时间:2019-01-12 作者:英语课 分类:VOA标准英语2008年(九月)


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Afghanistan's defense 1 minister is in Washington, promoting his plan to establish a joint 2 Afghan-Pakistani military force to patrol the dangerous border between the two countries. VOA's Kent Klein reports.
 
Afghan Defense Minister Abdul Rahim Wardak, 22 Sep 2008


Violence in Afghanistan this year is at its highest level since the U.S.-led invasion in 2001. Some 3,000 people have been killed in Afghanistan during the past year. U.S. President George Bush has promised to send about 4,500 additional American troops to Afghanistan in January.


One of the most violent areas of Afghanistan is the mountainous region along the border with Pakistan, where the leaders of the Taliban and the al-Qaida terror network are believed to be operating.


Afghanistan's Defense Minister, General Abdul Rahim Wardak, says he wants to work with his counterparts in Pakistan to create a joint military force to fight terrorism in the region.


"We need to establish an enhanced mechanism 3 for practical cross-border cooperation, including strengthening routine links between our military, border security and law enforcement institutions. We must move beyond diplomacy 4 and confidence-builing exchanges, to the delivery of practical results," he said.


Wardak spoke 5 Wednesday at a forum 6 at The Heritage Foundation, a Washington-based research institute.


"We should help each other interfere 7 with the terrorists' communication, planning, weapon procurement 8, training and capturing their senior leadership. I continue to believe that we need mechanisms 9 for responding jointly 10 to incidents, whichever side of the border they occur," he said.


General Wardak says he has not discussed the proposal with Pakistani officials.


Wardak acknowledges that the Taliban is gaining strength and becoming more organized. But he says Afghanistan's national security forces and police have been improving steadily 11, and that he is optimistic that stability and security can be achieved.


The defense minister says international support will be crucial in the near term.


"An increase of international forces is welcome, and can provide transitional relief, until the Afghan national security forces are fully 12 developed. But the Afghan national security forces are the long-term solution," he said.


General Wardak says the second factor for success is whether Afghanistan's electoral institutions deliver a legitimate 13, elected government. The third, he says, is international pressure to deny safe haven 14, sanctuary 15 and support for terrorists.


The Afghan defense minister says turning back the recent surge in violence will require increasing the size of Afghanistan's Army from 76,000 troops to 134,000.


 



n.防御,保卫;[pl.]防务工事;辩护,答辩
  • The accused has the right to defense.被告人有权获得辩护。
  • The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers.战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。
adj.联合的,共同的;n.关节,接合处;v.连接,贴合
  • I had a bad fall,which put my shoulder out of joint.我重重地摔了一跤,肩膀脫臼了。
  • We wrote a letter in joint names.我们联名写了封信。
n.机械装置;机构,结构
  • The bones and muscles are parts of the mechanism of the body.骨骼和肌肉是人体的组成部件。
  • The mechanism of the machine is very complicated.这台机器的结构是非常复杂的。
n.外交;外交手腕,交际手腕
  • The talks have now gone into a stage of quiet diplomacy.会谈现在已经进入了“温和外交”阶段。
  • This was done through the skill in diplomacy. 这是通过外交手腕才做到的。
n.(车轮的)辐条;轮辐;破坏某人的计划;阻挠某人的行动 v.讲,谈(speak的过去式);说;演说;从某种观点来说
  • They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
  • The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。
n.论坛,讨论会
  • They're holding a forum on new ways of teaching history.他们正在举行历史教学讨论会。
  • The organisation would provide a forum where problems could be discussed.这个组织将提供一个可以讨论问题的平台。
v.(in)干涉,干预;(with)妨碍,打扰
  • If we interfere, it may do more harm than good.如果我们干预的话,可能弊多利少。
  • When others interfere in the affair,it always makes troubles. 别人一卷入这一事件,棘手的事情就来了。
n.采购;获得
  • He is in charge of the procurement of materials.他负责物资的采购。
  • More and more,human food procurement came to have a dominant effect on their evolution.人类获取食物愈来愈显著地影响到人类的进化。
n.机械( mechanism的名词复数 );机械装置;[生物学] 机制;机械作用
  • The research will provide direct insight into molecular mechanisms. 这项研究将使人能够直接地了解分子的机理。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • He explained how the two mechanisms worked. 他解释这两台机械装置是如何工作的。 来自《简明英汉词典》
ad.联合地,共同地
  • Tenants are jointly and severally liable for payment of the rent. 租金由承租人共同且分别承担。
  • She owns the house jointly with her husband. 她和丈夫共同拥有这所房子。
adv.稳定地;不变地;持续地
  • The scope of man's use of natural resources will steadily grow.人类利用自然资源的广度将日益扩大。
  • Our educational reform was steadily led onto the correct path.我们的教学改革慢慢上轨道了。
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。
adj.合法的,合理的,合乎逻辑的;v.使合法
  • Sickness is a legitimate reason for asking for leave.生病是请假的一个正当的理由。
  • That's a perfectly legitimate fear.怀有这种恐惧完全在情理之中。
n.安全的地方,避难所,庇护所
  • It's a real haven at the end of a busy working day.忙碌了一整天后,这真是一个安乐窝。
  • The school library is a little haven of peace and quiet.学校的图书馆是一个和平且安静的小避风港。
n.圣所,圣堂,寺庙;禁猎区,保护区
  • There was a sanctuary of political refugees behind the hospital.医院后面有一个政治难民的避难所。
  • Most countries refuse to give sanctuary to people who hijack aeroplanes.大多数国家拒绝对劫机者提供庇护。
学英语单词
action ex delicto
adjustment by direction
aeroplanists
aluminium-foil with paper lining
angloirish
antique and curio dealer
askout
back mutation
blow-down system
budget estimates making
byoir
carries through
CDAJ
CDP-diacylglycerol
chabertia
chain of model
channel terminal bay
consultant expert
copper-tipped
craniopathy
cutaneous pruritus
dinitrophenamic acid
direct suction
displacement camera
draw a line under
ease in
Ecrinex
electric instrument
Emmendorf
export profit index
familial hypercholesterolemias
firing order
float-actuated level controller
flooding calculation
flufenoxuron
galling of rings
gelatin duplicating process paper
gelperin
geochemical barrier
grand schemes
greatful
Hösbach
i love it
influence peddling
instrument bay
insulations
ischemia retinae
isoattenuation
jamaa
John,Augustus(Edwin)
Krzanowice
magnetic storm time
margaret-cavendish
mercantile open-stock burglary insurance
mining metallurgy
modem eliminator
motor-operated main gate valve
Mujanovic
munidopsis nitida
Murphy Oil Corp.
netsplitted
non-toxic gas
northleighs
organs of Ruffini
parrotings
physaraceous
plain set
polyacenaphthylene
poundlar
process mode
protected check
public nuisance analysis
Puerto Isabel
raptus nervorum
redundant technique
registration of assignment
reusable attribute
roothair zone
rosmary
round steel fork
saturnine tremor
sectioning loop
seeksorrow
single spindle miller
sit on sb
sixas
spot weld nugget
square flag
staight needle
starting slope
superstars
system supplied subroutine
T.T.T.
tall herb community
technical clause
telegraphings
telnets
tenant in fee simple
timpsons
to ... advantage
transpose of semilinear transformation
underdrawer