听美文故事记6级单词02-06

President Putin dresses up to play war games 俄总统普京戎装上阵体验远程轰炸和导弹发射

Russian President Vladimir Putin sits inside the Tupolev-160 strategic bomber¹ jet at the Moscow's Chkalovsky military airport (AFP)

President Vladimir Putin donned navy uniform to watch a missile launch at sea yesterday, hours after dressing² as a pilot and flying in a supersonic bomber.

"I think a man in my position must know how it all happens," the president said after a five-hour flight on a giant TU160 strategic bomber to test-fire a cruise missile over northern Russia.

Then, Putin, flanked by Defense³ Minister Sergei Ivanov, stood on board of the Pyotr Veliky cruiser to watch the Sineva missile blast out of the water and vanish into the gray sky after being launched by the submerged nuclear submarine Yekaterinburg near the Kola Peninsula.

It hit a target 5,000 miles away in Russia's far east, helping⁴ to offset⁵ the failed missile launches when he attended his country's largest naval⁶ exercises in two decades last year.

The former KGB spy is a regular guest at lavish⁷ demonstrations⁸ of his country's military might. As well as a missile launch, yesterday's flight involved mid-air refuelling and a low-level pass just 200 yards above the sea's surface at 560mph.

Putin said he was pleased with the result of the exercise, in which a group of Northern Fleet ships and submarines were to prevent another group from deploying⁹ into the open sea and simulating the launch of nuclear missiles.

"Everyone probably remembers the failed launch last year," Putin said at a news conference on the Pyotr Veliky. "Now, all of the shortcomings have been corrected."

After leaving an Arctic air base to join this week's war games , Mr Putin, 52, played down his simulated bombing raid.

"I think that's how people feel when they fly in their dreams at night," he said of the experience.

His visibility at exercises featuring nuclear test launches underscores his commitment to modernizing¹⁰ Russia's strategic forces.

 

普京乘坐庞大的图-160战略轰炸机在俄罗斯北部地区试射了一枚巡航导弹，整个飞行过程历时5小时。之后，普京说：“我想，作为俄罗斯总统，我必须了解整个过程。”

在俄罗斯国防部长谢尔盖· 伊万诺夫的护卫下，普京接着登上了“彼得大帝”号巡洋舰，观看位于科拉半岛附近的俄罗斯叶卡捷琳堡核潜艇发射导弹，导弹冲出水面，消失在灰色的天空中。

导弹射中了一个远在5000英里以外的、位于俄罗斯远东地区的目标，弥补了去年普京在参加俄罗斯二十年来最大规模的一次军事演习时，导弹没有射中目标的遗憾。

这位曾经在前苏联时期为克格勃效力的现任总统是俄罗斯大规模军事演习的常客。除了导弹发射，昨天普京总统还参加了空中加油、超低空飞行等军事演习，飞机曾经以560英里每小时的速度在高出海平面仅200米的地方飞过。

普京说他对这次演习的结果很满意。在这次演习中，由俄罗斯北方舰队水面舰艇和潜艇组成的一个编队成功地阻止了部署在公海的另一个编队模拟发射核弹。

“也许大家都还记得去年我们曾发射失败过。现在，所有的不足都已经得到了弥补。”普京在“彼得大帝”号巡洋舰上举行的新闻发布会上说。

参加本周进行的军事演习前，普京总统曾经在位于北极圈内的空军基地过夜。飞离基地后，现年52岁的普京总统让自己的这次模拟导弹袭击尽量低调。

“我想这次飞行就像大家晚上在梦中飞行的感觉一样。”

从普京亲自视察以核弹试验发射为主的军事演习可以看出他对实现俄罗斯战略力量现代化的重视。

1 bomber   

n.轰炸机，投弹手，投掷炸弹者

参考例句：

• He flew a bomber during the war.他在战时驾驶轰炸机。
• Detectives hunting the London bombers will be keen to interview him.追查伦敦爆炸案凶犯的侦探们急于对他进行讯问。

2 dressing   

n.(食物)调料；包扎伤口的用品，敷料

参考例句：

• Don't spend such a lot of time in dressing yourself.别花那么多时间来打扮自己。
• The children enjoy dressing up in mother's old clothes.孩子们喜欢穿上妈妈旧时的衣服玩。

3 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。

4 helping   

n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的，辅助的

参考例句：

• The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
• By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。

5 offset   

n.分支，补偿；v.抵消，补偿

参考例句：

• Their wage increases would be offset by higher prices.他们增加的工资会被物价上涨所抵消。
• He put up his prices to offset the increased cost of materials.他提高了售价以补偿材料成本的增加。

6 naval   

adj.海军的，军舰的，船的

参考例句：

• He took part in a great naval battle.他参加了一次大海战。
• The harbour is an important naval base.该港是一个重要的海军基地。

7 lavish   

adj.无节制的；浪费的；vt.慷慨地给予，挥霍

参考例句：

• He despised people who were lavish with their praises.他看不起那些阿谀奉承的人。
• The sets and costumes are lavish.布景和服装极尽奢华。

8 demonstrations   

证明( demonstration的名词复数 )； 表明； 表达； 游行示威

参考例句：

• Lectures will be interspersed with practical demonstrations. 讲课中将不时插入实际示范。
• The new military government has banned strikes and demonstrations. 新的军人政府禁止罢工和示威活动。

9 deploying   

（尤指军事行动）使展开( deploy的现在分词 )； 施展； 部署； 有效地利用

参考例句：

• Provides support for developing and deploying distributed, component-based applications. 为开发和部署基于组件的分布式应用程序提供支持。
• Advertisement, publishing, repair, and install-on-demand are all available when deploying your application. 在部署应用程序时提供公布、发布、修复和即需即装功能。

10 modernizing   

使现代化，使适应现代需要( modernize的现在分词 )； 现代化，使用现代方法

参考例句：

• Modernizing a business to increase its profitability and competitiveness is a complicated affair. 使企业现代化，从而达到增加利润，增强竞争力的目的，是一件复杂的事情。
• The young engineer had a large share in modernizing the factory. 这位年轻工程师在工厂现代化的过程中尽了很大的“力”。