139 美国激进主义分子敦促布什政府签署地雷协议

139　美国激进主义分子敦促布什政府签署地雷协议

Activists¹ Urge US to Sign Landmine² Treaty
Joe de Capua
11 Jul 2001 02:04 UTC

A group of young activists is renewing its efforts to get the Bush administration to join the international 1)landmine treaty. The activists sent thousands of 2)petition signatures of young people to the White House asking for the government's support. But they say they are still 3)awaiting a response.
The petition drive called the Youth Against War Treaty began more than two years ago. It followed the 1997 international treaty banning the use, production, 4)stockpiling, and transfer of anti-personnel landmines³.
The United States never signed the landmine treaty, 5)citing security concerns in South Korea.
Jackie Hansen is with the International Campaign to Ban Landmines in Washington. "A Cambodian youth landmine survivor⁴ named Song Kosal she started the Youth Against War Treaty in 1998," she said. "And started 6)urging youth from around the world to voice their opinions and take a stand to ban landmines and show their support by signing this treaty. So youth in 42 different countries signed the treaty and we collected 7)approximately 263,000 signatures."
Ms. Hansen says, in March, a representative of the Bush administration refused to accept the Youth Against War Treaty petitions. So, they were mailed to the White House instead. "What the treaty says: We want no more war. We want no more mines. We want no more mine 8)victims. We want to work for peace in the world," said Ms. Hansen.
The petitions urged the United States to join the 140 countries supporting the 1997 treaty banning the use, production, stockpiling, and transfer of anti-personnel landmines. "We recently launched an action 9)alert and have started sending letters to the Bush administration asking for a response, because we have not even received a letter acknowledging receipt of the petitions," said Ms. Hansen.
VOA contacted the White House for reaction, but there has been no response.
The International Campaign to Ban Landmines says the weapons continue to be a daily threat in Angola, Afghanistan, Bosnia, Cambodia, Chechnya, Mozambique, Somalia, and many other countries. It says mines also 10)render large 11)tracts of agricultural land unusable - and are a threat to refugees returning home after conflicts end.

(1) landmine n.[军]地雷,投伞水雷
(2) petition[pI5tIF(E)n]n.请愿, 情愿书v.请求, 恳求, 请愿
(3) await[E5weIt]vt.等候
(4) stockpile n.积蓄, 库存vt.储蓄, 贮存
(5) cite[saIt]vt.引用, 引证, 提名表扬
(6) urge[E:dV]vt.催促, 力劝n.强烈欲望, 迫切要求v.促进
(7) approximately[EprRksI5mEtlI]adv.近似地, 大约
(8) victim[5vIktIm]n.受害人, 牺牲者, 牺牲品
(9) alert[E5l:t]adj.提防的, 警惕的n.警惕, 警报
(10) render[5rendE(r)]vt.呈递, 归还放弃vi.给予补偿
(11) tract[trAkt]n.广阔的地面, 土地, 地方

 

 

1 activists   

n.（政治活动的）积极分子，活动家( activist的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• His research work was attacked by animal rights activists . 他的研究受到了动物权益维护者的抨击。
• Party activists with lower middle class pedigrees are numerous. 党的激进分子中有很多出身于中产阶级下层。 来自《简明英汉词典》

2 landmine   

n.地雷

参考例句：

• A landmine is a kind of weapon used in war.地雷是一种运用于战争的武器。
• The treaty bans the use,production and trade of landmine.那条约禁止使用生产和交易雷。

3 landmines   

潜在的冲突； 地雷，投伞水雷( landmine的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The treaty bans the use production and trade of landmines. 该条约规定，禁止使用地雷相关产品及贸易。
• One of the weapon's of special concern was landmines. 在引起人们特别关注的武器中就有地雷。

4 survivor   

n.生存者，残存者，幸存者

参考例句：

• The sole survivor of the crash was an infant.这次撞车的惟一幸存者是一个婴儿。
• There was only one survivor of the plane crash.这次飞机失事中只有一名幸存者。