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英语课
By Chad Bouchard
Jakarta
06 September 2007

Russian President Vladimir Putin stopped in Indonesia to finalize 1 a $1 billion defense 2 agreement and to strengthen economic ties. Chad Bouchard reports from Jakarta.


The defense package opens a line of credit that will allow Indonesia to buy Russian military equipment, including helicopters, tanks and submarines during the next 15 years.






Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, with his Indonesian counterpart Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, prior to their a href=


Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, with his Indonesian counterpart Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, prior to their bilateral meeting in Jakarta, 06 Sep 2007



Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's meeting with President Putin signals Indonesia's desire for military independence and its increasing role in the global economy.


The United States was once Indonesia's largest arms supplier, but cooperation was suspended in 1999 due to concern over human-rights abuses in East Timor.


That arms ban has since been lifted, but presidential spokesman Dino Pati Djalal says Indonesia wants to reduce its dependence 4 on the United States.


"We want to diversify 5 the sources of our equipment. Russia is offering us a generous package, and Russia also does not attach any conditions whatsoever 6. Russia is all business and does not attach any political conditions and that is the way we like it, and that is why we took up the offer," he said.


The Russian leader was accompanied by a delegation 7 of oil, energy, and banking 8 officials.


The president is overseeing the signing of two contracts for Russian companies to upgrade mining and oil facilities in Indonesia.


Djalal says the leaders' talks also include ways to boost trade between the two nations.


"The trade relations are still very low at $680 million and that is minimal 9 compared to the size of our economy. Russia is a $780-billion economy. Indonesia is about half of that. And there is much more we can do in terms of trade relations," added Djalal.


Mr. Putin's one-day visit is the first time a Russian or Soviet 10 head of state has walked on Indonesian soil in nearly 50 years.


President Yudhoyono last met with Mr. Putin in Moscow in December 2006.


The Russian president made his visit to Jakarta while on the way to Sydney to attend the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit this week.




v.落实,定下来
  • Let us finalize tonight.让我们今天晚上干完
  • 。At the same time,industrial designers work with engineers to finalize components and assembly.同时,工业设计师和工程师一道来完成部件和组装部分的工作。
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.双方的,两边的,两侧的
  • They have been negotiating a bilateral trade deal.他们一直在商谈一项双边贸易协定。
  • There was a wide gap between the views of the two statesmen on the bilateral cooperation.对双方合作的问题,两位政治家各自所持的看法差距甚大。
n.依靠,依赖;信任,信赖;隶属
  • Doctors keep trying to break her dependence of the drug.医生们尽力使她戒除毒瘾。
  • He was freed from financial dependence on his parents.他在经济上摆脱了对父母的依赖。
v.(使)不同,(使)变得多样化
  • Our company is trying to diversify.我们公司正力图往多样化方面发展。
  • Hills and woods diversify the landscape.山陵和树木点缀景色。
adv.(用于否定句中以加强语气)任何;pron.无论什么
  • There's no reason whatsoever to turn down this suggestion.没有任何理由拒绝这个建议。
  • All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you,do ye even so to them.你想别人对你怎样,你就怎样对人。
n.代表团;派遣
  • The statement of our delegation was singularly appropriate to the occasion.我们代表团的声明非常适合时宜。
  • We shall inform you of the date of the delegation's arrival.我们将把代表团到达的日期通知你。
n.银行业,银行学,金融业
  • John is launching his son on a career in banking.约翰打算让儿子在银行界谋一个新职位。
  • He possesses an extensive knowledge of banking.他具有广博的银行业务知识。
adj.尽可能少的,最小的
  • They referred to this kind of art as minimal art.他们把这种艺术叫微型艺术。
  • I stayed with friends, so my expenses were minimal.我住在朋友家,所以我的花费很小。
adj.苏联的,苏维埃的;n.苏维埃
  • Zhukov was a marshal of the former Soviet Union.朱可夫是前苏联的一位元帅。
  • Germany began to attack the Soviet Union in 1941.德国在1941年开始进攻苏联。
学英语单词
/HPF
Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income
administrative litigation
aeronautical communications satellite
agreement of intent
airborne craft
anomeric carbon
apasionado
archtop
ask off
audiofrequency apparatus
badrachoid
bell-type manometer
blocking capacitor
boat-ride
buy forward
chengdu
closing stroke
co-habits
collective recursion
common jade
complex simple fracture
composite bar diagram
cymbidium lowianum reichb.f.
data control unit
day-traders
density of line of magnetic force
descent lane
destinee
eighth grade
electroslag melting process
elementarily equivalent structures
elimination game
engineer's office
enzymatic deproteinization
eun-seong
field equipment of CTC
film response
fish backs spreader
fold geometrization of coal seam
function's free variable value
gas-reserve
gipsyfy
head like a sieve
high-grade ore
Honghe papeda
input resistor
irale
load curve
loaded radius
make hay out of
maneuver load control system
marinary
mason-slichter-hay method
mediaeval architecture
medical assessment
Meissner coil
Merkel cells
messuage
mixtures
nervous apoplexy
nirmala
non-traded
office-parties
ohmic resistance
ommatophores
over-self
oystershell veneer
palaeo-endemic
photoautotroph
Pinuspollenites
planned takeover
pulverizable
putt-putting
recheck level
regularization
rouleaux phenomenon
rt-PA
secondary pressure of reducing valve
senior school
singleleaf
spiderwood
sternophorids
stiff rotor
structural wall
supported-spindle type gyratory
swaggahs
swirl nozzle
symptomical
taste frequency theory
technical-grade
telotroch
torn-up
transfer office
transport bomber
unworkably
up to your neck
Vantaa (Vanda)
vardenafils
vertical single-pipe heating system
video processing circuits
zero day