时间:2019-02-07 作者:英语课 分类:2007年VOA标准英语(一月)


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By Dan Robinson
Capitol Hill
11 January 2007



As Bush administration and U.S. military officials faced skeptical 1 lawmakers on Capitol Hill, some of the strongest criticisms of the president's military surge in Iraq came from some new members of Congress.


 
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice testifies before the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, 11 January, 2007
While Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice defended the president's plan before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, four newly elected congressmen, all Democrats 3, appeared before television cameras and microphones to express disappointment in the plan. 


Patrick Murphy, is an Iraq war veteran who defeated a Republican candidate in his home district in Pennsylvania.


"The reality on the ground is this:  By putting more troops into Iraq, [it] does not do anything to find a solution to what is needed there, and that is for the Iraqis come off the sidelines, and fight for their country, fight for their government, protect their neighborhoods, not to rely on the American forces," he said.


Chris Carney, a Democrat 2 from Pennsylvania, opposes sending additional U.S. troops, and questions whether the Iraqi government can meet the commitments President Bush says he received.


"To put so much credibility in the Maliki regime, I think is dangerous," he said.  "This is a regime that has proven that it cannot withstand the political pressures of the realities in Iraq, and we must start finding people we can work with in that country to represent our interests."


As part of the Democratic majority in the House, the lawmakers say they are prepared to ask tough questions so Congress can carry out proper oversight 4 regarding Iraq.


Tim Walz is a Democrat from Minnesota:


"The questions are going to be asked," he said.  "This is a different Congress.  The questions that the American people asked and the message they sent on November 7 are being echoed here today, and we will continue to do so."


But not all say they are prepared to support aggressive proposals, such as one by Senator Edward Kennedy to require Congress to approve any increase in troop numbers for Iraq.


Congressman 5 Murphy says he is not yet persuaded such a step would be wise, and remains 6 hopeful the president will, as he puts it, understand the fervor 7 of the new Congress and Americans.


Joe Sestak, another Pennsylvania Democrat, believes the United States must set a date for withdrawing U.S. forces.


"That date is the only remaining leverage 8 we have over the Shi'ites, the Kurds, the Sunnis, the parties in that country, to accept that they must make a political decision in what is not a military issue," he said.  "This is a political civil war."


The views contrasted with Republican Minority Leader John Boehner, who asserts the United States needs to do whatever is needed to ensure success:


"Victory here is essential, and whether that is more troops [or] less troops, we need the number of troops necessary," he noted 9.


 
Gen. Peter Pace testifies before House Armed Services Committee on Capitol Hill, 11 Jan 2007
Meanwhile, Defense 10 Secretary Robert Gates and General Peter Pace, Chairman of the [military] Joint 11 Chiefs of Staff, tried to reassure 12 worried House lawmakers:


"This military plan, properly part of new political emphasis and new economic plus-up can provide the success we are looking for," he said.


The Democratic chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, Ike Skelton, sought assurances from General Pace and Secretary Gates, the Bush administration would re-visit its strategy if the Iraqi government does not keep to its commitments.


 



adj.怀疑的,多疑的
  • Others here are more skeptical about the chances for justice being done.这里的其他人更为怀疑正义能否得到伸张。
  • Her look was skeptical and resigned.她的表情是将信将疑而又无可奈何。
n.民主主义者,民主人士;民主党党员
  • The Democrat and the Public criticized each other.民主党人和共和党人互相攻击。
  • About two years later,he was defeated by Democrat Jimmy Carter.大约两年后,他被民主党人杰米卡特击败。
n.民主主义者,民主人士( democrat的名词复数 )
  • The Democrats held a pep rally on Capitol Hill yesterday. 民主党昨天在国会山召开了竞选誓师大会。
  • The democrats organize a filibuster in the senate. 民主党党员组织了阻挠议事。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.勘漏,失察,疏忽
  • I consider this a gross oversight on your part.我把这件事看作是你的一大疏忽。
  • Your essay was not marked through an oversight on my part.由于我的疏忽你的文章没有打分。
n.(美)国会议员
  • He related several anecdotes about his first years as a congressman.他讲述自己初任议员那几年的几则轶事。
  • The congressman is meditating a reply to his critics.这位国会议员正在考虑给他的批评者一个答复。
n.剩余物,残留物;遗体,遗迹
  • He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
  • The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。
n.热诚;热心;炽热
  • They were concerned only with their own religious fervor.他们只关心自己的宗教热诚。
  • The speech aroused nationalist fervor.这个演讲喚起了民族主义热情。
n.力量,影响;杠杆作用,杠杆的力量
  • We'll have to use leverage to move this huge rock.我们不得不借助杠杆之力来移动这块巨石。
  • He failed in the project because he could gain no leverage. 因为他没有影响力,他的计划失败了。
adj.著名的,知名的
  • The local hotel is noted for its good table.当地的那家酒店以餐食精美而著称。
  • Jim is noted for arriving late for work.吉姆上班迟到出了名。
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。
adj.联合的,共同的;n.关节,接合处;v.连接,贴合
  • I had a bad fall,which put my shoulder out of joint.我重重地摔了一跤,肩膀脫臼了。
  • We wrote a letter in joint names.我们联名写了封信。
v.使放心,使消除疑虑
  • This seemed to reassure him and he continued more confidently.这似乎使他放心一点,于是他更有信心地继续说了下去。
  • The airline tried to reassure the customers that the planes were safe.航空公司尽力让乘客相信飞机是安全的。
学英语单词
.mv
alignment hole
alkylferrocene
all-weld bridge
antipress
atrex
autonomous function
bordure
budell
chastizement
colores
colour television mask
compact disk-interactive
cribrous
cross-river buoy
crossed roller chains
dangerous pile
dannys
deep search
deoppilated
differential liberation
diffusion-reflection
divisionalizations
dumasia cordifolia benth et. backer
effective gas-oil ratio
eggs benedicts
erosional basin
fabii
falls off the wagon
felting resistance
fenbutatin oxide
fuel tolerance
fur goods
genus Prosopis
glenlyon
hash brownie
heavyheartedly
high-altitudes
high-frequency test bay
hyperemia cardiac failure
increasing nutrient concentration
incremental frequence shift
interpols
jail-bird
jyllands-posten
kasts
Kenacort
less-polluting
line clinometer
linguistic semiotics
load-balancing
Luxemburgish
magnetomechanical ratio
manual slot
marginal cost and revenue
mean blade width
mixed banking system
moderately fine texture
motlanthe
multiple sequence operation
Niekerkshoop
nominal terms
noncowboy
order cycadaless
overshoulder
overspecific
packing cloth
pain in the rear
pardoning the bad is injuring the good
personal selling
pointwise finite
poke and pry
pouring reel
preclavus
profits by
protestant church music
put under one's belt
rainmaker remover nozzle
reachability graph
reflex receiver
Resykin
river-marine vessel
root crops
scalene right triangle
scheduling resource
sima rock
simultaneousequation model
square-wave pulse of light
superfine grain developer
synangium
Tabakerz
taxing power
Ticonal
totally enclosed type motor
Trailliaedoxa
true yeasts
trypots
unscroll
USMA
water proofing material
xanthan
yang jin