美国有线新闻 CNN 2014-02-04

 Kicking off with a couple international stories today on CNN Student News. I\'m Carl Azuz. Welcome to the show.

 

Diplomats¹ from around the world are gathering² in Geneva, Switzerland but their focus is on the country in the Middle East.  Since 2011, Syria has been torn apart by a civil war. More than 100,000 people have been killed and more than one half a million Syrians have become refugees. They have to leave their homes. The international meeting in Geneva is try to find solutions but officials aren\'t expecting a break through. For one thing, the US wants the other countries to help restore peace in Syria. Syrian officials said this is a Syrian conflict and it needs to stay that way, like the civil war itself, it\'s complicated and why is this meeting happening in Switzerland anyway?

 

Shaky hope for Syria\'s peace on the stable and neutral ground of Geneva. The Swiss city is known as the world\'s negotiating table where a brute³ force and battles won\'t give any ground. The international status of the city s. after WWI as the seat to the ill fated league of nations. Then again, after the WWII in 1945, housing key departments of the newly established united nations. From Vietnam to the Cold Ward⁴ to talks on the Balkans. The conflicts of the 20th century left a mark here in search for peace. One reason, Switzerland\'s fame neutrality that allows Geneva to be a dispassionate arbitrator. The city, also named drop in famous Geneva conventions, the standard the Switch play out international rules to human treatment in war time.  

 

\"The Geneva conventions and all of that instruments of international humanitarian⁵ law must be scrupulously⁶ respected.\"

 

It\'s not just diplomats who gather here. FIFA, the Red Cross, S., and the famously world tie banks. All the hard work hasn\'t gone on notice. With 14 of coveted⁷ Nobel Peace Prizes going to organizations and individuals from the city synonymous with the world. Backy Anderson, CNN, London.

1 diplomats   

n.外交官( diplomat的名词复数 )；有手腕的人，善于交际的人

参考例句：

• These events led to the expulsion of senior diplomats from the country. 这些事件导致一些高级外交官被驱逐出境。
• The court has no jurisdiction over foreign diplomats living in this country. 法院对驻本国的外交官无裁判权。 来自《简明英汉词典》

2 gathering   

n.集会，聚会，聚集

参考例句：

• He called on Mr. White to speak at the gathering.他请怀特先生在集会上讲话。
• He is on the wing gathering material for his novels.他正忙于为他的小说收集资料。

3 brute   

n.野兽，兽性

参考例句：

• The aggressor troops are not many degrees removed from the brute.侵略军简直象一群野兽。
• That dog is a dangerous brute.It bites people.那条狗是危险的畜牲，它咬人。

4 ward   

n.守卫，监护，病房，行政区，由监护人或法院保护的人（尤指儿童）；vt.守护，躲开

参考例句：

• The hospital has a medical ward and a surgical ward.这家医院有内科病房和外科病房。
• During the evening picnic,I'll carry a torch to ward off the bugs.傍晚野餐时，我要点根火把，抵挡蚊虫。

5 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。

6 scrupulously   

adv.一丝不苟地；小心翼翼地，多顾虑地

参考例句：

• She toed scrupulously into the room. 她小心翼翼地踮着脚走进房间。 来自辞典例句
• To others he would be scrupulously fair. 对待别人，他力求公正。 来自英汉非文学 - 文明史

7 coveted   

adj.令人垂涎的；垂涎的，梦寐以求的v.贪求，觊觎(covet的过去分词)；垂涎；贪图

参考例句：

• He had long coveted the chance to work with a famous musician. 他一直渴望有机会与著名音乐家一起工作。
• Ther other boys coveted his new bat. 其他的男孩都想得到他的新球棒。 来自《简明英汉词典》