美国国家公共电台 NPR International Campaign To Abolish Nuclear Weapons Wins 2017 Nobel Peace Prize

 

MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST:

This year's Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, or ICAN, which, true to its name, campaigns to abolish nuclear weapons. As NPR's Camila Domonoske reports, the prize sends a message to the world's nuclear powers.

CAMILA DOMONOSKE, BYLINE¹: ICAN spent the past decade promoting a treaty that would ban all nuclear weapons. This summer, more than a hundred countries voted to adopt that treaty. But the world's nuclear powers were not among them. Berit Reiss-Andersen, the chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, said this year's prize sends a signal to countries with nuclear weapons.

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BERIT REISS-ANDERSEN: The message is that this year's Peace Prize is definitely an encouragement to them.

DOMONOSKE: To continue to negotiate toward a nuclear-free world. Asked if this was a kick in the leg to the Trump² administration, she said...

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REISS-ANDERSEN: We're not kicking anybody's leg with this prize. We are giving great encouragement. And we also want to help ICAN and focus on the extremely serious problem that the world is facing.

DOMONOSKE: Encouragement, help - but some people heard a reproach.

IRA HELFAND: I think that the awarding of the prize to ICAN was very much a rebuke³ to the nuclear weapon states.

DOMONOSKE: Ira Helfand is the co-president of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War. The group won a Nobel Peace Prize in 1985 for its work on nuclear disarmament, then launched the campaign that became ICAN, a global coalition⁴ of hundreds of groups. That means they've sort of won the Peace Prize again.

HELFAND: I don't know if that is, you know, a tribute to our perseverance⁵ or an indictment⁶ of our failure to get the job done over the last 32 years.

DOMONOSKE: The Nobel Committee praised ICAN for giving new vigor⁷ to that longstanding effort. Beatrice Fihn, the executive director of ICAN, told the Nobel Committee that the prize, quote, "means everything."

BEATRICE FIHN: You know, we're a small organization, and we have a lot of organizations that are members but have worked with little resources and kind of ignored by mainstream⁸ media. So I think this will mean the world to us.

DOMONOSKE: In a statement, ICAN said the award comes at a time of, quote, "great global tension when the specter of nuclear conflict looms⁹ large once more." Camila Domonoske, NPR News.

1 byline   

n.署名；v.署名

参考例句：

• His byline was absent as well.他的署名也不见了。
• We wish to thank the author of this article which carries no byline.我们要感谢这篇文章的那位没有署名的作者。

2 trump   

n.王牌，法宝；v.打出王牌，吹喇叭

参考例句：

• He was never able to trump up the courage to have a showdown.他始终鼓不起勇气摊牌。
• The coach saved his star player for a trump card.教练保留他的明星选手，作为他的王牌。

3 rebuke   

v.指责，非难，斥责 [反]praise

参考例句：

• He had to put up with a smart rebuke from the teacher.他不得不忍受老师的严厉指责。
• Even one minute's lateness would earn a stern rebuke.哪怕迟到一分钟也将受到严厉的斥责。

4 coalition   

n.结合体，同盟，结合，联合

参考例句：

• The several parties formed a coalition.这几个政党组成了政治联盟。
• Coalition forces take great care to avoid civilian casualties.联盟军队竭尽全力避免造成平民伤亡。

5 perseverance   

n.坚持不懈，不屈不挠

参考例句：

• It may take some perseverance to find the right people.要找到合适的人也许需要有点锲而不舍的精神。
• Perseverance leads to success.有恒心就能胜利。

6 indictment   

n.起诉；诉状

参考例句：

• He handed up the indictment to the supreme court.他把起诉书送交最高法院。
• They issued an indictment against them.他们起诉了他们。

7 vigor   

n.活力，精力，元气

参考例句：

• The choir sang the words out with great vigor.合唱团以极大的热情唱出了歌词。
• She didn't want to be reminded of her beauty or her former vigor.现在，她不愿人们提起她昔日的美丽和以前的精力充沛。

8 mainstream   

n.（思想或行为的）主流；adj.主流的

参考例句：

• Their views lie outside the mainstream of current medical opinion.他们的观点不属于当今医学界观点的主流。
• Polls are still largely reflects the mainstream sentiment.民调还在很大程度上反映了社会主流情绪。

9 looms   

n.织布机( loom的名词复数 )v.隐约出现，阴森地逼近( loom的第三人称单数 )；隐约出现，阴森地逼近

参考例句：

• All were busily engaged,men at their ploughs,women at their looms. 大家都很忙，男的耕田，女的织布。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The factory has twenty-five looms. 那家工厂有25台织布机。 来自《简明英汉词典》