Feb. 20, 2020
1-bogus 虚假的
Trump's bogus middle east peace plan
2-unveil /reveal 公布
3-sweeping 彻底的,影响范围大的
4-concession 让步
US president Donald Trump has unveiled a sweeping Middle East peace plan that his administration claims will end decades of Israeli-Palestinian conflicts by offering concessions to both sides.
5-optic镜头
6-disingenuous 不真诚的
But even the optics of the announcement-with Trump standing beside Israel's caretaker prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, and no Palestinian anywhere to be seen-revealed just how disingenuous that claim is.
7-calibrate 充分
Effectively peace negotiation requires perfectly calibrated interchange between process and content.
8-in the case of 在……情况下
9-sham 骗局
In the case of Trump's peace plan, the process was clearly a sham.
10-far from 远非
11-slap 一记耳光
Far from the "deal of the century" that Trump has repeatedly promised, this is-in Abbas' words-" a slap of the century ".
12-concerted 共同努力的
It ignores decades of negotiation, as well as concerted efforts by Arab neighbors such as Jordan and Egypt, to encourage moderation.
13-unfold 发生,开展
The unveiling of the new peace deal was surely intended to consolidate Trump's right-wing Christian Zionist base, giving him a political boost as his impeachment trial unfolds in the Senate.
14-courageous 勇敢的,大胆的
15-ploy 手段,计策
What the Trump administration has put forward is not a courageous plan for permanent peace but a shameless ploy to violate international law, Palestinian human rights and basic principles of fairness.
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