时间:2019-01-06 作者:英语课 分类:2006年VOA标准英语(一月)


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By Amelia Shaw
Port-au-Prince
09 January 2006

Haitian officials have announced Monday a new date for national elections. The troubled country has been battling violence and insecurity, as it struggles to prepare for the vote. The announcement comes just two days after the United Nation's top military commander was found dead in his hotel room.

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This is the fifth time that Haiti has attempted to organize a date for national elections.

According to a presidential decree, the first round of voting will be held on February 7, and a runoff will be held, if needed, on March 19. The new government is to take office by March 29.

The vote was formerly 1 to be held January 8, but in late December, officials postponed 2 elections for the fourth time due to logistical problems. Haitian election officials said that national identity cards had not been fully 3 distributed, and there were not enough polling centers in rural areas.

U.N. ambassador to Haiti Juan Valdez has welcomed the new date, and he said the U.N. would not accept that the date be postponed again.

 
A Brazilian UN peacekeeper chats with a teenager while on patrol at the volatile 4 neighborhood of Bel-Air in Port-au-Prince
  
The U.N. has been criticized by Haitian officials for the repeated election delays. They say the U.N. and the Organization of American States have not done enough to help the country prepare.

The Haitian population is also critical of the apparent failure of U.N. troops to provide security in the crime-ridden capital, Port-au-Prince. Kidnappings have skyrocketed, generating millions-of-dollars in ransom 5 for the gangs who control the slums in downtown Port-au-Prince. Haitian national police estimate that 1,900 people were kidnapped between March and December of 2005.

The capital was largely shut down Monday, after a general strike was called by the chairman of the Chamber 6 of Commerce, Reginald Boulos. Boulos says he called the strike to protest the rash of kidnappings, and urge U.N. troops, known locally as MINUSTAH, to do more to provide security.

"I think the role of MINUSTAH was to bring peace and security - to bring security back, and help the government to carry elections. Elections cannot take place in such an unsecure environment. So, therefore, we think there are enough troops in this country, 7,400 international troops. There is enough know-how 7 and technical expertise 8 in MINUSTAH to basically get in with the minimum casualty in the civilian 9 society, and get rid of the gangs, disarm 10 the gangs," said Mr. Boulos.

The U.N. mission is still trying to regroup after the death of its top military commander, General Urano Bacellar. Mr. Bacellar was found dead in his hotel room on Saturday morning in what one senior U.N. official has called "a self-inflicted gunshot wound." So far, the U.N. has not confirmed the death as a suicide, and has launched an investigation 11.

The U.N. began its peacekeeping operation in Haiti in June of 2004, just three months after then President Jean Bertrand Aristide was forced into exile, following a violent uprising. The February 7 poll would be the first democratic election since Mr. Aristide was forced from power.



adv.从前,以前
  • We now enjoy these comforts of which formerly we had only heard.我们现在享受到了过去只是听说过的那些舒适条件。
  • This boat was formerly used on the rivers of China.这船从前航行在中国内河里。
vt.& vi.延期,缓办,(使)延迟vt.把…放在次要地位;[语]把…放在后面(或句尾)vi.(疟疾等)延缓发作(或复发)
  • The trial was postponed indefinitely. 审讯无限期延迟。
  • The game has already been postponed three times. 这场比赛已经三度延期了。
adv.完全地,全部地,彻底地;充分地
  • The doctor asked me to breathe in,then to breathe out fully.医生让我先吸气,然后全部呼出。
  • They soon became fully integrated into the local community.他们很快就完全融入了当地人的圈子。
adj.反复无常的,挥发性的,稍纵即逝的,脾气火爆的;n.挥发性物质
  • With the markets being so volatile,investments are at great risk.由于市场那么变化不定,投资冒着很大的风险。
  • His character was weak and volatile.他这个人意志薄弱,喜怒无常。
n.赎金,赎身;v.赎回,解救
  • We'd better arrange the ransom right away.我们最好马上把索取赎金的事安排好。
  • The kidnappers exacted a ransom of 10000 from the family.绑架者向这家人家勒索10000英镑的赎金。
n.房间,寝室;会议厅;议院;会所
  • For many,the dentist's surgery remains a torture chamber.对许多人来说,牙医的治疗室一直是间受刑室。
  • The chamber was ablaze with light.会议厅里灯火辉煌。
n.知识;技术;诀窍
  • He hasn't got the know-how to run a farm.他没有经营农场的专业知识。
  • I don't have much know-how about engines.发动机方面的技术知识我知之甚少。
n.专门知识(或技能等),专长
  • We were amazed at his expertise on the ski slopes.他斜坡滑雪的技能使我们赞叹不已。
  • You really have the technical expertise in a new breakthrough.让你真正在专业技术上有一个全新的突破。
adj.平民的,民用的,民众的
  • There is no reliable information about civilian casualties.关于平民的伤亡还没有确凿的信息。
  • He resigned his commission to take up a civilian job.他辞去军职而从事平民工作。
v.解除武装,回复平常的编制,缓和
  • The world has waited 12 years for Iraq to disarm. 全世界等待伊拉克解除武装已有12年之久。
  • He has rejected every peaceful opportunity offered to him to disarm.他已经拒绝了所有能和平缴械的机会。
n.调查,调查研究
  • In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
  • He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。
学英语单词
AACCLA
additive color mixture
affix one's private mark
afterlife
albertina
alchlor
ambystomid salamander
aminoadenine
archigenesis
Bagnolians
barycenter system
battery toy
bietanautine
BP (back pressure)
Broekhuizenvorst
bumders
camp run
chemobiosis
Cherekha
chilling chamber
cobordisms
colo(u)r fastness to carbonizing
compression air whistle
cornekle
cynocephalids
divineer
double-current transmission
drift turbulence
dysmature
earth hauling
East Sussex County
economic upheaval
excitation transformer
extraordinary image
forum no competens
friery
Fuentespalda
functional tests
gristle missile
hairlight
hairpin tuning bar
helium sniffer test
Holth
Hongor Hiid
immuno-SEM
incarcerated femoral hernia
indicial motion
irradiation and concertratin
jam-up
jenny
jet aeroplane
john ronald reuel tolkiens
kitchen-appliance
knot interpolation
kurmanbek
leakage detector
longirostris
lump sum budget
lung-protectors
mentigo
minimization of the sum of absolute value
mohawk can.
multi-level distribution
network radio center
no-bull
Oenothera tetraptera
open motor
orthogonal increment process
Our Father
Pedronas, Cayos Las
pervaiz
potential with finite energy
prying tool
punsters
rail freight
recoil depletion
rhagastis binoculata
sapphirina bicuspidata
Security as a Service
seiie
sexual anorexia
shotgunner
sludge manure
soft-ball
spacing support
spondylosis chronica ankylopoietica
sportsbooks
SQL engine
Suth.
Swiss blue
tailride
tergosternal
think about sth
tikoloshes
topological sphere
trainsets
tribecas
vertical-boring machine
voice call signs
wierdsmas
windshield wiper
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