查询词典 defence secretary

At another time, a brainy left-winger interested in foreign affairs might well have entered the Labour Party and become foreign secretary or secretary of defence.

在另一些时候，一位对外交事务感兴趣的足智多谋的左派分子或许会加入工党，成为外交部长或国防部长。

The secretary of defence used the National Security Agency and the army's signal corps, which was in charge of secure White House telephone calls, to keep tabs on both Mr Kissinger and Nixon.

国防部长动用了国家安全机构和负责维护白宫电话的军事情报团，分别对基辛格和尼克松进行监听。

"What I'm saying is that, under the vice-president's protection, the secretary of defence moved out to do what they wanted in the first place, even though the president had made a decision that was clearly a compromise," Col Wilkerson said.

"我的意思是，根据副总统的保护，局长国防部迁出做他们想要的东西摆在首位，即使总统已经作出决定，这显然是一妥协，"威尔克森上校说。

The department of defence takes climate change seriously, said Amanda Dory, deputy assistant secretary of defence for strategy.

国防部需要认真对待气候变化，负责战略的副助理国防部长阿曼达·德里说。

His outgoing defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, wrote a memorandum just before he was defenestrated, admitting that the current policy in Iraq was not working.

即将离任的国防部长唐纳德·拉姆斯菲尔德在他被赶下台前写的一份备忘录中承认，目前在伊拉克推行的政策并没有取得成功。

The plot thickened this week when General Fonseka notified the government that America's Department of Homeland Security had sought his testimony in a probe into alleged human-rights violations by Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Sri Lanka's defence secretary and the president's brother, a naturalised American citizen.

本周丰塞卡将军指出，美国的国土安全部正在对总统拉贾帕克萨，以及其兄弟已经入美国国籍的斯里兰卡国防部副部长展开调查，使得事情变得更加扑朔迷离。调查将对指控两人的侵犯人权罪收集证据。

The plot thickened this week when General Fonseka notified the government that America's Department of Homeland Security had sought his testimony in a probe into alleged human-rights violations by Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Sri Lanka's defence secretary and the president's brother, a naturalised American citizen.

丰塞卡将军通知政府，说美国国土安全部已经联系他，要求其为一起调查案提供证词，他们正在调查所谓的拉贾帕克萨，斯里兰卡国防部长及总统兄弟侵犯人权的案件。在丰塞卡将军通知政府的举动后，阴谋论的说法在本周更加沸沸扬扬了。

Defense wants its Apache attack helicopters to go through a short-term modernization, State Secretary of Defence Jack de Vries wrote today in a letter to the Lower House of Parliament.

de Vries表示说该计画的目标是在2012年完成第一次升级测试，在2013年至2015年进行生产。

By February 22, 1961, Sir Alec Douglas-Home, the Foreign Secretary and future Prime Minister, wrote in a letter marked "top secret" to Harold Watkinson, the Defence Minister, and to the Prime Minister:"It must be fully obvious to the Americans that Hong Kong is indefensible by conventional means and that in the event of a Chinese attack, nuclear strikes against China would be the only alternative to complete abandonment."

1961年2月22号，外交大臣Alec Douglas-Home爵士，在写给防卫大臣和首相的一份最高级别机密信件中写道：必须使美国人意识到香港是用常规手段是无法守住的，而当中共开始进攻，核打击是唯一的方法。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。