时间:2018-12-08 作者:英语课 分类:2006年VOA标准英语(四月)


英语课

By Scott Stearns
White House
28 April 2006

 
George Bush 
  
President Bush says the government in Sudan must do more to protect civilians 1 in the troubled Darfur region.

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The Bush Administration is trying to increase pressure on Khartoum to reign 2 in Arab militiamen responsible for much of the violence in Darfur that has displaced more than two million people and killed tens of thousands of people.

President Bush says it is time the government and Sudanese rebels make progress at ongoing 3 peace talks in the Nigerian capital.

"The message to the Sudanese government is: we are very serious about getting this problem solved," said Mr. Bush.  "We don't like it when we see women raped 4 and brutalized. And we expect there to be a full effort by the government to protect human life and human condition. We also recognize there is a parallel political track taking place, and that we urge the rebels as well as the government to forge a consensus 5 at Abuja so that there is a way forward from the political impasse 6 that has taken place thus far in Sudan."

President Bush wants African Union peacekeeping troops made part of a United Nations force with support from the NATO alliance.

He met with peace activists 7 and relief officials at the White House in an effort to bring greater attention to the suffering of displaced civilians ahead of rallies Sunday in several American cities.

Some U.S. lawmakers were arrested as they protested outside Sudan's embassy in Washington, Friday. President Bush this week issued an executive order freezing assets of four Sudanese identified by the United Nations as having carrying out atrocities 8 in Darfur.



1 civilians
平民,百姓( civilian的名词复数 ); 老百姓
  • the bloody massacre of innocent civilians 对无辜平民的血腥屠杀
  • At least 300 civilians are unaccounted for after the bombing raids. 遭轰炸袭击之后,至少有300名平民下落不明。
2 reign
n.统治时期,统治,支配,盛行;v.占优势
  • The reign of Queen Elizabeth lapped over into the seventeenth century.伊丽莎白王朝延至17世纪。
  • The reign of Zhu Yuanzhang lasted about 31 years.朱元璋统治了大约三十一年。
3 ongoing
adj.进行中的,前进的
  • The problem is ongoing.这个问题尚未解决。
  • The issues raised in the report relate directly to Age Concern's ongoing work in this area.报告中提出的问题与“关心老人”组织在这方面正在做的工作有直接的关系。
4 raped
v.以暴力夺取,强夺( rape的过去式和过去分词 );强奸
  • A young woman was brutally raped in her own home. 一名年轻女子在自己家中惨遭强暴。 来自辞典例句
  • We got stick together, or we will be having our women raped. 我们得团结一致,不然我们的妻女就会遭到蹂躏。 来自辞典例句
5 consensus
n.(意见等的)一致,一致同意,共识
  • Can we reach a consensus on this issue?我们能在这个问题上取得一致意见吗?
  • What is the consensus of opinion at the afternoon meeting?下午会议上一致的意见是什么?
6 impasse
n.僵局;死路
  • The government had reached an impasse.政府陷入绝境。
  • Negotiations seemed to have reached an impasse.谈判似乎已经陷入僵局。
7 activists
n.(政治活动的)积极分子,活动家( activist的名词复数 )
  • His research work was attacked by animal rights activists . 他的研究受到了动物权益维护者的抨击。
  • Party activists with lower middle class pedigrees are numerous. 党的激进分子中有很多出身于中产阶级下层。 来自《简明英汉词典》
8 atrocities
n.邪恶,暴行( atrocity的名词复数 );滔天大罪
  • They were guilty of the most barbarous and inhuman atrocities. 他们犯有最野蛮、最灭绝人性的残暴罪行。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The enemy's atrocities made one boil with anger. 敌人的暴行令人发指。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
学英语单词
aggrege
airshows
antiglare
asteraceaes
at the instant brunt
atrai r.
autogenous soldering weld
barn-red
Boussieres
bridgeless
bull press
butterfly doors
calappa calappa
calocycletta virginis (haeckel)
casing blowing
chaovalit
Charles the Bald
Chausu-yama
Civ. Pro.
cladonia floerkeana
Comechingones, Sa.de
condylus medialis tibiae
covalent component
curvet
cut the cable
Cymbidium micranthum
different poultryfarming
Digital Micromirror Device
diphosphopyridine
Don Liang
dramatic expression
elliptic waveguide
emission delay
end-point analysis
enslaveth
expansion furnace
flowingly
Frankland's method
fullers' asthma
genus Lecanopteris
grandison
gross national products deflator
hand axe
hinge shaft for bed cover
hoil
hybrid comparator
hyper-media
idlebird
in situ perfusion
inebriate
interior packing
internal defocusing
intravenous narcosis
Italian monetary unit
kinetic reactivity unit
m-index
machineshop
microregulates
Nicholsicypris normalis
nickel delay-line
night vision goggles
northern sea robins
oeconomicuss
pale crepe
peek-a-boo check
performance parameters of motor vehicles and trailers
periareolar incision
pit out
pleiotropism
powder diffraction camera
preapply
predelinquent
professional certificate
psychopathics
pulse jamming
puopulsion control stand
pure laminar flow
qadhi
quadruple cyclone
R band
railway axle box
relative amplitude preserve
retenue
salt plug
scatter loss
school-community
scroll bar director
seepage gauge
self-vulcanizing
shut together
snoot
steam disengaging surface
sternoclavicular disc
strain transducers
Tebonin
tensides
transparency film
two-way carrier acquisition time
under way lamp
unens
Wolstanton
Zoysia macrostachya