More than ever, land for peace also means land for democracy.
比以往更加显著的是，和平也意味着民主。
The victory of Israel over the Arab armies that encircled it in 1967 was so swift and absolute that, many Jews thought, the divine hand must have tipped the scales. Before the six-day war Israel had feared another Holocaust; thereafter it became an empire of sorts. Awestruck, the Jews took the holy sites of Jerusalem and the places of their biblical stories. But the land came with many Palestinians whom Israel could neither expel nor absorb. Was Providence smiling on Israel, or testing it?
1967年，以色列在连年的阿拉伯战争取得的胜利，是如此的迅速和绝对，以至于许多犹太人认为神之手使天平倾斜了。在六日战争以前，以色列害怕另一场屠杀，此后他成为了一种君主。令人吃惊的是，犹太人把耶路撒冷以及与圣经中的故事有关的地方当做神圣的遗址。但是与这片土地随之而来的，是许多以色列既不排斥也不吸收的巴勒斯坦人，这是上帝在向以色列人微笑，或者是在测试他们？
For the past 50 years, Israel has tried to have it both ways: taking the land by planting Jewish settlements on it; and keeping the Palestinians unenfranchised under military occupation, denied either their own state or political equality within Israel (see our special report in this issue). Palestinians have damaged their cause through decades of indiscriminate violence. Yet their dispossession is a reproach to Israel, which is by far the stronger party and claims to be a model democracy.
在过去的50年中，以色列人已经尝试了多种解决方法：通过移植犹太人定居点来占领这片土地，在军事占领区解放巴基斯坦，在以色列境内否认他们自己的国家、政治的平等（见我们关于这个问题的专题报道）。巴基斯坦人通过数十年的部分青红皂白的暴力已经损害了他们的目标。然而他们的驱赶对于巴基斯坦来说是一种指责，巴基斯坦是一个比较强大的政党并宣称将成为一个典型的民主国家。
Israel’s “temporary” occupation has endured for half a century. The peace process that created “interim” Palestinian autonomy, due to last just five years before a final deal, has dragged on for more than 20. A Palestinian state is long overdue. Rather than resist it, Israel should be the foremost champion of the future Palestine that will be its neighbour. This is not because the intractable conflict is the worst in the Middle East or, as many once thought, the central cause of regional instability: the carnage of the civil wars in Syria, Iraq and elsewhere disproves such notions. The reason Israel must let the Palestinian people go is to preserve its own democracy.
以色列短暂的占领已经忍耐了半个世纪。由于在最后一笔交易的前五年，建立了巴基斯坦过渡自治政权的和平进程已经拖了20多年。一个巴基斯坦国早就该建立了。以色列应该未来可能成为其邻居的巴基斯坦的最重要的拥护者，而不是抵制他们。这不是因为棘手的纠纷在中东地区是最差的，或者像许多人认为的那样，区域不稳定的主要因素是在叙利亚、伊拉克和其他反对这些观念的地区所发生的民间战争中的大屠杀。以色列一定要赶走巴基斯坦民族的动机是为了维持他们自己的民主。
重点单词
1、awestruck /ˈɔːˌstrʌk/ (also awe-struck)
ADJ If someone is awestruck, they are very impressed and amazed by something. 惊叹的 [书面]
例：
I stood and gazed at him, awestruck that anyone could be so beautiful.
我站在那里凝视着他，惊叹竟有这么美的人。
2、biblical /ˈbɪblɪkəl/
ADJ Biblical means contained in or relating to the Bible. 《圣经》中的; 与《圣经》有关的
例：
The community, whose links with Syria date back to biblical times, is mainly elderly.
这个村落与叙利亚的关联可以追溯到圣经时代，其中大部分是上了年纪的人。
3、expel /ɪkˈspɛl/ CET4 TEM4 ( expelling, expelled, expels )
V-T If someone is expelled from a school or organization, they are officially told to leave because they have behaved badly. 开除 [usu passive]
例：
More than five-thousand high school students have been expelled for cheating.
五千多名中学生因考试作弊而被开除。
V-T If people are expelled from a place, they are made to leave it, often by force. 逐出
例：
An American academic was expelled from the country yesterday.
