时间:2019-01-13 作者:英语课 分类:VOA标准英语2012年(七月)


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Libya to Hold First Free Election in 60 Years


Nine months ago, Libyans were celebrating in a square in central Tripoli. They renamed it Martyrs 1' Square, in memory of the fighters who died in the revolution that ended 42 years of rule by Moammar Gadhafi.


Today, the square is busy with traffic and decorated with campaign posters for Saturday's election.


Tripoli cafes are buzzing about the election. Student Amin Siyala is home for the summer from school in Britain.


“Stuff hasn't become suddenly a lot better. That's just truth right now. But obviously we know it will get better because there still needs to be time for the elections to happen and for a new government to come and bring change,” Siyala said.


Not far away, at a more traditional cafe next to a Roman ruin, several older men also want to talk politics. Mohammed al-Hadi bin-Noba says many Libyans don't really understand what they are voting for. But he says in a way that doesn't matter. “The election is of secondary importance compared with the blood that has been spilled to make the revolution a success,” he said.


There are still concerns about security, amid tribal 2 clashes, fighting among militias 3 formed for the revolution, and regional disputes about power sharing. An Amnesty International report this week says those problems must be brought under control.


British analyst 4 Anthony Skinner, at the Maplecroft risk assessment 5 firm, shares the concern, but he told VOA via Skype the overall trajectory 6 in Libya is positive.


“It's inevitable 7 that these various groups will want to ensure that their interests are protected. And they will continue to jockey for power. And unfortunately because of the level of armament and because the various militias have not been absorbed into the military, this will translate into further gun battles, I expect,” Skinner said.


But the problems are far from the minds of this family having a day out in Tripoli.


Dr. Mohammed Reda Mangoos and his wife Naima Al-Taher are excited about the vote, and the doctor remembers Libya's last free election in 1952. “That day, I was about six years old. I still remember, like a dream. There was voting in my city. I still remember, like a dream. Now, we are proud to see this again,” Mangoos said.


“It's enough for us that we see all the posters of the candidates all around, colors and faces from all kinds of personalities 8. It used to be just one picture of one man filled the whole area. You didn't see anyone but Gadhafi,” Al-Taher said.


There are more than 140 parties and small factions 9 campaigning for the election, and hundreds of independent candidates. Islamists are expected to do well, as is a secular 10 group of officials who were involved in last year's transition. But Libyans from all walks of life say the country will plot a moderate course regardless of who is elected. 




n.martyr的复数形式;烈士( martyr的名词复数 );殉道者;殉教者;乞怜者(向人诉苦以博取同情)
  • the early Christian martyrs 早期基督教殉道者
  • They paid their respects to the revolutionary martyrs. 他们向革命烈士致哀。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
adj.部族的,种族的
  • He became skilled in several tribal lingoes.他精通几种部族的语言。
  • The country was torn apart by fierce tribal hostilities.那个国家被部落间的激烈冲突弄得四分五裂。
n.民兵组织,民兵( militia的名词复数 )
  • The troops will not attempt to disarm the warring militias. 部队并不打算解除战斗中的民兵武装。 来自辞典例句
  • The neighborhood was a battleground for Shiite and Sunni militias. 那里曾是什叶派和逊尼派武装分子的战场。 来自互联网
n.分析家,化验员;心理分析学家
  • What can you contribute to the position of a market analyst?你有什么技能可有助于市场分析员的职务?
  • The analyst is required to interpolate values between standards.分析人员需要在这些标准中插入一些值。
n.评价;评估;对财产的估价,被估定的金额
  • This is a very perceptive assessment of the situation.这是一个对该情况的极富洞察力的评价。
  • What is your assessment of the situation?你对时局的看法如何?
n.弹道,轨道
  • It is not difficult to sketch the subsequent trajectory.很容易描绘出它们最终的轨迹。
  • The path followed by a projectile is called its trajectory.抛物体所循的路径称为它的轨道。
adj.不可避免的,必然发生的
  • Mary was wearing her inevitable large hat.玛丽戴着她总是戴的那顶大帽子。
  • The defeat had inevitable consequences for British policy.战败对英国政策不可避免地产生了影响。
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。
组织中的小派别,派系( faction的名词复数 )
  • The gens also lives on in the "factions." 氏族此外还继续存在于“factions〔“帮”〕中。 来自英汉非文学 - 家庭、私有制和国家的起源
  • rival factions within the administration 政府中的对立派别
n.牧师,凡人;adj.世俗的,现世的,不朽的
  • We live in an increasingly secular society.我们生活在一个日益非宗教的社会。
  • Britain is a plural society in which the secular predominates.英国是个世俗主导的多元社会。
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acetone extract
Aconitum contortum
adolesce
Algerine
as sukhnah (es sukhne)
Asosan
assignment half-word
aubisque
axial inductively coupled plasma
Ballsh
bill coincides with cargo
bulau
capillary surface
cercla
claim to immunity
cold preliming
consultant engineer
contemporary thoughts
coriaceous strepitus
cprw
cuproxoline
current activity stack
demyse girdle
depressor septi
eblio
emergency intake structure
end slope of groyne
epidemic myalgias
epilogizing
fnum
function preselection capability
glue sticks
grey-wedge pulse-height analyzer
hardware reliability
hardware selection criteria
heat-resisting aluminium alloy
herpes iris of bateman
hexanitro-mannite
holiday repair outage hours
inborrow
interpretation of predicate calculus
jeremijenko
JNACC
junction gate fet
junction pipe
keypads
laniger
latching
lattice circuit
lavatorium
marine indicator species
maximum-to-average-power ratio
melanotheca rubromaculata
Metoro
mo(u)ld protease
Montemurlo
movin'
object oriented multi-user dungeon
oleh
one-way layout
Onekotan, Ostrov
pacific blockade
parisa
Pertya bodinieri
post-mission zero calibration
poster board
power applications in other industries
praeposituses
pre-render
pustular lupus
rad hard
resonator-tron
right-of-way post
sal aeratus
scalding water additive
serial bonds
set one's foot on the neck of someone
short range battle practice
side chapel
sinsyne
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smombies
smoothing chisel
SNAP (simulated network analysis program)
solid-on
sorr
spadoes
spotted asparagus beetle
statelike
surface-field-effect transistor
sympathesis
tank level control
tertial
timmins
tomoechography
traditionalise
udhr
unappropriates
Valsalva method
variola maligna
wide band discriminator
with an easy grace