VOA标准英语2009年-Russia to Develop Strategic Nuclear Forces Desp
时间：2019-01-13 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2009年(二月)
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov says development of his country's strategic nuclear forces will be the government's top military procurement 1 priority in 2009. Ivanov's statement was made while Russia faces a budget deficit 2 and its defense 3 industry says it is having trouble getting loans due to the global economic crisis.
Sergei Ivanov (file photo)
Addressing lawmakers in the lower house of the Russian Parliament, Sergei Ivanov said Russia's military industrial complex has been considerably 4 less affected 5 by the global economic crisis than the country's civilian 6 industries. The reason, he says, is simple - defense industries are funded by the state budget.
Ivanov notes there has also been no decrease in demand for Russian military exports, adding that the rising value of the U.S. dollar favors his country's defense industry.
The senior official says the government will focus on three aspects of military procurement in 2009; purchase of new equipment, research and development, and repair and modernization 7 of existing equipment. Within these expenditures 8, he says priority will be given to Russia's strategic nuclear forces.
Ivanov says he is being frank so that everyone knows this includes the entire triad of strategic forces - missile defense, navy and air force. He recognizes this priority will be very expensive, but says Russians have no other way but to develop and perfect their strategic nuclear deterrent 9.
Ivanov also urged lawmakers to pass a measure to regulate the price of weapons and military hardware. And he said the best way to minimize inevitable 10 negative effects of the global economic crisis on Russian industry is through government defense procurement.
Ivanov says as government defense appropriations 11 reach firms, they will have no need to run to banks for credit. He notes that state orders are the most effective way to support Russian defense companies.
At the same time, Ivanov acknowledged the majority of Russian defense firms are having a tough time getting credit.
Speaking immediately after Ivanov, the director of the government's Russian Technologies Corporation, Sergei Chemezov, told lawmakers the organization has approached Western banks for loans to support Russian industry, because domestic credit is too expensive.
Chemezov says 36 percent of strategic firms in the military industrial complex are financially stable, and 30 percent are showing signs of bankruptcy 12. He says a particularly difficult situation has emerged in the areas of ammunition 13 and special chemicals, where about half the firms face potential bankruptcy.
Meanwhile, the Interfax News Agency quotes Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin as saying Russia's 2009 federal budget revenues will drop by more than 30 percent compared to last year. This will create an eight percent budget deficit, Russia's first in several years.
- 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。
- The directors have reported a deficit of 2.5 million dollars.董事们报告赤字为250万美元。
- We have a great deficit this year.我们今年有很大亏损。
- 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 economic situation has changed considerably.经济形势已发生了相当大的变化。
- The gap has narrowed considerably.分歧大大缩小了。
- She showed an affected interest in our subject.她假装对我们的课题感到兴趣。
- His manners are affected.他的态度不自然。
- There is no reliable information about civilian casualties.关于平民的伤亡还没有确凿的信息。
- He resigned his commission to take up a civilian job.他辞去军职而从事平民工作。
- This will help us achieve modernization.这有助于我们实现现代化。
- The Chinese people are sure to realize the modernization of their country.中国人民必将实现国家现代化。
- We have overspent.We'll have to let up our expenditures next month. 我们已经超支了，下个月一定得节约开支。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The pension includes an allowance of fifty pounds for traffic expenditures. 年金中包括50镑交通费补贴。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Large fines act as a deterrent to motorists.高额罚款是对开车的人的制约。
- I put a net over my strawberries as a deterrent to the birds.我在草莓上罩了网，免得鸟歇上去。
- Mary was wearing her inevitable large hat.玛丽戴着她总是戴的那顶大帽子。
- The defeat had inevitable consequences for British policy.战败对英国政策不可避免地产生了影响。
- More commonly, funding controls are imposed in the annual appropriations process. 更普遍的作法是，拨款控制被规定在年度拨款手续中。 来自英汉非文学 - 行政法
- Should the president veto the appropriations bill, it goes back to Congress. 假如总统否决了这项拨款提案，就把它退还给国会。 来自英汉非文学 - 政府文件
- You will have to pull in if you want to escape bankruptcy.如果你想避免破产，就必须节省开支。
- His firm is just on thin ice of bankruptcy.他的商号正面临破产的危险。
- A few of the jeeps had run out of ammunition.几辆吉普车上的弹药已经用光了。
- They have expended all their ammunition.他们把弹药用光。