PBS高端访谈:朝鲜发射导弹飞过日本上空

 　　The U.S. and its Asian allies are trading barbs¹ in the wake of North Korea's latest missile test early today.

　　Nick Schifrin has our report.

　　It was an alarming way to wake up, 6:00 a.m. on Japan's Hokkaido Island, and the air raid sirens go off as a North Korean missile flies unseen above.

　　Residents posted videos on social media, and received a text that was also displayed on computer screens:

　　"Please take refuge in a sturdy building or underground." Never mind most Japanese homes don't have a basement.

　　They said please get into a solid building, but we were thinking ours here would be gone in the first blast.

　　The test shook a key U.S. ally, admitted Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

　　The North Korean missile, which passed over our nation, represents the greatest and gravest threat to our nation ever.

　　It also is an egregious² threat to the peace and stability of the Asia Pacific region.

　　South Korea's response was even more aggressive. The Defense³ Ministry⁴ released video of every step of a drill it called a direct strike on North Korea's leadership:

　　a fleet of American-made F-15s flying two sorties and dropping GPS-guided bombs.

　　The South Koreans said they hit their mock target. And if that message wasn't direct enough, air force Colonel Lee Kuk-No made it obvious.

　　If North Korea threatens the security of the South Korean people and the South Korea-U.S. alliance with their nuclear weapons and missiles,

　　our air forces will exterminate⁵ the leadership of North Korea.

　　The response was so grave because today was unprecedented⁶.

　　The missile, which launched from a Pyongyang suburb, was the first time a ballistic missile designed for a nuclear tip overflew Japan.

　　It flew for 14 minutes and splashed down 1,700 miles away,

　　almost enough distance to have reached U.S. territory Guam, which the North Koreans previously⁷ threatened to target.

　　The North Koreans have now launched more missiles in the last three years than in the last three decades.

　　They say they're responding to U.S.-South Korea exercises that have been ongoing⁸ for the last nine days.

　　The U.S. calls those exercises defensive⁹ and computer simulations, as seen in the 2013 version.

　　But, in Geneva today, North Korea's U.N. ambassador depicted¹⁰ those exercises as preparations for war.

　　It is an undeniable fact that the U.S. is driving the situation of Korean Peninsula towards extreme level of explosion

　　by deploying¹¹ huge strategic assets around the peninsula to conduct a series of nuclear war drills and maintaining nuclear threats and blackmail¹² for over a half-century.

　　The aggressive rhetoric¹³ drew a curt¹⁴ reply from President Trump¹⁵ that ended, "All options are on the table."

　　Analysts¹⁶ describe that today's missile test was designed to create considerable chaos¹⁷, but not confrontation¹⁸,

　　and it was also designed to create distance between the U.S. and its allies.

　　They're trying to show that the U.S. is not in a position to do anything for the Japanese right now.

　　And I think it's part of a broader strategy really to kind of try to show the United States is a kind of paper tiger in the region.

　　Chris Hill was the U.S. ambassador to South Korea and headed the U.S. delegation¹⁹ in talks designed to dismantle²⁰ North Korea's nuclear program.

　　He advocates a strategy combing diplomacy²¹ with sabotaging²² North Korea's missiles.

　　We do need to look at more direct measures in that narrowing space between peace and war.

　　I don't see how we can simply rely on China or rely on some kind of sanctions program.

　　Just last week, both President Trump and Secretary Tillerson praised North Korea's self-control.

　　I am pleased to see that the regime in Pyongyang has certainly demonstrated some level of restraint that we have not seen in the past.

　　Since then, North Korea launched two sets of missiles.

　　But Ambassador Hill says the U.S. is right to continue talking diplomacy; it just needs to push its point more.

　　Diplomacy is a little like the advertising²³ business. If you haven't said it 50 times, you haven't said it at all.

　　Today's launch shook the region. The U.S. is trying to reassure²⁴ allies and deter²⁵ North Korea,

　　which doesn't seem to feel pressure right now to stop its testing. For the "PBS NewsHour," I'm Nick Schifrin. undefined

1 barbs   

n.（箭头、鱼钩等的）倒钩( barb的名词复数 )；带刺的话；毕露的锋芒；钩状毛

参考例句：

• She slung barbs at me. 她说了些讥刺我的话。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• I would no longer uncomplainingly accept their barbs or allow their unaccountable power to go unchallenged. 我不会再毫无怨言地洗耳恭听他们带刺的话，或让他们的不负责任的权力不受到挑战。 来自辞典例句

2 egregious   

adj.非常的，过分的

参考例句：

• When it comes to blatant lies,there are none more egregious than budget figures.谈到公众谎言，没有比预算数字更令人震惊的。
• What an egregious example was here!现摆着一个多么触目惊心的例子啊。

3 defense   

n.防御，保卫；[pl.]防务工事；辩护，答辩

参考例句：

• 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。

4 ministry   

n.(政府的)部；牧师

参考例句：

• They sent a deputation to the ministry to complain.他们派了一个代表团到部里投诉。
• We probed the Air Ministry statements.我们调查了空军部的记录。

