PBS高端访谈:美国国务卿称美俄关系处于信任低谷

 　　JUDY WOODRUFF: New tensions between the United States and Russia dominated this day. America's top diplomat¹ carried U.S. grievances² over Syria and other issues to Moscow, while President Trump³ spoke⁴ out in Washington.

　　Our chief foreign affairs correspondent, Margaret Warner, has our report.

　　MARGARET WARNER: The discord⁵ was on display at the very outset of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's meetings with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

　　SERGEI LAVROV, Russian Foreign Minister (through interpreter): We have a lot of questions regarding very ambiguous and as well as sometimes contradictory⁶ ideas on coming from Washington.

　　MARGARET WARNER: Tillerson acknowledged sharp differences, and after meeting privately⁷ with Russian President Vladimir Putin, he emerged with an even grimmer appraisal⁸.

　　REX TILLERSON, U.S. Secretary of State: The current state of U.S.-Russia relations is at a low point. There is a low level of trust between our two countries. The world's two foremost nuclear powers cannot have this kind of relationship.

　　MARGARET WARNER: The most immediate⁹ trigger for tensions, a deadly sarin gas attack in Syria last week, and the U.S. response, a cruise missile strike on a Syrian air base. Lavrov again denied Russia's ally the Syrian government was responsible.

　　SERGEI LAVROV (through interpreter): We believe it's necessary to have an international, unbiased, frank investigation¹⁰ into this incident. There were no signs that would support the statement, the allegation that chemical agents were used there at all.

　　MARGARET WARNER: Tillerson insisted again that Syria's government did carry out the attack, and he called again for Russia to abandon President Bashar al-Assad.

　　REX TILLERSON: We do think it's important that Assad's departure is done in an orderly way, an orderly way, so that certain interests and constituencies that he represents feel that they have been represented at the negotiating table for a political solution. How that occurs, we leave that to the process going forward.

　　MARGARET WARNER: But in New York this afternoon:

　　NIKKI HALEY, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations: It is long past time for Russia to stop covering for Assad.

　　美国国务卿称美俄关系处于信任低谷

　　MARGARET WARNER: Russia vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution condemning¹¹ the gas attack in Syria.

　　The chill in Moscow today was a far cry from the atmosphere a year ago. Then-candidate Donald Trump repeatedly praised Vladimir Putin during the campaign, and he suggested a rapprochement with Russia was both desirable and possible. That all changed with last week's gas attack and President Trump's quick response.

　　Even before the meetings, President Putin gave his own pointed¹² assessment¹³ of U.S.-Russia relations today on Russian state television.

　　VLADIMIR PUTIN, Russian President (through interpreter): It is possible to say that the level of trust on a working level, especially on the military level, it has not improved, but rather has deteriorated¹⁴.

　　MARGARET WARNER: In turn, President Trump had harsh new words for the Russians and their Syrian ally Assad in an interview that aired on FOX Business Network.

　　PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: If Russia didn't go in and back this animal, you wouldn't have a problem right now. Frankly¹⁵, Putin is backing a person that's truly an evil person. And I think it's very bad for Russia. I think it's very bad for mankind. It's very bad for this world.

　　MARGARET WARNER: Mr. Trump followed up at a joint¹⁶ White House news conference with NATO's secretary-general.

　　PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Right now, we're not getting along with Russia at all. We may be an all-time low in terms of relationship with Russia. This has built for a long period of time, but we are going to see what happens.

　　MARGARET WARNER: Tensions are over more than Syria. In Moscow, Secretary Tillerson again criticized Russia's intervention¹⁷ in Ukraine, which triggered Western sanctions.

　　REX TILLERSON: Until full progress is made under the Minsk accords, the situation in Ukraine will remain an obstacle to improvement in relations between the U.S. and Russia.

　　MARGARET WARNER: Lavrov gave no ground on Ukraine or charges of Russian meddling¹⁸ in the U.S. election. The two men did agree to establish a working group to try to stabilize¹⁹ relations.

　　For the PBS NewsHour, I'm Margaret Warner.

