VOA常速英语2017--美国呼吁北约成员国增大国防支出

The United States remains 1 committed to revitalizing NATO so it can meet today's security needs while maintaining the fundamental principle of Article 5 — that an attack on one is an attack on all, said the U.S. Ambassador to NATO Kay Bailey Hutchison.

美国始终致力于复兴北约，这样，北约就能在满足当今时代安全需求的同时，维护根本性的原则，即第5条款——对一个成员国的攻击就是对整个北约的攻击，美国驻北约大使凯如是说道。

A renaissance 2 of NATO offers the best hope to unite the United States and its Western Allies against threats including Russian aggression 3 in Europe, including Georgia and Ukraine, Russian malign 4 influence activities, international terrorism, nuclear and missile capacities of rogue 5 nations, and efforts to wipe out religious and individual freedoms around the globe.

北约的新生是将美国与其西方盟友联合起来抵抗威胁的最大希望所在，这威胁来自俄罗斯对欧洲（包括格鲁吉亚、乌克兰）的侵略、俄罗斯从事的恶意影响活动、国际恐怖主义、流氓国家具备核导弹能力、破坏全球宗教自由与个人自由的势力。

NATO is the most successful alliance in world history, said Ambassador Hutchison. It was founded on the conviction that by joining together, the democracies of Europe and North America could best deter 6 and counter Communist expansion.

大使凯表示，北约是世界历史上最成功的联盟。其成立的前提信念是，通过协力合作，欧洲和北美洲的民主是抵制共产主义扩张的最好方式。

The collapse 7 of the Soviet 8 Union in the 1990s led to a brief era of good feelings as security concerns appeared less important and many nations reduced their defense 9 investments.

20世纪90年代苏联解体后，出现了一个短暂的怡然自得时期——安全方面的顾虑变得不那么重要，因而很多国家减少了他们在国防方面的支出。

But those days are long gone, said Ambassador Hutchison. New security challenges have appeared in the form of Russia's military aggression in Ukraine and Georgia. Terrorism has dramatically grown as a worldwide threat, including in Europe, as the recent attack in Spain demonstrated.

但大使凯表示，这样的日子已经一去不复返了。一些新的安全挑战以俄罗斯军事入侵的形式出现在乌克兰和格鲁吉亚。恐怖主义骤然成为包括欧洲在内的全球性的威胁，这一点从西班牙最近遭遇的袭击中可见一斑。

As an essential part of this revitalization, NATO Allies must meet the defense-spending pledge made at the 2014 Summit in Wales — namely, 2 percent of gross domestic product, of which 20 percent is spent on major equipment and modernization 10. This is necessary, said Ambassador Hutchison, because their own security and our collective security require it.

作为北约复兴的重要组成部分，北约各个成员国必须满足其在2014威尔士峰会期间做出的有关国防支出的承诺——将GDP总量的2%用于国防，并将国防支出的20%用于大型设备和现代化建设。大使凯表示，这是有必要的，因为无论是每个成员国的安全还是整个北约的安全都倚仗着这部分支出。

Under NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg's leadership, Allies agreed to outline concrete plans for reaching this two percent military spending goal. In June, Allies individually agreed to take on, for the first time, the full set of military capability 11 targets assigned to them by NATO.

在北约秘书长延斯 斯托尔滕贝格的领导下，各个成员国同意制定具体方案来实现这个2%军事支出的目标。6月，各成员国首次全部同意承担由北约分派给他们的整套构建军事能力的目标。

The United States remains committed to the collective defense mission of NATO. President Trump 12 has proposed spending nearly $4.8 billion on the European Deterrence 13 Initiative, an effort to shore up security in NATO's eastern edge, as a demonstration 14 of the United States' will to defend its Allies. As Ambassador Hutchinson stressed, twenty-nine Western democracies are far more effective at ensuring our security than one country acting 15 alone.

美国始终致力于联合国的整体国防任务。总统特朗普已提出支出近48亿美元用于欧洲威慑计划，该计划旨在巩固北约东部边缘的安全形势。同时，此举也证明了美国捍卫其盟友利益的意愿。正如大使凯所指出的那样，29个西方民主国家若是能一起捍卫我们的安全，那效果要远远好于一个国家单枪匹马。