5 exterminate   

v.扑灭，消灭，根绝

参考例句：

• Some people exterminate garden insects by spraying poison on the plants.有些人在植物上喷撒毒剂以杀死花园内的昆虫。
• Woodpeckers can exterminate insect pests hiding in trees.啄木鸟能消灭躲在树里的害虫。

6 unprecedented   

adj.无前例的，新奇的

参考例句：

• The air crash caused an unprecedented number of deaths.这次空难的死亡人数是空前的。
• A flood of this sort is really unprecedented.这样大的洪水真是十年九不遇。

7 previously   

adv.以前，先前（地）

参考例句：

• The bicycle tyre blew out at a previously damaged point.自行车胎在以前损坏过的地方又爆开了。
• Let me digress for a moment and explain what had happened previously.让我岔开一会儿，解释原先发生了什么。

8 ongoing   

adj.进行中的，前进的

参考例句：

• The problem is ongoing.这个问题尚未解决。
• The issues raised in the report relate directly to Age Concern's ongoing work in this area.报告中提出的问题与“关心老人”组织在这方面正在做的工作有直接的关系。

9 defensive   

adj.防御的；防卫的；防守的

参考例句：

• 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。

10 depicted   

描绘，描画( depict的过去式和过去分词 )； 描述

参考例句：

• Other animals were depicted on the periphery of the group. 其他动物在群像的外围加以修饰。
• They depicted the thrilling situation to us in great detail. 他们向我们详细地描述了那激动人心的场面。

11 deploying   

（尤指军事行动）使展开( deploy的现在分词 )； 施展； 部署； 有效地利用

参考例句：

• Provides support for developing and deploying distributed, component-based applications. 为开发和部署基于组件的分布式应用程序提供支持。
• Advertisement, publishing, repair, and install-on-demand are all available when deploying your application. 在部署应用程序时提供公布、发布、修复和即需即装功能。

12 blackmail   

n.讹诈，敲诈，勒索，胁迫，恫吓

参考例句：

• She demanded ＄1000 blackmail from him.她向他敲诈了1000美元。
• The journalist used blackmail to make the lawyer give him the documents.记者讹诈那名律师交给他文件。

13 rhetoric   

n.修辞学，浮夸之言语

参考例句：

• Do you know something about rhetoric?你懂点修辞学吗？
• Behind all the rhetoric,his relations with the army are dangerously poised.在冠冕堂皇的言辞背后，他和军队的关系岌岌可危。

14 curt   

adj.简短的，草率的

参考例句：

• He gave me an extremely curt answer.他对我作了极为草率的答复。
• He rapped out a series of curt commands.他大声发出了一连串简短的命令。

15 trump   

n.王牌，法宝；v.打出王牌，吹喇叭

参考例句：

• 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。

16 analysts   

分析家，化验员( analyst的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• City analysts forecast huge profits this year. 伦敦金融分析家预测今年的利润非常丰厚。
• I was impressed by the high calibre of the researchers and analysts. 研究人员和分析人员的高素质给我留下了深刻印象。

17 chaos   

n.混乱，无秩序

参考例句：

• After the failure of electricity supply the city was in chaos.停电后，城市一片混乱。
• The typhoon left chaos behind it.台风后一片混乱。

18 confrontation   

n.对抗，对峙，冲突

参考例句：

• We can't risk another confrontation with the union.我们不能冒再次同工会对抗的危险。
• After years of confrontation,they finally have achieved a modus vivendi.在对抗很长时间后，他们最后达成安宁生存的非正式协议。

19 delegation   

n.代表团；派遣

参考例句：

• 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。

20 dismantle   

vt.拆开，拆卸；废除，取消

参考例句：

• He asked for immediate help from the United States to dismantle the warheads.他请求美国立即提供援助，拆除这批弹头。
• The mower firmly refused to mow,so I decided to dismantle it.修完后割草机还是纹丝不动，于是，我决定把它拆开。

21 diplomacy   

n.外交；外交手腕，交际手腕

参考例句：

• The talks have now gone into a stage of quiet diplomacy.会谈现在已经进入了“温和外交”阶段。
• This was done through the skill in diplomacy. 这是通过外交手腕才做到的。

22 sabotaging   

阴谋破坏（某事物）( sabotage的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• Mr Smith fiercely denied any question of sabotaging the talks. 史密斯先生坚决拒绝任何企图阻挠谈话的提问。
• Failed in sabotaging APEC summit in Sydney of Australia. 澳大利亚悉尼APEC会议遭遇惨败。

23 advertising   

n.广告业；广告活动 a.广告的；广告业务的

参考例句：

• Can you give me any advice on getting into advertising? 你能指点我如何涉足广告业吗?
• The advertising campaign is aimed primarily at young people. 这个广告宣传运动主要是针对年轻人的。

24 reassure   

v.使放心，使消除疑虑

参考例句：

• This seemed to reassure him and he continued more confidently.这似乎使他放心一点，于是他更有信心地继续说了下去。
• The airline tried to reassure the customers that the planes were safe.航空公司尽力让乘客相信飞机是安全的。

25 deter   

vt.阻止，使不敢，吓住

参考例句：

• Failure did not deter us from trying it again.失败并没有能阻挡我们再次进行试验。
• Dogs can deter unwelcome intruders.狗能够阻拦不受欢迎的闯入者。