时间:2019-01-30 作者:英语课 分类:VOA常速英语2008年(四月)


英语课
By Robert Berger
Jerusalem
02 April 2008


Israel is strengthening security on its home front in a sign of war jitters 1. As Robert Berger reports from VOA's Jerusalem bureau, Israel is casting a wary 2 eye toward Iran.


Israel's security Cabinet has decided 3 to redistribute gas masks to the entire population amid fears of a non-conventional war with Iran. The last distribution was before the U.S. invasion of Iraq four years ago. The gas masks were collected last year because they were out of date.


Deputy Defense 4 Minister Matan Vilnai initiated 5 the redistribution.


Vilnai told Israel Radio that handing out gas masks does not mean that war with Iran is imminent 6.


Nevertheless, there is growing concern here about Iran's nuclear program and threats by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to wipe Israel "off the map."


"We are worried," said Israeli spokesman Mark Regev.


Iran insists that its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes. But Regev says Iran is stalling in negotiations 7 with the international community as it moves closer to building a nuclear bomb.


"We are concerned that the Iranian strategy is very clear," he said. "They want to keep talking and talking and talking, but at the same time to aggressively move forward on their nuclear program."


Iran is seen as an existential threat, and that has raised speculation 8 that Israel might launch a pre-emptive strike on Iranian nuclear facilities. Israeli officials have warned time and again that they will not allow Iran to acquire nuclear weapons and that there is a military option.


Iran has ballistic missiles that can hit anywhere in Israel, and it has warned of fierce retaliation 9 in the event of an Israeli attack.




n.pl.紧张(通常前面要有the)
  • I always get the jitters before exams. 我考试前总是很紧张。
  • The whole city had the jitters from the bombing. 全城居民都为轰炸而心神不宁。
adj.谨慎的,机警的,小心的
  • He is wary of telling secrets to others.他谨防向他人泄露秘密。
  • Paula frowned,suddenly wary.宝拉皱了皱眉头,突然警惕起来。
adj.决定了的,坚决的;明显的,明确的
  • This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
  • There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。
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.即将发生的,临近的,逼近的
  • 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。
协商( negotiation的名词复数 ); 谈判; 完成(难事); 通过
  • negotiations for a durable peace 为持久和平而进行的谈判
  • Negotiations have failed to establish any middle ground. 谈判未能达成任何妥协。
n.思索,沉思;猜测;投机
  • Her mind is occupied with speculation.她的头脑忙于思考。
  • There is widespread speculation that he is going to resign.人们普遍推测他要辞职。
n.报复,反击
  • retaliation against UN workers 对联合国工作人员的报复
  • He never said a single word in retaliation. 他从未说过一句反击的话。 来自《简明英汉词典》
学英语单词
a day at the office
a mic
abnormal end of task
absolute democracy
aeacid
agri-environments
air-speed computer
American cheese
amino valeramide
auguster
back-filleds
bid proposal
biscuit-tins
boculle
body powder
calcaric gleysols
catastrophe cover
caution against sth
centrality theory
centre of suspension
chelmer
cholanthrenyl
colliculi craniales
commodity exchange
continuous recirculation
cryophile
dejecter
disintricates
doubled words
eggshell procelain
entodermal epithelium
etosha
exhaust detoxation
exoterical
F-AGENT
Freeborn County
full-value variable
geared exciter
government contract
gubernatorial election
heat of change of phase
hellmuth
hydraulic flanging press
indirect retainer
ink slab
international consortium of bank
internucleonic force
iodinated human serum albumin
jis-mark
join on
K scope
lannerets
leukophores
linear speed of twisting
lo phonon
local railway
lycopodioides
mandibular arch
masticke
medium fat content fish
meritest
mordancies
muktananda
mycalesis perseus blasius
oktibbehite (octibbehite)
on a line with
orbit transfer engine
Palmer, Samuel
payroll management application
plattelands
plinth course
plunge shaving,radial feed shaving
power standing wave ratio (pswr)
premium channel
privacy regulation
prunus japonicas
purging croton croton tiglium l
quartz-fluorite lens
queit
rapid settling device
recurrent ulcer
reduction thickening
renegotiation-proof equilibrium
resizes
ropery
rotary brush damper
San Luis de la Paz
scutellaria austrotaiwanensis
sequential operations
Ship's Seaworthiness
soaked
spiritual expression
spring loaded accumulator
storage section
streaming stick
strict deterministic language
tidal hypoxia
time homogeneous
two-component model
typewrote
white-and-black
wraparound host