时间:2019-01-13 作者:英语课 分类:2007年VOA标准英语(六月)


英语课
By Gilbert da Costa
Abuja
22 June 2007

Unions in Nigeria have vowed 1 to intensify 2 a three-day old strike called to protest a hike in fuel prices. As Gilbert da Costa reports from Abuja, union officials and government representatives met Thursday night but failed to make progress in ending the strike.


 Unions are threatening to disrupt power and water supplies in a bid to exert more pressure on the government as the crippling strike began its third day.


 The Nigeria Medical Association has announced its intention to join the shutdown if the government continues to hold out against the demands of organized labor 3.


 "Members of the medical association are also Nigerians, and Nigerians are very angry with those things that were done by the last administration in its dying days," said Dr. Daniel Gana, the national president of the association.


"We are at work at the moment because we believe the services we [are] rendering 4, if we withdraw them, it is the poor that would suffer, not the ruling class or those in government. But if the government refuses to accede 5 to the demands of NLC [Nigeria Labor Congress], we will join the action. We are warming up and mobilizing our members," he added.


 Union leaders have vowed to press ahead with their action until the government backs down completely and returns the price of gasoline to 65 naira, about 50 cents, a liter.


 Most parts of Nigeria are at a virtual standstill with no early end in sight.






People stand next to their motor bikes as they await fuel to arrive during a nationwide general strike in Lagos, 21 Jun 2007


People stand next to their motor bikes as they await fuel to arrive during a nationwide general strike in Lagos, 21 Jun 2007



While the strike has paralyzed economic activity, oil exports from the world's eighth largest exporter have been mostly unaffected.


 Oil union officials tell VOA that the possibility of halting oil exports is being discussed at a meeting on Friday.


 Oil receipts accounts for about 80 percent of government revenue and closing the export window could prove costly 6 for the nation's economy.


 Some estimates suggest the country is losing more than $100 million daily as a result of the strike.


 Despite the current hardship, many Nigerians support the strike, because fuel prices affect the cost of most basic goods.




起誓,发誓(vow的过去式与过去分词形式)
  • He vowed quite solemnly that he would carry out his promise. 他非常庄严地发誓要实现他的诺言。
  • I vowed to do more of the cooking myself. 我发誓自己要多动手做饭。
vt.加强;变强;加剧
  • We must intensify our educational work among our own troops.我们必须加强自己部队的教育工作。
  • They were ordered to intensify their patrols to protect our air space.他们奉命加强巡逻,保卫我国的领空。
n.劳动,努力,工作,劳工;分娩;vi.劳动,努力,苦干;vt.详细分析;麻烦
  • We are never late in satisfying him for his labor.我们从不延误付给他劳动报酬。
  • He was completely spent after two weeks of hard labor.艰苦劳动两周后,他已经疲惫不堪了。
n.表现,描写
  • She gave a splendid rendering of Beethoven's piano sonata.她精彩地演奏了贝多芬的钢琴奏鸣曲。
  • His narrative is a super rendering of dialect speech and idiom.他的叙述是方言和土语最成功的运用。
v.应允,同意
  • They are ready to accede to our request for further information.我们要是还需要资料,他们乐于随时提供。
  • In a word,he will not accede to your proposal in the meeting.总而言之,他不会在会中赞成你的提议。
adj.昂贵的,价值高的,豪华的
  • It must be very costly to keep up a house like this.维修这么一幢房子一定很昂贵。
  • This dictionary is very useful,only it is a bit costly.这本词典很有用,左不过贵了些。
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ackamoor
alloantiserum
alpha-proteobacteria
aniline number
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arnouls
atticement
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Cenomanian Age
chronocline
closes-to
colostrum corpuscle
conjugatable
contact path
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coved arch
dadeville
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detuned coating
direct heat treatment
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eldreth
emergency lifesaving instant exit (elsie)
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equivalent Pi network
fiber rope long splicing
fibroreticular
flex one's muscles
floating-point representation
gas insulated transformer
gas-forming admixture
gastroduodenectomy
gemeinschafts
going prices
gortulina
gynnes
heat recovery unit
help form
hsin niao wu
hyperkeratosis senilis
industrial injuries benefits
internal field emission
italic letter
jak
jepsen
l'isle
lexico-grammatical
liquid metal battery
luteus
many-group calculation
maulstick
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metabolic processes in simple protein
miscellaneous receipt account
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mud flow meter
Olympically
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overutilizes
paramagnetic shift
peepdoor
phenyl ketonuria
pholid
photoemissive cathode
pneu-vac drier
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potash series
PRELP
pretectonic recrystallization
progressiste
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racing homer
renalsulfa
retightening of bolts
Roncone
sarny
Saugnacq-et-Muret
screeched
sedivi
short circuit loss
South Baldy
spetter
spigot and faucet joint
spuria diphtheria
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the boom and depression cycle
the eternal city
top whack
unproductive
unwholesomely
vaka
vanadium powder
veered
wechsler preschool and primary scale of intelligence(wppsi)
woodlines
yeast-like