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奥巴马被指与美艳泰国总理“眉来眼去”President Obama is practicing a new brand of foreign relations, appearing to flirt with Thailand’s attractive prime minister on his first stop of his three-day tour of Southeast Asia。美国总统奥巴马正在实践一种新型外交手段。在为期三天的东南亚三国访问中，他第一站到访的是泰国，与迷人的泰国美女总理英拉看来相谈甚欢，被指有“打情骂俏”之嫌。The president and Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra could be seen laughing together and exchanging playful glances through a state dinner at the Government House in Bangkok on Sunday。周日在曼谷举行的招待国宴上，奥巴马总统与泰国总理英拉·西那瓦被拍到一起大笑，两人“眉来眼去”。And just hours later, Obama jetted to Myanmar, where he was picturedlavishing affection on Aung San Suu Kyi, the pro-democracy leader who was under house arrest for two decades following her fight for democracy。几个小时后，奥巴马乘坐喷气式飞机前往缅甸，在与缅甸反对派领袖昂山素季的合照中，奥巴马似乎不吝表达对她的赞赏之情。昂山素季因为支持和争取民主而曾被软禁了近20年。He was joined in Thailand by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. They then visited Myanmar - also known as Burma - and Cambodia, making him the first U.S. president to step foot in either country。陪同奥巴马前往泰国的还有美国国务卿希拉里，随后他们一同前往缅甸和柬埔寨访问。奥巴马也是美国历史上首位出访缅甸和柬埔寨的总统。He said it is 'no accident' that he planned his first foreign trip to Asia after winning re-election. Speaking at a news conference on Sunday in Bangkok, Obama emphasized that the U.S. is a 'Pacific nation.'奥巴马说他在获得连任后的首次出访地点就选在亚洲，这绝非偶然。周日在泰国首都曼谷举行的新闻发布会上，奥巴马强调美国是一个“太平洋国家”。The president's visit made quite an impression on Thailand, and he visited the Temple of Reclining Buddha just after arriving in Bangkok。奥巴马的到访给泰国民众留下了很不错的印象。奥巴马在到达曼谷后不久就拜访了著名的卧佛寺。

Conservation efforts in Inner Mongolia have spurred the northern region's development and benefited the national capital, top regional officials said yesterday in Beijing.The autonomous region, which is known as a major source of the seasonal sandstorms that blanket Beijing, has "done what it could" to curb ecological deterioration, Yang Jing, chairman of the regional government, said."Protecting the environment has been listed as Inner Mongolia's most important infrastructure project," Yang told a press conference organized by the State Council Information Office yesterday to mark the region's 60th anniversary."The number of sandstorms has fallen significantly in recent years, which favorably influences the weather in Beijing and Tianjin. "Inner Mongolia, which is some 300 km north of Beijing, has long been thought of as the capital's backyard. However, the distance is not enough to protect Beijing from the wind-borne dust and sand that blow down from the region.Dust blown in from western Inner Mongolia blanketed Beijing nearly two months ago, lowering visibility to 4 km from 20 km the previous day.Inner Mongolia has spent some 20 billion yuan ($2.7 billion) on efforts to halt desertification in an area measuring 16.7 million hectares over the past five years. It has also increased its forest coverage to 17.6 percent of its total area from 14.8 percent in 1999, Yang said.At least 3 billion yuan was earmarked to implement the massive "Beijing-Tianjin windblown sand sources control project" in a bid to build a green ecological belt in northern China, according to regional government sources.The project involves 458,000 sq km of land, about 48 percent of which lies in Inner Mongolia."There are several sources of sand and dust (affecting Beijing) besides Inner Mongolia. We have done what we could on our part," Yang said.Chu Bo, secretary of the regional committee of the Communist Party of China, said yesterday that 70 percent of the region's livestock has been confined to enclosed pastures to reduce the grazing pressure on grasslands.In addition to returning farmland to forests and reclaiming overgrazed pastures, Inner Mongolia has encouraged traditional pastoral areas to develop alternative industries.Citing Erdos as a success story, Chu said the city would have plunged into an ecological vicious circle had it not built up secondary and tertiary industries.As a result, the city of 1.4 million people is expected to have a gross domestic product of 100 billion yuan ($13 billion) this year, a level of prosperity that can only be found in the country's coastal regions, Chu said.Inner Mongolia is home to China's largest grasslands. The region spans 1.18 million sq km, which is about twice the size of Ukraine.不算太长吧。

英语时事短篇新闻：

When the earthquake occurred in Japan, 130 kilometers northeast of Fukushima Prefecture, a huge tsunami was formed due to the earthquake, and it invaded the port at a very fast speed.

Hundreds of people died. The earthquake is the strongest in Japan in more than 100 years, causing huge losses.

日本地震发生的时候，距离福岛县东北方向130公里处的海上，因地震而形成了巨大海啸，并以极快的速度向港口侵袭。

数百人丧生。这次地震是日本100多年来最强烈的一次地震，造成了巨大的损失。

重点词汇：

海上：at sea ; on the sea ; seaborne。

海啸：bore ; tidal wave ; seismic sea wave ; seaquake。

侵袭：make inroads on ; invade and attack ; smite ; hit。

数百：hundreds of ; several hundred ; people lost their jobs。

丧生：meet one's death ; lose one's life ; get killed。

多年来：over the years ; for years ; through the years。

以上内容参考 百度百科-日本地震