时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:访谈录2010


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In the case of BP, it's hard to imagine that a company on such thin ice with the American people after devastating 1 our Gulf 2 Coast would not fully 3 cooperate in getting to the bottom of the release of a terrorist who murdered 189 Americans. It is apparently 4 more important to BP and Mr. Hayward to focus on his multi-million-dollar golden parachute than to help answering lingering questions about whether his company advocated trading blood for oil. To me, I will make and take the sickening corporate 5 irresponsibility into account whenever I look at future issues involving BP's US operations.

The Sky's city editor Mark Kleinman is at BP headquarters in central London. Sky's Greg Milam is in Washington. We'll talk more about the political anger in America in just a moment. But Mark, first you, Tony Hayward says he feels vilified 6 a big incident this, but the political pressure in America something else now.

That's right, Lona. Tony Hayward felt demonized and vilified before this evening, then the senator's comments just underlie 7 the fact that changing leadership of BP is not going to remove him from the line of fire. And it was a point that the chairman of BP, Carl-Henric Svanberg, actually made today when he was asked why the board felt the need to replace Mr. Hayward. The fact is that the US is BP's the most important market, and if it cannot have a solid, robust 8 relationship with the American government and the other American authorities, then BP cannot begin to rebuild its future. So that's the prime reason for Mr. Hayward's removal essentially 9. The other important point is that while Mr. Hayward feels that he has been vilified we have to remember this incident was one in which 11 people lost their lives and one of America's worst environmental disasters has taken place, and ultimately, the bucket has to stopped somewhere. The accounts, the sense of accountability would not have been delivered by BP unless somebody had paid the price with their job, and in this case, it happens to have been Mr. Hayward.

Mark, thank you. Over to Greg in Washington. Tony Hayward leaving his post is clearly not the end of the matter as far as US senators are concerned.

No, there was an extraordinary outburst by Robert Menendez just a short time ago. Not only against Tony Hayward but also apparently calling into question the honesty of the Scottish government and the British government and the former British government by not accepting it appeared what those bodies have told. He is a senator (of) foreign relations committee. He may feel a little sore that he promised answers at that hearing on Thursday and without getting any answers as to who would come and answer the questions if you like, and maybe the climb-down is rather difficult for him to swallow. But we have to remember that David Cameron has said he's seen no evidence that BP's lobbying played any part in the release of the Lockerbie bomber 10, and the Scottish government has made it clear that that release took place purely 11 on compassionate 12 grounds and the medical grounds that their doctors had told them existed. And Jack 13 Straw of course who was also invited and has also refused to come along to that hearing on Thursday has even raised questions about the legitimacy 14 of one country's legislature conducting an inquiry 15 on another country's business. So all of those factors are playing...



