VOA标准英语2009年-North, South Korea Normalize Cross-Border
时间：2019-02-12 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2009年(九月)
South and North Korea have resumed traffic across their tense border to a jointly 2 run industrial zone, renewing hopes for the project's viability 3. The move reflects a thaw 4 in tensions after recent diplomatic moves between the two Koreas.
South Korean cargo 5 trucks head to the North Korean city of Kaesong, 1 Sept 2009
South Korean Unification Ministry 6 spokeswoman Lee Jong-joo said Tuesday that traffic across the North Korean border is set to resume at levels not seen for more than a year.
She says starting from Tuesday, up to 23 trips will be allowed back and forth 7 across the North-South border to a joint 1 industrial zone in the North Korean city of Kaesong. Up to four trips a day will be permitted between South Korea and a joint resort zone at the North's Kumgang mountain.
Traffic to both zones nearly ground to a halt soon after the inauguration 8 of South Korean President Lee Myung-bak early last year. Mr. Lee ended the practice of his two predecessors 9 of transferring hundreds of millions of dollars in aid and investment to the North, regardless of how it behaved. The Lee administration says economic help will be conditioned on the North's willingness to give up nuclear weapons.
However, the North has made diplomatic overtures 10 to the South recently including a recent meeting between senior envoys 11 and President Lee.
South Korean companies employ more than 30,000 low-wage North Korean workers in the Kaesong complex, producing goods like cosmetics 12 and sportswear. For those companies, the resumption of normal traffic is cause for celebration.
Park Young-man is the executive director of the Corporation of Kaesong Industrial Council.
Park says the news made his fellow managers cheerful, and even boisterous 13. He says this is the high season for manufacturing, and many clients have been phoning with positive expectations.
Yoo Chang-gun, vice-chairman of the Corporation of Kaesong Industrial Council, is approaching the news with caution.
Yoo says he thinks it will take considerable time to recover from the huge blow that the border closure has dealt to companies operating in Kaesong. He says even loyal clients had stopped ordering from his company because of the border uncertainty 14. He hopes the South Korean government will get actively 15 involved in assisting with a Kaesong zone recovery.
Separately, North Korean media report a senior diplomatic team has gone to China. Beijing hosts six-nation talks aimed at ending North Korea's nuclear weapons programs. Pyongyang abandoned those talks in April, shortly before it conducted its second nuclear weapons test.
- 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。
- Tenants are jointly and severally liable for payment of the rent. 租金由承租人共同且分别承担。
- She owns the house jointly with her husband. 她和丈夫共同拥有这所房子。
- What is required to achieve or maintain such viability? 要达到或维持这种生存能力需要什么？
- Scientists are experimenting to find ways to ensure the viability of seeds for even longer periods of time. 正如我们所说，科学家正在试验努力寻找让种子的生命力更加延长的方法。
- The snow is beginning to thaw.雪已开始融化。
- The spring thaw caused heavy flooding.春天解冻引起了洪水泛滥。
- The ship has a cargo of about 200 ton.这条船大约有200吨的货物。
- A lot of people discharged the cargo from a ship.许多人从船上卸下货物。
- They sent a deputation to the ministry to complain.他们派了一个代表团到部里投诉。
- We probed the Air Ministry statements.我们调查了空军部的记录。
- The wind moved the trees gently back and forth.风吹得树轻轻地来回摇晃。
- He gave forth a series of works in rapid succession.他很快连续发表了一系列的作品。
- The inauguration of a President of the United States takes place on January 20.美国总统的就职典礼于一月二十日举行。
- Three celebrated tenors sang at the president's inauguration.3位著名的男高音歌手在总统就职仪式上演唱。
- The new government set about dismantling their predecessors' legislation. 新政府正着手废除其前任所制定的法律。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Will new plan be any more acceptable than its predecessors? 新计划比原先的计划更能令人满意吗？ 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Their government is making overtures for peace. 他们的政府正在提出和平建议。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- He had lately begun to make clumsy yet endearing overtures of friendship. 最近他开始主动表示友好，样子笨拙却又招人喜爱。 来自辞典例句
- the routine tit for tat when countries expel each other's envoys 国家相互驱逐对方使节这种惯常的报复行动
- Marco Polo's travelogue mentions that Kublai Khan sent envoys to Malgache. 马可波罗游记中提到忽必烈曾派使节到马尔加什。
- We sell a wide range of cosmetics at a very reasonable price. 我们以公道的价格出售各种化妆品。
- Cosmetics do not always cover up the deficiencies of nature. 化妆品未能掩饰天生的缺陷。
- I don't condescend to boisterous displays of it.我并不屈就于它热热闹闹的外表。
- The children tended to gather together quietly for a while before they broke into boisterous play.孩子们经常是先静静地聚集在一起，不一会就开始吵吵嚷嚷戏耍开了。
- Her comments will add to the uncertainty of the situation.她的批评将会使局势更加不稳定。
- After six weeks of uncertainty,the strain was beginning to take its toll.6个星期的忐忑不安后，压力开始产生影响了。