2017年翻譯資格考試高級口譯翻譯練習(xí)（31）

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　　The most important fact in Washing ton’s failure on Thursday to be re-elected for the first time since 1947 to the U. N. Human Rights Commission is that it as America’ friends, not its enemies, that engineered the defeat. After all, China and Cuba and other targets of U.S.-led criticism in the committee were always going to vote and lobby against Washington; the shock came in the fact that the European and other Western nations that traditionally ensured U.S. Re-election turned their backs on Washington.

　　Many traditional U.S. supporters clearly withdrew their vote to signal displeasure over U.S. unilateralism. They have been increasingly chagrined by Washington’s tendency to ignore the international consensus on issue ranging from the use of land mines to the Kyoto climate change treaty. They are also critical of what they see ass Washington’s tendency to publicise the issue of human rights, using annual resolutions at the committee to denounce China or Cuba hen that conforms to U.S. foreign policy objectives but for the same reason voting alone in defence of Israel when that country is in the dock over its conduct.

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　　周四，美國自1947年以來首次未能入選聯(lián)合國人權(quán)委員會，其中重要的一點(diǎn)在于這回促成了其落選的是美國的盟友，而不是美國的敵人。聯(lián)合國人權(quán)委員會中，中國、古巴以及其他美國橫加指責(zé)的國家總是會投華盛頓的反對票的。令人震驚的是歐洲國家以及其他一些通常都贊同美國入選的西方國家這次也倒戈轉(zhuǎn)向。許多通常支持美國的國家不再投出贊成票，顯然是要表達(dá)對美國單邊主義的不滿。無論是使用地雷問題，還是京都議定書，美國常常對國際共識置之不理，使這些國家越來越憤怒，同時(shí)他們也指責(zé)美國是在利用人權(quán)問題大做文章，只要符合外交政策的宗旨，美國就利用每年人權(quán)委員會的決議來詆毀中國和古巴，但當(dāng)以色列因其所作所為四面楚歌時(shí)，美國會投出唯一的贊成票表示聲援。