1 diplomat   

n.外交官，外交家；能交际的人，圆滑的人

参考例句：

• The diplomat threw in a joke, and the tension was instantly relieved.那位外交官插进一个笑话，紧张的气氛顿时缓和下来。
• He served as a diplomat in Russia before the war.战前他在俄罗斯当外交官。

2 grievances   

n.委屈( grievance的名词复数 )；苦衷；不满；牢骚

参考例句：

• The trade union leader spoke about the grievances of the workers. 工会领袖述说工人们的苦情。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
• He gave air to his grievances. 他申诉了他的冤情。 来自《简明英汉词典》

3 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。

4 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。

5 discord   

n.不和，意见不合，争论，（音乐）不和谐

参考例句：

• These two answers are in discord.这两个答案不一样。
• The discord of his music was hard on the ear.他演奏的不和谐音很刺耳。

6 contradictory   

adj.反驳的，反对的，抗辩的；n.正反对，矛盾对立

参考例句：

• The argument is internally contradictory.论据本身自相矛盾。
• What he said was self-contradictory.他讲话前后不符。

7 privately   

adv.以私人的身份，悄悄地，私下地

参考例句：

• Some ministers admit privately that unemployment could continue to rise.一些部长私下承认失业率可能继续升高。
• The man privately admits that his motive is profits.那人私下承认他的动机是为了牟利。

8 appraisal   

n.对…作出的评价；评价，鉴定，评估

参考例句：

• What's your appraisal of the situation?你对局势是如何评估的？
• We need to make a proper appraisal of his work.对于他的工作我们需要做出适当的评价。

9 immediate   

adj.立即的；直接的，最接近的；紧靠的

参考例句：

• His immediate neighbours felt it their duty to call.他的近邻认为他们有责任去拜访。
• We declared ourselves for the immediate convocation of the meeting.我们主张立即召开这个会议。

10 investigation   

n.调查，调查研究

参考例句：

• In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
• He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。

11 condemning   

v.（通常因道义上的原因而）谴责( condemn的现在分词 )；宣判；宣布…不能使用；迫使…陷于不幸的境地

参考例句：

• The government issued a statement condemning the killings. 政府发表声明谴责这些凶杀事件。
• I concur with the speaker in condemning what has been done. 我同意发言者对所做的事加以谴责。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

12 pointed   

adj.尖的，直截了当的

参考例句：

• He gave me a very sharp pointed pencil.他给我一支削得非常尖的铅笔。
• She wished to show Mrs.John Dashwood by this pointed invitation to her brother.她想通过对达茨伍德夫人提出直截了当的邀请向她的哥哥表示出来。

13 assessment   

n.评价；评估；对财产的估价，被估定的金额

参考例句：

• This is a very perceptive assessment of the situation.这是一个对该情况的极富洞察力的评价。
• What is your assessment of the situation?你对时局的看法如何？

14 deteriorated   

恶化，变坏( deteriorate的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• Her health deteriorated rapidly, and she died shortly afterwards. 她的健康状况急剧恶化，不久便去世了。
• His condition steadily deteriorated. 他的病情恶化，日甚一日。

15 frankly   

adv.坦白地，直率地；坦率地说

参考例句：

• To speak frankly, I don't like the idea at all.老实说，我一点也不赞成这个主意。
• Frankly speaking, I'm not opposed to reform.坦率地说，我不反对改革。

16 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。

17 intervention   

n.介入，干涉，干预

参考例句：

• The government's intervention in this dispute will not help.政府对这场争论的干预不会起作用。
• Many people felt he would be hostile to the idea of foreign intervention.许多人觉得他会反对外来干预。

18 meddling   

v.干涉，干预（他人事务）( meddle的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• He denounced all "meddling" attempts to promote a negotiation. 他斥责了一切“干预”促成谈判的企图。 来自辞典例句
• They liked this field because it was never visited by meddling strangers. 她们喜欢这块田野，因为好事的陌生人从来不到那里去。 来自辞典例句

19 stabilize   

vt.（使）稳定，使稳固，使稳定平衡；vi.稳定

参考例句：

• They are eager to stabilize currencies.他们急于稳定货币。
• His blood pressure tended to stabilize.他的血压趋向稳定。