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英语课
By Luis Ramirez
Bangkok
24 August 2007


Reports from Burma say protests over a doubling of fuel prices appear to be spreading beyond the main city, Rangoon, to other parts of the country. Witnesses say security forces have fanned out across Rangoon to prevent further demonstrations 1, which analysts 2 say could threaten the military's control of the country. VOA's Luis Ramirez reports from our Southeast Asia bureau in Bangkok.






Demonstrators march on Insein road in northern Rangoon suburb, 22 Aug 2007, to protest over massive fuel price hikes


Demonstrators march on Insein road in northern Rangoon suburb to protest massive fuel price hikes, 22 Aug 2007



The new reports of unrest in Burma come as international concern has mounted over the military rulers' decision to halt peaceful protests this week. Security forces have arrested scores of activists 3, some of them dragged and beaten in the streets.


Witnesses on Friday said security forces, including plain-clothes police agents, patrolled the streets of Rangoon looking for new protests.


The protests this week bring memories of 1988, when thousands of people demonstrated against the military government, demanding democratic change. The military used guns and tanks to crush the demonstrations, killing 4 about 3,000 people.


The latest demonstrations are over the doubling of fuel prices, which has caused transportation costs to skyrocket in the impoverished 5 country.


Tadzrul Tahir is the Southeast Asia Program officer for Forum 6 Asia, a Bangkok human rights group that follows events in Burma. He says the protests this week, while small in comparison, have parallels to those of 1988.


"The uprising was prominently demanding democracy and it become a movement of the people demanding the basic rights of the people," said Tahir. "I think the impact of the fuel price increase will go beyond the '88 movement or the pro-democracy moment because the impact will finally hit the ordinary people. And this is not just an increase in oil prices, but also an increase in ordinary consumer items, like rice, sugar and oil."


He notes that in decades past, similar economic crises and price increases contributed to uprisings that drove out long-time rulers in the Philippines and Indonesia.


Members of the international community - long critical of the government's human rights record - are calling for dialogue to quell 7 the unrest.


U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says he is following events in Burma with concern. He urged the authorities to exercise maximum restraint in responding to the demonstrations and also called on both sides to avoid provocation 8. He called for a constructive 9 dialogue toward national reconciliation 10.


Earlier this week, the United States called for the release of dissidents arrested in the demonstrations and urged Burma's leadership to engage in meaningful dialogue with members of democratic movements.




证明( demonstration的名词复数 ); 表明; 表达; 游行示威
  • 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。
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。
n.(政治活动的)积极分子,活动家( activist的名词复数 )
  • 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》
n.巨额利润;突然赚大钱,发大财
  • Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
  • Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
adj.穷困的,无力的,用尽了的v.使(某人)贫穷( impoverish的过去式和过去分词 );使(某物)贫瘠或恶化
  • the impoverished areas of the city 这个城市的贫民区
  • They were impoverished by a prolonged spell of unemployment. 他们因长期失业而一贫如洗。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.论坛,讨论会
  • They're holding a forum on new ways of teaching history.他们正在举行历史教学讨论会。
  • The organisation would provide a forum where problems could be discussed.这个组织将提供一个可以讨论问题的平台。
v.压制,平息,减轻
  • Soldiers were sent in to quell the riots.士兵们被派去平息骚乱。
  • The armed force had to be called out to quell violence.不得不出动军队来镇压暴力行动。
n.激怒,刺激,挑拨,挑衅的事物,激怒的原因
  • He's got a fiery temper and flares up at the slightest provocation.他是火爆性子,一点就着。
  • They did not react to this provocation.他们对这一挑衅未作反应。
adj.建设的,建设性的
  • We welcome constructive criticism.我们乐意接受有建设性的批评。
  • He is beginning to deal with his anger in a constructive way.他开始用建设性的方法处理自己的怒气。
n.和解,和谐,一致
  • He was taken up with the reconciliation of husband and wife.他忙于做夫妻间的调解工作。
  • Their handshake appeared to be a gesture of reconciliation.他们的握手似乎是和解的表示。
学英语单词
accelerate-stop distance (asd)
acoustical absorption factor
adiabatic coating
agency of international development
all estates
arabbing
bedded salt
bias-cut
brush-strokes
bugeys
caesiumantimony
canoed
Chincha Islands
cleave down
Costen's syndrome
Cuprinol
CYP1A
daphnella nobilis
devil-worships
Dhasa
diesel-fuel
dihydrocuminaldehyde
dorsigerous
downlighting
drupe fruit
entombed
exclusive privileges
fabric draft
factory arrangement
fondaziones
foreign short-term claim
foxtail orchid
free destination
gain of light
genospecies (ravin 1963)
genus platyceriums
Greenbaum
guinea grainss
head-disk assembly
huson
Ikelemba
industrial credit
instance dungeon
intimately
irretrievable loass
isophyllia
isotactic polypropylene oxide
Japan Marine Standard
JAPPing
keltics
labbatt
Latino-
lavamund
ludic
mahoganize
main currency
meaningfully
melito-
miscellaneous charges book
Mollā Bodāgh
monetary agreement
more bang for the buck
natural convective boiling
NDRO
no time to
not really?
optic resolving power
Petare
photopolymer plate
pin point gate
plastic-deformation
plea in mitigation of damages
power-over
principal-distance error
pth-c
resting minute ventilation
Rhynchosia volubilis
rhytidenglerula trematis
roxbies
sagenetosome
seafarer's competency
self sustained discharge
semi-submerged catamaran
shaped beam
shellbark hickories
single-line tariff
streght
thermohydrodynamic equation
tiapride
titanium(iv) chloride
toxidermic
unpreparedly
uploaded
Uzerche
vitelline network
Volgo-Ural'skiy Neftyanoy Rayon
Wellington, Mt.
western mugworts
workflow
xylaria juruensis
Zircopax
zone meridian