时间:2019-01-13 作者:英语课 分类:VOA标准英语2008年(十一月)


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The government of Zimbabwe has told a group of eminent 1 individuals, including former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan, to postpone 2 a planned visit to the country. VOA's Delia Robertson reports from our southern Africa bureau in Johannesburg, the group will now convene 3 in South Africa.
 






Kofi Annan, former Secretary-General of the United Nations, 20 Oct 2008



Annan, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, and Gra?a Machel, the wife of South African elder statesman Nelson Mandela said they will now meet in Johannesburg on Friday. The group was due to travel to Zimbabwe to assess the ongoing 4 humanitarian 5 crisis in that country and to determine how the flow of assistance to needy 6 Zimbabweans can be improved.

The Zimbabwe government did not issue a statement banning the visit. Instead, as is often the case, the state-controlled Herald 7 newspaper reported that the government wanted to know who the group represented and reported to. The newspaper said a government source said the group was a clique 8 of personalities 9 hostile to Zimbabwe.

The Herald said the government had informed the group it appreciaties their humanitarian concern but was unable to handle the visit at this time of the year.

In a statement released Thursday, the group said they had hoped to meet with Zimbabwe's political leaders to hear their views without becoming involved in the country's ongoing political negotiations 10.
 






Former South African President Nelson Mandela, 04 Sep 2008




The three are members of The Elders, a group of 10 globally respected leaders who were convened 11 in 2007 by Mandela and Graca Machel. Their aim is to bring what they say are experienced and independent voices in support of efforts to address global challenges.

In his statement, Annan said the group will now meet with individuals working on the ground in Zimbabwe. He said food shortages, a lack of seed and fertilizer for planting, and the breakdown 12 in health services is prolonging the suffering of Zimbabweans. He added that urgent solutions are needed.

Meanwhile, doctors and nurses took to the streets of Harare this week to protest against the worsening conditions in Zimbabwe hospitals.
 






Health workers picket 13 outside the Parirenyatwa hospital in Harare, 18 Nov 2008




Two of the main hospitals in Zimbabwe have been shut down because of lack of drugs, money, water and resources in general. This comes at a time when Zimbabweans are experiencing a serious cholera 14 outbreak in their country. More than 70 individuals have died from the disease so far.

Meanwhile two Zimbabweans have died, and 18 are currently being treated in South African medical facilities in the border town of Musina for cholera following an outbreak in their country. Dozens more have completed treatment.

The South African health services say they are adding two rehydration centers to the one already in the area and that one of the additional centers will be placed on the South African side of the border at Beit Bridge. They are also negotiating with Zimbabwean officials to locate a fourth in no-man's land between the two border posts.



