时间:2018-12-08 作者:英语课 分类:VOA标准英语2018年(八月)


英语课

 


Terrorists like to travel. “Terrorist groups like ISIS and al-Qa'ida depend on travel,” said Ambassador-at-Large and Coordinator 1 for Counterterrorism Nathan Sales to Trans-Atlantic alliance partners at a recent conference hosted by the German Marshall Fund. “They have to travel to receive training. They have to travel to case their targets. They have to travel to carry out their attacks. Every time they board a plane or cross a border, we have an opportunity to detect and capture them.”


“When ISIS attempted to create a physical Caliphate, an unprecedented 2 number of foreign terrorist fighters – roughly 40,000 people – flocked to the war zone in Syria and Iraq. And now that we've liberated 3 some 98 percent of the territory ISIS once held, there's a risk that some of these battle-hardened veterans will return home or relocate to third countries.”


To identify terrorists or suspicious persons hiding among international travelers, the United States uses PNR, or Passenger Name Records, to search out those who may pose a threat and should be prioritized for additional screening. PNR is information provided by passengers and collected by air carriers for enabling reservations and carrying out the check-in process.


In December 2017, the UN Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 2396, which, among other things, obliges all UN Member States to develop the capability 4 to collect, process, and analyze 5 PNR to limit terrorist travel.


The United States applauds the passage of Resolution 2396, and is prepared to help other countries implement 6 their obligations to develop PNR systems. So we will continue to push for fast and full implementation 7 of Resolution 2396 and to highlight the value of PNR. We will also share our PNR system with any country that wants it.


And we will work with the International Civil Aviation Organization to establish appropriate Standards and Recommended Practices for PNR.


“The United States and the nations of Europe are strategic partners on virtually every major issue of the day. Indeed, more than partners – allies and friends. Nowhere is this transatlantic synergy more apparent than in our joint 8 struggle against global terrorism,” said Ambassador Sales.


“We share the same values, we share the same interests, and we share the same enemies. In short, we're in this together. There's a lot of work ahead of us in the fight against terrorism. Only by facing it together can we win.”



1 coordinator
n.协调人
  • The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, headed by the Emergency Relief Coordinator, coordinates all UN emergency relief. 联合国人道主义事务协调厅在紧急救济协调员领导下,负责协调联合国的所有紧急救济工作。
  • How am I supposed to find the client-relations coordinator? 我怎么才能找到客户关系协调员的办公室?
2 unprecedented
adj.无前例的,新奇的
  • The air crash caused an unprecedented number of deaths.这次空难的死亡人数是空前的。
  • A flood of this sort is really unprecedented.这样大的洪水真是十年九不遇。
3 liberated
a.无拘束的,放纵的
  • The city was liberated by the advancing army. 军队向前挺进,解放了那座城市。
  • The heat brings about a chemical reaction, and oxygen is liberated. 热量引起化学反应,释放出氧气。
4 capability
n.能力;才能;(pl)可发展的能力或特性等
  • She has the capability to become a very fine actress.她有潜力成为杰出演员。
  • Organizing a whole department is beyond his capability.组织整个部门是他能力以外的事。
5 analyze
vt.分析,解析 (=analyse)
  • We should analyze the cause and effect of this event.我们应该分析这场事变的因果。
  • The teacher tried to analyze the cause of our failure.老师设法分析我们失败的原因。
6 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。
7 implementation
n.实施,贯彻
  • Implementation of the program is now well underway.这一项目的实施现在行情看好。
8 joint
adj.联合的,共同的;n.关节,接合处;v.连接,贴合
  • 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。
学英语单词
ACL - access control list
affect adjective checklist
Arthroascus
auxiliary plane of symmetry
blackwater r.
bring ... forward
butterfly-nut
Caprivi Reg.
carboned
cell type tube
collapsible containers
contra vat
Cyperus michelianus
cypraea eglantina
deflection machanism
defruiter equipment
detecting power
determinands
dog's letter
draw shot
earthed aerial
ectosarcs
eisen
electives
encl.
enter into commitment
essential bargaining problem
fargas
fifteenthly
fore distance indicator
formicans stupor
freely falling body
Fubini's theorem
Giglio Island
grocery bags
guideboat
Gómez Rendón
have dealing with
hitch wheel
hongkelin
hyperexcitement
ill health
imitative synkinesia
impact matrix
internal machine representation
karageorge
kolmogorov turbulence
labour-intensive
laccose
Madsenia
manual hoisting
microamp
mile-high club
Mono S cation exchanger
mumak
Muslimophile
niccin'
Nodapton
non loaded cable
noninsured
oil-firing boiler
palmar metacarpal artery (or large metacarpal artery)
parted pattern
pastureland water conservancy
pelletizing effect
polluting oil
prize ring
pteridium esculentums
rate of bearing variation
reappareled
rear-unloading vehicle
reciprocal spectrum
regiones plantares digitorum pedis
reset attachment
Rhipidistians
rock maple
Rubus hypargyrus
salve a sore
sea canal
sherwood andersons
slot(ting)
snorkel exhaust valve
sopental
sovereign status
squamous carcinoma of larynx
steepest descent method
stress-strain-history relation
surface-consistent static correction
teal oil
termination of procedure
theory-practice
three misthread defense
to bargain
total outflow
tromp and stomp
undog
up-bow
upper space law
usain
utilization time
xystos
zinc hydrosulfite (zinc dithionite)