VOA常速英语2007年-Bush Speaks Out Against Religious Persecution
时间：2019-02-14 作者：英语课 分类：VOA常速英语2007年（十二月）
Washington
10 December 2007
President Bush is urging continued action to combat religious persecution 1 around the world. VOA's Paula Wolfson reports from the White House.
Each year during the Jewish festival of Hanukkah, President Bush meets privately 2 with Jewish leaders prior to a holiday reception.
This year, with the reception falling on International Human Rights Day, the president put the focus on religious freedom.
"A good way to celebrate this day is to invite people from our country and around the world to share with me their stories - stories of courage, stories of people who simply want to be in a society where people are allowed to worship freely," he said.
The Jewish leaders who met this year with the president told personal stories of persecution in places like Iran, Syria, the former Soviet 3 Union, and Taliban-era Afghanistan.
Most of those attending the session at the White House now live in the United States, and campaign actively 4 for religious freedom abroad.
"We discussed how America must remain engaged in helping 5 people realize the great blessings 6 of religious freedom; and where we find societies in which religious freedom is not allowed to practice, that we must do something about it," he said.
Participants in the meeting also included survivors 7 of the Nazi 8 holocaust 9 of World War II, and representatives of the Jewish communities in Venezuela and Uganda.
Special guests for the day's events at the White House were the parents of slain 10 journalist Daniel Pearl, who was murdered by terrorists in Pakistan in early 2002.
Judea and Ruth Pearl now head a foundation named after their son that focuses on fostering cross-cultural understanding. In addition to the meeting with the president, they were also invited to lead the candle-lighting ceremony at the White House Hanukkah reception.
- He had fled from France at the time of the persecution. 他在大迫害时期逃离了法国。
- Their persecution only serves to arouse the opposition of the people. 他们的迫害只激起人民对他们的反抗。
- Some ministers admit privately that unemployment could continue to rise.一些部长私下承认失业率可能继续升高。
- The man privately admits that his motive is profits.那人私下承认他的动机是为了牟利。
- Zhukov was a marshal of the former Soviet Union.朱可夫是前苏联的一位元帅。
- Germany began to attack the Soviet Union in 1941.德国在1941年开始进攻苏联。
- During this period all the students were actively participating.在这节课中所有的学生都积极参加。
- We are actively intervening to settle a quarrel.我们正在积极调解争执。
- The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
- By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。
- Afflictions are sometimes blessings in disguise. 塞翁失马，焉知非福。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- We don't rely on blessings from Heaven. 我们不靠老天保佑。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
- The survivors were adrift in a lifeboat for six days. 幸存者在救生艇上漂流了六天。
- survivors clinging to a raft 紧紧抓住救生筏的幸存者
- 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。
- 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。