2007年VOA标准英语-Jordan's King Urges Renewed US Commitment to Mi

By Dan Robinson
Capitol Hill
07 March 2007

Jordan's King Abdullah is urging the United States to make a new commitment to peace in the Middle East. VOA's Dan Robinson reports from Capitol Hill, where the king told a joint² meeting of Congress that inaction is pushing the region toward greater danger and encouraging terrorism.

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King Abdullah (l) addresses a joint meeting of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, 7 Mar 2007

The king told members of the House and Senate that renewed U.S. leadership toward resolving the decades-long conflict between Palestinians and Israelis is crucial.

Referring to what he called 40 years of a stop-and-go peace process that has left a bitter legacy³ of disappointment and despair, he called on the United States to help create a new and different legacy of peace.

"Nothing can achieve that more effectively, nothing can assert America's moral vision more clearly, nothing can reach and teach the world's youth more directly, than your leadership in a peace process that delivers results not next year, not in five years, but this year," he said.

To accomplish this, King Abdullah said, will require understanding, agreement, and compromise.

Referring to the Arab Peace Initiative proposed by Saudi Arabia in 2002, he said Muslim countries meeting recently in Islamabad lent their support to a renewed peace process.

"The goals must be a peace in which all sides gain," he said. "It must be anchored in security and opportunity for all. It must be a peace that will free young Palestinians to focus on a future of progress and prosperity."

"It must be a peace that makes Israel a part of the neighborhood, a neighborhood that extends from the shores of the Atlantic Ocean, across the breadth of the southern Mediterranean⁴, to the coast of the Indian Ocean," he added.

The king also warned of the danger of spreading radicalism⁵ in the region, saying failure to move the peace process forward risks further violence from "ideologies⁶ of terror and hatred⁷."

Recalling the deaths of Americans and Jordanians at the hands of terrorists, he warned that diminishing public confidence in the peace process is moving the region toward greater danger.

"The cycle of crises is spinning faster, and with greater potential for destruction," he said. "Changing military doctrine⁸ and weaponry pose new dangers. Increasing numbers of external factors are intervening with their own strategic agendas, raising new dangers of proliferation and crisis."

"These are groups that seek even more division: faith against faith, nation against nation, community against community. Any further erosion in the situation would be serious for the future of moderation and coexistence, in the region and beyond," he continued.

King Abdullah said that while Americans and the world are concerned about the situation in Iraq, the source of regional division and the source of resentment⁹ and frustration¹⁰ remains¹¹ the denial of justice and peace in Palestine.

1 mar   

vt.破坏，毁坏，弄糟

参考例句：

• It was not the custom for elderly people to mar the picnics with their presence.大人们照例不参加这样的野餐以免扫兴。
• Such a marriage might mar your career.这样的婚姻说不定会毁了你的一生。

2 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。

3 legacy   

n.遗产，遗赠；先人(或过去)留下的东西

参考例句：

• They are the most precious cultural legacy our forefathers left.它们是我们祖先留下来的最宝贵的文化遗产。
• He thinks the legacy is a gift from the Gods.他认为这笔遗产是天赐之物。

4 Mediterranean   

adj.地中海的；地中海沿岸的

参考例句：

• The houses are Mediterranean in character.这些房子都属地中海风格。
• Gibraltar is the key to the Mediterranean.直布罗陀是地中海的要冲。

5 radicalism   

n. 急进主义, 根本的改革主义

参考例句：

• His radicalism and refusal to compromise isolated him. 他的激进主义与拒绝妥协使他受到孤立。
• Education produced intellectual ferment and the temptations of radicalism. 教育带来知识界的骚动，促使激进主义具有了吸引力。

6 ideologies   

n.思想（体系）( ideology的名词复数 )；思想意识；意识形态；观念形态

参考例句：

• There is no fundamental diversity between the two ideologies. 这两种思想意识之间并没有根本的分歧。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Radical ideologies require to contrast to their own goodness the wickedness of some other system. 凡是过激的意识形态，都需要有另外一个丑恶的制度作对比，才能衬托出自己的善良。 来自辞典例句

7 hatred   

n.憎恶，憎恨，仇恨

参考例句：

• He looked at me with hatred in his eyes.他以憎恨的眼光望着我。
• The old man was seized with burning hatred for the fascists.老人对法西斯主义者充满了仇恨。

8 doctrine   

n.教义；主义；学说

参考例句：

• He was impelled to proclaim his doctrine.他不得不宣扬他的教义。
• The council met to consider changes to doctrine.宗教议会开会考虑更改教义。

9 resentment   

n.怨愤，忿恨

参考例句：

• All her feelings of resentment just came pouring out.她一股脑儿倾吐出所有的怨恨。
• She cherished a deep resentment under the rose towards her employer.她暗中对她的雇主怀恨在心。

10 frustration   

n.挫折，失败，失效，落空

参考例句：

• He had to fight back tears of frustration.他不得不强忍住失意的泪水。
• He beat his hands on the steering wheel in frustration.他沮丧地用手打了几下方向盘。

11 remains   

n.剩余物，残留物；遗体，遗迹

参考例句：

• He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
• The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。