时间:2019-01-13 作者:英语课 分类:VOA标准英语2009年(四月)


英语课

Ethiopian authorities have arrested 35 people suspected of involvement in a plot to overthrow 1 the government. Those arrested are said to be followers 2 of an exiled opposition 3 leader living in the United States.


Government spokesman Ermias Legesse says the 35 arrested included two groups, one comprising soldiers and another that included civilian 4 government employees and others. He tells VOA police found weapons and other incriminating evidence when they raided the homes of suspects. "We have got information from different people and we investigate it, and we have gone to the court and the court gave us an allowance to go to their home and we have checked their home and we have arrested 35 people and in their home we have got so many weapons, landmines 5, soldier uniforms, and their future plan what they want to do," he said.
 
Ethiopia has arrested 35 people suspected of a coup 6 attempt allegedly backed by Dr. Berhanu Nega, an Ethiopian economist 7 now living in the United States


All those arrested are said to be members of a group called "Ginbot 7," or "May 15th", which is the date of Ethiopia's disputed 2005 election. Ginbot 7 is led by Berhanu Nega, who was elected mayor of Addis Ababa in the 2005 election. But he never took office.


He was jailed and convicted of treason along with more than 100 other opposition leaders in connection with violent post-election demonstrations 8 in which nearly 200 protestors were killed. He and the others spent 20 months in prison before being pardoned.


After his release, Berhanu went to the United States, where he is currently a professor of economics at Bucknell University in Pennsylvania. A page on the university Web site says he has urged the United States and other western nations to back democratic movements in Ethiopia and other African countries by withdrawing support for dictators.


Opposition Web sites such as "Ginbot 7' are blocked in Ethiopia. Berhanu has in the past accused Prime Minister Meles Zenawi of creating a one-party state.


In a telephone interview, government spokesman Ermias described Ginbot 7 as an illegal organization. "It's not registered as a legal party, and not recognized by the government. It is an illegal party. The groups and the party, who are an illegal party, we call it Ginbot 7. That's our issue," he said.


Ermias declined to say what charges would be filed against those arrested, saying that would be up to the Justice Ministry 9. He also declined to identify any of the suspects. He said they would all be brought before a judge within a few days.


The arrests come as Ethiopia is beginning preparations for its next parliamentary election in May, 2010. With a little more than a year until election day, most political observers consider the ruling Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front an overwhelming favorite to sweep the polls.


Party officials have said one of their top priorities will be preventing the kind of violence that marred 10 the 2005 vote.


In local and bi-elections elections last April, opposition candidates won only three of approximately 3.6 million seats being contested. The annual U.S. State Department human rights report was highly skeptical 11 about whether the results accurately 12 reflected the will of the Ethiopian people.


 



v.推翻,打倒,颠覆;n.推翻,瓦解,颠覆
  • After the overthrow of the government,the country was in chaos.政府被推翻后,这个国家处于混乱中。
  • The overthrow of his plans left him much discouraged.他的计划的失败使得他很气馁。
追随者( follower的名词复数 ); 用户; 契据的附面; 从动件
  • the followers of Mahatma Gandhi 圣雄甘地的拥护者
  • The reformer soon gathered a band of followers round him. 改革者很快就获得一群追随者支持他。
n.反对,敌对
  • 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。
adj.平民的,民用的,民众的
  • There is no reliable information about civilian casualties.关于平民的伤亡还没有确凿的信息。
  • He resigned his commission to take up a civilian job.他辞去军职而从事平民工作。
潜在的冲突; 地雷,投伞水雷( landmine的名词复数 )
  • The treaty bans the use production and trade of landmines. 该条约规定,禁止使用地雷相关产品及贸易。
  • One of the weapon's of special concern was landmines. 在引起人们特别关注的武器中就有地雷。
n.政变;突然而成功的行动
  • The monarch was ousted by a military coup.那君主被军事政变者废黜了。
  • That government was overthrown in a military coup three years ago.那个政府在3年前的军事政变中被推翻。
n.经济学家,经济专家,节俭的人
  • He cast a professional economist's eyes on the problem.他以经济学行家的眼光审视这个问题。
  • He's an economist who thinks he knows all the answers.他是个经济学家,自以为什么都懂。
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。
n.(政府的)部;牧师
  • They sent a deputation to the ministry to complain.他们派了一个代表团到部里投诉。
  • We probed the Air Ministry statements.我们调查了空军部的记录。
adj. 被损毁, 污损的
  • The game was marred by the behaviour of drunken fans. 喝醉了的球迷行为不轨,把比赛给搅了。
  • Bad diction marred the effectiveness of his speech. 措词不当影响了他演说的效果。
adj.怀疑的,多疑的
  • Others here are more skeptical about the chances for justice being done.这里的其他人更为怀疑正义能否得到伸张。
  • Her look was skeptical and resigned.她的表情是将信将疑而又无可奈何。
adv.准确地,精确地
  • It is hard to hit the ball accurately.准确地击中球很难。
  • Now scientists can forecast the weather accurately.现在科学家们能准确地预报天气。
学英语单词
accupril
air-bounce
angle of winning-block
aniculus ursus
as dry as a brick
autophytic plant
Beamahs
biological module, biocapsule
building code
bulletin boards
butyric acid number
cad-cam
carinate venter
cauterion
Chain slack!
clock-doubled
Clodomira
collision-avoidance warning
corbicula insularis
Corlutina
counthood
cross-country skiings
demand with menaces
drinks in
dusts
E scan
effective decay constant
Egyptian lace
eprlf
Ergersheim
F test
final statement of accounts
fling together
gazzanigas
Giglio Castello
hand chain hoist
hydroxyglutaric acid
indult
infinitely near point
International Data Encryption Algorithm
intralesionally
IPC
isothermal process
judicial mortgage
kienb?ck's dislocation
lifegiving
light alloy
lusa
macrophage aggregating factor
marine plain
memory mapped i/o
Metanilamido
misdoubts
mismos
Mohawkian series
moosehide
more than love
neon 20 beam
next-to-impossible
Nycholaite
Nymphaea stellata
oblique rhumb line
off-roading
office of technology utilization
omise
overpitches
plain-woven
policy adviser
positivistic social science
power control circuit
pre-employ
primary geologic structure
prostitute
pulsed-bed sorption
reactance bridge
reprick
revaluation of excess
Ringsaker
Royal Air Force Museum
Rules of Geometry
sampling of continous-time signal
scaleoftwo
sequence packing
ship net
Silybum marianum Gaertn.
slim file
so much
spar-rib
stability of dam foundation
steepness of terrain
storm area
stratified bed ion exchange
sturgeonlike
took point
total earning
Tree-glue
tri-gun color picture tube
unopened parachute
vicks
waiveth
workmen's compensation acts
zapato