时间:2019-01-13 作者:英语课 分类:2006年VOA标准英语(四月)


英语课


By Peta Thornycroft
Harare
23 April 2006


The Zimbabwe government is making it possible for some white farmers to legally remain on their land, and for others to return home, after they were evicted 1 during the last six years. The government and the farmers' unions want agricultural productivity revived.


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Lands Minister Didymus Mutasa says white farmers who remained on their land need a lease, or an official letter, to make their tenure 2 legal. He said the government is interviewing farmers carefully to be sure that large-scale commercial farms are leased to people with skills and resources to allow them to farm properly.


He said all land taken from white farmers since 2000 is state land, under the terms of a constitutional amendment 3 last year.


The Commercial Farmers Union says more than 200 white farmers have applied 4 for leases for land. Many of them are on land already, but have no legal status. Other farmers who were evicted, but are living in urban areas, are also hoping to return to their farms.


Prior to a land reform program announced by President Robert Mugabe in 2000, there were about four-thousand white commercial farmers. Many of them were forced off their land in sometimes violent invasions, and many subsequently left Zimbabwe. But some remained, either on small pieces of their original land, or in their homesteads, without access to land to grow crops. Many moved to urban areas, and say they wish they could return to their farms.


Agriculture was the bedrock of the economy. Since agriculture collapsed 5, the economy contracted dramatically. Inflation stands at nearly one-thousand percent, the highest in the world, according to the International Monetary 6 Fund.


Zimbabwe also has almost no foreign currency for key imports, like fuel and electricity. Some government officials began making statements last year that agricultural production had to be revived to fix the economy.




v.(依法从房屋里或土地上)驱逐,赶出( evict的过去式和过去分词 )
  • A number of tenants have been evicted for not paying the rent. 许多房客因不付房租被赶了出来。
  • They had evicted their tenants for non-payment of rent. 他们赶走了未交房租的房客。
n.终身职位;任期;(土地)保有权,保有期
  • He remained popular throughout his tenure of the office of mayor.他在担任市长的整个任期内都深得民心。
  • Land tenure is a leading political issue in many parts of the world.土地的保有权在世界很多地区是主要的政治问题。
n.改正,修正,改善,修正案
  • The amendment was rejected by 207 voters to 143.这项修正案以207票对143票被否决。
  • The Opposition has tabled an amendment to the bill.反对党已经就该议案提交了一项修正条款。
adj.应用的;v.应用,适用
  • She plans to take a course in applied linguistics.她打算学习应用语言学课程。
  • This cream is best applied to the face at night.这种乳霜最好晚上擦脸用。
adj.倒塌的
  • Jack collapsed in agony on the floor. 杰克十分痛苦地瘫倒在地板上。
  • The roof collapsed under the weight of snow. 房顶在雪的重压下突然坍塌下来。
adj.货币的,钱的;通货的;金融的;财政的
  • The monetary system of some countries used to be based on gold.过去有些国家的货币制度是金本位制的。
  • Education in the wilderness is not a matter of monetary means.荒凉地区的教育不是钱财问题。
学英语单词
amalgamated consolidation
angustior
anticipated loss
antipoverty
automatic terminal information service
axle bolt
Beekfoot
bogaert
bosher
bounded jet
cape ra.
cfm
chemical engine hose
circuities
concurring
consolidation of stock
construction contract
cooling module
Dartmoor pony
defossilization
DESCOM
Distomatales
does a bear shit in the woods
dragged down
electoral court
embryomata
fast facsimile
female chests
fever with aversion to cold
following grouting
Fraxinus rhynchophylla
freies
fresh water goby
funboarder
Graef rotor
guaiacolates
Guerin process
hangerock
have a suit to
high speed reader
high-frequency microvoltmeter
high-speed test controller
imported cabbageworm
intracaudal
iron roll rice polisher
KCM
kerosene blast burner
Lage Zwaluwe
lionesque
locofoco
mediums
microprocessor based information system
Muraenolepididae
neutron excess number
nickel-rich
nmdar
nonrectilinear correlation
orientation phase
passenger number fluctuation coefficient
per nasal
perception(of)light
Pinoy
plaque mutants
preinstall
Pteroceras
quartz (controlled) oscillator
queloz
radar communication
railroad
redox resin
rhinocryptid
Rhizobacter
river gravel
robert floyd curl jr.s
rotating guide vane (rgv)
roundleaf bats
Saxbe fix
screen magnifier
Seller financing
shomyo
signed magnitude arithmetical
slap chip
sociodynamics
sparkling pistol
special emergency
spending boom
sports circles
spousy
Squad Halt
square stone
subtractive polarity
Tabacal, R.
teracycle
three circles theorem
too-close
translation memory
tungsten oxydifluoride
Turkistan
two component system
visual meteor
water roller
zduriencik