时间:2018-12-01 作者:英语课 分类:VOA标准英语2018年(八月)


英语课

Stabilization 1 Efforts in Syria Working


The enduring defeat of ISIS remains 2 a top priority for the United States. The U.S.-led Global Coalition 3 to Defeat ISIS is leading stabilization efforts that consolidate 4 military gains, restore basic essential services, and enable Syrians to voluntarily and safely return to their homes in Raqqa and other former ISIS strongholds. Assistance includes explosive hazard and rubble 5 removal, providing clean water, rehabilitating 6 electricity networks, and other basic necessities.


Since April, the United States has elicited 7 approximately $300 million in contributions and pledges from Coalition partners to support immediate 8 stabilization and early recovery initiatives in areas liberated 9 from ISIS in northeast Syria, including a generous contribution of $100 million by Saudi Arabia and $50 million by the United Arab Emirates.


People ride their motorcycle by damaged buildings in the old town of Homs, Syria. (Aug. 15, 2018) 


People ride their motorcycle by damaged buildings in the old town of Homs, Syria. (Aug. 15, 2018)


As a result of these generous contributions and other factors, State Department Spokesperson Heather Nauert announced, “the U.S. will redirect 230 million dollars in stabilization funds for Syria which have been under review.”


“This decision does not represent any lessening 10 of U.S. commitment to our strategic goals in Syria,” stressed Ms. Nauert. President Donald Trump 11 has made clear that the U.S. is prepared to remain in Syria until the enduring defeat of ISIS, and the U.S. remains focused on ensuring the withdrawal 12 of Iranian forces and their proxies 13. “We believe,” said Ms. Nauert, “that neither of these events will happen without irreversible progress toward a political resolution of the conflict in accordance with UN Security Council Resolution 2254.”


This decision does not affect U.S. humanitarian 14 assistance. The United States is the largest single country humanitarian donor 15 for the Syria response, providing more than $8.6 billion in humanitarian assistance since the start of the crisis for those displaced inside Syria and the region.


The U.S. will also continue to work with its international partners towards the achievement of a peaceful resolution of the Syrian conflict under an UN-led political process. The Syrian people deserve a country free of war, human rights abuses, and terrorism.



