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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
AAPD
Agbaja
approof
backkick
Balor
bam-bam-bam
basilaire
biomagnetic effect
brushed aside
C-rats
cabletron
call gate
capillary manometer
catches at
caterpiller grinder
characteristic of a family of surface
Chernigovka
cinderella man
clofurenadine
commset
confedre
convenient
coolant velocity
creative job
curacy
dienes with conjugated double bonds
direct learning
early fruit species
epi-tectonic
estrilda astrild
family Caeciliadae
fast-head stock
feline influenza
ferroelectric display
Ferroplumbite
flexion of uterus
fore castle deck
gerard
glass fiber reinforced melamine moulding material
glucocorticoid hormones
guttifer
hard wired controller
high-dipping
Honolulu County
hybrid channel
imperfect yeasts
initial operation
karyage
keyhole specimen
Kislyakovskaya
layers of tagmemes and taxemes
laying bare
lentils
light body
liquid-vapor coexistence
lose her grip
Maxwell's law of reciprocity
meal discharging
Mickfield
millisecond detonator
minority
multi-class network
multiporous acrylic fibre
nondisposal
open-cycle geothermal power generation
organizing ability
Otoe
Ouanary
parameter setting
pcis (primary containment isolation signal)
perishes
piquance
point cut-off
program controlled drilling machine
quartz grain
radial resistivity variation
remote-control lever
rifl
rise from the grave
Saintpaulia ionantha
saturated soil moisture
Secretary of Defense
secretum
STAE (specify task asynchronous exit)
starring mixture
stay foresail
strike at the foundation of something
surot
synoptist
Tate, Sir Henry
telesyphilis
televisionlike
thwap
tie car
toddalinine
touches
ulatrophy
ultramicroscopic organisms
underbelly
union silk
unoptimised