时间:2019-02-03 作者:英语课 分类:VOA标准英语2008年(七月)


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A day after being freed from Colombian rebels, Ingrid Betancourt is calling for new efforts to win the release of other hostages in rebel hands. VOA's Brian Wagner reports Betancourt was one of 15 people freed by Colombian forces on Wednesday.
 
Ingrid Betancourt speaks at news conference, 3 Jul 2008


Former presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt is celebrating with her family, after being freed from more than six years in captivity 1.


But she stressed dozens of other people remain in jungle camps of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia. Betancourt said the leftist rebels are at a weak point, and Colombia's government should work to negotiate an end to the more than 44-year-old rebel conflict.


Betancourt said mediators should ask rebel leaders to use their influence to encourage militants 2 to end terrorist activities and seek a path of reconciliation 3 and peace.


Betancourt, who holds Colombian and French citizenships, thanked France's government for recent efforts to pressure rebels to free hostages. She said Colombia, France and other nations should form a league of nations to work for the release of hostages in conflicts around the world.


Late Wednesday, President Alvaro Uribe said the government hopes all hostages will be freed soon from rebel hands. He also praised the work of Colombia's armed forces and intelligence agents for securing the release of Betancourt and 14 others.


Uribe said the operation was admirable in many ways, and it was a triumph for the armed forces, and respectful of human rights.
 
Hostages freed from FARC rebels in Colombia during press conference, 02 Jul 2008


The operation also recovered 11 Colombian police and soldiers, and three American defense 4 contractors 5, who were seized in 2003 when their plane crashed during a drug surveillance flight. The three men, Marc Gonsalves, Thomas Howes and Keith Stansell, were flown to a military base in Texas late Wednesday to be reunited with family members.


President Bush praised the work of Colombia's government to secure the safe release of the hostages.


"I congratulated the president. I asked him to congratulate his military and those who had planned it. And I told him what a joyous 6 occasion it must be to know that the plan had worked, that people who were unjustly held were now free to be with their families," he said.


The U.S. ambassador to Colombia, William Brownfield, met the three Americans shortly after their rescue. He said two of them are suffering from a skin disease known as leishmaniasis, which they contracted during captivity.


 


 



n.囚禁;被俘;束缚
  • A zoo is a place where live animals are kept in captivity for the public to see.动物园是圈养动物以供公众观看的场所。
  • He was held in captivity for three years.他被囚禁叁年。
激进分子,好斗分子( militant的名词复数 )
  • The militants have been sporadically fighting the government for years. 几年来,反叛分子一直对政府实施零星的战斗。
  • Despite the onslaught, Palestinian militants managed to fire off rockets. 尽管如此,巴勒斯坦的激进分子仍然发射导弹。
n.和解,和谐,一致
  • He was taken up with the reconciliation of husband and wife.他忙于做夫妻间的调解工作。
  • Their handshake appeared to be a gesture of reconciliation.他们的握手似乎是和解的表示。
n.防御,保卫;[pl.]防务工事;辩护,答辩
  • The accused has the right to defense.被告人有权获得辩护。
  • The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers.战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。
n.(建筑、监造中的)承包人( contractor的名词复数 )
  • We got estimates from three different contractors before accepting the lowest. 我们得到3个承包商的报价后,接受了最低的报价。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Contractors winning construction jobs had to kick back 2 per cent of the contract price to the mafia. 赢得建筑工作的承包商得抽出合同价格的百分之二的回扣给黑手党。 来自《简明英汉词典》
adj.充满快乐的;令人高兴的
  • The lively dance heightened the joyous atmosphere of the scene.轻快的舞蹈给这场戏渲染了欢乐气氛。
  • They conveyed the joyous news to us soon.他们把这一佳音很快地传递给我们。
学英语单词
abrupt pipe expansion
accelerating machine
aleukemia hemorrhagica
assembling beside ditch
be incorporated into
biomonitors
bisimilarities
boarhide
boxlock
brine quenching
centres of immersion
charlatan (italy)
chemiculture
cimaterol
CIOMS
colostration
comprehensive co-operation
concrete spreading
contrapleid
corpus haemorrhagicum
Corydalis hepaticifolia
coupler interface unit
cousin humper
crawford ra.
cytotoxicity
danceteria
dependence among columns or rows
detain for
dialogue speaker
dihydrotachysterol
dual modulation
electric boring machine
engobe coating
environmental failure testing
epicritic
equalize to
find a way out
flat plane scanning method
flew around
gangesol
Godovič
gurock
indirect radiogram
inhibition of inhibition
Inishowen
joint information bureau
magnetic storm
manually angled cutter
Marrubium incisum Benth.
materials credit slip
Mattole
MINIAC
molten carbonate fuel cell (mcfc)
narod
nondog
nonrestrictivist
oothecoma
open-cell product
pantharb
penetration of electrons
permablocking
perpetualty
picrocrichtonite
pleurography
policy statement
ppm, p.p.m., PPM
preliminary inspection
pron
rank-ordering
reactant fixing dyes
reclaiming barrow
Renn-Walz process
ryckman
safe-keeper
salicylic acid amyl ester
sea breams
Sina Weibo
sinoside
smoothness restrictions
sodium atom
sonar locator acoustic depthometer
south polar circle
spawny
sprawl one's last
sympile
tannocasein
teleopsia
the statess
topicalising
unexpressed
URL switch
Userdel
valenzuela mueggenbergi
variation selector
war in iraq
Welsh arch
wideband proportional control
yellow-orange leaf
Yen Lap
Yuba County
Yuna Kim
zone leveled