VOA慢速英语 2007 1110b
时间：2019-01-11 作者：英语课 分类：VOA慢速英语2007年（十一）月
IN THE NEWS - Pakistani Police Keep Bhutto From Leading Protest Near Capital
By Brianna Blake / Broadcast: Fri, 9 Nov 2007 16:00:00 UTC
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English.
The political crisis in Pakistan deepened Friday. Opposition 1 leader Benazir Bhutto tried to lead a big protest against emergency rule declared last Saturday by President Pervez Musharraf. Instead, the former prime minister spent the day under house arrest.
Benazir Bhutto, top center, and her supporters try to push through a police barrier
She tried to leave her home in Islamabad to attend the demonstration 2 that she organized in nearby Rawalpindi. But she could not get past barriers and hundreds of police around her home.
Late in the day, however, Benazir Bhutto was freed. The government said the detention 3 order had been withdrawn 4. In Rawalpindi, police clashed with several hundred protesters who violated a ban on demonstrations 5.
Benazir Bhutto says she still plans to lead a protest march early next week from Lahore to Islamabad. She returned to Pakistan last month after eight years of exile to avoid corruption 6 charges. Before she returned, she had been negotiating with President Musharraf on a possible political alliance.
Last weekend, the president dismissed the Supreme 7 Court. He has placed the chief justice and other judges under house arrest. He also suspended the constitution and shut down privately 8 owned television news stations. And he gave wide powers to officials to crush dissent 9.
Protests have been suppressed, sometimes violently, by police in recent days. How many people have been detained is unclear. The number is in the thousands, including opposition members, human rights activists 11 and lawyers.
Pervez Musharraf
The opposition is demanding that President Musharraf end emergency rule, retire as army chief and hold elections in January. World leaders, including President Bush, have also called on him to do these things.
President Bush considers the leader of the nuclear-armed nation an important ally against terrorism. Since two thousand one the United States has given Pakistan almost ten billion dollars in aid, mostly for its military.
National elections were planned for early January. This week, General Musharraf said elections would now be held by February fifteenth. He also said he will resign as army chief before he is sworn in again as president. He said he will keep that promise once the new Supreme Court confirms his re-election.
Benazir Bhutto said the election announcement was simply an attempt to quiet growing dissent.
General Musharraf seized power in nineteen ninety-nine. Later he was elected to a five-year term. And, last month, lawmakers elected him to another term. Many political observers say he declared emergency rule because he feared that the Supreme Court would cancel his re-election.
The court had been considering whether he was permitted by law to run for president while serving as army chief. General Musharraf says he declared emergency rule because of a growing threat from Islamic militants 12 and activist 10 judges.
And that's IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English, written by Brianna Blake.
- The party leader is facing opposition in his own backyard.该党领袖在自己的党內遇到了反对。
- The police tried to break down the prisoner's opposition.警察设法制住了那个囚犯的反抗。
- His new book is a demonstration of his patriotism.他写的新书是他的爱国精神的证明。
- He gave a demonstration of the new technique then and there.他当场表演了这种新的操作方法。
- He was kept in detention by the police.他被警察扣留了。
- He was in detention in connection with the bribery affair.他因与贿赂事件有牵连而被拘留了。
- Our force has been withdrawn from the danger area.我们的军队已从危险地区撤出。
- All foreign troops should be withdrawn to their own countries.一切外国军队都应撤回本国去。
- Lectures will be interspersed with practical demonstrations. 讲课中将不时插入实际示范。
- The new military government has banned strikes and demonstrations. 新的军人政府禁止罢工和示威活动。
- The people asked the government to hit out against corruption and theft.人民要求政府严惩贪污盗窃。
- The old man reviled against corruption.那老人痛斥了贪污舞弊。
- It was the supreme moment in his life.那是他一生中最重要的时刻。
- He handed up the indictment to the supreme court.他把起诉书送交最高法院。
- Some ministers admit privately that unemployment could continue to rise.一些部长私下承认失业率可能继续升高。
- The man privately admits that his motive is profits.那人私下承认他的动机是为了牟利。
- It is too late now to make any dissent.现在提出异议太晚了。
- He felt her shoulders gave a wriggle of dissent.他感到她的肩膀因为不同意而动了一下。
- He's been a trade union activist for many years.多年来他一直是工会的积极分子。
- He is a social activist in our factory.他是我厂的社会活动积极分子。
- 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》