在华盛顿，政府高级官员披露了关于奥巴马总统阿富汗新策略的更多细节。国防部长罗伯特·盖茨告知参议院军事委员会，新策略意味着向阿

富汗增军三万人，但是不包括他所说的“无止境的国民建设”在内。国务卿希拉里和参谋长联席委员会主席马伦也已向该委员会发表讲话。Kim

Ghattas报道。

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1.grill vt.拷问, 盘问

例句：He was grilled for two hours before the police let him go.
他被严厉盘查了两个小时后, 警察才放他走。

2.convince vt.使相信; 使明白，使确信，使信服

例句：Compulsion will never result in convincing them.
强迫永远不会使他们信服。

3.reject vt.拒绝, 驳回

例句：He was afraid she would reject him because he was a foreigner.
他担心她会因他不是本国人而拒绝他。

4.vacuum n.空间; 空虚; 空白

例句：His resignation has left a power vacuum at the head of the party.
他的辞职使得该党的领导位置出现了权力真空。

His wife’s death left a vacuum in his life.
他妻子的去世使他的生活变得空虚。

5.flout vt.嘲笑,愚弄

例句：No one can flout the rules and get away with it.
谁也不能违反这些规则而不被处分。

6.prominent a.卓越的,显著的,突出的,突起的,凸出的

例句：He is a prominent physician.
他是位著名的医生。

7.render v.使; 致使

例句：You have rendered a great service to the country.
你为国家做了一件大事。

The shock of the discovery rendered him speechless.
这一发现使他吃惊得一句话也说不出来。

8.abrupt a.突然的,唐突的,陡峭的,不连贯的,无礼的

例句：I don’t know the cause of his abrupt leave.
我不知道他突然离去的原因。

There were abrupt weather changes.
天有不测风云。

9.dismay vt.使惊愕,使气馁

例句：The thought that she might fail the history test dismayed her.
想到历史可能考不及格时, 她很沮丧。

10.blockade n.封锁

例句：a blockade around the city
围绕这个城市的封锁

[积少成多：词组讲解]

1.Hillary Clinton also said that Washington had not locked itself into leaving.

lock into受困于

例句：The parts lock into each other.
各部分彼此连锁在一起。

2.With just a handful of resources, we can cause an even more casualties and deaths.

a handful of一小撮,少数

例句：All the trouble are caused by a handful of malcontent.
这些是非都是由一小撮不满分子搬弄的。

I drew a handful of coins from my pocket.
我从口袋里摸出一把硬币。

3.The Nigerian cabinet has rejected calls for President Umaru Yar’Adua to resign on grounds of ill health.

on grounds of以...为理由, 以...为借口, 根据...

例句：He was dismissed on the grounds of negligence.
他因渎职而遭解雇。

4.Their words reflect the general mood in the country where there’s real concern that the president’s recurring health problems have frequently rendered him incapable of doing his job.

incapable of没有能力,不会...的

例句：His honesty made him incapable of lying.
他的诚实使他不能撒谎。

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