时间:2019-02-03 作者:英语课 分类:2007年VOA标准英语(一月)


英语课
By Noel King
Khartoum
13 January 2007


The international community is continuing its push for a political solution to the crisis in Sudan's Darfur region. The European Union's special representative to Sudan says efforts are under way to sign holdout Darfuri rebels onto the Darfur Peace Agreement, as Noel King reports for VOA from Khartoum. 


EU Special Representative Pekka Haavisto says Darfur rebels and the government of Sudan are renewing efforts to hash out an acceptable Darfur peace deal.
 
Haavisto told reporters in Khartoum that he is optimistic a political solution to the crisis can be found.


"We have finally got the political track moving again," he said.  "There is now a clear perspective that new talks and new engagements will start with non-signatories of the DPA."


Only one faction 1 of Darfur's rebel Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) signed on to the May 5 African Union-brokered agreement.
 
Another faction of the SLA, along with the rebel Justice and Equality Movement refused to sign.
 
Last year, several rebel factions 2 combined to form the National Redemption Front, a powerful resistance movement, which has refused the Darfur peace deal. 
 
Holdout rebels say the current peace agreement does not meet their demands for equitable 3 sharing of wealth and power.
 
But Sudan has long insisted it will not amend 4 the accord, casting some doubt on the viability 5 of renewed talks.
 
Haavisto urged rebels to consider their demands. "I think the message from the international community is that they have to be very reasonable in their claims. Maybe here and there some amendments 6 and additions can be made, but basically many of the concerns are already included in the Darfur Peace Agreement," he added.






Bill Richardson (l) meets with Sudanese President Umar al-Bashir (r) in Khartoum, 8 Jan 2007


Bill Richardson (l) meets with Sudanese President Umar al-Bashir (r) in Khartoum, 8 Jan 2007



On Wednesday, visiting U.S. envoy 7 Bill Richardson, governor of the U.S. state of New Mexico, issued a joint 8 statement with Sudanese President Omer Al Bashir, announcing that Darfur rebel commanders and the Sudanese government had agreed to a 60-day ceasefire.
 
It is unclear when the ceasefire will begin.
 
The Darfur conflict will soon enter its fourth year.
 
Sudan is charged with arming militias 9, called janjaweed, to crush a 2003 rebellion using a savage 10 campaign of rape 11 and murder, targeting civilians 12.
 
At least 200,000 people are believed to have died, with more than 2.5 million more displaced in Darfur and eastern Chad.




n.宗派,小集团;派别;派系斗争
  • Faction and self-interest appear to be the norm.派系之争和自私自利看来非常普遍。
  • I now understood clearly that I was caught between the king and the Bunam's faction.我现在完全明白自己已陷入困境,在国王与布纳姆集团之间左右为难。
组织中的小派别,派系( faction的名词复数 )
  • The gens also lives on in the "factions." 氏族此外还继续存在于“factions〔“帮”〕中。 来自英汉非文学 - 家庭、私有制和国家的起源
  • rival factions within the administration 政府中的对立派别
adj.公平的;公正的
  • This is an equitable solution to the dispute. 这是对该项争议的公正解决。
  • Paying a person what he has earned is equitable. 酬其应得,乃公平之事。
vt.修改,修订,改进;n.[pl.]赔罪,赔偿
  • The teacher advised him to amend his way of living.老师劝他改变生活方式。
  • You must amend your pronunciation.你必须改正你的发音。
n.存活(能力)
  • What is required to achieve or maintain such viability? 要达到或维持这种生存能力需要什么?
  • Scientists are experimenting to find ways to ensure the viability of seeds for even longer periods of time. 正如我们所说,科学家正在试验努力寻找让种子的生命力更加延长的方法。
(法律、文件的)改动( amendment的名词复数 ); 修正案; 修改; (美国宪法的)修正案
  • The committee does not adequately consult others when drafting amendments. 委员会在起草修正案时没有充分征求他人的意见。
  • Please propose amendments and addenda to the first draft of the document. 请对这个文件的初稿提出修改和补充意见。
n.使节,使者,代表,公使
  • Their envoy showed no sign of responding to our proposals.他们的代表对我方的提议毫无回应的迹象。
  • The government has not yet appointed an envoy to the area.政府尚未向这一地区派过外交官。
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.民兵组织,民兵( militia的名词复数 )
  • The troops will not attempt to disarm the warring militias. 部队并不打算解除战斗中的民兵武装。 来自辞典例句
  • The neighborhood was a battleground for Shiite and Sunni militias. 那里曾是什叶派和逊尼派武装分子的战场。 来自互联网
adj.野蛮的;凶恶的,残暴的;n.未开化的人
  • The poor man received a savage beating from the thugs.那可怜的人遭到暴徒的痛打。
  • He has a savage temper.他脾气粗暴。
n.抢夺,掠夺,强奸;vt.掠夺,抢夺,强奸
  • The rape of the countryside had a profound ravage on them.对乡村的掠夺给他们造成严重创伤。
  • He was brought to court and charged with rape.他被带到法庭并被指控犯有强奸罪。
平民,百姓( civilian的名词复数 ); 老百姓
  • the bloody massacre of innocent civilians 对无辜平民的血腥屠杀
  • At least 300 civilians are unaccounted for after the bombing raids. 遭轰炸袭击之后,至少有300名平民下落不明。
学英语单词
accommodating barge
Acer triflorum
airborne telemetering receiving station
Aizu-Bange
an ass between two bundles of hay
architectures for distributed systems
as soft as butter
Bagotville
beakfishes
bearing nonscoring characteristic
beeper-control system
benzoylcholinesterase
big capital
biological medicine
by-pass accumulator
cache server
cerous carbonate
class B broadcasting
classical guitarist
Cortona
cost function
crack opening displacement test
crushing mill
denial of passenger
Deutzia hamata
difference in depth of modulation
differences in protein composition
dilute
diplomatic
disbinding
discounted credit
eriophyid
ethosome
Every white hath its black,and every sweet its sour.
excisive
family saxifragaceaes
Fan beam.
for all to see
fundus of urinary bladder
fungias
gahnite
globular pearbite
grabbs
heat regulatory centre
heslops
high-temperature and low pressure metamorphic zone
immunoregulatory
Impatiens abbatis
invitings
jinne
jus inter gentes
karyomite
knottedness
leann
limber
mercuries-in-glass clinical thermometer
methylmercuric dicyandiamide
monotractor
monthly index
mutual conspiracy
neura
niggli
nonadjustable orifice
noncowboy
oppression
out-glad
partial crushing
pentsaology
placing reaction
PPD-B
prepostor
pronephritic capsule
prunus serotinas
radiation technology
rainfall anomaly
ranalian complex
rectification error
scanners
sclerenchymous fibre
scored out
seriatim
service communication system
Shepherd's fracture
sialozemia
steering lock
stringified
sump water hold up tank
superregeneration
Tanch'on-ǔp
theoretical price
Token Ring Network
trial court
turn inward
United States of Atlantic and Gulf
ureaplasma
vector arithemtic multiprocessor
velours gros-grain
vibratode
Vicia angustifolia
voice rotating beacon
wiggings
zinc protection