一名美国学者昨天被逐出该国。
例：
They were told that they should expel the refugees.
他们被告知应该逐出那些难民。
V-T To expel something means to force it out from a container or from your body. 排出
例：
As the lungs exhale this waste, gas is expelled into the atmosphere.
当肺呼出这股废气，气体就被排到空气中。
4、absorb /əbˈsɔːb, -ˈzɔːb/ CET4 TEM4 ( absorbing, absorbed, absorbs )
V-T If something absorbs a liquid, gas, or other substance, it soaks it up or takes it in. 吸收 (液体、气体等)
例：
Plants absorb carbon dioxide from the air and moisture from the soil.
植物从空气中吸收二氧化碳，从泥土中吸收水分。
V-T If something absorbs light, heat, or another form of energy, it takes it in. 吸取 (光、热等能量)
例：
A household radiator absorbs energy in the form of electric current and releases it in the form of heat.
家用暖气以电流的形式吸收能量，然后以热量的形式将其释放出去。
V-T If a group is absorbed into a larger group, it becomes part of the larger group. 使并入
例：
City schools were absorbed into the countywide school district.
市立学校被并入了郡学区。
V-T If something absorbs a force or shock, it reduces its effect. 使缓冲
例：
...footwear which does not absorb the impact of the foot striking the ground.
…不能缓冲脚踏在地面上所产生的冲击力的鞋子。
V-T If a system or society absorbs changes, effects, or costs, it is able to deal with them. 能应付
例：
The banks would be forced to absorb large losses.
这些银行将被迫承担那些巨大的损失。
V-T If something absorbs something valuable such as money, space, or time, it uses up a great deal of it. 大量消耗
例：
It absorbed vast amounts of capital that could have been used for investment.
它消耗掉了原本可以用作投资的大量资本。
V-T If you absorb information, you learn and understand it. 理解
例：
Too often he only absorbs half the information in the manual.
通常，他对手册里的信息只是一知半解。
V-T If something absorbs you, it interests you a great deal and takes up all your attention and energy. 使专注
例：
...a second career which absorbed her more completely than her acting ever had.
…一个比其演艺事业更让她全身心投入的第二职业。
5、land /lænd/ CET4 TEM4 ( landing, landed, lands )
N-UNCOUNT Land is an area of ground, especially one that is used for a particular purpose such as farming or building. 土地
例：
Good agricultural land is in short supply.
肥沃的农业用地短缺。
例：
...160 acres of land.
…160英亩土地。
N-COUNT You can refer to an area of land which someone owns as their land or their lands. 地产
例：
Their home is on his father's land.
他们的家坐落在他父亲的土地上。
N-SING If you talk about the land, you mean farming and the way of life in farming areas, in contrast to life in the cities. 农村生活
例：
Living off the land was hard enough at the best of times.
即使是在最好的时期靠种地生活也是很艰难的。
N-UNCOUNT Land is the part of the world that consists of ground, rather than sea or air. 陆地 [also 'the' N]
例：
It isn't clear whether the plane went down over land or sea.
不清楚飞机是落在陆地上还是海里。
N-COUNT You can use land to refer to a country in a poetic or emotional way. 国家[文学性]
例：
...America, land of opportunity.
…美国，充满机会的国度。
V-I When someone or something lands, they come down to the ground after moving through the air or falling. 降落
例：
He was sent flying into the air and landed 20 feet away.
他被抛入空中，在20英尺以外落地。
V-T/V-I When someone lands a plane, ship, or spacecraft, or when it lands, it arrives somewhere after a journey. 抵达
例：
The jet landed after a flight of just under three hours.
这架喷气式飞机在仅仅不到三个小时的飞行后就抵达了。
例：
He landed his troops on the western shore.
他的部队抵达了西海岸。
V-T/V-I If you land in an unpleasant situation or place or if something lands you init, something causes you to be in it. 陷入 (不愉快境地) [非正式]
例：
He landed in a psychiatric ward.
他住进了精神病病房。
V-I If something lands somewhere, it arrives there unexpectedly, often causing problems. 意外出现 [非正式]
例：
Two days later the book had already landed on his desk.
