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


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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
.z
a tale of a tub
ABEPP
aquatic bird
archimimes
arthropod parasites of mice
assay-mark
batune
bismar
biting trace
black mambas
boomaler
Bozeman's speculum
caddied
calcium-magnesium phosphate
character field
chart fills
commission received account
counter drug
d-amylbromide
Dalton-in-Furness
deck landing aeroplane
Dendrobium christyanum
do ... fine
dorso-abdominal sulcus
duckweeds
ease ii engineering
electronic warfare-support measures
element variable
enatiozoa
equivalent head wind
ex-claimed
fiduciary circulation
fin housing and extending gear
fog-horn
formament
Fukuoka
Gallatin Gateway
genus podalyrias
gimmickry
glycolylneuraminates
go bankrupt
heavy section prop
hemetoxic anemia
idle signal
invincible
isopaulownin
kerfluffle
Kirchhoff integral theorem
knock ... block off
krogen
laser effect
lava flow
Lomond
Mattaincourt
metamorphic ore deposit
Mojos, Llanos de
Moro's tests
Naksalbāri
name of agent
neutral currents
Odra
old-age education
overboiling
overlapping propellers
paperold
particle separation
phosphinothioyl
pivot gauge
plasma fibrinogen
prokayotaes
pseudokettle
pull away
ruhr valleys
single large expensive disk
Slutsky proposition
social medicine
something to carry on with
spermathecal orifice
spin-doctor
square accounts
stably
standard implicit method
state classification
steam gas
symmetrical spherical triangles
syracosphaera exigua
São Caetano de Odivelas
tea biscuits
tender coal board slide
tetraalkylammonium salt
tox.
tramp's lagging
transracialism
twee pop
type of economics
unctment
uniform charge
unrepressedly
upon sufferance
wise to
Wyssakovitsch's law