时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:万花筒2009年


英语课

The news bulletin ran on KRT. North Korea fired a long-range missile over the weekend. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.


 


"It's a provocative 1 act that has grave implications; North Korea ignored its international obligations, rejected the unequivocal calls for restraint and further isolated 2 itself from the community of nations."


 


Pyongyang is flexing 3 its muscles as US President Barack Obama has been overseas, trying to find common cause on the global economy and shore up support for US efforts in Afghanistan. Bruce Klingner of the Heritage Foundation.


 


It's not only a test of the Obama Administration both to see whether its actions match its so far commendably 4 firm rhetoric 5 towards North Korea, but also how good is Obama at influencing China and Russia to do the right thing.


 


The permanent 5 members of the UN Security Council are meeting to work on a response which has eluded 6 the Council so far.


 


Also it's a direct challenge to the UN Security Council. Will it defend its resolutions, if it wants to maintain any real viability 7?


 


Diplomats 8 say China and Russia would probably accept a Security Council warning to Pyongyang, urging it to comply with UN resolutions and return to the Six--Party Talks. But they would oppose a binding 9 resolution intended to punish North Korea.


 


Deborah Lutterbeck, Reuters


 



1 provocative
adj.挑衅的,煽动的,刺激的,挑逗的
  • She wore a very provocative dress.她穿了一件非常性感的裙子。
  • His provocative words only fueled the argument further.他的挑衅性讲话只能使争论进一步激化。
2 isolated
adj.与世隔绝的
  • His bad behaviour was just an isolated incident. 他的不良行为只是个别事件。
  • Patients with the disease should be isolated. 这种病的患者应予以隔离。
3 flexing
n.挠曲,可挠性v.屈曲( flex的现在分词 );弯曲;(为准备大干而)显示实力;摩拳擦掌
  • Flexing particular muscles allows snakes to move in several ways. 可弯曲的特殊的肌肉使蛇可以用几种方式移动。 来自电影对白
  • China has become an economic superpower and is flexing its muscles. 中国已经成为了一个经济巨人而且在展示他的肌肉。 来自互联网
4 commendably
很好地
  • So, workflow management technology is create, and then develop commendably. 于是工作流管理技术应运而生,并且蓬勃发展起来。 来自互联网
  • Mr McCain is a commendably committed free-trader. 麦凯恩是一个标志明显的自由贸易主义者。 来自互联网
5 rhetoric
n.修辞学,浮夸之言语
  • Do you know something about rhetoric?你懂点修辞学吗?
  • Behind all the rhetoric,his relations with the army are dangerously poised.在冠冕堂皇的言辞背后,他和军队的关系岌岌可危。
6 eluded
v.(尤指机敏地)避开( elude的过去式和过去分词 );逃避;躲避;使达不到
  • The sly fox nimbly eluded the dogs. 那只狡猾的狐狸灵活地躲避开那群狗。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • The criminal eluded the police. 那个罪犯甩掉了警察的追捕。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
7 viability
n.存活(能力)
  • What is required to achieve or maintain such viability? 要达到或维持这种生存能力需要什么?
  • Scientists are experimenting to find ways to ensure the viability of seeds for even longer periods of time. 正如我们所说,科学家正在试验努力寻找让种子的生命力更加延长的方法。
8 diplomats
n.外交官( diplomat的名词复数 );有手腕的人,善于交际的人
  • These events led to the expulsion of senior diplomats from the country. 这些事件导致一些高级外交官被驱逐出境。
  • The court has no jurisdiction over foreign diplomats living in this country. 法院对驻本国的外交官无裁判权。 来自《简明英汉词典》
9 binding
有约束力的,有效的,应遵守的
  • The contract was not signed and has no binding force. 合同没有签署因而没有约束力。
  • Both sides have agreed that the arbitration will be binding. 双方都赞同仲裁具有约束力。
学英语单词
a five year plan
aacms
Abū Dulayq
accrued interest
action for collision damages
advertising-agency
al-farabi
allowable buckling stress
ball tipped pipette
Barakovo
be in love with
brittle behavior
calcifies
Chagodoshchenskiy Rayon
choking speed
close supporting fire
concealed radiator
consumable weight
cyclopirox
cypraea musumea
destination language
diaphus coeruleus
dinitrogen oxide
dinner at eight
direct-current suppressor
electrical governing
fixed-bed catalytic reactor
full size
funambulous
fuzzy clustering
genom(e)
glacial plucking
glycoaldehyde
governor cover
graduated cylinder
gubernatorial election
gyroscopic stabilizers
half-oval edge
history of pharmacy
holocentromere
hook damage and containmination
hot reactivation
hydrodynamic pressure lubrication
It rains pitchforks.
Kuamut
load of lifting
long-haul optics
lymphogranuloma benignum
MacNeal medium Novy Nicolle
macroscope fractography
make our bread
mechanical pusher ram
mercury method
metamorphic conglomerate
methylsufonyl chloride
Micruroides euryxanthus
miscognizant
Missouri Bootheel
mistransliteration
much-older
multiple web system
mutograph
n.r.
nonsinglet
note-tre
number of starts
numerical emulation
onuphids
Paralepis
PE-PC
Pegon
plesiosaur
point d'appui
power-driven tool
receptive field
retrodifferentiation
rock snakes
run after sb
sansworth
santa maria del rio
sateless
Sekhpāra
Shirokaya, Gora
slidin'
slop of lift curve
soccer violence
stiff little fingers
stigmators
sweating of hands and feet
trans-methylbutenedioyl
turfy
tutocaine
tuyere valve
urethral catheter with rotation tip
Urlev
Utend.
vassal states
vorticity transprot
walden pond
water screw
water-quality monitoring
wool plucker