VOA标准英语2009年-Obama, New Japanese Leader Hold First Meet

By Kent Klein
Washington
23 September 2009

 
President Barack Obama meets with Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama in New York, 23 Sep 2009
U.S. President Barack Obama and Japan's new Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama have reaffirmed the importance of the U.S.-Japanese alliance. The two leaders met for the first time since Mr. Hatoyama took office last week.

Despite Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama's campaign rhetoric¹, which signaled a possible Japanese shift away from Washington, he and President Barack Obama said their countries' long-standing alliance will continue. 

Mr. Obama said the relationship should be strengthened and deepened.

"It has been a cornerstone of the security of both nations, as well as the economic prosperity of both nations for almost 50 years now," he said.

Mr. Hatoyama said Tokyo's relationship with the United States will be a "key pillar" of his policies.

After their talk on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly meeting in New York, Mr. Obama said the United States and Japan have a major role in working with other countries toward economic recovery.

"As the world's two largest economies, we recognize the importance of coordinating² closely to continue to move beyond the current economic crisis," he said.

Both leaders stressed the need to coordinate³ closely on climate change, Afghanistan, Pakistan and North Korea. The Japanese leader praised Mr. Obama's leadership on nuclear nonproliferation, and pledged his support.

Mr. Hatoyama's Democratic Party of Japan won the August 30 elections, unseating the Liberal Democratic Party that had led Japan almost continuously since 1955.

Mr. Obama did not mention the Japanese leader's sometimes anti-U.S. campaign remarks, and thanked Mr. Hatoyama for his "extraordinary campaign."  

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1 rhetoric   

n.修辞学，浮夸之言语

参考例句：

• Do you know something about rhetoric?你懂点修辞学吗？
• Behind all the rhetoric,his relations with the army are dangerously poised.在冠冕堂皇的言辞背后，他和军队的关系岌岌可危。

2 coordinating   

v.使协调，使调和( coordinate的现在分词 )；协调；协同；成为同等

参考例句：

• He abolished the Operations Coordinating Board and the Planning Board. 他废除了行动协调委员会和计划委员会。 来自辞典例句
• He's coordinating the wedding, and then we're not going to invite him? 他是来协调婚礼的，难道我们不去请他？ 来自电影对白

3 coordinate   

adj.同等的，协调的；n.同等者；vt.协作，协调

参考例句：

• You must coordinate what you said with what you did.你必须使你的言行一致。
• Maybe we can coordinate the relation of them.或许我们可以调和他们之间的关系。