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听力原文:
Sanctions on North Korea
制裁朝鲜
Big bother
大麻烦
Despite tough-looking new sanctions, punishing the gangster state will remain fiendishly difficult. All eyes are on China.
尽管最新出台的制裁协议看上去又狠又严厉，但是用来惩罚流氓国家还是有困难。全世界的眼睛都在看着中国。
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.
重点词汇：
1 sanction 制裁
2 tough- looking 恶狠狠的
3 gangster 匪徒；歹徒；土匪
4 fiendishly 极其困难的;极具挑战性的
5 Sweeping 影响广泛的；大范围的；根本性的
6 inspection 检查；查看；审视
7 embargo 禁止贸易令；禁运
8 oppose 反对（计划、政策等）；抵制；阻挠
9 impose 迫使；把…强加于
10 measures (正式行动)措施；方法
例如： safety/security/austerity measures 安全 / 保安 / 紧缩措施 a temporary/an emergency measure 临时 / 紧急措施
听力原文:
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.
重点词汇：
1 consensus 一致的意见；共识
2 inaugural 就职的；开幕的；成立的；创始的
3 atomic 原子的；与原子有关的
4 resolutions 决议 正式决定；
5 chug along 扑哧扑哧的向前爬行
6 chug (车辆)突突地缓慢行驶
7 toughen 加强，强化（政策、规章或惩罚）；使强硬
8 stance 观点，态度，立场 position
9 implement 使生效；贯彻；执行；实施
10 rigorously 一丝不苟的;严格的;谨慎的
听力原文:
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.
重点词汇：
1 delicate熟练的；需要技巧的；需要小心处理的；微妙的
2 delicate negotiation微妙的谈判，审慎的谈判，难办的交涉
3 stiffen （使）变强硬，变坚定
4 resolve决心；坚定的信念
5 guise 表现形式；外貌；伪装；外表
6 stiffen 变僵硬，变僵直，绷紧
7 dismantle 拆开，拆卸（机器或结构）
8 choke （使）窒息，哽噎
听力原文:
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.
重点词汇：
1 enforcement 强制，实施，执行;
2 titanium 钛;
3 iron ore 铁矿石; ore 矿; 矿石，矿砂;
4 transaction （一笔）交易，业务，买卖
5 balk 畏缩；回避
6 unilateral 单方的
听力原文:
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.
重点词汇：
1 explicit 明确的，清楚的; 直言的; 详述的; 不隐瞒的
2 regime（尤指未通过公正选举的）统治方式，统治制度，政权，政体
3 pamper 心照顾；精心护理；娇惯；纵容
2 luxury 奢侈的享受；奢华 snowmobile 机动雪橇；雪地机动车
3 potent有强效的；有力的；烈性的；影响身心的
4 provision 规定，条款
2 sniff out 嗅出 expel 驱逐
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