Rice discusses North Korea with Russian leader (2/2)

In a statement aired on Russian state television, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov also said it is important to avoid what he termed “uncompromising positions on the nuclear issue”. He says Russia favors a resumption of the six-party negotiations aimed at resolving the nuclear dispute.

Talks involving North and South Korea, China, Russia, Japan and the United States broke off a year ago when North Korea demanded that it only wanted to talk directly to the United States.

Rice also met with the editors and relatives of Anna Politkovskaya, the prominent investigative journalist murdered in Moscow two weeks ago. The meeting was held in a hotel between her talks with Russian officials in a move clearly intended to show support for one of Russia’s last independent media outlets.

A fierce critic of the Kremlin’s human rights abuses in Chechnya, Politkovskaya was murdered two weeks ago in an apparent contract hit. Both the United States and European Union have called on Russian authorities to hunt down and prosecute the killers.

作业(没有时间做全文翻译的听友请做下面的几句翻译＾＾)

1. In a statement aired on Russian state television, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov also said it is important to avoid what he termed “uncompromising positions on the nuclear issue”.

2. The meeting was held in a hotel between her talks with Russian officials in a move clearly intended to show support for one of Russia’s last independent media outlets.

3. A fierce critic of the Kremlin’s human rights abuses in Chechnya, Politkovskaya was murdered two weeks ago in an apparent contract hit.

专有名词

Sergei Lavrov  谢尔盖·拉夫罗夫

Anna Politkovskaya  安娜·波利特科夫斯卡娅

Kremlin  克里姆林宫

Chechnya  车臣

生词

air  v. 播送，播出

term  v. 称，呼

uncompromising  adj. 不让步的，不妥协的，强硬的

resumption  n. 重新开始，继续进行，恢复

dispute  n./v. 争论

prominent  adj. 杰出的，突出的，显著的

contract  adj. an agreement to kill somebody for money

hunt down  捕获

翻译（仅供参考，欢迎讨论＾＾）

在俄罗斯国家电视台播放的声明中，俄罗斯外长谢尔盖·拉夫罗夫也指出，避免他所谓的“在核问题上毫不妥协的状况”是非常重要的。他表示俄罗斯更倾向于恢复旨在解决核争论的六方会谈。一年前，在北朝鲜要求单独与美国直接进行对话后，北朝鲜、韩国、中国、俄罗斯、日本和美国间的会谈突然中断。

赖斯也会见了安娜·波利特科夫斯卡娅的编辑及其亲属，这位杰出的战地记者于两周前在莫斯科遇害。此次会面是在赖斯与俄罗斯官员举行会谈期间于一个宾馆中进行的。赖斯的这一举动也明确的显示出了她对这位作为俄罗斯最后的独立媒体人之一的记者的支持。

曾对克里姆林宫在车臣滥用人权的现象进行过猛烈抨击的波利特科夫斯卡娅于两个星期前在一场显而易见的暗杀中身亡。美国和欧盟都呼吁俄罗斯当局找出并起诉凶手。

posted on 2006-10-26 06:23 annika 阅读(1237) 评论(7)  编辑  收藏 所属分类: 标准VOA 网摘收藏