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。
学英语单词
2-bromoethyl phenyl ether
abortoriums
acknowledging lever
Aconitum shensiense
acoustician
acrylic emulsion thickener
aircraft camera mount
alwan
american feverfews
arm-plate (brachials) (in crinoids)
ascher's syndrome(blepharochalasis - double lips)
asphalt saturated felt
Bacillus diphtheriae
be split
Bernician
bluehouse
boundary line of territorial waters
bracket-hairs
by-pass resister
c.n.d.
chromous iodide
co-cultured
commiserate with sb. on sth.
compensatory time
concernable
contignation
critical method
cynophobe
digital synovial sheath
effective time
ethylvinylether
fire protection rules
foot-stomping
form lines
fuel quantity control
garbage-in-garbage-out
Gerber butyrometer
girls-only
growth velocity in freezing
gyromagnetic resonance loss
half-picture storage tube
half-scale
hollow heart of potato
i-porchaced
infrared sight
intermediate gastric carcinoma
jump-off (autogyro)
kite bill
Krebs's leukocyte index
limbata
loveman
methemoglobinaemias
mGPDH
micro photosizer
most powerful test
mountain gun
movingstaircase
network service access point identifier
nipfe battery
Nizhniy Zadalesk
noninpatients
not to mince the matter
on deck only
open-closed-open
optimistic time
overdistribute
para-amoxyphenol
partial cecectomy
pendulum-type distributor
peptobismol
peta-gray
piecewise-linear
pressure-filled thermometer
production of power
protective membrane
public attorney
rapid survey
ratio of transformation of potential transformer
recappable
ride on
royal spades
run around like a chicken with its head cut off
saw beyond their nose
scanner display window
sctq
shipping ton
simple color
slashfic
solario
sonalert
SUBERGORGIIDAE
subjectivists
superwide-angled object glass
team event
toe to toe
trace heating
us work permit
vacuum tube circuit
verticraft
weak on his pins
Yaunde
yawmer