访谈录 2013-07-03&07-05 奥巴马访南非 并会见曼德拉家人

President Obama who was landed in South Africa where he just held a news conference with the president of that country, also today he’s meeting privately¹ with family members of the former president Nelson Mandela. Mandela as we all know is in a hospital in a critical condition, and ABC’s Ryan Claiborne is in Pretoria right now, Ryan, good morning to you.

Hey, good morning to you, Dan, and as you know, the president, president Obama had hoped, had wanted to meet with Nelson Mandela at this Pretoria Hospital behind me, that is not going to happen. The White House just a little while ago, releasing a statement, saying, and I quote, “Out of deference² to Nelson Mandela’s peace and comfort and the family’s wishes, they will not be visiting the hospital.” As you said earlier, there was press conference a short while ago, and the president Obama spoke³ about Nelson Mandela.

We’re pouring that we, a love that we have seen in the recent days, shows that the triumph of Nelson Mandela and this nation speaks something very deep in the human spirit.

Instead of meeting with Nelson Mandela though, the president will have a private meeting with a number of family members of Nelson Mandela, the location and timing⁴ of that has not been disclosed. But the fact that this meeting had to be called off, the hope for a meeting between Obama and Nelson Mandela had to be called off is an indication of just how sick Nelson Mandela really is, although his former wife, Wendy Mandela said yesterday that he had had great improvements but in her words, remains⁵ clinically unwell and president Zuma here at that press conference saying that his condition, Mandela’s, remains critical but stable, so no doubt a great disappointment to president Obama would hope to meet with Nelson Mandela who he said is one of his personal heroes, he will not be meeting with him.

1 privately   

adv.以私人的身份，悄悄地，私下地

参考例句：

• Some ministers admit privately that unemployment could continue to rise.一些部长私下承认失业率可能继续升高。
• The man privately admits that his motive is profits.那人私下承认他的动机是为了牟利。

2 deference   

n.尊重，顺从；敬意

参考例句：

• Do you treat your parents and teachers with deference?你对父母师长尊敬吗？
• The major defect of their work was deference to authority.他们的主要缺陷是趋从权威。

3 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。

4 timing   

n.时间安排，时间选择

参考例句：

• The timing of the meeting is not convenient.会议的时间安排不合适。
• The timing of our statement is very opportune.我们发表声明选择的时机很恰当。

5 remains   

n.剩余物，残留物；遗体，遗迹

参考例句：

• He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
• The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。