时间:2018-12-16 作者:英语课 分类:VOA标准英语2010年(九)月


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The Pakistani government issued a statement late Monday strongly protesting the actions of NATO helicopter crews that reportedly followed hostile targets by air from Afghanistan into Pakistan. The statement said the incidents infringe 1 upon Pakistan's sovereignty and are "a clear violation 2 and breach 3" of the United Nations mandate 4 for the international coalition 5 in Afghanistan.


ISAF spokesman U.S. Captain Ryan Donald in Afghanistan said the first cross-border strike took place Friday after insurgents 6 attacked an Afghan border outpost in eastern Khost province. "ISAF helicopters responded to the attack. And acting 7 in self-defense, they engaged the attackers and crossed briefly 8 - very briefly crossed - into Pakistan, engaged them [and] then came back."


In a second strike Saturday, two helicopters returned to the border area and came under fire before killing 9 several more insurgents.


Parts of Pakistan's tribal 10 areas along the Afghan border are considered militant 11 strongholds, where insurgents regularly launch attacks against NATO troops in Afghanistan. The United States is known to use unmanned aircraft to carry out strikes in the area, but attacks by manned aircraft are rare.


NATO says the cross-border attacks fell within its rules of engagement because the insurgents had attacked them from across the border. Meanwhile, Pakistan maintains that there are no agreed "hot pursuit" rules that would permit the border crossing.


Rasool Bakhash Rais is an international relations expert based in Lahore. He said he he believes Pakistan's promise to "consider response options" to the military action is an empty threat. He said it is not practical to expect NATO troops to abandon pursuit of insurgents as they flee into Pakistan.


"Why would the [NATO] forces on the other side of the border, knowing full well that some militants 12 have attacked their posts and they are running toward Pakistan, would simply stop at this undemarcated border between Afghanistan and Pakistan?" asked Rais.


Rais said he believes the Pakistani government, which is facing its own problems and credibility issues at home, issued the condemnation 13 as a way of saving face domestically.



1 infringe
v.违反,触犯,侵害
  • The jury ruled that he had infringed no rules.陪审团裁决他没有违反任何规定。
  • He occasionally infringe the law by parking near a junction.他因偶尔将车停放在交叉口附近而违反规定。
2 violation
n.违反(行为),违背(行为),侵犯
  • He roared that was a violation of the rules.他大声说,那是违反规则的。
  • He was fined 200 dollars for violation of traffic regulation.他因违反交通规则被罚款200美元。
3 breach
n.违反,不履行;破裂;vt.冲破,攻破
  • We won't have any breach of discipline.我们不允许任何破坏纪律的现象。
  • He was sued for breach of contract.他因不履行合同而被起诉。
4 mandate
n.托管地;命令,指示
  • The President had a clear mandate to end the war.总统得到明确的授权结束那场战争。
  • The General Election gave him no such mandate.大选并未授予他这种权力。
5 coalition
n.结合体,同盟,结合,联合
  • The several parties formed a coalition.这几个政党组成了政治联盟。
  • Coalition forces take great care to avoid civilian casualties.联盟军队竭尽全力避免造成平民伤亡。
6 insurgents
n.起义,暴动,造反( insurgent的名词复数 )
  • The regular troops of Baden joined the insurgents. 巴登的正规军参加到起义军方面来了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Against the Taliban and Iraqi insurgents, these problems are manageable. 要对付塔利班与伊拉克叛乱分子,这些问题还是可以把握住的。 来自互联网
7 acting
n.演戏,行为,假装;adj.代理的,临时的,演出用的
  • Ignore her,she's just acting.别理她,她只是假装的。
  • During the seventies,her acting career was in eclipse.在七十年代,她的表演生涯黯然失色。
8 briefly
adv.简单地,简短地
  • I want to touch briefly on another aspect of the problem.我想简单地谈一下这个问题的另一方面。
  • He was kidnapped and briefly detained by a terrorist group.他被一个恐怖组织绑架并短暂拘禁。
9 killing
n.巨额利润;突然赚大钱,发大财
  • Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
  • Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
10 tribal
adj.部族的,种族的
  • He became skilled in several tribal lingoes.他精通几种部族的语言。
  • The country was torn apart by fierce tribal hostilities.那个国家被部落间的激烈冲突弄得四分五裂。
11 militant
adj.激进的,好斗的;n.激进分子,斗士
  • Some militant leaders want to merge with white radicals.一些好斗的领导人要和白人中的激进派联合。
  • He is a militant in the movement.他在那次运动中是个激进人物。
12 militants
激进分子,好斗分子( militant的名词复数 )
  • The militants have been sporadically fighting the government for years. 几年来,反叛分子一直对政府实施零星的战斗。
  • Despite the onslaught, Palestinian militants managed to fire off rockets. 尽管如此,巴勒斯坦的激进分子仍然发射导弹。
13 condemnation
n.谴责; 定罪
  • There was widespread condemnation of the invasion. 那次侵略遭到了人们普遍的谴责。
  • The jury's condemnation was a shock to the suspect. 陪审团宣告有罪使嫌疑犯大为震惊。
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Abbevillean
accomplet
adaptional
adherometer
anthotype
arenaria peploidess
backward probability
baetz
biogas generating pit
botanicals
bucko
bug bomb
came over to
camerade
Campana, Cerro
cell delineation
cleanser injector
color difference
combustion constant
concept of equilibrium
copper alloys
core array
CREN
Deioces
drug-industry
ending with
ethyl disulfide
EUREDA
forest fire prevention
fresh semen characteristics
G-film
gig-lamp
Godfearers
good-class joinery
gray leaf spot
group rendezvous
hardshipped
heuristic programme
holder condition
Huelva
iodized poppy-seed oil
Isherwood, Christopher
jia sixie
Klansman
labour-union expenditure
leger
lithium myrostate
longlived
make someone turn over in his grave
manual saturation control
metarelations
microreticular resin
nipped off
nohut
offbeat
one connection
Palaeacanthocephala
peakload pressure
pendulum stability
peruana
pflugs
photoceramic
power arm
practises
pricelist
radio station licence
relaying current transformator
Rhizopertha dominica CF
satureia hortenses
scaphotrapezio
scorbutic dysentery
second-channel interference
separated filter
shifting principle
sigh away
silicon nitride passivation
soda brine
spiral cased water turbine
spondulick
spotted dogs
spreader lift
standard elevation
statistics forecast
Stiched
sulci subparietalis
symmetric formulation
thirty-fourth
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three-layer refining process
tight spigot
total magnetization
train destination
tree wallaby
turbo-generator installation
turn and bank indicator
undecanoyls
undermarketed
unimates
vacuum control panel
videocam
XYA (X-Y axis)
Zindiwa