1 devastating
adj.毁灭性的,令人震惊的,强有力的
  • It is the most devastating storm in 20 years.这是20年来破坏性最大的风暴。
  • Affairs do have a devastating effect on marriages.婚外情确实会对婚姻造成毁灭性的影响。
2 gulf
n.海湾;深渊,鸿沟;分歧,隔阂
  • The gulf between the two leaders cannot be bridged.两位领导人之间的鸿沟难以跨越。
  • There is a gulf between the two cities.这两座城市间有个海湾。
3 fully
adv.完全地,全部地,彻底地;充分地
  • The doctor asked me to breathe in,then to breathe out fully.医生让我先吸气,然后全部呼出。
  • They soon became fully integrated into the local community.他们很快就完全融入了当地人的圈子。
4 apparently
adv.显然地;表面上,似乎
  • An apparently blind alley leads suddenly into an open space.山穷水尽,豁然开朗。
  • He was apparently much surprised at the news.他对那个消息显然感到十分惊异。
5 corporate
adj.共同的,全体的;公司的,企业的
  • This is our corporate responsibility.这是我们共同的责任。
  • His corporate's life will be as short as a rabbit's tail.他的公司的寿命是兔子尾巴长不了。
6 vilified
v.中伤,诽谤( vilify的过去式和过去分词 )
  • He was vilified in newspapers. 他在报纸上受到了诽谤。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • She was vilified by the press for her controversial views. 因她持有异议,新闻界对她横加挞伐。 来自互联网
7 underlie
v.位于...之下,成为...的基础
  • Technology improvements underlie these trends.科技进步将成为此发展趋势的基础。
  • Many facts underlie my decision.我的决定是以许多事实为依据的。
8 robust
adj.强壮的,强健的,粗野的,需要体力的,浓的
  • She is too tall and robust.她个子太高,身体太壮。
  • China wants to keep growth robust to reduce poverty and avoid job losses,AP commented.美联社评论道,中国希望保持经济强势增长,以减少贫困和失业状况。
9 essentially
adv.本质上,实质上,基本上
  • Really great men are essentially modest.真正的伟人大都很谦虚。
  • She is an essentially selfish person.她本质上是个自私自利的人。
10 bomber
n.轰炸机,投弹手,投掷炸弹者
  • He flew a bomber during the war.他在战时驾驶轰炸机。
  • Detectives hunting the London bombers will be keen to interview him.追查伦敦爆炸案凶犯的侦探们急于对他进行讯问。
11 purely
adv.纯粹地,完全地
  • I helped him purely and simply out of friendship.我帮他纯粹是出于友情。
  • This disproves the theory that children are purely imitative.这证明认为儿童只会单纯地模仿的理论是站不住脚的。
12 compassionate
adj.有同情心的,表示同情的
  • She is a compassionate person.她是一个有同情心的人。
  • The compassionate judge gave the young offender a light sentence.慈悲的法官从轻判处了那个年轻罪犯。
13 jack
n.插座,千斤顶,男人;v.抬起,提醒,扛举;n.(Jake)杰克
  • I am looking for the headphone jack.我正在找寻头戴式耳机插孔。
  • He lifted the car with a jack to change the flat tyre.他用千斤顶把车顶起来换下瘪轮胎。
14 legitimacy
n.合法,正当
  • The newspaper was directly challenging the government's legitimacy.报纸直接质疑政府的合法性。
  • Managing from the top down,we operate with full legitimacy.我们进行由上而下的管理有充分的合法性。
15 inquiry
n.打听,询问,调查,查问
  • Many parents have been pressing for an inquiry into the problem.许多家长迫切要求调查这个问题。
  • The field of inquiry has narrowed down to five persons.调查的范围已经缩小到只剩5个人了。
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address-book
agglutinating
agryban
at (one's) pleasure
autoequivalences
Baccaurea
banana-leaf
Bartholomew doll
bass flute
blood-spattered
brown rice belly
buttered someone up
caridina brevicarpalis
circuit tourism
clomiphenes
closed circuit filling system
coleocela
constrictor naris
corneal abrasion
cosmic microwave radiation
Dalby's carminative
decentred lens
degree of polymerization of a polymer
derrick erecting truck
diachronic public relations
double ended wrench (double ended spanner)
ear tick
focal reducer
Fortcinolone
gafiating
glans of clitoris
gourd vegetables
graphic control
Green Cay
Grosa, I.
heat analysis
high modulus weave
homotharicrine
hosecock
house-party
i-hoked
induced homomorphism
indurain
infant-toddler
infantile oxyuriasis
integral joint casing
Jiantizi
Kombinat
Krasnovodsk
lepiota alba
liverer
low frequency electrical porcelain
mcgarvey
mercurification
nearest neighbor search
nerve cement
non-convertible
off-keier
one group critical equation
ony
orris-powder
palew
palmatipartite
partially hanging rudder
petrophytes
phase accumulator
photohobia
phylloporus rhodoxanthus
Piper betle L.
platismatia formosana
pledge card
plumpline
preset potentiometer
profitability index
propylene glycol alginate
public-address systems
randonnee
reflected radiation
relocating loader
ricebird
rolled joint
roof baggage rack
rubber sleeve core barrel
sea otter fur
shore-fast
sight bill
sodium ethyl sulfate
somlich
spell-binders
stabilized sulphur trioxide
synandrium
tan sb's hide
tank drainback
time correction circuit
too littlest
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two-way latticed grid
video-tapeds
well-carved
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