VOA标准英语2012--Middle East Indifferent About US Presidential Election
时间：2018-12-16 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2012年(十一月)
Middle East Indifferent About US Presidential Election
People across the Middle East have been roiled 1 by political change for nearly two years, So it's perhaps not surprising the U.S. presidential election is failing to garner 2 much interest.
Few are expressing a preference for either President Barack Obama or challenger Mitt 3 Romney, even as both make the Middle East a key foreign policy issue.
Romney sees a region in chaos 4.
“We're talking about the Middle East and how to help the Middle East reject the kind of terrorism we're seeing and the rising tide of tumult 5 and confusion,” he said.
For some in the Arab world, any talk of “help” from any U.S. politician comes across as arrogant 6.
“It's as if it's a teacher holding a stick to the student - as if Arabs are students in a classroom in front of him. This is all I see from America,” said Ayman Kamal, a store clerk in Cairo.
Others fear continued U.S. military interference in the region, despite calls for caution from President Obama.
“For us to get more entangled 7 militarily in Syria is a serious step," Obama noted 8.
“We don't want to have military involvement there," Romney said. "We don't want to get drawn 9 into a military conflict.”
Author and political scientist Hassan Nafaa says it doesn't matter who wins.
“Because it doesn't make any difference whether we have Obama or Romney. But the intellectuals, certainly, would prefer Obama," he opined, "rather than Romney because he will be more careful in using force to achieve the U.S. goals and interests.”
Obama raised high hopes in 2009, promising 10 a fresh start for the U.S. in the Middle East during a speech in Cairo. But disappointment followed, as did the Arab Spring. Agathon Shehata is a Coptic priest
“Obama's policies were not what we much expected. I can't say more, just we didn't expect them to be like that,” the priest said.
For Hassan Nafaa, the biggest disappointment was no change in U.S. policy on the Arab-Israeli conflict.
“Everybody knows the United States, whoever is governing this big important international actor, will be very much supportive to Israel," he said. "So, as long as the U.S. president doesn't change the current American policy in the Middle East, we will see the United States as playing a negative role in this part of the world and nothing will be changed.
Both candidates have pledged full backing of America's long-time ally and that continued support is a perennial 11 rallying cry for anti-Americanism in the region.
- American society is being roiled by the controversy over homosexual marriage. 当今美国社会正被有关同性恋婚姻的争论搞得不得安宁。 来自互联网
- In the past few months, instability has roiled Tibet and Tibetan-inhabited areas. 在过去的几个月里，西藏和藏人居住区不稳定。 来自互联网
- He has garnered extensive support for his proposals.他的提议得到了广泛的支持。
- Squirrels garner nuts for the winter.松鼠为过冬储存松果。
- I gave him a baseball mitt for his birthday.为祝贺他的生日，我送给他一只棒球手套。
- Tom squeezed a mitt and a glove into the bag.汤姆把棒球手套和手套都塞进袋子里。
- After the failure of electricity supply the city was in chaos.停电后，城市一片混乱。
- The typhoon left chaos behind it.台风后一片混乱。
- The tumult in the streets awakened everyone in the house.街上的喧哗吵醒了屋子里的每一个人。
- His voice disappeared under growing tumult.他的声音消失在越来越响的喧哗声中。
- You've got to get rid of your arrogant ways.你这骄傲劲儿得好好改改。
- People are waking up that he is arrogant.人们开始认识到他很傲慢。
- The bird had become entangled in the wire netting. 那只小鸟被铁丝网缠住了。
- Some military observers fear the US could get entangled in another war. 一些军事观察家担心美国会卷入另一场战争。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The local hotel is noted for its good table.当地的那家酒店以餐食精美而著称。
- Jim is noted for arriving late for work.吉姆上班迟到出了名。
- All the characters in the story are drawn from life.故事中的所有人物都取材于生活。
- Her gaze was drawn irresistibly to the scene outside.她的目光禁不住被外面的风景所吸引。