时间:2018-12-08 作者:英语课 分类:VOA标准英语2009年(九月)


英语课

By Kent Klein
White House
29 September 2009


 
President Barack Obama (right) and NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen at White House, 29 Sep 2009 
The secretary general of NATO says he agrees with U.S. President Barack Obama's approach to the war in Afghanistan. The two leaders discussed strategy on Tuesday. 


Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the leader of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, says President Obama is right to decide strategy, then troop strength, for Afghanistan.


"The first thing is not numbers," Rasmussen said. "It is to find and fine-tune the right approach to implement 1 the strategy already laid down. And all NATO allies are right now looking at McChrystal's review."


Army General Stanley McChrystal, the U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan, has sent his evaluation 2 of the situation on the ground to Mr. Obama and European leaders. Among other things, he is calling for more combat troops.


In the Oval Office on Tuesday, the president joined Mr. Rasmussen in saying the NATO operation in Afghanistan is a team effort.


"This is not a American battle; this is a NATO mission as well," Mr. Obama said. "And we are working actively 3 and diligently 4 to consult with NATO at every step of the way."


Mr. Obama is considering whether to send more troops to Afghanistan to prevent the Taliban from again taking control of the country or to use special forces and unmanned spy planes to target al-Qaida in Pakistan.


Either way, the president said U.S. goals in Afghanistan have not changed.


"It is absolutely critical that we are successful in dismantling 5, disrupting, destroying the al Qaida network," Mr. Obama said. "And that we are effectively working with the Afghan government to provide the security necessary for that country."


After meeting with Mr. Obama, NATO's Anders Rasmussen said he is convinced that success in Afghanistan will be achieved.


"This alliance will stand united and we will stay in Afghanistan as long as it takes to finish our job," Rasmussen said.


President Obama's meeting with Mr. Rasmussen is one of a series of meetings on Afghanistan strategy taking place during the next few weeks. A major meeting of key administration and military officials on Afghanistan, originally scheduled for Tuesday, has been postponed 6 until Wednesday.



1 implement
n.(pl.)工具,器具;vt.实行,实施,执行
  • Don't undertake a project unless you can implement it.不要承担一项计划,除非你能完成这项计划。
  • The best implement for digging a garden is a spade.在花园里挖土的最好工具是铁锹。
2 evaluation
n.估价,评价;赋值
  • I attempted an honest evaluation of my own life.我试图如实地评价我自己的一生。
  • The new scheme is still under evaluation.新方案还在评估阶段。
3 actively
adv.积极地,勤奋地
  • During this period all the students were actively participating.在这节课中所有的学生都积极参加。
  • We are actively intervening to settle a quarrel.我们正在积极调解争执。
4 diligently
ad.industriously;carefully
  • He applied himself diligently to learning French. 他孜孜不倦地学法语。
  • He had studied diligently at college. 他在大学里勤奋学习。
5 dismantling
(枪支)分解
  • The new government set about dismantling their predecessors' legislation. 新政府正着手废除其前任所制定的法律。
  • The dismantling of a nuclear reprocessing plant caused a leak of radioactivity yesterday. 昨天拆除核后处理工厂引起了放射物泄漏。
6 postponed
vt.& vi.延期,缓办,(使)延迟vt.把…放在次要地位;[语]把…放在后面(或句尾)vi.(疟疾等)延缓发作(或复发)
  • The trial was postponed indefinitely. 审讯无限期延迟。
  • The game has already been postponed three times. 这场比赛已经三度延期了。
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