VOA标准英语2009年-Japan Orders Possible North Korean Rocket
时间：2019-01-13 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2009年(三月)
Japan's military is getting ready to shoot down part or all of the rocket North Korea is planning to launch, if it looks like it will land anywhere on Japanese territory. Meanwhile, senior regional envoys 1 are heading to Washington to craft a diplomatic response to the imminent 2 launch.
Japan Maritime 3 Self-Defense 5 Force's warships 6 are moored 7 at JMSDF Sasebo Base in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture (state), southwestern Japan, Friday, 27 Mar 4 2009
Japanese Defense Minister Yasukazu Hamada says he has ordered the interception 8 of any dangerous debris 9, if anything goes wrong with North Korea's planned rocket launch.
He says any missile or rocket flying over Japan is unacceptable, and adds Japan will take approriate measures with anything that affects the nation's interests.
Hamada's comments follow a meeting of Japan's Security Council Friday, at which senior officials voted to approve the use of missile defense technology to destroy any part of the North Korean rocket that looks like it will land on Japan.
North Korea says it will launch, what it says is a communications satellite, sometime between April 4 and April 8. The trajectory 10 is expected to cross Northern Japanese territory.
South Korea, Japan, and the United States view the planned launch as an unacceptable attempt to advance the North's ballistic missile program. The long-range rocket Pyongyang intends to launch is theoretically capable of delivering a warhead as far as the western United States.
Leaders of all three countries, including Japanese Prime Minister Taro 11 Aso, say the launch will violate a United Nations resolution passed after North Korea's 2006 nuclear weapon test.
He says Japan will strongly protest through the United Nations, while also urging North Korea not to carry out the launch.
North Korea says attempts to shoot down its rocket will be an act of war, and that any additional U.N. sanctions resulting from the launch will deal a fatal blow to six-nation talks aimed at ending the North's nuclear weapons programs.
South Korea's delegate to those talks left Friday for Washington for high-level consulations on a diplomatic response to the launch.
- the routine tit for tat when countries expel each other's envoys 国家相互驱逐对方使节这种惯常的报复行动
- Marco Polo's travelogue mentions that Kublai Khan sent envoys to Malgache. 马可波罗游记中提到忽必烈曾派使节到马尔加什。
- The black clounds show that a storm is imminent.乌云预示暴风雨即将来临。
- The country is in imminent danger.国难当头。
- Many maritime people are fishermen.许多居于海滨的人是渔夫。
- The temperature change in winter is less in maritime areas.冬季沿海的温差较小。
- It was not the custom for elderly people to mar the picnics with their presence.大人们照例不参加这样的野餐以免扫兴。
- Such a marriage might mar your career.这样的婚姻说不定会毁了你的一生。
- 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。
- The enemy warships were disengaged from the battle after suffering heavy casualties. 在遭受惨重伤亡后，敌舰退出了海战。
- The government fitted out warships and sailors for them. 政府给他们配备了战舰和水手。
- Aerial photography can provide valuable information on precipitation, evapotraspiration, interception, and runoff. 航空摄影可提供有关降水量、蒸发蒸腾量、入渗和径流量的有价值的资料。
- Light interception and distribution in hedgerow orchards with different alleyway widths is indicated in Fig. 56. 图56显示篱壁果园不同行间宽度的光能截取和分配的情况。
- After the bombing there was a lot of debris everywhere.轰炸之后到处瓦砾成堆。
- Bacteria sticks to food debris in the teeth,causing decay.细菌附着在牙缝中的食物残渣上，导致蛀牙。
- It is not difficult to sketch the subsequent trajectory.很容易描绘出它们最终的轨迹。
- The path followed by a projectile is called its trajectory.抛物体所循的路径称为它的轨道。