LessonThreeInternationalRelations英语新闻阅读技术分析.pptVIP

[2]?The White House (白宫)：在当代报刊中常用政府所在地代表某一政府，或用事件发生地来指代整个事件。如用“白宫”指代美国政府；“海湾”可指代“1991年1月16日至2月27日，以美国为首的多国部队针对伊拉克发动的战争；“唐宁街”是英国首相府所在地，因此常指代英国首相，英国政府和英国内阁。 [3] Iran and North Korea (伊朗和北朝鲜)：On January 28，2002，President Bush branded Iran，Iraq and North Korea as “axis of evil” in his State of the Union Address（国情咨文）, claiming that these countries and their terrorist allies constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world. [4] Al-Qaida （本·拉登组织“基地”）: Established by Usama Bin Ladin（乌萨马·本·拉登）in the late 1980s to bring together Arabs who fought in Afghanistan（阿富汗）against the Soviet Union, it helped finance, recruit, transport, and train Sunni Islamic extremists for the Afghan resistance. Its current goal is to establish a pan-Islamic Caliphate（哈里发辖区）throughout the world by working with allied Islamic extremist groups to overthrow regimes it deems “non-Islamic” and expelling Westerners and non-Muslims from Muslim countries - particularly Saudi Arabia. Issued statement under the banner of “the World Islamic Front for Jihad（圣战，穆斯林对异教徒之战）against the Jews and Crusaders” in February 1998, says it is the duty of all Muslims to kill U.S. citizens - civilian or military - and their allies everywhere. Al-Qaida probably has several thousand members and associates. It has cells worldwide and is reinforced by its ties to Sunni extremist networks. It was based in Afghanistan until Coalition forces removed the Taliban（塔利班）from power in late 2001. Al-Qaida has dispersed in small groups across South Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East and probably will attempt to carry out future attacks against US interests. [5] Biological weapons (生化武器)：They refer to microorganisms applied in a war to injure or destroy people, animals, or crops; also called germ or bacteriological weapons (细菌武器). Biological warfare has scarcely been used in modern times and was prohibited by the 1925 Geneva Convention(日内瓦公约). However, many nations in the 20th century, have conducted research