时间:2018-12-08 作者:英语课 分类:VOA2004(下)--美国大选


英语课

 


By David Gollust
 
President Bush defended the U.S. decision to invade Iraq in a United Nations General Assembly address Tuesday in which he also urged the world community to fight terrorism and promote democracy.
Mr. Bush did not refer directly to U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan's comment last week that the invasion of Iraq was illegal.
But he said the U.N. Security Council had threatened the former Iraqi regime with serious consequences if it defied past resolutions, and said the U.S. led-coalition had in his words "enforced the just demands of the world."
In a wide-ranging address to the General Assembly, Mr. Bush urged the world community to rally around the U.S.-backed governments of Iraq and Afghanistan now in the face of terrorists aiming to disrupt their coming elections.
"We can expect terrorist attacks to escalate 1 as Afghanistan and Iraq approach national elections. The work ahead is demanding. But these difficulties will not shake our conviction that the future of Afghanistan and Iraq is a future of liberty. The proper response to difficulty is not to retreat, it is to prevail."
The president promised to stand by the people of Afghanistan and Iraq until their hopes of freedom and security are fulfilled, and said those countries will be a model for the broader Middle East, where he said millions of people have been denied human rights and simple justice.
The president said many nations including the United States, have tolerated and even excused oppression in the Middle East in the name of stability.
He said democratic reform is essential to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and said both sides need to act to achieve the promise of the international "road map" to peace:
"Arab states should end incitement 2 in their own media, cut off public and private funding for terrorism, and establish normal relations with Israel," the president said. "Israel should impose a settlement freeze, dismantle 3 unauthorized outposts, end the daily humiliation 4 of the Palestinian people, and avoid any actions that prejudice final negotiations 5."
Mr. Bush, making clear the administration's global agenda extends beyond the Middle East, congratulated the Security Council for its resolution last week on the Darfur crisis in Sudan, and called on the Khartoum government to honor the cease-fire it signed last April, and to "stop the killing 6 in Darfur."
He stressed the U.S. commitment to the fight against AIDS, human trafficking and corruption 7 and endorsed 8 a transition from loans to outright 9 grants in aid to developing countries, as well as a Costa Rican initiative for a comprehensive ban on human cloning.
Mr. Bush said the advance of liberty is the path to a safer and better world, and proposed establishing a Democracy Fund within the United Nations to promote the rule of law and democratic institutions.
David Gollust, VOA News, the United Nations.
注释:
invade 入侵
terrorism 恐怖主义
U.N. Secretary-General 联合国秘书长
the U.N. Security Council 联合国安理会
regime 政体
consequence 结果
resolution 决议
disrupt 破坏
escalate 逐步增强
conviction 信念
tolerate 容忍,宽容
essential 必需的
Israeli-Palestinian conflict 以色列-巴勒斯坦冲突
prejudice 破坏
negotiation 谈判
agenda 议程
Darfur 达尔福尔
cease-fire 停火
comprehensive 全面的,广泛的



1 escalate
v.(使)逐步增长(或发展),(使)逐步升级
  • It would tempt Israel's neighbors to escalate their demands.它将诱使以色列的邻国不断把他们的要求升级。
  • Defeat could cause one side or other to escalate the conflict.失败可能会导致其中一方将冲突升级。
2 incitement
激励; 刺激; 煽动; 激励物
  • incitement to racial hatred 种族仇恨的挑起
  • Interest is an incitement to study. 兴趣刺激学习。
3 dismantle
vt.拆开,拆卸;废除,取消
  • He asked for immediate help from the United States to dismantle the warheads.他请求美国立即提供援助,拆除这批弹头。
  • The mower firmly refused to mow,so I decided to dismantle it.修完后割草机还是纹丝不动,于是,我决定把它拆开。
4 humiliation
n.羞辱
  • He suffered the humiliation of being forced to ask for his cards.他蒙受了被迫要求辞职的羞辱。
  • He will wish to revenge his humiliation in last Season's Final.他会为在上个季度的决赛中所受的耻辱而报复的。
5 negotiations
协商( negotiation的名词复数 ); 谈判; 完成(难事); 通过
  • negotiations for a durable peace 为持久和平而进行的谈判
  • Negotiations have failed to establish any middle ground. 谈判未能达成任何妥协。
6 killing
n.巨额利润;突然赚大钱,发大财
  • Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
  • Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
7 corruption
n.腐败,堕落,贪污
  • The people asked the government to hit out against corruption and theft.人民要求政府严惩贪污盗窃。
  • The old man reviled against corruption.那老人痛斥了贪污舞弊。
8 endorsed
vt.& vi.endorse的过去式或过去分词形式v.赞同( endorse的过去式和过去分词 );在(尤指支票的)背面签字;在(文件的)背面写评论;在广告上说本人使用并赞同某产品
  • The committee endorsed an initiative by the chairman to enter discussion about a possible merger. 委员会通过了主席提出的新方案,开始就可能进行的并购进行讨论。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The government has broadly endorsed a research paper proposing new educational targets for 14-year-olds. 政府基本上支持建议对14 岁少年实行新教育目标的研究报告。 来自《简明英汉词典》
9 outright
adv.坦率地;彻底地;立即;adj.无疑的;彻底的
  • If you have a complaint you should tell me outright.如果你有不满意的事,你应该直率地对我说。
  • You should persuade her to marry you outright.你应该彻底劝服她嫁给你。
学英语单词
AAMIH
anear
astlers
atomic dipole moment
automatic exposure compensation
autoteraploid
Aymores
bank club
Barra do Bugres
barycentric refinement
be overcome with fear
big gray wall
blade pitgh
cervicofacial actinomycosis
cesium(element)
comeuppances
concentric curriculum
damm
dow
down comforter
encoun-tered
fashion dual character
female lamb
fibroma of vagina
filicopsidas
finite arc sine distribution
flexion torsion
formaldehyde treating of gasoline
Frademicina
Gelidocalamus stellatus
goldhagen
guitaba
headless computer
herschell effect
highway tunnel
igneous breccia
in league
Indian berry
issue value
Kayumba, L.
lake baykals
landre
leaf-shapeds
Leshukonskoye
local acceptance
mader
malaria aestivo-autumnalls
mecador chart
mental health
mixed boundary value problem
moonish
moustaphas
multi-shaft arrangement
nasaa
nunation
odai
on-delay time
original beam
Osolē Shet'
P. P. von Mauser
palmar flexion crease
paracaine
park rangers
partial carry
perfect competitive market
phrenopathic
pieve
polar sequence
Policy of Protection in Shipping
PONA number
positively oriented trihedral
postmodernising
Pravoberezhnyy
privileged instruction operation
racecadotril
renoviction
reserved for land expropriation
scenic resort
situation analyzer
sky battle
socioeconomic grade
specific inventory
specification configuration
spot fine
Superfund program
sweep pattern
t-boner
tactism
taper-shank drill
telecine studio
tilt-boat
to the west of
trailing switch machine
transverse springs
tricholoma irinums
Trukese
vertical motion
viand
vibrating rod oiler
Voigt model
Vyshnevolotskaya Gryada
whip shitties