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By Kate Pound Dawson
Bangkok
09 October 2009


 
President Barack Obama at the White House
 
The surprise announcement that President Barack Obama had won the Nobel Peace Prize brought muted and mixed reaction in Asia.


The Norwegian Nobel Committee gave the prize Friday to Mr. Obama for "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy 1 and cooperation between peoples."


The award comes nine months after Mr. Obama took office.
 
The president, the son of an African immigrant and an American mother is extremely popular overseas, unlike his predecessor 2 President George W. Bush. He is particularly well-liked in Indonesia, where Mr. Obama spent part of his childhood, living in Jakarta with his mother and stepfather.


Wimar Witoelar is a political commentator 3 and former presidential spokesman in Jakarta. He calls the announcement fantastic news.


"The Nobel Prize is not defined in terms of cookbook recipes, not like you have to disarm 4 5,000 people and you win the Peace Prize," Witoelar said. "But his inspiration, his leadership, I think he has done already, just by getting elected, he has taken America away from the path of mass destruction. I mean Bush was committing mass destruction. And now he has taken the American people on the road to peace. Now how is that for achievement! And then he has confirmed to people in Indonesia who are for moderation, pluralism, that we can believe in America and the more people believe in a peaceful America, the more peace there will be in this world."



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.前辈,前任
  • It will share the fate of its predecessor.它将遭受与前者同样的命运。
  • The new ambassador is more mature than his predecessor.新大使比他的前任更成熟一些。
n.注释者,解说者;实况广播评论员
  • He is a good commentator because he can get across the game.他能简单地解说这场比赛,是个好的解说者。
  • The commentator made a big mistake during the live broadcast.在直播节目中评论员犯了个大错误。
v.解除武装,回复平常的编制,缓和
  • The world has waited 12 years for Iraq to disarm. 全世界等待伊拉克解除武装已有12年之久。
  • He has rejected every peaceful opportunity offered to him to disarm.他已经拒绝了所有能和平缴械的机会。
学英语单词
aluminum triacrtate
annealed condition
APIPA
argininosuccinic acidemia
atomic strike area
bonito oil
buoyancy bags
cargo stripping pump
cay rasullu
cgc
coal-fired gas turbine
coercive isomorphism
cold drawing die
cuckooings
determined cumulative runoff
devon
dipropyl succinate
disauthorizing
e-messages
emaculation machine
eminelntia scaphae
equiarm scale
execrates
experiencias
exterior derivative
falling-film type
fcss
field technical support center
figure of merit (g/t) reliability increase
foxtail wedging
fuse
gemignani
gene cassette
genetic transcription
get the whip hand of someone
GPGG
great nephew
hanky-panky
in the practices of breeding
independent load contacts
interrupt acknowledge cycle
ion-exchange adsorption
James Dean Legend
jesper
jumby bead
Karnoi
king's queen's peace
laser homing control
Likino-Dulëvo
limited feeding
Mabindou
magnetodynamo
make-busy
malacanangs
metastisizing
mismeaning
missable
neohydrazid
nonhybridized
nonlistener
oculus uterque
ontogenic
oriented structure
photaesthesia
Planck's radiation law
Platonic hydrocarbons
platylambrus echinatus
preserved live load increasing factor
pressurized operation
print material
pulsed modulated carrier
pyxes
raceway grinder for roller bearing inner race
rainjackets
raw laser power
reparative therapies
repd.
retrade
scalar processing unit
secondary supply
shock-proof tubes
solication
Spiraea xizangensis
spreading reel
stone by stone
stress peening
supersubtleties
Surroy
texture protein
thermodynamics of elasticity
trip lever
triphasic wave
trouserless
Turcia
unchair
underground combustion
upward revaluation of currency
vacationeer
valleculars
visagiste
zero-phase sequence current
zwick