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英语课
By Naomi Martig
Hong Kong
23 September 2007

Japan's ruling party has chosen the country's longest-serving chief cabinet secretary, Yasuo Fukuda, to lead the party and succeed Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.  A spokesman for Japan's Liberal Democratic Party announced the results of Sunday's presidential election a few hours after lawmakers cast their ballots 1


Fukuda, a political moderate with years of government experience, won 330 of the 527 valid 2 votes. His rival, the conservative former foreign minister, Taro 3 Aso, won 197 votes VOA's Naomi Martig reports from Hong Kong.


Like many lawmakers in Japan, Yasuo Fukuda comes from a political family.  He was born in 1936 on the main island of Honshu, the eldest 4 son of future Prime Minister Takeo Fukuda.


Yasuo served as political secretary during his father's time in office, from 1976 to 1978.  In 2000, then-Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori appointed the younger Fukuda chief cabinet secretary.  He retained that post well into the term of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, stepping down in May of 2004.  This made him the longest-serving chief cabinet secretary in the country's history.


Analysts 5 say he lasted so long in the job because of his ability to build bridges between the prime minister's office, the ministries 6, and factions 7 within the party.


Tomohito Shinoda is a political science professor at the International University of Japan.  He says Fukuda has less experience than some other veteran LDP members, but his time as cabinet secretary equips him to serve as the nation's leader.


"So he knows the…challenges and difficulties we are facing both in domestic affairs and foreign affairs.  That is his strength," shinoda said.


A soft-spoken man, Fukuda is willing to compromise in the interest of good relations with Japan's neighbors.


He has joined other legislators in proposing a secular 8 alternative to the controversial Yasukuni shrine 9, which honors all of Japan's war dead, including a number of convicted war criminals from World War Two.


China and South Korea, which suffered under Japanese militarism, view the shrine as a glorification 10 of Japan's wartime past, and the two countries were angered by former Prime Minister Koizumi's frequent visits to the shrine. Fukuda says that as prime minister, he will not visit Yasukuni.


This is not the first time Fukuda has run for LDP president.  He announced his candidacy to replace Mr. Koizumi in 2006, but he dropped out of the race before the election was held.


Fukuda is also no stranger to scandal.  His resignation as chief cabinet secretary came after revelations that he and other ministers had failed to pay their required amount into the national pension system.  He said his failure to pay was not deliberate.  




n.投票表决( ballot的名词复数 );选举;选票;投票总数v.(使)投票表决( ballot的第三人称单数 )
  • They're counting the ballots. 他们正在计算选票。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The news of rigged ballots has rubbed off much of the shine of their election victory. 他们操纵选票的消息使他们在选举中获得的胜利大为减色。 来自《简明英汉词典》
adj.有确实根据的;有效的;正当的,合法的
  • His claim to own the house is valid.他主张对此屋的所有权有效。
  • Do you have valid reasons for your absence?你的缺席有正当理由吗?
n.芋,芋头
  • Main grain crop has taro,corn,banana to wait.主要粮食作物有芋头、玉米、芭蕉等。
  • You celebrate your birthday with taro,red bean and butter.用红豆、芋头和黄油给自己过生日。
adj.最年长的,最年老的
  • The King's eldest son is the heir to the throne.国王的长子是王位的继承人。
  • The castle and the land are entailed on the eldest son.城堡和土地限定由长子继承。
分析家,化验员( analyst的名词复数 )
  • City analysts forecast huge profits this year. 伦敦金融分析家预测今年的利润非常丰厚。
  • I was impressed by the high calibre of the researchers and analysts. 研究人员和分析人员的高素质给我留下了深刻印象。
(政府的)部( ministry的名词复数 ); 神职; 牧师职位; 神职任期
  • Local authorities must refer everything to the central ministries. 地方管理机构应请示中央主管部门。
  • The number of Ministries has been pared down by a third. 部委的数量已经减少了1/3。
组织中的小派别,派系( faction的名词复数 )
  • The gens also lives on in the "factions." 氏族此外还继续存在于“factions〔“帮”〕中。 来自英汉非文学 - 家庭、私有制和国家的起源
  • rival factions within the administration 政府中的对立派别
n.牧师,凡人;adj.世俗的,现世的,不朽的
  • We live in an increasingly secular society.我们生活在一个日益非宗教的社会。
  • Britain is a plural society in which the secular predominates.英国是个世俗主导的多元社会。
n.圣地,神龛,庙;v.将...置于神龛内,把...奉为神圣
  • The shrine was an object of pilgrimage.这处圣地是人们朝圣的目的地。
  • They bowed down before the shrine.他们在神龛前鞠躬示敬。
n.赞颂
  • Militant devotion to and glorification of one's country; fanatical patriotism. 对国家的军事效忠以及美化;狂热的爱国主义。
  • Glorification-A change of place, a new condition with God. 得荣─在神面前新处境,改变了我们的结局。
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abietins
aesthetic psychology
Alaband, Kuh-i
alphanodavirus
anchor warp
animate beings
annular downcomer space between reactor core and pressure vessel
Apansporoblastina
ariscope
asphalt-base petroleum
betsimisaraka
biasting typhus
biepharophthalmostat
blackboard structure
body upholstery
borioun
bowdlerisms
bush veldt
catso
cattle-guard
chain fission yield
co-inducer
collateralizing
confabs
contract of ordering agricultural products
correlation length measuring instrument
crazy horses
cross-notching
custodial staff
deliberately seek all means
Deltatheridia
dendric
deprojected
die hobbing press
diprismatic
double -entry compressor
double hresholds
eulogization
felonious
filmmakings
float roller
floating dregs
folic-acid
four-horse team
fresh oil lubrication
freshwater shrimp (macrobrachium)
gas drying bottle
general direction
genus Haemodorum
give somebody the bird
haversian
hypoponera truncata
indefinite projects
intermediary paper
internally powered equipment
killer diller
labruscas
LABYRINTHIDA
lindelofine
long term capital
low-oxygen
mass approach
multiprogrammings
NCIC National Crime Information Center
Nickel-Metal Hydride
nucleoglucoprotein
off-square
ordinary privileged slave request
Paamese
payable on presentation
predicable
proactinomycin
prokaryan
Proudhon
Pterocarya hupehensis
Radio one
Samani
self-denigration
ship-wright
solid gel fuel
speak the word
spirtle
spot reaction
spring anti squeak
squamosa
squirrel wheel
standing committee
static storage system
stay-at-home mom
steam extraction pipe
style of coaching
textor
throwing-off trip
toecapped
toll exchange
two-roll piercer
Vanda concolor
Vibrioeltor
vital teeth
voltage of transformation
wild emmers
wound-rotor motor