adj.显赫的,杰出的,有名的,优良的
  • We are expecting the arrival of an eminent scientist.我们正期待一位著名科学家的来访。
  • He is an eminent citizen of China.他是一个杰出的中国公民。
v.延期,推迟
  • I shall postpone making a decision till I learn full particulars.在未获悉详情之前我得从缓作出决定。
  • She decided to postpone the converastion for that evening.她决定当天晚上把谈话搁一搁。
v.集合,召集,召唤,聚集,集合
  • The Diet will convene at 3p.m. tomorrow.国会将于明天下午三点钟开会。
  • Senior officials convened in October 1991 in London.1991年10月,高级官员在伦敦会齐。
adj.进行中的,前进的
  • The problem is ongoing.这个问题尚未解决。
  • The issues raised in the report relate directly to Age Concern's ongoing work in this area.报告中提出的问题与“关心老人”组织在这方面正在做的工作有直接的关系。
n.人道主义者,博爱者,基督凡人论者
  • She has many humanitarian interests and contributes a lot to them.她拥有很多慈善事业,并作了很大的贡献。
  • The British government has now suspended humanitarian aid to the area.英国政府现已暂停对这一地区的人道主义援助。
adj.贫穷的,贫困的,生活艰苦的
  • Although he was poor,he was quite generous to his needy friends.他虽穷,但对贫苦的朋友很慷慨。
  • They awarded scholarships to needy students.他们给贫苦学生颁发奖学金。
vt.预示...的来临,预告,宣布,欢迎
  • In England, the cuckoo is the herald of spring.在英国杜鹃鸟是报春的使者。
  • Dawn is the herald of day.曙光是白昼的先驱。
n.朋党派系,小集团
  • The reactionary ruling clique was torn by internal strife.反动统治集团内部勾心斗角,四分五裂。
  • If the renegade clique of that country were in power,it would have meant serious disaster for the people.如果那个国家的叛徒集团一得势,人民就要遭殃。
n. 诽谤,(对某人容貌、性格等所进行的)人身攻击; 人身攻击;人格, 个性, 名人( personality的名词复数 )
  • There seemed to be a degree of personalities in her remarks.她话里有些人身攻击的成分。
  • Personalities are not in good taste in general conversation.在一般的谈话中诽谤他人是不高尚的。
协商( negotiation的名词复数 ); 谈判; 完成(难事); 通过
  • negotiations for a durable peace 为持久和平而进行的谈判
  • Negotiations have failed to establish any middle ground. 谈判未能达成任何妥协。
召开( convene的过去式 ); 召集; (为正式会议而)聚集; 集合
  • The chairman convened the committee to put the issue to a vote. 主席召集委员们开会对这个问题进行表决。
  • The governor convened his troops to put down the revolt. 总督召集他的部队去镇压叛乱。
n.垮,衰竭;损坏,故障,倒塌
  • She suffered a nervous breakdown.她患神经衰弱。
  • The plane had a breakdown in the air,but it was fortunately removed by the ace pilot.飞机在空中发生了故障,但幸运的是被王牌驾驶员排除了。
n.纠察队;警戒哨;v.设置纠察线;布置警卫
  • They marched to the factory and formed a picket.他们向工厂前进,并组成了纠察队。
  • Some of the union members did not want to picket.工会的一些会员不想担任罢工纠察员。
n.霍乱
  • The cholera outbreak has been contained.霍乱的发生已被控制住了。
  • Cholera spread like wildfire through the camps.霍乱在营地里迅速传播。
学英语单词
abhorring
acquired cleftpalate
advertence
aggrege
approximate true elongation percentage
aural detector
auto cutter
Berilo
bootlegs
bresnahan
capitalised value
chromises
clobedolum
cold atmospheric leaching
conjugata
conservativeness
container freight station to door
contextual protection
contract for carriage
copperas
cost-per-action
Crocethia
cryptanthus zonatus
cylindrical auger
Cymothoidae
deglutition centre
dilute phase roasting
disapprovest
discors
divergence
duking
echo-signal
electric resistance thermometer
endotransglycosylases
flash-over relay
garment container
hawksworth
hierarchical interrupt
hill-and-dale
Horheim
host unreachable
Indochinese, Indo-Chinese
inertially balanced stabilized platform
interchange circuits
kot
kuessel
Le Massegros
letter bundling machine
memory attribute list
micrometeoritic
MO-MLV
moroccoes
Mututu
naphthalic aicd
national grid compang
numbered unit
pain phosphorus
pallidotomies
parental rights and duties
partes subcutanea
payload deployment and retrieval system
petunia
platanthera chloranthas
platypelloid
porfiry
propagules
quenching crack
remi inferior ossis ischii
repair truck
Rhododendron aganniphum
rickson
scandium oxalate
sense of worth
servo surface encoding
set priorities
sidles
specification of quality
state guarantee
stony iron-meteorite
sulfuric acid monohydrate
sweet meat
tar-pot
ternity
transmitter distortion
trust fund bureau
two sample t-test
U Thant
unassailableness
undefined length record
under water concrete
valeriane
ventresca
vernier theodolite
Von Hippel-Lindau disease
way to go
weaponizing
weigelias
weightiest
wrast
yanagisawa
yowlings
zero check