时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:万花筒2007年


英语课
Good afternoon.

What everyone wants to know: what went down to cause Iran's foreign minister to walk out of Thursday's diplomatic dinner.

Well, you could ask him, er, why he didn't make an effort. Look, I'm, I'm not given to chasing anyone.

Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki was supposed to sit directly across from Rice, but US officials say he bolted when he saw the seating plan. The reason he gave that a red dress worn by a violinist entertaining the group was too revealing. So the face-to-face between Rice and Mottaki never happened. Instead, US and Iranian delegations 1 met at a lower, expert level, which while significant, is not a first. (not a first level though significant)

Our officials did as they did in Baghdad. They have an opportunity to exchange views about the substance of this meeting.

So much of this Iraq summit has been about the US and Iran. But with good reason, America blames Iran for violence in Iraq, Iran blames America, and Iraq is urging both sides to put their differences aside and put Iraq first. And security's what the latest meetings were all about, focusing on tighter borders with Iraq's immediate 2 neighbors, the local leg of this international effort to stabilize 3 Iraq.

Without it, the reach of the violence, may know no boundaries, and the people of Iraq may know no peace. (It sounded like "known", but "may known" doesn't make sense. I think we can blame the Iranian accent for the confusion.)

Now with the discussions about saving Iraq nearing an end, the Iraqis and the world await to see if all that talk turns into action.

Charlie D'agata, CBS news, Sharm el-Sheikh Egypt.


1 delegations
n.代表团( delegation的名词复数 );委托,委派
  • In the past 15 years, China has sent 280 women delegations abroad. 十五年来,中国共派280批妇女代表团出访。 来自汉英非文学 - 白皮书
  • The Sun Ray decision follows the federal pattern of tolerating broad delegations but insisting on safeguards. “阳光”案的判决仿效联邦容许广泛授权的做法,但又坚持保护措施。 来自英汉非文学 - 行政法
2 immediate
adj.立即的;直接的,最接近的;紧靠的
  • His immediate neighbours felt it their duty to call.他的近邻认为他们有责任去拜访。
  • We declared ourselves for the immediate convocation of the meeting.我们主张立即召开这个会议。
3 stabilize
vt.(使)稳定,使稳固,使稳定平衡;vi.稳定
  • They are eager to stabilize currencies.他们急于稳定货币。
  • His blood pressure tended to stabilize.他的血压趋向稳定。
学英语单词
Acacia xanthophloea
active laser tracking system
advisory teachers
aerated stabilization pond
akikoes
al-qadir
at the port
B roads
bad count
bell stage
buffer bar
callionymus curvicornis
canonicalised
capacitive attenuator
cheese and meat loaf
chronic exposure
compatible polymer
compulsory execution
constant strain criterion
continuous creation theory
cremoninis
current processor status
cuzzer
deposit natural gas
diamber
dreamiest
eight-month-olds
electrical fan
electron-beam scanning system
elevator boys
first item list
flameproofing
floor exercise
fore stomach
formatted text
full wave-band receiver
gialanella
high tension bus bar
hobelar
hollow corporation
human-factors engineering
humata trifoliata cavan
ikolo
in ... hair
international electric unit
iron prop
Konbyin
Kuwait City
Kūh-i-Mand
listily
literary tradition
manna insect
mineragraphy
minodronate
multivalued mapping
n.d.c
nonobligatory
outside vapor deposition process deposition rate
pairwise uncorrelated
pashko
pathological set
Peltier's cross
Pend Oreille County
permissioned
Pethidie-Intermediate-A
planer tree
ponded basin
principles of cartographic representation
procumbens
pulver
quasilinear characteristics
questuaries
queue equipment
reheat combustor
rigid check of switch blades
rouge plant
Saravia
saumarez
Schimpfwort
self-balancing hot wire anemometer
septicaemic colibacillosis
soa
sort input file control block
spark source mass spectrometer
spinifolius
stern-droop
sympathetic saliva
tare bottle
text function
three-dimensional lattice
tigella
transferdecoration
trichlorocamphane
triple diagonal matrix
TS
unit banking
US/LS
water purification
water resistant coating
weight spectrum
western tamarack
White Rock