VOA标准英语2015--Seoul Sponsors Korean Unification Fair
时间：2018-12-08 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2015年(五月)
Seoul Sponsors Korean Unification Fair
SEOUL—
Although relations between the two Koreas have deteriorated 1 over the North’s nuclear program, past military provocations 2 and human rights abuses, many Koreans still hold out hope for eventual 3 peaceful re-unification. A “unification fair” was held this week in Seoul, where border communities promoted the benefits of increased cooperation and North Korean defectors shared their stories of assimilating into the South.
Shin Eun-ha, a North Korean defector, became famous in the South after being featured on a television dating program. Her message for all Koreans who come to this event organized by South Korea’s Unification Ministry 4 is that what unites them is stronger than the governments and ideologies 5 that divide them.
“I would like to tell South Koreans that love, happiness and hope also exist in North Korea,” she said.
Over 160 civic 6 groups, businesses and local governments set up exhibits in the heart of Seoul to voice support for ending the division of the Korean peninsula.
Korea was split 70 years ago, at the end of World War II, and the two Koreas remain on wartime footing since their war in the 1950s. Relations have deteriorated since 2010, when Seoul accused Pyongyang of sinking a South Korean warship 7.
South Korea’s imposed sanctions on the North - called the May 24th measures - included ending a local Kyungsang province project that sent thousands of strawberry plants across the border each year.
Kwon Moon-soo of the Kyungsang agriculture association said it is time to lift these restrictions 8.
“This year marks the 70th anniversary of the division and reunification is becoming more difficult as the years pass,” said Kwon.
Kangwon Province is the only divided province on the Korean peninsula. South of the border the province will host the 2018 Winter Olympics. To the North lies Mt. Keumgang, which was a special joint 9 tourist zone until 2008, when the killing 10 of a visitor by North Korean soldiers ended the venture.
Kangwon Province official Kim Jung-yoon said reopening the mountain project would offer a message of hope.
“Even though the tours have been stopped, if they resume, it will be meaningful for the economy and significant for the reunification effort," said Kim.
Pyongyang has repeatedly rejected Seoul’s offers to talk about unification, saying the economically advanced South only wants to absorb the impoverished 11 North. While high-level negotiations 12 have stalled, many here hope restarting local projects may help bring a peaceful resolution to the seven-decade standoff.
- Her health deteriorated rapidly, and she died shortly afterwards. 她的健康状况急剧恶化，不久便去世了。
- His condition steadily deteriorated. 他的病情恶化，日甚一日。
- We cannot ignore such provocations. 对于这种挑衅，我们不能置之不理。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
- They must immediately cease all their provocations. 他们必须停止一切挑衅。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
- Several schools face eventual closure.几所学校面临最终关闭。
- Both parties expressed optimism about an eventual solution.双方对问题的最终解决都表示乐观。
- They sent a deputation to the ministry to complain.他们派了一个代表团到部里投诉。
- We probed the Air Ministry statements.我们调查了空军部的记录。
- There is no fundamental diversity between the two ideologies. 这两种思想意识之间并没有根本的分歧。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Radical ideologies require to contrast to their own goodness the wickedness of some other system. 凡是过激的意识形态，都需要有另外一个丑恶的制度作对比，才能衬托出自己的善良。 来自辞典例句
- I feel it is my civic duty to vote.我认为投票选举是我作为公民的义务。
- The civic leaders helped to forward the project.市政府领导者协助促进工程的进展。
- He is serving on a warship in the Pacific.他在太平洋海域的一艘军舰上服役。
- The warship was making towards the pier.军舰正驶向码头。
- I found the restrictions irksome. 我对那些限制感到很烦。
- a snaggle of restrictions 杂乱无章的种种限制
- I had a bad fall,which put my shoulder out of joint.我重重地摔了一跤，肩膀脫臼了。
- We wrote a letter in joint names.我们联名写了封信。
- 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。
- the impoverished areas of the city 这个城市的贫民区
- They were impoverished by a prolonged spell of unemployment. 他们因长期失业而一贫如洗。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- 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。