CNN News: 特朗普出席北約峰會 軍費問題引熱議

Our first stop today is in Brussels. It`s the capital of Belgium. It`s also where you`d find the headquarters of NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It`s an alliance of 28 countries, mostly from Europe, plus Canada and the U.S. It was formed in 1949 as a way to counterbalance the military might of the Soviet Union.
今天我們先來看看布魯塞爾——比利時首都，同時也是北約（北大西洋公約組織）總部的所在地。北約是一個由28個國家——主要來自歐洲的國家同加拿大和美國——組成的聯(lián)盟，它于1949年成立，目的是制衡蘇聯(lián)的軍事力量。
The alliance is based on collective defense, an attack on one NATO member is considered an attack on all of them, and that was invoked once in 2001 after the September 11th terrorist attacks on the U.S. Troops from other NATO members served in the resulting war in Afghanistan.
北約聯(lián)盟建立在集體防御的基礎之上，即對北約某一成員國進行攻擊即被認為是對所有北約成員國進行攻擊。該職能在2001年美國發(fā)生911恐怖襲擊后被援用過一次，當時來自北約其他成員國的軍隊在恐怖襲擊誘發(fā)的阿富汗戰(zhàn)爭中進行了服役。
But there`s a sore spot between the U.S. and NATO. Alliance members agree to spend 2 percent of their gross domestic product on their militaries. It`s a guideline they`re not penalized if they don`t.
不過美國和北約之間有一個痛處。聯(lián)盟成員同意將其國內(nèi)生產(chǎn)總值的2%用于軍隊。這是一個即使成員國不實行也不會受到懲罰的指導方針。
But America has consistently met that target while most other NATO countries haven`t. President Donald Trump brought this up yesterday on his visit to Brussels.
不過，雖然美國一直都在滿足這一要求，但大多數(shù)其他北約成員國卻沒有。昨天，唐納德·特朗普總統(tǒng)訪問布魯塞爾時提出了這一問題。
Twenty-three of the 28 member nations are still not paying what they should be paying and what they are supposed to be paying for their defense.
28個成員國中有23個國家仍然沒有支付他們應該支付的費用以及他們應該為本國國防支付的費用。
NATO`s website says the organization as a whole does over-rely on the U.S. for providing some of NATO`s essential military capabilities and President Trump`s comments likely troubled some NATO leaders partly because he`s questioned NATO`s effectiveness in the past, and partly because he didn`t promise yesterday that the U.S. would stick to its NATO commitments.
北約官網(wǎng)稱，該組織作為一個整體的確對美國為北約提供的一些基本軍事建設過度依賴，而特朗普總統(tǒng)的評論可能給一些北約領導人造成了困擾——部分原因是他曾質疑過北約的有效性，另一部分原因是昨天他并未允諾美國會堅持其對北約的承諾。