114 联合国关注轻武器非法交易

114 联合国关注轻武器非法交易

UN Attempts to Defuse Concerns Over Small Arms
Breck Ardery
United Nations
5 Jul 2001 19:09 UTC

United Nations officials are concerned about an apparent 1)misunderstanding over next week's conference on the problem of 2)small arms and light weapons.
The two-week conference, which opens Monday, will focus on the 3)illegal trade in small arms, a trade that U.N. studies show is now 4)fueling most internal conflicts in nations around the world.
But some gun-owner advocates, mostly in the United States, suspect the conference is an effort to develop international controls on gun ownership by American citizens. The United Nations has received at least 100 angry letters and e-mails, some of them so strongly worded that they were turned over to security officials for 5)evaluation.
But the U.N. under-secretary-general for disarmament, Jayantha Dhanapala, says the letter-writers have a serious misunderstanding about the purpose of the conference. "Fundamentally, the conference that starts next week will be looking at the 6)proliferation of small arms and light weapons in an international context that has helped 7)exacerbate conflict," he says. "We are not looking at the question of 8)domestic gun control as far as crime prevention is concerned, and the legal ownership of guns will not be 9)interfered with."
Mr. Dhanapala also pointed¹ out that the National Rifle Association of the United States as well as gun-owner 10)advocacy groups from other countries will be participating in the conference as officially recognized "non-governmental organizations."
Conference organizers are hoping the U.N. General Assembly will approve a program of action to control the 10)illicit manufacture, transfer, and 12)circulation of small arms and light weapons. Of particular concern are arms brokers², some of whom continue to provide weapons to combatants even after international arms sanctions have been imposed.

(1) misunderstanding[mIsQndE5stAndIN]n.误会, 误解
(2) small arms n.轻武器
(3) illegal[I5li:^(E)l]adj.违法的, 不合规定的
(4) fuel[fju:El]n.燃料vt.加燃料, 供以燃料
(5) evaluation[IvAljJ5eIF(E)n]n.估价, 评价, 赋值
(6) proliferation[prEJ9lIfE`reIFEn]n.增殖, 分芽繁殖
(7) exacerbate[ek5sAsEbeIt]vt.恶化, 增剧, 使加剧
(8) domestic[dE5mestIk]adj.家庭的, 国内的
(9) interfere[IntE5fIE(r)]vi.干涉, 干预
(10) advocacy[5AdvEkEsI]n.拥护, 鼓吹, 辩护
(11) illicit[I5lIsIt]adj.违法的
(12) circulation[s:kjJ5leIF(E)n]n.循环, 流通, 发行额

 

1 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。

2 brokers   

n.（股票、外币等）经纪人( broker的名词复数 )；中间人；代理商；（订合同的）中人v.做掮客（或中人等）( broker的第三人称单数 )；作为权力经纪人进行谈判；以中间人等身份安排…

参考例句：

• The firm in question was Alsbery & Co., whiskey brokers. 那家公司叫阿尔斯伯里公司，经销威士忌。 来自英汉文学 - 嘉莉妹妹
• From time to time a telephone would ring in the brokers' offices. 那两排经纪人房间里不时响着叮令的电话。 来自子夜部分