Russian Energy Contractors Ambushed in Iraq

 

Bill Gasperini

Workers for a Russian energy contractor¹ in Iraq are being pulled out of the country following the killing² of two employees in an ambush³ near Baghdad Wednesday. The Russian government says security in Iraq will continue to be a problem until the country is ruled by a government its people trust.
The ambush of a bus carrying contract workers of Interenergoservice company Wednesday was the latest of several previous attacks in which the employees were either killed or abducted⁵ by armed gunmen.
This time the company, which is building a power station in Iraq, decided⁶ to pull all the remaining employees in Iraq, more than 230 workers, out of the country.
The Russian government has appealed repeatedly to Russian contractors⁷ in Iraq to evacuate⁸ their employees until security in the country improves.
Moscow maintains that is unlikely to happen until power is transferred to a government the Iraqi people can trust and support.
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Tuesday a U.N. Security Council vote on a new Iraq resolution should not take place until the caretaker government has been unveiled. He said the resolution, drafted by the United States and Britain, needs to guarantee the legitimacy⁹ of the new government, especially in the eyes of the Iraqi people.
Viktor Kremenyuk is an analyst¹⁰ in Moscow with the U.S.-Canada Institute. He said that a new resolution must be reached by consensus¹¹ in the international community. "It would be better even for the U.S. as well as for Iraqis if the U.N. acquires some position which will give to the whole situation the sense of some international effort, a multilateral effort," he said.
To give the process an international dimension, Russia has proposed that those Iraqis might then attend a conference along with officials from nations in the Middle East as well as other major countries in order to confer as much legitimacy as possible before the hand-over of power.

注释：
contractor [kEn5trAktE(r)] n. 承建者，承包者
ambush [5AmbuF] n. 伏击，埋伏
contract workers 包工
Interenergoservice n. 俄罗斯的一家能源公司
abduct⁴ [Ab5dQkt] v. 绑架
evacuate [I5vAkjJeIt] v. 疏散，撤退
Sergei Lavrov 谢尔盖·拉夫罗夫（俄罗斯外交部长）
unveil [Qn5veil] v. 公布，使公诸于众
draft [drB:ft] v. 起草
multilateral [5mQlti5lAtErEl] adj. 多边的，多国的
Middle East中东（包括亚洲西南部国家和非洲东北部国家的地区）
confer [kEn5fE:] v. 赋予

1 contractor   

n.订约人，承包人，收缩肌

参考例句：

• The Tokyo contractor was asked to kick $ 6000 back as commission.那个东京的承包商被要求退还6000美元作为佣金。
• The style of house the contractor builds depends partly on the lay of the land.承包商所建房屋的式样，有几分要看地势而定。

2 killing   

n.巨额利润；突然赚大钱，发大财

参考例句：

• Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
• Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。

3 ambush   

n.埋伏(地点)；伏兵；v.埋伏；伏击

参考例句：

• Our soldiers lay in ambush in the jungle for the enemy.我方战士埋伏在丛林中等待敌人。
• Four men led by a sergeant lay in ambush at the crossroads.由一名中士率领的四名士兵埋伏在十字路口。

4 abduct   

vt.诱拐，拐带，绑架

参考例句：

• The police caught the man who tried to abduct the boy for ransom.警察抓住了那个企图拐走这男孩以便勒索赎金的家伙。
• The news that we see those use network abduct children sometimes filled with apprehension.我们有时看到那些利用网络诱拐儿童的新闻都心惊肉跳。

5 abducted   

劫持，诱拐( abduct的过去式和过去分词 )； 使（肢体等）外展

参考例句：

• Detectives have not ruled out the possibility that she was abducted. 侦探尚未排除她被绑架的可能性。
• The kid was abducted at the gate of kindergarten. 那小孩在幼儿园大门口被绑架走了。

6 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。

7 contractors   

n.（建筑、监造中的）承包人( contractor的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• We got estimates from three different contractors before accepting the lowest. 我们得到3个承包商的报价后，接受了最低的报价。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Contractors winning construction jobs had to kick back 2 per cent of the contract price to the mafia. 赢得建筑工作的承包商得抽出合同价格的百分之二的回扣给黑手党。 来自《简明英汉词典》

8 evacuate   

v.遣送；搬空；抽出；排泄；大(小)便

参考例句：

• We must evacuate those soldiers at once!我们必须立即撤出这些士兵！
• They were planning to evacuate the seventy American officials still in the country.他们正计划转移仍滞留在该国的70名美国官员。

9 legitimacy   

n.合法，正当

参考例句：

• The newspaper was directly challenging the government's legitimacy.报纸直接质疑政府的合法性。
• Managing from the top down,we operate with full legitimacy.我们进行由上而下的管理有充分的合法性。

10 analyst   

n.分析家，化验员；心理分析学家

参考例句：

• What can you contribute to the position of a market analyst?你有什么技能可有助于市场分析员的职务？
• The analyst is required to interpolate values between standards.分析人员需要在这些标准中插入一些值。

11 consensus   

n.(意见等的)一致，一致同意，共识

参考例句：

• Can we reach a consensus on this issue?我们能在这个问题上取得一致意见吗？
• What is the consensus of opinion at the afternoon meeting?下午会议上一致的意见是什么？