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英语课

By Akiko Fujita
Tokyo
07 October 2009


 
Japan Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada (file photo)
Japan's new foreign minister has laid out his plan for his first 100 days in office, elaborating on discussions to build an East Asian Community and to alter the status of the U.S. military bases in the country.


Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada has only been on the job for three weeks. But he wants to signal a break from the past at every opportunity he gets. On his first day in office, he ordered his agency to investigate a decades-old pact 1 that allowed U.S. ships to enter Japanese ports while armed with nuclear weapons.


Okada says Japan denied the pact existed for decades, in part because the same party ruled for half a century. He says acknowledging the pact would have meant calling somebody in your own political party a liar 2. And he goes to say he believes the denial hurt Japan's credibility - and he has always wanted to change that.


Reports on that investigation 3 will not be completed until November, but Okada has plenty on his plate in the meantime.


Speaking to foreign journalists Wednesday, he laid out an ambitious 100-day plan to address the issue of the U.S. military bases in Okinawa and to review aid to Pakistan and Afghanistan. He also plans to address climate change.


On the issue of Okinawa's Futenma base, Okada disagrees with those who say the current U.S. and Japanese agreement should hold.


Under that plan 8,000 U.S. Marines will move from Okinawa to Guam while the U.S. builds a new facility to replace the Futenma air station. Futenma is in the crowded center of the island and is to be closed to reduce noise and congestion 4 in the area.


Okada wants to review that plan before proceeding 5 any further and say that U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton understands that desire.


On the issue of Afghanistan, Okada indicated new plans to help stabilize 6 the country could offer income guarantees and job training to lure 7 people away from the Taliban.


As for climate change, Mr. Okada said Japan would work closely with the U.S. to help developing countries such as China reduce their greenhouse gas emissions 8.


The foreign minister's ambitious plans also include talks with China to build an East Asian Community alliance, similar to the European Union.


Okada says he envisions an alliance that includes South Korea, Australia, Southeast Asia and India. He says the community would deepen economic ties among the countries and encourage cooperation in other areas such as energy, the environment, and public health.


But Mr. Okada stresses that such an alliance would not come at the expense of the U.S.-Japan alliance.


He says the two countries needed to remain strong partners. And that Japan should not have to pick between having good relations the U.S. and China.



n.合同,条约,公约,协定
  • The two opposition parties made an electoral pact.那两个反对党订了一个有关选举的协定。
  • The trade pact between those two countries came to an end.那两国的通商协定宣告结束。
n.说谎的人
  • I know you for a thief and a liar!我算认识你了,一个又偷又骗的家伙!
  • She was wrongly labelled a liar.她被错误地扣上说谎者的帽子。
n.调查,调查研究
  • In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
  • He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。
n.阻塞,消化不良
  • The congestion in the city gets even worse during the summer.夏天城市交通阻塞尤为严重。
  • Parking near the school causes severe traffic congestion.在学校附近泊车会引起严重的交通堵塞。
n.行动,进行,(pl.)会议录,学报
  • This train is now proceeding from Paris to London.这次列车从巴黎开往伦敦。
  • The work is proceeding briskly.工作很有生气地进展着。
vt.(使)稳定,使稳固,使稳定平衡;vi.稳定
  • They are eager to stabilize currencies.他们急于稳定货币。
  • His blood pressure tended to stabilize.他的血压趋向稳定。
n.吸引人的东西,诱惑物;vt.引诱,吸引
  • Life in big cities is a lure for many country boys.大城市的生活吸引着许多乡下小伙子。
  • He couldn't resist the lure of money.他不能抵制金钱的诱惑。
排放物( emission的名词复数 ); 散发物(尤指气体)
  • Most scientists accept that climate change is linked to carbon emissions. 大多数科学家都相信气候变化与排放的含碳气体有关。
  • Dangerous emissions radiate from plutonium. 危险的辐射物从钚放散出来。
学英语单词
.ari
aminovitamin
apparel chain
autodeeomposition
basic balance sheet
battery truck garage
Battey's operation
Bivicortene
body butter
bottom plate assembly
brushbars
burnt-out
calderbank
cantoned column
catalog of articles for sale
chlorazol brown b
chloromercuriphenol
code-check
copper coating
counter-opposite
cranked portion of shaft
curve ball
daily work report
daio
dibonane
disaster caused by hail
drilling mud cake
duplex-independent
emperished
en promenade
fall-of-potential
filmless spark chamber
fleece fabric
foilsman
forward torpedo flat
gas turbine booster propulsion set
gender empowerment measure
genus oryxes
govt
Hazardville
heralt
Hill Grove
holognathous
hypercholesterinemia
ickers
immunoresearch
Internet service provider
intolerant tree sun tree
iron-cement
Kru Town
kurfurstendamm
late childbirth
left steering tie rod
lever press
manual selectivity control
maximum descender depth
multidimensional support
natural turnover rate
net financial assets
obligate heterotroph
OnDeck
ordinary drawing rights
papaia
parminter
pattern element
people movers
phosphinous acid
pick up grasp
plow up
pnagus futilis
pontell
pressure mill
registered breadth
ricciocarpos natans
route-ring
run speed
run-to-failure
Saks
schmooze
Seba Beach
self-propelled chain-type side-rake
semipenniform
septa intermusculare anterius
sero-group
simultaneous payments clause
single concept learning
slovenries
soil redox status
solar thermal engineering
south pacific basin
spectral transfer function
Stannington
stone mole
table stop
thermocouple type
Thyssen Niederhein process
Transalpines
transfer carriage
trituberculates
trophedema
unrepeating
ZMA treated timber