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By Scott Stearns
Washington
12 August 2007

U.S. President George Bush and French President Nicholas Sarkozy met Saturday for informal talks on the war in Iraq and uranium enrichment in Iran. VOA White House Correspondent Scott Stearns reports, the French leader was a guest at the Bush family home in the Northeast state of Maine.






President Bush, left, and French President Nicolas Sarkozy, wave while on a boat ride off Kennebunkport, Maine


President Bush, left, and French President Nicolas Sarkozy, wave while on a boat ride off Kennebunkport, Maine



There was no official agenda for the hamburger-and-hot-dog picnic at the Bush estate on Walker's Point. It was a social lunch at the invitation of the First Lady who met the Sarkozys at the G8 Summit in Germany two months ago.


But the two leaders did meet for nearly an hour in talks that included efforts at the United Nations to stop Iran from enriching uranium. On Iraq, Mr. Bush is hoping for a better relationship with the new French leader than he had with former President Jacques Chirac who blocked a U.N. resolution on the eve of the U.S. invasion.


Welcoming President Sarkozy to his parent's seaside vacation home, President Bush says past disputes about Iraq do not obstruct 1 progress on other fronts including Lebanon and Sudan. "We have had disagreements on Iraq in particular but I've never allowed disagreements to not find other ways to work together," he said.


President Sarkozy calls the United States a longtime friend who he admires for trying to spread freedom around the world. He says France is friends with democracies not dictatorships. "Do we agree on everything? No. Because even within the family there are disagreements but we are still of the same family and we may be friends and not agree on everything but we are friends nevertheless. That's the truth," he said.


President Bush says he appreciates President Sarkozy's involvement in freeing Bulgarian nurses held in Libya over charges of spreading AIDS. He says he is impressed with the French leader's vision and candor 2. "The good thing about President Sarkozy is you know where he stands. He'll tell you exactly what he thinks and I hope he'd say the same thing about me," he said.


French First Lady Cecilia Sarkozy telephoned Mrs. Bush Saturday to say that she and her children had sore throats and would not be attending the lunch. President Sarkozy came on his own for a meal that included corn-on-the-cob, baked beans, and blueberry pie.


The Sarkozy family is vacationing in the neighboring state of New Hampshire. Mr. and Mrs. Bush return to the White House Sunday before leaving Monday for their Texas ranch 3.




v.阻隔,阻塞(道路、通道等);n.阻碍物,障碍物
  • He became still more dissatisfied with it and secretly did everything in his power to obstruct it.他对此更不满意,尽在暗里使绊子。
  • The fallen trees obstruct the road.倒下的树将路堵住了。
n.坦白,率真
  • He covered a wide range of topics with unusual candor.他极其坦率地谈了许多问题。
  • He and his wife had avoided candor,and they had drained their marriage.他们夫妻间不坦率,已使婚姻奄奄一息。
n.大牧场,大农场
  • He went to work on a ranch.他去一个大农场干活。
  • The ranch is in the middle of a large plateau.该牧场位于一个辽阔高原的中部。
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aceti
ackamarackus
alternate disjunction
Aramia I.
arctic vessel manning type vessel
ask off
autem dippers
bad debt recoveries
basic file
be tired of
bed shaper
big falls
Brodmann area
bureaucratic
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ciderists
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Conradi-Drigalski's culture-medium
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employee theft
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formalized pva fibre
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glasschord
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have the shakes
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horizontal intensity of geomagnetic field
housing fund
hydrogen reforming
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inocybe cincinnata
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Islamabad Capital Territory
lien(spleen)
low-orbit satellite
Madigan
malamic acid
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marcus island
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multiple tuberculin test
naphthalene thiol
natural conservation areas of waters
nitai
NSC-77213
on-column enrichment
on-the-jobs
parts bins
pempheris oualensis
polar trihedral
Psychotria calocarpa
raise a flag
reduction of legal capital
repellent escapement
restart the computer
retrospect and prospect
revocations
riverlet
roswitha
Saimaankanava (Saymenskiy Kan.)
satiations
scolecomorphid
screw gun
signal buoy cable
single-owners
single-rod piston
spherical curve
street offence
temperature-limited
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thyro-laryngeal artery(or anterior thyroid artery)
touchscreens
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visible items
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