国际组织动向—联合国要求政府协助追捕约旦爆炸事件操纵者

UN Urges Governments to Help Track down

Jordan Bombers¹

联合国要求政府协助追捕约旦爆炸事件操纵者

 

The Security Council approved a statement calling on all U.N. member states to assist and support the investigation² into the Amman hotel bombings. The 15-member body called all acts of terrorism "criminal and unjustifiable regardless of their motivation."

 

Jordan's U.N. Ambassador, Prince Zeid Al-Hussein, thanked the Council for, in his word "reflecting the solidarity³ of the international community with the people of Jordan." Afterward⁴, he expressed determination to bring the perpetrators to justice.

 

Zeid Al-Hussein: This was an awful crime. Jordan is a small country. The victims are our brothers and sisters. They are our mothers and fathers, our uncles, they’re people from villages, from towns, they are Arabs, they are Muslims, and the people who committed this crime are criminals and inhuman⁵.

 

The Jordanian envoy⁶ rejected a reporter's suggestion that the bomb attacks might affect his country's political stability.

 

Zeid Al-Hussein: Like any country it comes as a shock, but we are resilient, we will be able to cope, and recover, and it's something that would shock the conscience of anyone, and we have consistently condemned⁷ all such attacks wherever they occur.

 

U.S. Ambassador John Bolton called the Amman bombings a heinous⁸ terrorist attack. He pointed⁹ out that al-Qaida has claimed responsibility for both the Amman attacks and a terrorist bombing at a Baghdad café Thursday.

 

Mr. Bolton: The two terrorist bombings occurring in such proximity¹⁰ show that the fight against terrorism is one that really does involve all civilized¹¹ nations, and that the terrorist acts that we've seen in Iraq over time are linked to the terrorist acts in a number of other countries.

 

A U.N. spokesman said Secretary-General Kofi Annan would travel to Amman Friday to visit King Abdullah and consult with U.N. staff. The secretary-general had originally been scheduled to visit the Jordanian capital Thursday, but postponed¹² the trip after the bombings.

 

Amman has served as a base for many U.N. staff evacuated¹⁴ from Iraq after the August, 2003 terrorist attack on the world body's Baghdad headquarters. That attack killed more than 20 U.N. employees, including special envoy Sergio Vieira de Mello.

 

注释：

investigation [in7vesti5^eiFEn] n. 调查

motivation [7mEuti5veiFEn] n. 动机

solidarity [7sCli5dAriti] n. 团结

cope [kEup] vi. 应付，处理

heinous [5heinEs] adj. 可憎的，极恶的

proximity [prCk5simiti] n. 接近，亲近

evacuate¹³ [i5vAkjueit] v. 疏散，撤出

1 bombers   

n.轰炸机( bomber的名词复数 )；投弹手；安非他明胶囊；大麻叶香烟

参考例句：

• Enemy bombers carried out a blitz on the city. 敌军轰炸机对这座城市进行了突袭。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The Royal Airforce sill remained dangerously short of bombers. 英国皇家空军仍未脱离极为缺乏轰炸机的危境。 来自《简明英汉词典》

2 investigation   

n.调查，调查研究

参考例句：

• In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
• He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。

3 solidarity   

n.团结；休戚相关

参考例句：

• They must preserve their solidarity.他们必须维护他们的团结。
• The solidarity among China's various nationalities is as firm as a rock.中国各族人民之间的团结坚如磐石。

4 afterward   

adv.后来；以后

参考例句：

• Let's go to the theatre first and eat afterward. 让我们先去看戏，然后吃饭。
• Afterward,the boy became a very famous artist.后来，这男孩成为一个很有名的艺术家。

5 inhuman   

adj.残忍的，不人道的，无人性的

参考例句：

• We must unite the workers in fighting against inhuman conditions.我们必须使工人们团结起来反对那些难以忍受的工作条件。
• It was inhuman to refuse him permission to see his wife.不容许他去看自己的妻子是太不近人情了。

6 envoy   

n.使节，使者，代表，公使

参考例句：

• Their envoy showed no sign of responding to our proposals.他们的代表对我方的提议毫无回应的迹象。
• The government has not yet appointed an envoy to the area.政府尚未向这一地区派过外交官。

7 condemned   

adj. 被责难的, 被宣告有罪的 动词condemn的过去式和过去分词

参考例句：

• He condemned the hypocrisy of those politicians who do one thing and say another. 他谴责了那些说一套做一套的政客的虚伪。
• The policy has been condemned as a regressive step. 这项政策被认为是一种倒退而受到谴责。

8 heinous   

adj.可憎的，十恶不赦的

参考例句：

• They admitted to the most heinous crimes.他们承认了极其恶劣的罪行。
• I do not want to meet that heinous person.我不想见那个十恶不赦的人。

9 pointed   

adj.尖的，直截了当的

参考例句：

• He gave me a very sharp pointed pencil.他给我一支削得非常尖的铅笔。
• She wished to show Mrs.John Dashwood by this pointed invitation to her brother.她想通过对达茨伍德夫人提出直截了当的邀请向她的哥哥表示出来。

10 proximity   

n.接近，邻近

参考例句：

• Marriages in proximity of blood are forbidden by the law.法律规定禁止近亲结婚。
• Their house is in close proximity to ours.他们的房子很接近我们的。

11 civilized   

a.有教养的，文雅的

参考例句：

• Racism is abhorrent to a civilized society. 文明社会憎恶种族主义。
• rising crime in our so-called civilized societies 在我们所谓文明社会中日益增多的犯罪行为

12 postponed   

vt.& vi.延期，缓办，（使）延迟vt.把…放在次要地位；[语]把…放在后面（或句尾）vi.（疟疾等）延缓发作（或复发）

参考例句：

• The trial was postponed indefinitely. 审讯无限期延迟。
• The game has already been postponed three times. 这场比赛已经三度延期了。

13 evacuate   

v.遣送；搬空；抽出；排泄；大(小)便

参考例句：

• We must evacuate those soldiers at once!我们必须立即撤出这些士兵！
• They were planning to evacuate the seventy American officials still in the country.他们正计划转移仍滞留在该国的70名美国官员。

14 evacuated   

撤退者的

参考例句：

• Police evacuated nearby buildings. 警方已将附近大楼的居民疏散。
• The fireman evacuated the guests from the burning hotel. 消防队员把客人们从燃烧着的旅馆中撤出来。