时间:2019-02-03 作者:英语课 分类:英伦广角


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The very fact that the Crown Prince of Bahrain had been invited to the royal wedding in the first place was cause for some small controversy 1 amongst human rights campaigners disgusted at the way his regime was handling protests in the Arab Kingdom.


Salman AL-Khalifa is now, as far as public knowledge goes, the first and only person to turn down an invite to next Friday's ceremony. He did so, he says, so as not to overshadow the occasion. "I'm saddened and troubled," he revealed. And addressing the media reports over his invite he said while these have certainly highlighted a number of significant issues currently facing the Kingdom of Bahrain, they have fundamentally misrepresented my own views, outlook and position on recent events, and thus, clearly sought to involve my potential attendance as a political proxy 2 for wider matters involving Bahrain.


Clarence House confirmed that it was told this morning that the Crown Prince of Bahrain wouldn't now be coming to London, although it is understood that the Bahraini ambassador to London will be attending the wedding next Friday.


A whole collection of foreign royalty 3 and political heads of state will be amongst the 1,900 guests in Westminster Abbey next week.


"Quite clearly common senses prevailed. It is conventional that foreign royals are invited, but they are invited on the advice of the Foreign Office, and quite clearly the Foreign Office got it wrong and totally out of touch with what's  going on in that part of the world."


Crown Prince  Khalifa's ally Prince Mohammed bin 4 Nawaf of Saudi Arabia will also be present. His country lent military support to Bahrain following the anti-government protests.


Downing Street and the Foreign Office would have advised Clarence House and Buckingham Palace on political and diplomatic invites. The British government has been repeatedly outspoken 5 about the Bahraini regime's attitude towards protesters. Diplomatically, the Crown Prince's no-show might allow David Cameron to relax a little more when he takes a seat in Westminster Abbey on Friday.


Alistair Bunkall, Sky News, Clarence House.



n.争论,辩论,争吵
  • That is a fact beyond controversy.那是一个无可争论的事实。
  • We ran the risk of becoming the butt of every controversy.我们要冒使自己在所有的纷争中都成为众矢之的的风险。
n.代理权,代表权;(对代理人的)委托书;代理人
  • You may appoint a proxy to vote for you.你可以委托他人代你投票。
  • We enclose a form of proxy for use at the Annual General Meeting.我们附上委任年度大会代表的表格。
n.皇家,皇族
  • She claims to be descended from royalty.她声称她是皇室后裔。
  • I waited on tables,and even catered to royalty at the Royal Albert Hall.我做过服务生, 甚至在皇家阿伯特大厅侍奉过皇室的人。
n.箱柜;vt.放入箱内;[计算机] DOS文件名:二进制目标文件
  • He emptied several bags of rice into a bin.他把几袋米倒进大箱里。
  • He threw the empty bottles in the bin.他把空瓶子扔进垃圾箱。
adj.直言无讳的,坦率的,坦白无隐的
  • He was outspoken in his criticism.他在批评中直言不讳。
  • She is an outspoken critic of the school system in this city.她是这座城市里学校制度的坦率的批评者。
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acridophosphine
adaptedness
alternating-group occulting light
approved society
badelaire
Balmhorn
Bhaun
bromoquinoline
c-fo
catch a turn
cetyl sulfate
cimicifuga foelida l. var. simplex huth.
comprehensive abilities
contract sign
control questionnaire
curdlings
dermatodynia
directly-coupled circuit
Dodurga
Dracon
echo amplitude
educational statistics
electronic codebook
Endospermum chinense
engineering materials
fasciculus arciformis pedis
feathering device
fistle
Flora Reef
Fukuda, Takeo
gouvernance
groundwater increment
headache powder
inclusion relation for sets
indanthrene bordeaux
international servant
japanning oven
k-resonance
land line facilities
larging
lay baptism
lingulatus
location mode data item
maderensis
Madinah
masterate
Meinertellidae
mittelstands
MLCPase
narrow-bore coiumn
neidium iridis
no-thoroughfare
non-men
nonelite
nova lisboa (huambo)
nutritional dropsy
o'grady
on site repair
one-stop shops
OP (opening)
optimal cost
optionlike
original
overcentralizing
oxyacetylene flame
paired comparison method
parboils
Platygloeeae
power aid
power collection
praeterition
present arms
progressive caving
radiorenogram
ragged pink
Ranunculus muscigenus
retire bonds
ring-gap restrictor
row-galley
satellite day
scalar coupling
sectional type tube expander
selection index
shuttie
stabs
stannous phenide
stehoscopy
tartness
Tealiban
technopathy
temmoku
theorbist
theoretical dynamometer card
total loading time
transfuge
Tugella Falls
Turkish lira
ulcus serpeng eorneae
unfasteners
valnllae vaginae
vertebrocostal angle
visual value