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英语课
By Paula Wolfson
White House
04 December 2007
 

President Bush says there will be no change in U.S. policy on Iran following the release of a new U.S. intelligence assessment 1 of Tehran's nuclear capabilities 2 and ambitions. VOA's Paula Wolfson reports from the White House, Mr. Bush says the world must continue to keep the pressure on Tehran.


The president called a press conference at the White House to specifically address the new intelligence report on Iran that was released on Monday.


According to the report, the U.S. intelligence community now believes Iran halted a secret nuclear weapons program in 2003, and had not resumed work as of mid-2007.


President Bush told reporters the new National Intelligence Estimate does nothing to shake his belief that the international community must be vigilant 3 when it comes to Iran's nuclear intentions.


"Iran was dangerous," he said. "Iran is dangerous. And Iran will be dangerous if they have the knowledge necessary to make a nuclear weapon."


Iran has never acknowledged the existence of a nuclear weapons program. The president said the intelligence community report shows Tehran secretly tried to circumvent 4 the nuclear non-proliferation treaty and is attempting to enrich uranium today in defiance 5 of international calls to suspend.


"And so I view this report as a warning signal," said President Bush. "They had the program, they halted the program. And the reason why it is a warning signal is they can restart it and the thing that would make a restarted program effective and dangerous is the ability to enrich uranium, the knowledge of which can be passed on to a hidden program."


The president stressed that Iran halted its nuclear development program in 2003 at about the same time Germany, France, and Britain launched an effort to resolve the dispute over Tehran's nuclear intentions through diplomatic means.


Mr. Bush said the fact that Iran suspended the program shows that Tehran does respond to international pressure. He said pressure is more important now that ever.


"This report is not [saying], okay, everybody needs to relax and quit," he said. "This is a report that says what has happened in the past can be repeated, that the policies used to get the regime to halt are effective policies, let's keep them up, let's continue to work together."


The president said the most effective diplomacy 6 is one in which all options are on the table, implying he would not rule out the military option.


Congressional critics of the administration's Iran policy welcomed the intelligence findings on Iran and urged the White House to tone down its rhetoric 7..


Illinois Congressman 8 Rahm Emmanuel spoke 9 for Democrats 11 in the House of Representatives.


"We now have the NIE report on Iran, and we can abandon a policy based on hype and fear and go to a policy that is clear-eyed and hard-headed as it relates to Iran," he said.


In a written statement, the Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee - Democrat 10 Tom Lantos of California - struck a similar chord. He said the White House needs to engage in more diplomacy on Iran and less saber-rattling.




n.评价;评估;对财产的估价,被估定的金额
  • This is a very perceptive assessment of the situation.这是一个对该情况的极富洞察力的评价。
  • What is your assessment of the situation?你对时局的看法如何?
n.能力( capability的名词复数 );可能;容量;[复数]潜在能力
  • He was somewhat pompous and had a high opinion of his own capabilities. 他有点自大,自视甚高。 来自辞典例句
  • Some programmers use tabs to break complex product capabilities into smaller chunks. 一些程序员认为,标签可以将复杂的功能分为每个窗格一组简单的功能。 来自About Face 3交互设计精髓
adj.警觉的,警戒的,警惕的
  • He has to learn how to remain vigilant through these long nights.他得学会如何在这漫长的黑夜里保持警觉。
  • The dog kept a vigilant guard over the house.这只狗警醒地守护着这所房屋。
vt.环绕,包围;对…用计取胜,智胜
  • Military planners tried to circumvent the treaty.军事策略家们企图绕开这一条约。
  • Any action I took to circumvent his scheme was justified.我为斗赢他的如意算盘而采取的任何行动都是正当的。
n.挑战,挑衅,蔑视,违抗
  • He climbed the ladder in defiance of the warning.他无视警告爬上了那架梯子。
  • He slammed the door in a spirit of defiance.他以挑衅性的态度把门砰地一下关上。
n.外交;外交手腕,交际手腕
  • The talks have now gone into a stage of quiet diplomacy.会谈现在已经进入了“温和外交”阶段。
  • This was done through the skill in diplomacy. 这是通过外交手腕才做到的。
n.修辞学,浮夸之言语
  • Do you know something about rhetoric?你懂点修辞学吗?
  • Behind all the rhetoric,his relations with the army are dangerously poised.在冠冕堂皇的言辞背后,他和军队的关系岌岌可危。
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.(车轮的)辐条;轮辐;破坏某人的计划;阻挠某人的行动 v.讲,谈(speak的过去式);说;演说;从某种观点来说
  • They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
  • The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。
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》
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a meeting of the minds
Abeliophyllum
administrative crime
ageing bleach method
Angada
antagonistic phenomenon
Aplodontia rufa
Barberena
bellevue
belly-button
bolus alba
books (text) online
Bromus carinatus
building industrialization
cameo light
cane roller
carbon steel rail
card checking
commissioning of individual system
connodals
control hub
critical appraisal skill
cyclically perverse
daily sperm output
dhar tichit
diacetonuria
egames
eliminating mass
epicanthuss
exteral perihaemal canal
factoring costs
false mitrewort
ferrowollastonite
flare groove weld
genetically modified food
grizzly chute
ground based scanning
HVFP
hypergamic
Jill-of-all-trades
juliana lilac
kirkgate
land equalization system
laverie
lion s provider
little sibs
local port level
mark counter
Marmota monax
meningiocele
microprogrammed sequencer
Microsoft Knowledge Base
mortar fruit
mouse technology
muck raise
near-trace section
nonschool education
oil-fired station
Olonka
Omphalomonodidymy
orbital test satellite
pacific ocean perch
phlebographic
portable extinguisher
prekeratin
qualifying licensing examination
quantitative vision
Reges
Rhodocyclus
rotary rake
RScA
Ruukki
scandalisation
schumake
secondary transition temperature
SET protocol
sodium silrcate
solid impurity
span of coil
sq.ft
stalth
stichopilium rapaeformis
symmetrized winding
system-space parameter
tail lamp base
technological processes
thermo-chemistry
thomasii
toy shop
transplacental transmission
turify
Ulanova
ultrasonically activated extruder
univalent hydrocarbons
upper colonnade
Viet Minh
vocoid
wending
world-leadings
Yandang
zero span tensile tester