万花筒 Kaleidoscope 2007-05-22&23, 祸起“女友门” 世行行长黯然辞职

There is breaking news out of Washington tonight that the President of the World Bank, Paul Wolfowitz is resigning after weeks of drawn-out controversy¹. He was one of the architects of the Iraq War at the Pentagon and came under fire at his new job at the Bank for the generous compensation package he arranged for his girlfriend, a longtime World Bank employee. Our chief foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell is in our Washington Bureau with late details on this. Andrea, Good evening.

Good evening, Brian. Wolfowitz refused to quit and told the World Bank's board of directors acknowledged as it did tonight that it had also made mistakes, for the bank systems needed to be fixed², and that Wolfowitz had at least thought he was acting³ ethically⁴ when he arranged that generous pay agreement for his longtime companion, a Middle East expert of the bank, Shaha Riza. Now he still did not want to quit until that statement came and the last minute problems today were the administration, the White House insisting that he had to stay long enough, so that the administration, the United States could name his successor. Names being considered include Deputy Treasury⁵ Secretary Robert M. Kimmitt, and other officials including a former official, Bob Zoellick. Brian?
All right, Andrea Mitchell on this breaking story out of Washington tonight.

1 controversy   

n.争论，辩论，争吵

参考例句：

• That is a fact beyond controversy.那是一个无可争论的事实。
• We ran the risk of becoming the butt of every controversy.我们要冒使自己在所有的纷争中都成为众矢之的的风险。

2 fixed   

adj.固定的，不变的，准备好的；(计算机)固定的

参考例句：

• Have you two fixed on a date for the wedding yet?你们俩选定婚期了吗？
• Once the aim is fixed,we should not change it arbitrarily.目标一旦确定，我们就不应该随意改变。

3 acting   

n.演戏，行为，假装；adj.代理的，临时的，演出用的

参考例句：

• Ignore her,she's just acting.别理她，她只是假装的。
• During the seventies,her acting career was in eclipse.在七十年代，她的表演生涯黯然失色。

4 ethically   

adv.在伦理上，道德上

参考例句：

• Ethically , we have nothing to be ashamed about . 从伦理上说，我们没有什么好羞愧的。
• Describe the appropriate action to take in an ethically ambiguous situation. 描述适当行为采取在一个道德地模棱两可的情况。

5 treasury   

n.宝库；国库，金库；文库

参考例句：

• The Treasury was opposed in principle to the proposals.财政部原则上反对这些提案。
• This book is a treasury of useful information.这本书是有价值的信息宝库。