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聽(tīng)力原文:
Sanctions on North Korea
制裁朝鮮
Big bother
大麻煩
Despite tough-looking new sanctions, punishing the gangster state will remain fiendishly difficult. All eyes are on China.
盡管最新出臺(tái)的制裁協(xié)議看上去又狠又嚴(yán)厲，但是用來(lái)懲罰流氓國(guó)家還是有困難。全世界的眼睛都在看著中國(guó)。
ON MARCH 2nd the UN agreed to the most sweeping sanctions it has yet imposed on North Korea in response to the country’s nuclear and missile tests of the past decade. The measures include inspections of all goods going to or coming from the country; a total embargo on all arms sales to it; and a ban on exports from it of coal, iron and other minerals. They were approved by all 15 members of its Security Council including Russia, after it delayed a vote to negotiate small changes to the text, and China, which opposes its ally’s nuclear programme but has been reluctant to punish it seriously.
重點(diǎn)詞匯：
1 sanction 制裁
2 tough- looking 惡狠狠的
3 gangster 匪徒；歹徒；土匪
4 fiendishly 極其困難的;極具挑戰(zhàn)性的
5 Sweeping 影響廣泛的；大范圍的；根本性的
6 inspection 檢查；查看；審視
7 embargo 禁止貿(mào)易令；禁運(yùn)
8 oppose 反對(duì)（計(jì)劃、政策等）；抵制；阻撓
9 impose 迫使；把…強(qiáng)加于
10 measures (正式行動(dòng))措施；方法
例如： safety/security/austerity measures 安全 / 保安 / 緊縮措施 a temporary/an emergency measure 臨時(shí) / 緊急措施
聽(tīng)力原文:
Hopes have been raised before that consensus at the UN might force North Korea to abandon its efforts. “Swift and tough” was how America described a resolution passed by the UN after North Korea’s inaugural atomic test in 2006. Yet despite further such resolutions, the North’s bomb-building programme chugs along. Few expect it to give it up soon. But a toughening of China’s stance—assuming it implements the sanctions rigorously—may give North Korea pause. China is by far the country’s biggest trading partner. Most of the trade covered by the sanctions goes through China.
重點(diǎn)詞匯：
1 consensus 一致的意見(jiàn)；共識(shí)
2 inaugural 就職的；開(kāi)幕的；成立的；創(chuàng)始的
3 atomic 原子的；與原子有關(guān)的
4 resolutions 決議 正式?jīng)Q定；
5 chug along 撲哧撲哧的向前爬行
6 chug (車(chē)輛)突突地緩慢行駛
7 toughen 加強(qiáng)，強(qiáng)化（政策、規(guī)章或懲罰）；使強(qiáng)硬
8 stance 觀點(diǎn)，態(tài)度，立場(chǎng) position
9 implement 使生效；貫徹；執(zhí)行；實(shí)施
10 rigorously 一絲不茍的;嚴(yán)格的;謹(jǐn)慎的
聽(tīng)力原文:
The resolution was the product of nearly two months of delicate negotiation between America and China that began after North Korea’s fourth nuclear test on January 6th. That was followed on February 7th by a long-range missile test (in the guise of a rocket sending a satellite into space), after which South Korea and America agreed to begin formal talks about the possibility of installing an American missile-defence system in the South. That prospect may have helped to stiffen China’s resolve: it fears the kit might threaten its own nuclear arsenal. China may hope that America might now abandon its missile-defence ideas. But it has also made clear that UN sanctions are “not an end in themselves”. China recently called for peace talks between the Koreas. It will hope that the sanctions will encourage North Korea to resume discussions on dismantling its nuclear programme, and not simply choke the North Korean economy.
重點(diǎn)詞匯：
1 delicate熟練的；需要技巧的；需要小心處理的；微妙的
2 delicate negotiation微妙的談判，審慎的談判，難辦的交涉
3 stiffen （使）變強(qiáng)硬，變堅(jiān)定
4 resolve決心；堅(jiān)定的信念
5 guise 表現(xiàn)形式；外貌；偽裝；外表
6 stiffen 變僵硬，變僵直，繃緊
7 dismantle 拆開(kāi)，拆卸（機(jī)器或結(jié)構(gòu)）
8 choke （使）窒息，哽噎
聽(tīng)力原文:
Chinese enforcement of previous sanctions applied by the UN on North Korea has been poor. Those now being imposed would involve considerably more disruption for China. It receives most of North Korea’s exports of minerals, including coal, gold, titanium and iron ore; in 2014 they made up half of the North’s $2.8 billion worth of sales to the country, according to South Korean figures. Rüdiger Frank of the University of Vienna thinks inspections of goods crossing the border will scare away trading partners and increase transaction costs for all North Korean trade, even the legal sort. But Chinese officials may balk at having to examine every truck. It is possible that they may simply put on a show of doing so. John Delury of Yonsei University in Seoul says that if China thought economic pressure was useful, it would already be applying it unilaterally.
重點(diǎn)詞匯：
1 enforcement 強(qiáng)制，實(shí)施，執(zhí)行;
2 titanium 鈦;
3 iron ore 鐵礦石; ore 礦; 礦石，礦砂;
4 transaction （一筆）交易，業(yè)務(wù)，買(mǎi)賣(mài)
5 balk 畏縮；回避
6 unilateral 單方的
聽(tīng)力原文:
The sanctions include a more explicit ban on the sale of luxury goods, with which the regime pampers its senior officials: no more snowmobiles or fancy watches. But perhaps the most potent provisions of the UN resolution are those that require, and no longer simply encourage, countries to sniff out suspicious North Korean activity. They must expel North Korean diplomats found to be engaging in criminality and shut down North Korean banks if there is evidence they are helping the nuclear programme.
重點(diǎn)詞匯：
1 explicit 明確的，清楚的; 直言的; 詳述的; 不隱瞞的
2 regime（尤指未通過(guò)公正選舉的）統(tǒng)治方式，統(tǒng)治制度，政權(quán)，政體
3 pamper 心照顧；精心護(hù)理；嬌慣；縱容
2 luxury 奢侈的享受；奢華 snowmobile 機(jī)動(dòng)雪橇；雪地機(jī)動(dòng)車(chē)
3 potent有強(qiáng)效的；有力的；烈性的；影響身心的
4 provision 規(guī)定，條款
2 sniff out 嗅出 expel 驅(qū)逐
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