两天后，这本书意外地出现在了他的桌子上。
to land on your feet →see foot
6、enfranchise /ɪnˈfræntʃaɪz/ ( enfranchising, enfranchised, enfranchises )
V-T To enfranchise someone means to give them the right to vote in elections. 给予．．．选举权 [正式]
例：
The company voted to enfranchise its 120 women members.
公司投票决定给予其120名女员工选举权。
7、deny /dɪˈnaɪ/ CET4 TEM4 ( denying, denied, denies )
V-T When you deny something, you state that it is not true. 否认
例：
She denied both accusations.
她否认对她的两项指控。
例：
The government has denied that the authorities have uncovered a plot to assassinate the president.
政府否认当局已经发现一个暗杀总统的阴谋。
V-T If you deny someone something that they need or want, you refuse to let them have it. 拒绝给予
例：
Two federal courts ruled that the military cannot deny prisoners access to lawyers.
两联邦法院裁定军方不能拒绝让囚犯聘请律师。
8、cause /kɔːz/ CET4 TEM4 ( causing, caused, causes )
N-COUNT The cause of an event, usually a bad event, is the thing that makes it happen. 起因; 原因
例：
Smoking is the biggest preventable cause of death and disease.
吸烟是造成不必要疾病和死亡的最大原因。
N-COUNT A cause is an aim or principle which a group of people supports or is fighting for. 奋斗目标; 事业
例：
Refusing to have one leader has not helped the cause.
拒绝接受领导无益于该事业。
V-T To cause something, usually something bad, means to make it happen. 引起
例：
The insecticide used on some weeds can cause health problems.
喷洒在野草上的杀虫剂会引发各种健康问题。
例：
This was a genuine mistake, but it did cause me some worry.
这纯属失误，但它确实令我有些不安。
N-UNCOUNT If you have cause for a particular feeling or action, you have good reasons for feeling it or doing it. 理由
例：
Only a few people can find any cause for celebration.
只有少数人能找到庆祝的理由。
PHRASE If you say that something is for a good cause, you mean that it is worth doing or giving to because it will help other people, for example by raising money for charity. 为了高尚的事业 (如慈善捐赠)
例：
The Raleigh International Bike Ride is open to anyone who wants to raise money for a good cause.
罗利国际自行车骑行会欢迎有志为慈善事业筹钱者参加。
9、damage /ˈdæmɪdʒ/ CET4 TEM4 ( damaging, damaged, damages )
V-T To damage an object means to break it, spoil it physically, or stop it from working properly. 破坏; 损坏
例：
He maliciously damaged a car with a baseball bat.
他用棒球棍恶意地损坏了一辆汽车。
V-T To damage something means to cause it to become less good, pleasant, or successful. 损害; 伤害
例：
...the electoral chaos that damaged Florida's reputation.
…损害佛罗里达州声誉的选举骚乱。
damaging ADJ 有损害性的
例：
The weakened currency could have damaging effects for the economy.
货币贬值可能会对经济造成破坏性的影响。
N-UNCOUNT Damage is physical harm that is caused to an object. 破坏; 损坏
例：
The blast had serious effects with quite extensive damage to the house.
爆炸影响严重，对房屋造成了大面积破坏。
N-UNCOUNT Damage consists of the unpleasant effects that something has on a person, situation, or type of activity. 伤害
例：
Incidents of this type cause irreparable damage to relations with the community.
此类事件对与该团体的关系造成不可挽回的伤害。
N-PLURAL If a court of law awards damages to someone, it orders money to be paid to them by a person who has damaged their reputation or property, or who has injured them. 赔偿金
例：
She is seeking more than $75,000 in damages.
她要求$75000以上的赔偿金。
10、decade /ˈdɛkeɪd/ CET4 TEM4 ( decades )
N-COUNT A decade is a period of ten years, especially one that begins with a year ending in 0, for example, 1980 to 1989. 10年 (尤指起始年末尾为0)
例：
...the last decade of the nineteenth century.
…19世纪的最后10年。
11、indiscriminate /ˌɪndɪˈskrɪmɪnɪt/ TEM8
ADJ If you describe an action as indiscriminate, you are critical of it because it does not involve any careful thought or choice. 任意而为的 [表不满]
例：
The indiscriminate use of fertilizers is damaging to the environment.
