301 布什声称恢复中东和平是首要任务

 

JUSTIFY⁶: inter-ideograph; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify">Mideast Peace is a Priority - Bush

Scott Stearns

White House

7 Aug 2001 19:56 UTC

 

 President Bush has written to Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak to 1)reassure him that the United States still considers peace in the Middle East a top 2)priority. Mr. Bush has been criticized for not taking a more active role in ending Israeli-Palestinian violence.

President Bush says he wrote the Egyptian leader to tell him that his administration is still "very much engaged" in the peace process and takes the recent upsurge in violence "very seriously." Mr. Bush says he told President Mubarak that peace in the Middle East "is a top foreign policy priority" and that the United States and Egypt "need to work together to 3)convince both sides to break the cycle of violence."

The president sent his letter one day after Egypt's foreign minister said Cairo was "astonished" that the Bush administration is not doing more to stop Israeli attacks on suspected Palestinian militants¹.

This administration has been less involved in the Middle East than former President Clinton. Mr. Bush sent his CIA director to arrange an Israeli-Palestinian 4)ceasefire but that 5)collapsed with another round of violence.

State Department spokesman Richard Boucher says the Bush administration is calling on both sides to get back to a ceasefire and a 6)blueprint for peace drawn-up by former U.S. Senator George Mitchell. "The parties need to take steps to stop the violence, and we are looking to them to 7)cease the violence and get on with the implementation² of the Mitchell 8)committee recommendations," he says.

Mr. Boucher says the Bush administration is involved in the process but that only the Palestinians and Israelis can decide to stop the fighting.

President Bush, who is on 9)vacation at his ranch³ in Texas, says the Mitchell plan will work only after the fighting stops. He told reporters that if Palestinian and Israeli leaders agree to the plan, "hopefully sanity⁴ will prevail."

Palestinian leaders say the Bush administration should be pushing Israel to accept international monitors included in the Mitchell plan. White House officials say those monitors would be useful only if both sides accept them. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has refused them.

Arab leaders are also angry about a television interview last week by U.S. Vice⁵ President Dick Cheney in which he appeared to justify Israeli 10)raids on suspected Palestinian security threats. The White House says those comments were 11)misinterpreted and that the vice president was saying that both Israel and the Palestinian authority find justifications⁷ for their actions.

Mr. Boucher says the State Department is looking at "different ways that we might proceed, different ways we might help." But he said the administration does not have a 12)back-up plan to the Mitchell 13)approach and believes that is the only way forward.

 

 

(1)      reassure[ri:E5FJE(r)]vt.使...安心, 再保证, 使...恢复信心

(2)      priority[praI5RrItI]n.先, 前, 优先, 优先权

(3)      convince[kEn5vIns]vt.使确信, 使信服

(4)      ceasefire n.停火,停战

(5)      collapse[kE5lAps]n.倒塌,失败, 虚脱vi.倒塌, 崩溃, 瓦解, 失败

(6)      blueprint[5blu:prInt]n.蓝图, 设计图, 计划vt.制成蓝图, 计划

(7)      cease[si:s]v.停止, 终了

(8)      committee[kE5mItI]n.委员会

(9)      vacation[vE5keIF(E)n; (?@) veI-]n.假期, 休假v.<美>度假, 休假

(10)      raid[reId]n.袭击, 搜捕v.奇袭, 搜捕

(11)      misinterpret[mIsIn5t:prIt]vt.曲解

(12)      back-up v.n.备份

(13)      approach[E5prEJtF]n.接近,方法, 途径vt.接近, 动手处理vi.靠近

 

 

1 militants   

激进分子，好斗分子( militant的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The militants have been sporadically fighting the government for years. 几年来，反叛分子一直对政府实施零星的战斗。
• Despite the onslaught, Palestinian militants managed to fire off rockets. 尽管如此，巴勒斯坦的激进分子仍然发射导弹。

2 implementation   

n.实施，贯彻

参考例句：

• Implementation of the program is now well underway.这一项目的实施现在行情看好。

3 ranch   

n.大牧场，大农场

参考例句：

• He went to work on a ranch.他去一个大农场干活。
• The ranch is in the middle of a large plateau.该牧场位于一个辽阔高原的中部。

4 sanity   

n.心智健全，神智正常，判断正确

参考例句：

• I doubt the sanity of such a plan.我怀疑这个计划是否明智。
• She managed to keep her sanity throughout the ordeal.在那场磨难中她始终保持神志正常。

5 vice   

n.坏事；恶习；[pl.]台钳，老虎钳；adj.副的

参考例句：

• He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
• They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。

6 justify   

vt.证明…正当(或有理)，为…辩护

参考例句：

• He tried to justify his absence with lame excuses.他想用站不住脚的借口为自己的缺席辩解。
• Can you justify your rude behavior to me?你能向我证明你的粗野行为是有道理的吗？

7 justifications   

正当的理由，辩解的理由( justification的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• If he a vulgar person, she does not have justifications for him. 如果他是个低级趣味的人，她早就不会理他了。
• It depends on their effect on competition and possible justifications. 这则取决于它们对于竞争的影响和可能存在的正当抗辩理由。