2006年VOA标准英语-Guinea Strike Turns Violent
时间：2019-01-09 作者：英语课 分类：2006年VOA标准英语（六月）
By Nico Colombant
Abidjan
12 June 2006
A general strike in Guinea has turned violent as it enters a second week. Students are starting their own protests as they have been unable to begin their exams.
Security forces fired tear gas and wielded 1 batons 2 to disperse 3 students who were marching toward Conakry's city center.
Witnesses said at least three students were injured.
Earlier, the students sang and waved placards reading "Change, Now or Never."
In the Kipe suburb, police also fired tear gas to disperse students who had set up barricades 4 with school desks, chairs, and tires.
The government had promised year-end exams would begin as scheduled Monday, but volunteers were unable to travel to exam sites because there was no public transportation.
In several more remote parts of Guinea, students smashed government buildings.
Guinea's protest action took a turn toward violence Saturday after students accused army soldiers of looting empty campuses. During the unrest, a student was killed when a truck overturned.
The nationwide protest began Thursday with unions demanding higher salaries for government workers and lower gasoline prices. Union activists 5 say so far the government has made proposals that favor teachers but not other workers.
Shops and government buildings remain empty, even though the government said Sunday it had fulfilled the demands of protesters. But the government said it would be "merciless" in dealing 6 with troublemakers 7.
Another five-day strike took place earlier this year amid soaring prices and crumbling 8 infrastructure 9.
President Lansana Conte, a diabetic chain smoker 10 who can barely walk, has been in power since a coup 11 in 1984. The past few years have been marked by a crackdown against dissenters 12 in the army, and his failing health.
- The bad eggs wielded power, while the good people were oppressed. 坏人当道，好人受气
- He was nominally the leader, but others actually wielded the power. 名义上他是领导者，但实际上是别人掌握实权。
- There were many riot policemen with batons. 有许多带警棍的防暴警察。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Chinese police fight? Number one is a person with batons to fight! 满街飘的中国国旗，是一个老华侨在事发时那出来分给大家的，很感动，真的，从来一向多一事不如少一事的中国人今天团结到一起站出来反抗。 来自互联网
- The cattle were swinging their tails to disperse the flies.那些牛甩动着尾巴驱赶苍蝇。
- The children disperse for the holidays.孩子们放假了。
- The police stormed the barricades the demonstrators had put up. 警察冲破了示威者筑起的街垒。
- Others died young, in prison or on the barricades. 另一些人年轻时就死在监牢里或街垒旁。
- His research work was attacked by animal rights activists . 他的研究受到了动物权益维护者的抨击。
- Party activists with lower middle class pedigrees are numerous. 党的激进分子中有很多出身于中产阶级下层。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- This store has an excellent reputation for fair dealing.该商店因买卖公道而享有极高的声誉。
- His fair dealing earned our confidence.他的诚实的行为获得我们的信任。
- He was employed to chuck out any troublemakers. 他受雇把捣乱者赶走。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- She had automatically labelled the boys as troublemakers. 她不假思索地认定这些男孩子是捣蛋鬼。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- an old house with crumbling plaster and a leaking roof 一所灰泥剥落、屋顶漏水的老房子
- The boat was tied up alongside a crumbling limestone jetty. 这条船停泊在一个摇摇欲坠的石灰岩码头边。
- We should step up the development of infrastructure for research.加强科学基础设施建设。
- We should strengthen cultural infrastructure and boost various types of popular culture.加强文化基础设施建设，发展各类群众文化。
- His wife dislikes him to be a smoker.他妻子不喜欢他当烟民。
- He is a moderate smoker.他是一个有节制的烟民。
- The monarch was ousted by a military coup.那君主被军事政变者废黜了。
- That government was overthrown in a military coup three years ago.那个政府在3年前的军事政变中被推翻。
- He attacked the indulgence shown to religious dissenters. 他抨击对宗教上持不同政见者表现出的宽容。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- (The dissenters would have allowed even more leeway to the Secretary.) （持异议者还会给行政长官留有更多的余地。） 来自英汉非文学 - 行政法