化肥的滥用化正在损害环境。
indiscriminately ADV 任意而为地
例：
The men opened fire indiscriminately.
那些男人不分青红皂白地开枪。
12、reproach /rɪˈprəʊtʃ/ CET6 TEM4 ( reproaching, reproached, reproaches )
V-T If you reproach someone, you say or show that you are disappointed, upset, or angry because they have done something wrong. 责备; 指责
例：
She is quick to reproach anyone who doesn't live up to her own high standards.
她动不动就指责达不到她高标准的人。
N-VAR If you look at or speak to someone with reproach, you show or say that you are disappointed, upset, or angry because they have done something wrong. 责备; 指责
例：
He looked at her with reproach.
他用责备的目光看着她。
V-T If you reproach yourself, you think with regret about something you have done wrong. 责备 (自己)
例：
You've no reason to reproach yourself, no reason to feel shame.
你没有理由责备自己，也没有理由感到羞愧。
13、democracy /dɪˈmɒkrəsɪ/ CET4 TEM4 ( democracies )
N-UNCOUNT Democracy is a system of government in which people choose their rulers by voting for them in elections. 民主政体
例：
The spread of democracy in Eastern Europe appears to have had negative as well as positive consequences.
东欧民主政体的蔓延看来既有消极也有积极的影响。
N-COUNT A democracy is a country in which the people choose their government by voting for it. 民主国家
例：
The new democracies face tough challenges.
新生的民主国家面临严峻的挑战。
14、occupation /ˌɒkjʊˈpeɪʃən/ CET4 TEM4 ( occupations )
N-COUNT Your occupation is your job or profession. 职业
例：
I suppose I was looking for an occupation which was going to be an adventure.
我想我那时在寻找一份冒险型职业。
N-COUNT An occupation is something that you spend time doing, either for pleasure or because it needs to be done. 消遣
例：
Parachuting is a dangerous occupation.
跳伞是一种危险的消遣。
N-UNCOUNT The occupation of a country happens when it is entered and controlled by a foreign army. 占领
例：
...the occupation of Poland.
…对波兰的占领。
15、process /ˈprəʊsɛs/ CET4 TEM4 ( processing, processed, processes )
义项 process读作prəˈsɛs。
N-COUNT A process is a series of actions which are carried out in order to achieve a particular result. 过程
例：
There was total agreement to start the peace process as soon as possible.
全体同意尽快启动和平进程。
例：
They decided to spread the building process over three years.
他们决定在三年内分期完成该建造过程。
N-COUNT A process is a series of things that happen naturally and result in a biological or chemical change. 进程
例：
It occurs in elderly men, apparently as part of the aging process.
作为衰老进程的一部分，它明显发生在老年男性身上。
V-T When raw materials or foods are processed, they are prepared in factories before they are used or sold. 加工
例：
...fish which are processed by the best methods: from freezing to canning and smoking.
…用从冷冻到装罐和熏制等最好的方法加工的鱼。
例：
The material will be processed into plastic pellets.
该原料将被加工成塑料颗粒。
N-COUNT Process is also a noun. 过程
例：
...the cost of reengineering the production process.
…重新设计生产过程的成本。
processing N-UNCOUNT 加工 [usu with supp]
例：
America sent cotton to England for processing.
美国把棉花运到英格兰加工。
V to subject to a routine procedure; handle 工艺流程; 处理
V-T When people process information, they put it through a system or into a computer in order to deal with it. 处理
例：
...facilities to process the data, and the right to publish the results.
…处理数据的设备和公布结果的权利。
processing N-UNCOUNT 处理
例：
...data processing.
…数据处理。
→ see also word processing
V-T When people are processed by officials, their case is dealt with in stages and they pass from one stage of the process to the next. 按程序处理 [usu passive]
例：
Patients took more than two hours to be processed through the department.
病人们花了两个多小时才走完那个科室程序。
V to proceed in or as if in a procession 列队行进
PHRASE If you are in the process of doing something, you have started to do it and are still doing it. 在…过程中
例：
The administration is in the process of drawing up a peace plan.
该政府正在起草一项和平计划。
PHRASE If you are doing something and you do something else in the process, you do the second thing as part of doing the first thing. 在此过程中
例：
You have to let us struggle for ourselves, even if we must die in the process.
