2007年VOA标准英语-Bush Threatens Tougher Sudan Sanctions

By Scott Stearns
White House
18 April 2007

President Bush is threatening tougher economic and military sanctions against Sudan if it does not follow through on promises to improve security in the troubled Darfur region, where more than 200,000 people have died.  VOA White House Correspondent Scott Stearns has the story.

President Bush says he has heard a lot of promises from Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir.

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President Bush speaks at US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington 18 Apr 2007

"Unfortunately, these agreements have been routinely violated," he said.  "Sudan's government has moved arms to Darfur, conducted bombing raids on villages. They've used military vehicles and aircraft that are painted white, which makes them look like those deployed² by humanitarian³ agencies and peacekeeping forces."

Speaking at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, Mr. Bush says the status quo in Sudan must not continue.

"President Bashir's record has been to promise cooperation while finding new ways to subvert⁴ and obstruct⁵ the U.N.'s efforts to bring peace to his country," he added.  "The time for promises is over. President Bashir must act."

President Bush says President Bashir has one last chance to meet what he calls the just demands of the international community.  Mr. Bush says the Sudanese leader must follow through on this week's promise to allow the deployment⁶ of 3,000 U.N. peacekeepers.

President Bush says Sudan must stop supporting militiamen, reach out to rebels, allow relief aid to reach those in need, and facilitate the full deployment of a 20,000-strong U.N.-Africa Union peacekeeping force.

President Bush says President Bashir has a short period of time to stop what he calls a pattern of obstruction⁷. If he does not, Mr. Bush says, the U. S. Treasury⁸ Department will bar from the U.S. financial system 29 companies owned or controlled by the government of Sudan, making it a crime for Americans to do business with them.

He says Washington will also seek a U.N. resolution applying new sanctions against Khartoum and individuals responsible for violence, proposing an expanded embargo⁹ on arms sales and prohibiting any offensive military flights over Darfur.

Imposing¹⁰ a no-fly zone would be a major escalation¹¹ of military intervention¹² in the region where 7,000 African peacekeepers have failed to stop four years of violence that has killed more than 200,000 people and displaced more than 2 million civilians¹³.

Most of the international community blames Khartoum for backing Arab militiamen who have targeted civilians.  But the government denies involvement in these attacks and says it is local rebels who are responsible for the violence.

President Bush says rebels have contributed to the instability, killing¹⁴ civilians, stealing supplies, and adding to the region's lawlessness.

1 holocaust   

n.大破坏；大屠杀

参考例句：

• The Auschwitz concentration camp always remind the world of the holocaust.奥辛威茨集中营总是让世人想起大屠杀。
• Ahmadinejad is denying the holocaust because he's as brutal as Hitler was.内贾德否认大屠杀，因为他像希特勒一样残忍。

2 deployed   

（尤指军事行动）使展开( deploy的过去式和过去分词 )； 施展； 部署； 有效地利用

参考例句：

• Tanks have been deployed all along the front line. 沿整个前线已部署了坦克。
• The artillery was deployed to bear on the fort. 火炮是对着那个碉堡部署的。

3 humanitarian   

n.人道主义者，博爱者，基督凡人论者

参考例句：

• She has many humanitarian interests and contributes a lot to them.她拥有很多慈善事业，并作了很大的贡献。
• The British government has now suspended humanitarian aid to the area.英国政府现已暂停对这一地区的人道主义援助。

4 subvert   

v.推翻；暗中破坏；搅乱

参考例句：

• The rebel army is attempting to subvert the government.反叛军队企图颠覆政府统治。
• They tried to subvert our state and our Party. This is the crux of the matter.他们是要颠覆我们的国家，颠覆我们的党，这是问题的实质。

5 obstruct   

v.阻隔，阻塞(道路、通道等)；n.阻碍物，障碍物

参考例句：

• He became still more dissatisfied with it and secretly did everything in his power to obstruct it.他对此更不满意，尽在暗里使绊子。
• The fallen trees obstruct the road.倒下的树将路堵住了。

6 deployment   

n. 部署,展开

参考例句：

• He has inquired out the deployment of the enemy troops. 他已查出敌军的兵力部署情况。
• Quality function deployment (QFD) is a widely used customer-driven quality, design and manufacturing management tool. 质量功能展开(quality function deployment,QFD)是一个广泛应用的顾客需求驱动的设计、制造和质量管理工具。

7 obstruction   

n.阻塞，堵塞；障碍物

参考例句：

• She was charged with obstruction of a police officer in the execution of his duty.她被指控妨碍警察执行任务。
• The road was cleared from obstruction.那条路已被清除了障碍。

8 treasury   

n.宝库；国库，金库；文库

参考例句：

• The Treasury was opposed in principle to the proposals.财政部原则上反对这些提案。
• This book is a treasury of useful information.这本书是有价值的信息宝库。

9 embargo   

n.禁运（令）；vt.对...实行禁运，禁止（通商）

参考例句：

• This country put an oil embargo on an enemy country.该国对敌国实行石油禁运。
• During the war,they laid an embargo on commerce with enemy countries.在战争期间，他们禁止与敌国通商。

10 imposing   

adj.使人难忘的，壮丽的，堂皇的，雄伟的

参考例句：

• The fortress is an imposing building.这座城堡是一座宏伟的建筑。
• He has lost his imposing appearance.他已失去堂堂仪表。

11 escalation   

n.扩大，增加

参考例句：

• The threat of nuclear escalation remains. 核升级的威胁仍旧存在。 来自辞典例句
• Escalation is thus an aspect of deterrence and of crisis management. 因此逐步升级是威慑和危机处理的一个方面。 来自辞典例句

12 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。

13 civilians   

平民，百姓( civilian的名词复数 )； 老百姓

参考例句：

• the bloody massacre of innocent civilians 对无辜平民的血腥屠杀
• At least 300 civilians are unaccounted for after the bombing raids. 遭轰炸袭击之后，至少有300名平民下落不明。

14 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。