2006年VOA标准英语-Lebanese Troops to Deploy South Thursday

By Margaret Besheer
Beirut
16 August 2006

Late Wednesday, Lebanon's government approved a plan to deploy¹ the army south of the Litani River beginning Thursday morning. Lebanese officials say the army will not force Hezbollah fighters to disarm², but insist there will be no weapons outside the control of the government.

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Wednesday night's cabinet meeting had been postponed³ for several days after reports of divisions within the government over whether Hezbollah should be disarmed⁴.
 

Fuad Siniora  
  
In the end, Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora never mentioned Hezbollah directly during his televised address following the meeting, but he said there would be no weapons outside the control of the Lebanese state. He added that the Lebanese army would have access to all parts of the country, and there would be no armed presence other than that of the Lebanese army.

In addition to the 15,000 Lebanese troops being deployed⁵ to the south, an expanded force of up to 15,000 United Nations peacekeepers are expected to deploy there.

France's defense⁶ minister said Wednesday that her country is ready to take command of that force until February. 

France's Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy (r) meets with Lebanon's Foreign Minister Fawzi Salloukh (l) in Beirut  
  
Speaking in Beirut earlier in the day, French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy said that his country would commit troops to the peacekeeping force, but he did not say how many.

He also called for Israel to lift its air, sea and land blockade of Lebanon, saying it is unnecessary with the U.N. ceasefire plan holding.

Meanwhile, thousands of Lebanese who fled the month-long fighting between Israel and Hezbollah continued to jam the broken and battered⁷ roads back to their towns and villages, which were in the heart of the fighting in southern Lebanon.

A U.N. spokeswoman in Beirut says 40,000 Lebanese have crossed the border from Syria since Monday. U.N. officials also say schools and public parks that had been used as shelters during the fighting are now nearly empty. But officials continue to warn that the south remains⁸ extremely dangerous, particularly due to the large number of unexploded bombs.

1 deploy   

v.（军）散开成战斗队形，布置，展开

参考例句：

• The infantry began to deploy at dawn.步兵黎明时开始进入战斗位置。
• The president said he had no intention of deploying ground troops.总统称并不打算部署地面部队。

2 disarm   

v.解除武装，回复平常的编制，缓和

参考例句：

• The world has waited 12 years for Iraq to disarm. 全世界等待伊拉克解除武装已有12年之久。
• He has rejected every peaceful opportunity offered to him to disarm.他已经拒绝了所有能和平缴械的机会。

3 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。

4 disarmed   

v.裁军( disarm的过去式和过去分词 )；使息怒

参考例句：

• Most of the rebels were captured and disarmed. 大部分叛乱分子被俘获并解除了武装。
• The swordsman disarmed his opponent and ran him through. 剑客缴了对手的械，并对其乱刺一气。 来自《简明英汉词典》

5 deployed   

（尤指军事行动）使展开( deploy的过去式和过去分词 )； 施展； 部署； 有效地利用

参考例句：

• Tanks have been deployed all along the front line. 沿整个前线已部署了坦克。
• The artillery was deployed to bear on the fort. 火炮是对着那个碉堡部署的。

6 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。

7 battered   

adj.磨损的；v.连续猛击；磨损

参考例句：

• He drove up in a battered old car.他开着一辆又老又破的旧车。
• The world was brutally battered but it survived.这个世界遭受了惨重的创伤,但它还是生存下来了。

8 remains   

n.剩余物，残留物；遗体，遗迹

参考例句：

• He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
• The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。