VOA常速英语:Former US Intelligence Chiefs: Pakistan Must Stop Playing Both Sides

短语讲解：

1. Two former top U.S. intelligence officials say the relationship has been sorely tested because Pakistan has been trying to have it both ways by cooperating with U.S. counterterrorism efforts while maintaining ties with Taliban groups.

cooperate with与(某人)协作, 合作
例句：The children cooperated with their teachers in keeping the classroom neat.
孩子们和老师一起保持教室整洁。

2. Hayden, who served as CIA chief from 2006 to 2009, says Pakistan's army and its primary intelligence agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence directorate (ISI), have been using the Haqqani network as leverage.

serve as充当, 担任
例句：The general had served as a soldier in the earlier war.
在早期的战争中, 这位将军曾当过士兵。

3. The Haqqani network is viewed as perhaps the most lethal of the Afghan Taliban groups, crossing into Afghanistan from its safe havens in Pakistan's tribal areas to mount attacks on NATO forces.

view as把...看作..., 认为...是...
例句：They view him as a weirdo.
他们觉得他是个怪人。

4. There were trying, and they still are, to take advantage of the help that they can get from the United States while still thinking, well, maybe the United States won't be here, maybe we have to look out for our own interests, and we need contact with many different groups, both countries and these various terrorist groups.

take advantage of利用
例句：We should take advantage of this chance sufficiency.
我们应充分利用这一机遇。
look out for搜寻(某人或某物); 试图得到(某物)
例句：Will you go to the station and look out for Mr. White?
你到车站去等待怀特先生好吗?

5. And in addition, they have a tradition of trying to play off these extremist groups against each another.

play off取笑
例句：We must not try to play off the boy troubled with a stammer.
我们不可以取笑这个有口吃病的男孩。

6. And they just haven't made the strong decision that we need to clean up our own country, go against terrorist groups, whoever they are, whether they threaten Pakistan, India, the United States, Afghanistan, or anybody else.

clean up在…进行扫荡; 消灭
例句：They fought bravely to clean up the bandits.
他们英勇作战以肃清土匪。
go against违背, 作对
例句：That'll go against the traffic regulations.
那要违反交通规则的。

7. "I rather look upon it as - particularly the Abbottabad raid - it may have affected the relationship," said Hayden.

look upon as把…看作是
例句：They look upon me as their own brother.
他们把我当作自己的兄弟。

8. The fact that Pakistan was not informed of the raid in advance infuriated Pakistani officials.

in advance预先, 事先
例句：There is no reason that you shouldn't tell them in advance when you are going.
你没理由不事先告诉他们你打算要走。

9. So I have no quarrel with the judgment that was made that the United States needed to take action itself this time.

quarrel with和…争吵
例句：It was very sad when husbands and wives quarreled with each other.
夫妻间争吵是很不幸的事。
take action采取行动, 行动起来
例句：The police had to take firm action to deal with the riots.
警方不得不采取果断行动来对付骚乱。

10. And frankly, Pakistan needs to know that there are certain things that the United States is not going to fool around on, and this person who led this attack that killed 3,000 Americans.

fool around闲耍；虚度光阴
例句：If you go to college, you must work hard, not fool around.
要是你上大学, 就得好好学习, 不能虚度光阴。