2007年VOA标准英语-Rice Criticizes Sudanese Stalling on Darfur Pea

By David Gollust
Washington
11 July 2007

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice Wednesday criticized stalling tactics by Sudan that are holding up deployment² of a reinforced international peacekeeping presence in Darfur. Rice will discuss the issue in an Africa visit next week though she is likely to postpone³ a planned stop in Kinshasa. VOA's David Gollust reports from the State Department.

Condoleezza Rice

Rice is making clear her growing impatience⁴ over delays in deploying⁵ the upgraded Darfur force, which was first authorized⁶ by the U.N. Security Council nearly a year ago.

The Khartoum government has given its nominal⁷ consent to the so-called hybrid⁸ force of U.N. and African Union troops on several occasions, yet has also set terms that U.S. officials say have effectively prevented the world body from raising the necessary troops.

At a Washington event Wednesday aimed at building ties between the African Union and the Organization of American States, the secretary of state said member countries of both regional bodies should press Sudan to finally allow the force to deploy¹.

"Too many have died, too many women have been raped⁹, and too many children have been torn away from their families. The planned AU-U.N. peacekeeping force is essential to increasing security for the people of Darfur so they can begin returning to their homes. We must not let the government of Sudan continue this game of cat and mouse diplomacy¹⁰, making promises, then going back on them," she said.

The envisaged¹¹ hybrid force would be three times as large as the current African Union observer mission in Darfur, which is under-funded and lacks the logistical capacity to patrol the huge region.

The Sudanese government first accepted the hybrid force in principle at an Addis Ababa conference last November. But it has impeded¹² logistical preparations and insisted it be predominately African, a condition that U.S. officials say cannot be met.

The U.S. special envoy¹³ for Sudan, Andrew Natsios, is in Khartoum this week meeting government officials and trying to convince them to agree fully¹⁴ to the peacekeeping plan.

Next week Natsios attends a conference on Darfur in Libya bringing together diplomats¹⁵ from the five permanent U.N. Security Council member countries, Darfur donor¹⁶ countries and Sudan's neighbors.

Secretary Rice will visit Africa next week as part of a fast-paced mission that also takes her to the Middle East and Europe.

She will attend a sub-Saharan Africa trade conference in the Ghanaian capital, Accra. But officials here say she will likely postpone what was to have been the first visit by a secretary of state to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the DRC, in a decade.

An official cited logistical reasons for putting off the Kinshasa stop, which was announced two days ago. He said Rice would like to visit the DRC as part of a longer Africa mission in the near future.

1 deploy   

v.（军）散开成战斗队形，布置，展开

参考例句：

• The infantry began to deploy at dawn.步兵黎明时开始进入战斗位置。
• The president said he had no intention of deploying ground troops.总统称并不打算部署地面部队。

2 deployment   

n. 部署,展开

参考例句：

• He has inquired out the deployment of the enemy troops. 他已查出敌军的兵力部署情况。
• Quality function deployment (QFD) is a widely used customer-driven quality, design and manufacturing management tool. 质量功能展开(quality function deployment,QFD)是一个广泛应用的顾客需求驱动的设计、制造和质量管理工具。

3 postpone   

v.延期，推迟

参考例句：

• I shall postpone making a decision till I learn full particulars.在未获悉详情之前我得从缓作出决定。
• She decided to postpone the converastion for that evening.她决定当天晚上把谈话搁一搁。

4 impatience   

n.不耐烦，急躁

参考例句：

• He expressed impatience at the slow rate of progress.进展缓慢，他显得不耐烦。
• He gave a stamp of impatience.他不耐烦地跺脚。

5 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。

6 authorized   

a.委任的，许可的

参考例句：

• An administrative order is valid if authorized by a statute.如果一个行政命令得到一个法规的认可那么这个命令就是有效的。

7 nominal   

adj.名义上的；(金额、租金)微不足道的

参考例句：

• The king was only the nominal head of the state. 国王只是这个国家名义上的元首。
• The charge of the box lunch was nominal.午餐盒饭收费很少。

8 hybrid   

n.(动，植）杂种，混合物

参考例句：

• That is a hybrid perpetual rose.那是一株杂交的四季开花的蔷薇。
• The hybrid was tall,handsome,and intelligent.那混血儿高大、英俊、又聪明。

9 raped   

v.以暴力夺取，强夺( rape的过去式和过去分词 )；强奸

参考例句：

• A young woman was brutally raped in her own home. 一名年轻女子在自己家中惨遭强暴。 来自辞典例句
• We got stick together, or we will be having our women raped. 我们得团结一致，不然我们的妻女就会遭到蹂躏。 来自辞典例句

10 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。

11 envisaged   

想像，设想( envisage的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• He envisaged an old age of loneliness and poverty. 他面对着一个孤独而贫困的晚年。
• Henry Ford envisaged an important future for the motor car. 亨利·福特为汽车设想了一个远大前程。

12 impeded   

阻碍，妨碍，阻止( impede的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• Work on the building was impeded by severe weather. 楼房的施工因天气恶劣而停了下来。
• He was impeded in his work. 他的工作受阻。

13 envoy   

n.使节，使者，代表，公使

参考例句：

• 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。

14 fully   

adv.完全地，全部地，彻底地；充分地

参考例句：

• The doctor asked me to breathe in,then to breathe out fully.医生让我先吸气，然后全部呼出。
• They soon became fully integrated into the local community.他们很快就完全融入了当地人的圈子。

15 diplomats   

n.外交官( diplomat的名词复数 )；有手腕的人，善于交际的人

参考例句：

• These events led to the expulsion of senior diplomats from the country. 这些事件导致一些高级外交官被驱逐出境。
• The court has no jurisdiction over foreign diplomats living in this country. 法院对驻本国的外交官无裁判权。 来自《简明英汉词典》

16 donor   

n.捐献者；赠送人；(组织、器官等的)供体

参考例句：

• In these cases,the recipient usually takes care of the donor afterwards.在这类情况下，接受捐献者以后通常会照顾捐赠者。
• The Doctor transplanted the donor's heart to Mike's chest cavity.医生将捐赠者的心脏移植进麦克的胸腔。