时间:2018-12-20 作者:英语课 分类:CNN美国有线新闻2018年1月


英语课

 


North and South Korea are working toward reducing tensions on their shared peninsula. On Tuesday, the two sides held face to face talks for the first time in more than two years and after a day of negotiations 1, North Korea agreed to send a delegation 2 to the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, and to continue holding talks with its southern neighbor.


South Korean President Moon Jae-in says his goal was to, quote, resolve the North Korean nuclear problem and solidify 3 peace during his term. He recently discussed his concerns that the international pressure on North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons could raise tensions and cause unintended fighting. But President Moon also said that U.S. President Donald Trump 4, quote, deserves big credit for bringing about the inter-Korean talks as they could be the result of U.S.-led sanctions and pressure on North Korea.


President Trump has said this in a tweet last week when North and South Korea reestablished communications with each other and agreed to hold talks. A North Korean government-run newspaper criticized the American leader for, quote, boasting of diplomatic success.


The U.S. is an ally of South Korea and those two countries regularly hold military drills together. They say they're practicing defensive 5 maneuvers 6, but North Korea says they're practiced for an invasion.


The exercises are not happening right now, though. The U.S. and South Korea suspended the drills for as long as the two Koreas are holding talks and as long as the Olympics are taking place in Pyeongchang, South Korea.



1 negotiations
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。
2 delegation
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。
3 solidify
v.(使)凝固,(使)固化,(使)团结
  • Opinion on this question began to solidify.对这个问题的意见开始具体化了。
  • Water will solidify into ice if you freeze it.水冷冻会结冰。
4 trump
n.王牌,法宝;v.打出王牌,吹喇叭
  • He was never able to trump up the courage to have a showdown.他始终鼓不起勇气摊牌。
  • The coach saved his star player for a trump card.教练保留他的明星选手,作为他的王牌。
5 defensive
adj.防御的;防卫的;防守的
  • Their questions about the money put her on the defensive.他们问到钱的问题,使她警觉起来。
  • The Government hastily organized defensive measures against the raids.政府急忙布置了防卫措施抵御空袭。
6 maneuvers
n.策略,谋略,花招( maneuver的名词复数 )
  • He suspected at once that she had been spying upon his maneuvers. 他立刻猜想到,她已经侦察到他的行动。 来自辞典例句
  • Maneuvers in Guizhou occupied the Reds for four months. 贵州境内的作战占了红军四个月的时间。 来自辞典例句
学英语单词
access authorization
actual obligations
AN-cut
ancelet
arcyria major
asplenium holophyllum bak.
asplenium prolongatum
assimilateness
Atterberg consistency
automates
ball peen
Ban Kham Wiang
blackite
Bland-White-Garland syndrome
blanknote
bow traction
breeding field crops for resistance to diseases
carry a sail
centrifugal clutch
chain index numbers
chimane
chondrogenic tumor
Church of Christ
clench bolt
clithochory
colostrum corpuscle
cross axle undercarriage
crosslinguistic
cycloidal toothing
dichlamydeous flower
distributed monitoring proxy
drag theory
eccentric tension member
exploit with
exponential law of attenuation
fair market price
filter down
four-eyed fishes
fugitive coexistence
gotire
graminids
grattarolaite
ground-truth
hexafluoroantimonate
homicidy
Huttoft
instructorship
interest on past due accounts
isoflavone
jamnitzer
knock box
Kuphit
lambda--definable function
lamp houses
lems
linelike
make full use
marsch
maximum static deflection
Melica turczaninowiana
MENIDAE
montross
morrisonicola
naela
neuromodulating
non-uniform shaft
obligatorius
off controller
optical fiber attenuator
optimizing performance
Pareto optimality
Pearson's correlation coefficient
piraeus
Polyglucin
POWER.EXE
pressure gas burner
quick reaction capability
re-enlistment
recalibration cycle
reinvested earnings
ring-like space
Rosslea
rubstics
scatterometric
Senhit Prov.
slatch
social experimentation approach
stake a bath
steady-state component
subject of much debate
The sun might rise in the west
thermoeconomics
total hydraulic head on damaged part
Tribune group
unsquelched
unwhiskered
US-ian
ventricular veins
ventriculocentesis
voltage matching transformer
waylanders