1 Stabilization
稳定化
  • The position of barycentre on plane directly impacts the stabilization and manipulation of plane. 飞机重心位置直接影响飞机的稳定和操纵特性。
  • With the higher olefins, stabilization of the energetic intermediates occurs more easily. 在较高的烯烃情况下,高能的中间物稳定作用更易出现。
2 remains
n.剩余物,残留物;遗体,遗迹
  • He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
  • The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。
3 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。
4 consolidate
v.使加固,使加强;(把...)联为一体,合并
  • The two banks will consolidate in July next year. 这两家银行明年7月将合并。
  • The government hoped to consolidate ten states to form three new ones.政府希望把十个州合并成三个新的州。
5 rubble
n.(一堆)碎石,瓦砾
  • After the earthquake,it took months to clean up the rubble.地震后,花了数月才清理完瓦砾。
  • After the war many cities were full of rubble.战后许多城市到处可见颓垣残壁。
6 rehabilitating
改造(罪犯等)( rehabilitate的现在分词 ); 使恢复正常生活; 使恢复原状; 修复
  • a unit for rehabilitating drug addicts 帮助吸毒者恢复正常生活的机构
  • She was more concerned about protecting the public than rehabilitating the criminal. 她比较关心保护百姓,而不大关心改造罪犯。
7 elicited
引出,探出( elicit的过去式和过去分词 )
  • Threats to reinstate the tax elicited jeer from the Opposition. 恢复此项征税的威胁引起了反对党的嘲笑。
  • The comedian's joke elicited applause and laughter from the audience. 那位滑稽演员的笑话博得观众的掌声和笑声。
8 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。
9 liberated
a.无拘束的,放纵的
  • The city was liberated by the advancing army. 军队向前挺进,解放了那座城市。
  • The heat brings about a chemical reaction, and oxygen is liberated. 热量引起化学反应,释放出氧气。
10 lessening
减轻,减少,变小
  • So however much he earned, she spent it, her demands growing and lessening with his income. 祥子挣多少,她花多少,她的要求随着他的钱涨落。 来自汉英文学 - 骆驼祥子
  • The talks have resulted in a lessening of suspicion. 谈话消减了彼此的怀疑。
11 trump
n.王牌,法宝;v.打出王牌,吹喇叭
  • He was never able to trump up the courage to have a showdown.他始终鼓不起勇气摊牌。
  • The coach saved his star player for a trump card.教练保留他的明星选手,作为他的王牌。
12 withdrawal
n.取回,提款;撤退,撤军;收回,撤销
  • The police were forced to make a tactical withdrawal.警方被迫进行战术撤退。
  • They insisted upon a withdrawal of the statement and a public apology.他们坚持要收回那些话并公开道歉。
13 proxies
n.代表权( proxy的名词复数 );(测算用的)代替物;(对代理人的)委托书;(英国国教教区献给主教等的)巡游费
  • SOCKS and proxies are unavailable. Try connecting to XX again? socks和代理不可用。尝试重新连接到XX吗? 来自互联网
  • All proxies are still down. Continue with direct connections? 所有的代理仍然有故障。继续直接连接吗? 来自互联网
14 humanitarian
n.人道主义者,博爱者,基督凡人论者
  • She has many humanitarian interests and contributes a lot to them.她拥有很多慈善事业,并作了很大的贡献。
  • The British government has now suspended humanitarian aid to the area.英国政府现已暂停对这一地区的人道主义援助。
15 donor
n.捐献者;赠送人;(组织、器官等的)供体
  • In these cases,the recipient usually takes care of the donor afterwards.在这类情况下,接受捐献者以后通常会照顾捐赠者。
  • The Doctor transplanted the donor's heart to Mike's chest cavity.医生将捐赠者的心脏移植进麦克的胸腔。
学英语单词
after treatment with metal salts
air compression station
air-gas ratio
alternate newsgroup
anticounter mining device
antiradio
artificial circuit
asbestos insulating tube
beyond one's comprehension
black stripe
boletus auripes
Bostyn
by-pass valve
Caisse
calcium alginate yarn
capisces
Capracotta
carbon distribution
carbon-hydrogen-oxygen cycle
Cauvin Bank
ch'ing y?eh chi
chief clerk
Chromebook Pixel
compact spinning unit
constructive metamorphism
cord tyre
CUCMS
decampment
Dendrocalamopsis beecheyana
Felchow
fixed seating
fragilely
fundamental frequency band
gang-punch
gas solid chromatography
general purpose instruction
ginmen
give ... a leg up
goldner
half-cells
Herculanean
hexamethyltetramine
high speed screw conveyor
high-handed policy
instantaneous center
interactive simulation program
ischemic anoxias
keep friends with
kitec
kolmogorov dissipation scale
Lezhnevo
lookaside cache
low-density bleaching
make a point clear
make no bones to
Malpighian capsule
Med.Gr.
merchant banks
mirabolic
mycotoxic
Newton-second
night reconnaissance airplane
nonpremieres
nonsynchronous spark gap
paracentesis ventricular
periodic seizure
physiologic dead space
picnic
postrecession
Psychrophylic
punitive justice
radar processing center
railway sub-office
reconfigurable processor
regressive system
riol
self-confirmation
self-selectings
semi-feudalisms
settling accelerator
sharpness factor
short gilts
show one's teeth
spur wheels
standards audit
stellaria dichotoma l.var. lance-olata bunge
tabernaemontana divaricata r.br.
text-oriented data base
the passive
tiettaite
Tobia fever
township enterprises
uggs
uniliche
usct
value of simulation
valvular fold
varietally
vermifuge
welfare dependency
yussef