一、泛聽建議:
1、完整聽一遍,掌握大意。
2、繼續聽,特別注意關鍵信息。遇到相似的詞,寫下來。
President Obama is welcoming today's US-Russian agreement to secure and destroy Syria's chemical weapons. The president _1_ the US is still prepared to take military action if diplomacy fails. Former UN weapons inspector Charles Duelfer spoke and _2_ the deal.
奧巴馬總統對今天美俄就確保銷毀敘利亞化開武器達成的協議表示歡迎。總統強調,如果外交途徑失敗,美國仍然準備好采取軍事行動。前聯合國武器調查員查爾斯·迪爾費爾表示支持這項協議。
"Sometime things work, and this may be one of those cases. It has all the elements I think in place that will require for a successful disarmed operation, opinion in mind, we're drawing on lessons from the experience for Iraq in 1990s."
“有些時候會起作用,而這項協議可能就是其中一個案例。我認為該協議具備所有的因素,要求進行成功的銷毀武器行動,在我看來,我們吸取了90年代伊拉克戰爭經歷的教訓。”
The European Union and NATO were also welcoming the US and Russian initiative on dismantling Syria's chemical weapons. Teri Schultz reports.
歐盟和北約也對美俄就摧毀敘利亞化武問題的倡議表示歡迎。泰瑞·舒爾茨將帶來報道。
Demanding Damascus provide full access to all chemical stores, EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton is also calling on the long _3_ UN security council to reinforce the US-Russian framework with the formal resolution. Ashton notes many EU states have significant technical expertise in dismantling and _4_ chemical agents. She offers European assistants in securing the Syrian sites. NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen says Syria must fully complied with this process. The international community, Rasmussen says, must continue to ensure the chemical weapons are not used, and to that end, he says those who _5_ that norm must be held accountable. For NPR News, I'm Teri Schultz in Brussels.
歐盟外交政策主管凱瑟琳·阿什頓要求大馬士革提供所有存放化學物品地點的訪問權限,同時要求長期意見不統一的聯合國安理會成員國通過正式決議支持美俄框架協議。阿什頓指出,許多歐盟國家在銷毀化學藥劑方面都有杰出的技術專家。她為保護敘利亞現場提供歐盟援助。北約秘書長安諾斯·福格·拉斯穆森表示,敘利亞必須完全履行這項協議。他說,國際社會必須繼續確保沒有化學武器被使用,最終那些違反準則的一方必須要承擔責任。NPR新聞,泰瑞·舒爾茨貝魯塞爾報道。
詞匯解析:
1. in place
在適當位置;適當的;正在運作,就位;
eg. Similar legislation is already in place in Wales.
類似的法規在威爾士已經就位。
eg. The proposal is not quite in place.
那個提議并不十分適當。
2. draw on
憑借;利用;動用;(時光)漸漸過去;
eg. He drew on his experience as a yachtsman to make a documentary programme.
他憑借曾經做過快艇駕駛員的經驗制作了一檔紀實節目。
eg. As the afternoon drew on we were joined by more of the regulars.
隨著午后時光的漸漸消逝,又有些老主顧加入到我們當中來了。
3. comply with
服從;遵守;
eg. The commander said that the army would comply with the ceasefire.
指揮官說軍隊會遵守停火協議。
eg. Failure to comply with these conditions will result in termination of the contract.
不遵守這些條件將導致合同終止。
參考答案:
1、stressed 2、supported 3、divided
4、destroying 5、have violated