你得让我们自己去奋斗，即使在此过程中我们必须死亡。
16、deal /diːl/ CET4
QUANT If you say that you need or have a great deal of or a good deal of a particular thing, you are emphasizing that you need or have a lot of it. 数量 [强调]
例：
...a great deal of money.
…许多钱。
ADV Deal is also an adverb. 非常
例：
As a relationship becomes more established, it also becomes a good deal more complex.
当一段关系固定下来以后，它也会变得复杂得多。
PRON Deal is also a pronoun. 量
例：
Although he had never met Geoffrey Hardcastle, he knew a good deal about him.
尽管他从未见过杰弗里·哈德卡斯尔，他还是十分了解他。
deal /diːl/ ( dealing, dealt, deals )
PRON
N-COUNT If you make a deal, do a deal, or cut a deal, you complete an agreement or an arrangement with someone, especially in business. 达成协议; 达成交易 [商业]
例：
He made a deal to testify against the others and wasn't charged.
他达成了协议出庭指证别人，因而未获指控。
例：
Japan will have to do a deal with the U.S. on rice imports.
日本将不得不就水稻进口问题和美国达成协议。
N-COUNT If someone has had a bad deal, they have been unfortunate or have been treated unfairly. 不公的待遇
例：
The people of Hartford have had a bad deal for many, many years.
许多年来，哈特福德地区的人们遭受着不幸。
N a plank of softwood timber, such as fir or pine, or such planks collectively 软木板
V-I If a person, company, or shop deals in a particular type of goods, their business involves buying or selling those goods. 经营 [商业]
例：
They deal in antiques.
他们经营古董生意。
V-T If someone deals illegal drugs, they sell them. 贩卖 (毒品)
例：
I certainly don't deal drugs.
我当然不做毒品生意。
V-T If you deal playing cards, you give them out to the players in a game of cards. (纸牌游戏中) 发 (牌)
例：
The croupier dealt each player a card, face down.
赌局主持人给每个玩牌者发了一张牌，牌面向下。
V to give (a blow) to (someone); inflict 给(某人)以打击
PHRASAL VERB Deal out means the same as . (纸牌游戏中) 发 (牌)
例：
Dalton dealt out five cards to each player.
多尔顿给每个玩牌的人发了5张牌。
→ see also dealings, wheel and deal
17、autonomy /ɔːˈtɒnəmɪ/ CET6 TEM4
N-UNCOUNT Autonomy is the control or government of a country, organization, or group by itself rather than by others. 自治
例：
Activists stepped up their demands for local autonomy last month.
活动的积极分子上个月提高了其对地方自治的要求。
N-UNCOUNT Autonomy is the ability to make your own decisions about what to do rather than being influenced by someone else or told what to do. 独立自主 [正式]
例：
Each of the area managers enjoys considerable autonomy in the running of his own area.
每一位地区经理在各自主管的区域都享有相当大的自主权。
18、overdue /ˌəʊvəˈdjuː/ CET6+ TEM4
ADJ If you say that a change or an event is overdue, you mean that you think it should have happened before now. 早该发生的
例：
This debate is long overdue.
这场辩论早就应该进行了。
ADJ Overdue sums of money have not been paid, even though it is later than the date on which they should have been paid. 到期未付的
例：
There is a 2% interest charge on overdue balances.
到期未付的余款加收2%的利息。
ADJ An overdue library book has not been returned to the library, even though the date on which it should have been returned has passed. 逾期未还的
例：
...a library book now weeks overdue.
…一本逾期数周尚未归还的图书馆藏书。
19、disprove /dɪsˈpruːv/ TEM8 ( disproving, disproved, disproven, disproves )
V-T To disprove an idea, belief, or theory means to show that it is not true. 证明 (想法、信念或理论) 为误
例：
The statistics to prove or disprove his hypothesis will take years to collect.
要花数年来收集证实或推翻他的假设的数据。
20、notions /ˈnəʊʃənz/
N-PLURAL pins, cotton, ribbon, and similar wares used for sewing; haberdashery 缝纫用的或男装店的针、棉、丝或相似制品 [美国英语]
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