新闻热词：产生不利影响 Cloud

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　　6月8日晚，朝鲜外务省副相金桂冠在接受美国ABC电视台采访时，公开承认朝鲜正在继续制造核武器的事实，并表示朝鲜“有足够的核武器来应付美国的攻击”。但是当被问及是否拥有可打击美国的导弹，金做出不置可否的反应。
　　North Korea has a stockpile of nuclear bombs and is building more such weapons, the country's vice foreign minister Kim Gye Gwan said in a US television interview.
　　"I should say that we have enough nuclear bombs to defend against a US attack," the North Korean official told ABC News when asked how many nuclear bombs it possessed.
　　Asked whether Pyongyang was building more nuclear bombs, Kim said: "Yes."
　　His open admission about North Korea's nuclear weapon ambitions further clouds efforts to bring a diplomatic resolution to the nuclear crisis gripping the Korean peninsula.
　　动词cloud 的本意是“遮蔽，被云覆盖，使变朦胧”，例如：Mist clouded the hills.(雾遮住了山丘。)上文中体现了cloud的比喻义“使陷入麻烦，产生不利影响，玷污”，例如：cloud the issues(混淆争端);Scandal clouded the officer's reputation.(丑闻玷污了官员的声望。)
　　另悉，在朝美两国6日的接触中，朝鲜要求美国承认其是“有核国家”，并给予相应待遇。