VOA常速英语2008年-German Chancellor Confronts Holocaust on Visit
时间：2019-02-04 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2008年（三月）
Jerusalem
16 March 2008
The leader of Germany and several members of her cabinet are in Israel on a highly symbolic 1 visit that comes against the background of their nation's Nazi 2 past. As Robert Berger reports from VOA's Jerusalem bureau, Israel rolled out the red carpet.
German Chancellor 3 Angela Merkel arrived in Israel to express her country's strong support for the Jewish state and to confront the Holocaust 4.
Speaking at the airport, she acknowledged Germany's "historical responsibility" to Israel, a reference to the killing 5 of six million Jews by the Nazis 6 during World War II.
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was at her side.
He praised Merkel for her "unflinching support" for Israel and described her as a "strategic ally."
During the three-day visit, she and seven members of her cabinet will visit the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem. Merkel also pledged to work for Mideast peace, calling for a two-state solution: one for the Jews and the other for the Palestinians. However, she will not be going to the Palestinian territories because the visit is geared specifically toward Israel's 60th anniversary.
Merkel will address the Israeli parliament on Tuesday, reflecting the warm ties that have developed between the two countries over the past 60 years. But at least one Israeli parliamentarian will boycott 7 the speech, saying he cannot bear to hear the German language in that setting.
Israeli President Shimon Peres disagrees.
"We cannot forget the Holocaust," Peres said. "But we need to remember that there is a new generation in Germany."
- It is symbolic of the fighting spirit of modern womanhood.它象征着现代妇女的战斗精神。
- The Christian ceremony of baptism is a symbolic act.基督教的洗礼仪式是一种象征性的做法。
- They declare the Nazi regime overthrown and sue for peace.他们宣布纳粹政权已被推翻，并出面求和。
- Nazi closes those war criminals inside their concentration camp.纳粹把那些战犯关在他们的集中营里。
- They submitted their reports to the Chancellor yesterday.他们昨天向财政大臣递交了报告。
- He was regarded as the most successful Chancellor of modern times.他被认为是现代最成功的财政大臣。
- The Auschwitz concentration camp always remind the world of the holocaust.奥辛威茨集中营总是让世人想起大屠杀。
- Ahmadinejad is denying the holocaust because he's as brutal as Hitler was.内贾德否认大屠杀，因为他像希特勒一样残忍。
- Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
- Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
- The Nazis worked them over with gun butts. 纳粹分子用枪托毒打他们。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The Nazis were responsible for the mass murder of Jews during World War Ⅱ. 纳粹必须为第二次世界大战中对犹太人的大屠杀负责。 来自《简明英汉词典》