CNN 2010-12-27

A lot of debate over this treaty with executions by Democrats¹, Republicans stopped the approval simply because they wanted to deny President Obama an important political victory. Now we ask our flash brief analysts²: Is it politics, is it a good move, or is this Start Treaty dangerous.

Lots of pretty dangerous, look, the end of the day, the Russians will have just as many nuclear weapons as we have, they can modernize³. We said we're not going to. They have 10,000 strategic nuclear weapons, we have 1000. They're gonna have more weapons, better weapons than we are. They're not gonna do another treaty on strategic nuclear weapons, they're not gonna lead to a world without nuclear weapons.

In the treaty, it does not allow Russia to have more nuclear weapons. If limits to equal priority to equal levels, to 1550 strategic nuclear warheads. The treaty does not address what Europe is all concerned about which is tactical nuclear warheads, which Russia has more than the United States. But by passing this treaty, we can begin to move on to the negotiation⁴ on tactical nuclear warheads.

I think it's just very little question yet, there's a lot of politics going on and the opposition⁵ to this treaty. You clearly have, a bipartisan consensus⁶ before this treaty outside the senate. For every living Secretary of State, almost every single’s former secretary of defense⁷ and national security advisors⁸, the entire Joint⁹ Chiefs of Staff of fourth, so why don’t you step outside the Senate, you see a broad bipartisan pushed for approval, it's only the politics of the Senate that is to let in this approval…security pact¹⁰. So, politics you bet. The senate Republicans declared Tuesday enough members are willing to back the treaty, because they think it's the interest for the country

I will vote to ratify¹¹ the new Start treaty between the United States and Russia, because it leaves our country with enough nuclear warheads to blow any attacker to the kingdom come.

Well, that's one way to put it, and the other is: when a Start treaty could help reshape the Obama's presidency¹² a loss would relegate¹³ his images to a president who raised some hopes but couldn't get the job done.

1 democrats   

n.民主主义者，民主人士( democrat的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The Democrats held a pep rally on Capitol Hill yesterday. 民主党昨天在国会山召开了竞选誓师大会。
• The democrats organize a filibuster in the senate. 民主党党员组织了阻挠议事。 来自《简明英汉词典》

2 analysts   

分析家，化验员( analyst的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• City analysts forecast huge profits this year. 伦敦金融分析家预测今年的利润非常丰厚。
• I was impressed by the high calibre of the researchers and analysts. 研究人员和分析人员的高素质给我留下了深刻印象。

3 modernize   

vt.使现代化，使适应现代的需要

参考例句：

• It was their manifest failure to modernize the country's industries.他们使国家进行工业现代化，明显失败了。
• There is a pressing need to modernise our electoral system.我们的选举制度迫切需要现代化。

4 negotiation   

n.谈判，协商

参考例句：

• They closed the deal in sugar after a week of negotiation.经过一星期的谈判，他们的食糖生意成交了。
• The negotiation dragged on until July.谈判一直拖到7月份。

5 opposition   

n.反对，敌对

参考例句：

• The party leader is facing opposition in his own backyard.该党领袖在自己的党內遇到了反对。
• The police tried to break down the prisoner's opposition.警察设法制住了那个囚犯的反抗。

6 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？

7 defense   

n.防御，保卫；[pl.]防务工事；辩护，答辩

参考例句：

• The accused has the right to defense.被告人有权获得辩护。
• The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers.战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。

8 advisors   

n.顾问，劝告者( advisor的名词复数 )；（指导大学新生学科问题等的）指导教授

参考例句：

• The governors felt that they were being strung along by their advisors. 地方长官感到他们一直在受顾问们的愚弄。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
• We will consult together with advisors about her education. 我们将一起和专家商议她的教育事宜。 来自互联网

9 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。

10 pact   

n.合同，条约，公约，协定

参考例句：

• The two opposition parties made an electoral pact.那两个反对党订了一个有关选举的协定。
• The trade pact between those two countries came to an end.那两国的通商协定宣告结束。

11 ratify   

v.批准，认可，追认

参考例句：

• The heads of two governments met to ratify the peace treaty.两国政府首脑会晤批准和平条约。
• The agreement have to be ratify by the board.该协议必须由董事会批准。

12 presidency   

n.总统(校长，总经理)的职位(任期)

参考例句：

• Roosevelt was elected four times to the presidency of the United States.罗斯福连续当选四届美国总统。
• Two candidates are emerging as contestants for the presidency.两位候选人最终成为总统职位竞争者。

13 relegate   

v.使降级，流放，移交，委任

参考例句：

• We shall relegate this problem to the organizing committee.我们将把这个问题委托组织委员会处理。
• She likes to relegate difficult questions to her colleagues.她总是把困难的问题推给她同事。