2014年CRI 美韩举行最大规模空军演习 美坚持不给伊朗代表发签证

美韩举行最大规模空军演习 美坚持不给伊朗代表发签证

South Korea and the United States have launched their largest-ever joint¹ air exercise to beef up their combined strategic capability² amid the escalating³ tensions over the peninsula.

The "Max Thunder" exercise, which will last from April 11 to 25 over the entire airspace of South Korea, involves 103 aircraft and 1,400 service personnel, according to the South Korean air force.

South Korea air force has sent some 50 fighter jets along with around 50 U.S. warplanes.

The air exercise, which is held twice a year through realistic trainings to simulate air battles between two sides, is the largest one of this kind in numerical terms.

An official from South Korea's air force command says the joint drill was to enhance the army's readiness amid the rising tensions over the Peninsular.

The United States has informed Iran that it will not issue a visa to Hamid Aboutalebi, Tehran's newly appointed ambassador to the United Nations.

Lawmakers sponsoring the bill say that Aboutalebi should be banned from entry to the United States because he was a member of a militant⁴ group that held 52 Americans hostage when it seized the U.S. embassy in Tehran in 1979.

Iran's Foreign Ministry⁵ has slammed the U.S. stance on the new ambassador as "unacceptable."

1 joint   

adj.联合的，共同的；n.关节，接合处；v.连接，贴合

参考例句：

• 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。

2 capability   

n.能力；才能；(pl)可发展的能力或特性等

参考例句：

• She has the capability to become a very fine actress.她有潜力成为杰出演员。
• Organizing a whole department is beyond his capability.组织整个部门是他能力以外的事。

3 escalating   

v.（使）逐步升级( escalate的现在分词 )；（使）逐步扩大；（使）更高；（使）更大

参考例句：

• The cost of living is escalating. 生活费用在迅速上涨。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The cost of living is escalating in the country. 这个国家的生活费用在上涨。 来自辞典例句

4 militant   

adj.激进的，好斗的；n.激进分子，斗士

参考例句：

• Some militant leaders want to merge with white radicals.一些好斗的领导人要和白人中的激进派联合。
• He is a militant in the movement.他在那次运动中是个激进人物。

5 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。