VOA标准英语2011--Pakistan Under Pressure Over Bin Laden's

Pakistan Under Pressure Over Bin¹ Laden²'s Hiding Place

The Pakistani government has reacted sharply to the U.S. raid that killed Osama bin Laden, warning that countries should not think that they have free reign³ to come and go through Pakistan.
Pakistani authorities on Tuesday allowed journalists to approach the outer walls of the compound where U.S. Special Forces killed Osama bin Laden, but no further.
Pakistan is coming under increasing pressure to explain how the world's most dangerous man could hide in a conspicuously⁴ built mansion⁵ in a town that is close to the country's capital and has a large military presence - including an elite⁶ military academy. Just last week, the head of the Pakistani military attended the academy's graduation ceremony and addressed the cadets and the nation.
"We in Pakistan's army are fully⁷ aware of the internal and external threats to our country. The back of the terrorists has been broken," said Army General Ashfaq Kayani.
Osama bin Laden's hiding place was just three kilometers away from where General Kayani spoke⁸.
The government of President Asif Ali Zardari is eager to explain what it knew about bin Laden's presence and defend its counterterrorism efforts.
Writing Tuesday in the Washington Post newspaper, Mr. Zardari, denied suggestions that Pakistani authorities had protected bin Laden.
Contradicting earlier statements, the Pakistani government said Tuesday that its intelligence agency had been aware of the suspicious compound for years, and provided key intelligence about it to the CIA.
On Monday, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Pakistani cooperation had helped lead U.S. forces to bin Laden.
But the Pakistani Foreign Ministry⁹ expressed deep concerns and reservations about the manner in which the mission was carried out.
Pakistan's Foreign Minister Salman Bashir met Tuesday with the U.S. special envoy¹⁰ to the region, Marc Grossman, and Afghanistan's foreign minister. Grossman said regardless of who knew about the mission ahead of time, the focus should be on its success.
"He's dead, it's good. We still have to fight extremism. And as Foreign Secretary Bashir has said, 'Do not, please, lose sight of the fact that we have had here a trilateral meeting about peace in Afghanistan,'" Grossman said.
Still, there are growing questions about how Osama bin Laden could have found refuge here, and growing calls in the U.S. for an investigation¹¹.

1 bin   

n.箱柜；vt.放入箱内；[计算机] DOS文件名:二进制目标文件

参考例句：

• He emptied several bags of rice into a bin.他把几袋米倒进大箱里。
• He threw the empty bottles in the bin.他把空瓶子扔进垃圾箱。

2 laden   

adj.装满了的；充满了的；负了重担的；苦恼的

参考例句：

• He is laden with heavy responsibility.他肩负重任。
• Dragging the fully laden boat across the sand dunes was no mean feat.将满载货物的船拖过沙丘是一件了不起的事。

3 reign   

n.统治时期，统治，支配，盛行；v.占优势

参考例句：

• The reign of Queen Elizabeth lapped over into the seventeenth century.伊丽莎白王朝延至17世纪。
• The reign of Zhu Yuanzhang lasted about 31 years.朱元璋统治了大约三十一年。

4 conspicuously   

ad.明显地，惹人注目地

参考例句：

• France remained a conspicuously uneasy country. 法国依然是个明显不太平的国家。
• She figured conspicuously in the public debate on the issue. 她在该问题的公开辩论中很引人注目。

5 mansion   

n.大厦，大楼；宅第

参考例句：

• The old mansion was built in 1850.这座古宅建于1850年。
• The mansion has extensive grounds.这大厦四周的庭园广阔。

6 elite   

n.精英阶层；实力集团；adj.杰出的，卓越的

参考例句：

• The power elite inside the government is controlling foreign policy.政府内部的一群握有实权的精英控制着对外政策。
• We have a political elite in this country.我们国家有一群政治精英。

7 fully   

adv.完全地，全部地，彻底地；充分地

参考例句：

• The doctor asked me to breathe in,then to breathe out fully.医生让我先吸气，然后全部呼出。
• They soon became fully integrated into the local community.他们很快就完全融入了当地人的圈子。

8 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。

9 ministry   

n.(政府的)部；牧师

参考例句：

• They sent a deputation to the ministry to complain.他们派了一个代表团到部里投诉。
• We probed the Air Ministry statements.我们调查了空军部的记录。

10 envoy   

n.使节，使者，代表，公使

参考例句：

• Their envoy showed no sign of responding to our proposals.他们的代表对我方的提议毫无回应的迹象。
• The government has not yet appointed an envoy to the area.政府尚未向这一地区派过外交官。

11 investigation   

n.调查，调查研究

参考例句：

• In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
• He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。