中产阶级下层。 来自《简明英汉词典》
a.被指控的,嫌疑的
  • It was alleged that he had taken bribes while in office. 他被指称在任时收受贿赂。
  • alleged irregularities in the election campaign 被指称竞选运动中的不正当行为
使复杂化( complicate的现在分词 )
  • High spiking fever with chills is suggestive of a complicating pylephlebitis. 伴有寒战的高热,暗示合并门静脉炎。
  • In America these actions become executive puberty rites, complicating relationships that are already complicated enough. 在美国,这些行动成了行政青春期的惯例,使本来已经够复杂的关系变得更复杂了。
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acarodomatium
accesible
advancs
advantage gen
airless injection diesel
Ajania adenantha
altitude air
amygdalose
anaphylactoid
angled field
anna howard shaws
battle lines
Bellburns
Bourdon (Pressure) gauge
caught off guard
chronosystem
city problems
coach-drivers
computation of net tangible assets
control medium
cuprofen
curio stone
cyclonal sodium
debugging mode
degout
dekulakization
deterministic transition
diphyscium foliosum
direct harm done by purely manmade factors
double dish
dyer's moss
entirest
equilibrium distribution mode
ex-father-in-law
executive assistant
extension identifier
formyl violet
fungibler
fuzzy-genetic system
GAMMA-HCH
gear shaving cutter
goal cage
graalman
hactivism
half filled
Heave offering
Hopkins,Harry Lloyd
hopscotcher
Huggins, Charles Brenton
Hun Sen
imparities
knucklewalks
Koopmans energy
lagerphones
lantibiotic
level adjusting attenuator
Linton-on-Ouse
lq
lymphoplasmia
microgliomatosis
mode expansion propagation method
normal twin
open end yarn
optical synchronization
pestalozzian
pinch roller
Pirongia, Mt.
plastoelastic body
plutonium metaphosphate
profity
Ptilothamnion
quantum-confined
ramp pulse
realtime clock
release of reserve
royal jasmine
sal ethyl
sclerotherapy for esophageal varices
seed source
self-organized learning environment
Sepo
sequenced display
shroud tube
signalwomen
sleeve of puppet head
slot file
solid liquid mixing
super high frequency (shf)
tarsal sheath
Testarpen
tullivers
turbulent structure
unemaciated
unfructed
unharbouring
varnished paper
very angular
veverka
woodbox
xenon concentration
xeroses
z correction