时间:2019-01-13 作者:英语课 分类:VOA标准英语2012年(五月)


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Activists 1 Protest G8 Summit



Several hundred Ethiopian activists came from across the United States to protest meetings involving Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, who has been in power since 1991. The United States is a major aid contributor to Ethiopia, whose leader has been accused of restricting freedoms, including those of the media.


Discussions with African leaders have focused on boosting outside agricultural investment, but one protester, Mohamed Abdo, warned against pouring any outside money into Ethiopia.


"They use this money to buy and to supress the people, not for the benefit of the people, so first of all we need to have a free election," he said. "It should be supported by the people so that whatever kind of policy, it should be the people's policy, it should not be a one person policy, that is our message."


Another protester, Tsegaye, said Americans should be concerned their tax dollars are being misspent on projects involving undemocratic countries, regardless of whether they are considered security allies.


"If you don't have a transparent 2 government, if you dont have rule of law, you do not know how those contracts are executed. Are they in the best interest of the Ethiopian people? In the long run, we do not know," Tsegaye said.


Another protest, called the Counter Group of Eight Community Block Party, was held in nearby Frederick, Maryland. 


Replicas 3 of drones were on display to criticize current U.S. military actions. 


Brian Henry, a regular of so-called Occupy protests in the United States against wealth disparity, said he had little respect for the talks at Camp David. 


"I do not know if I care to speculate," noted 4 Henry, "but my opinion is that they talk about how to make the rich of their countries richer." 


Police were on the lookout 5 at both events, to make sure there was no violence or public disturbance 6. Several protesters said they had tried to enter Camp David, but were turned away.




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》
adj.明显的,无疑的;透明的
  • The water is so transparent that we can see the fishes swimming.水清澈透明,可以看到鱼儿游来游去。
  • The window glass is transparent.窗玻璃是透明的。
n.复制品( replica的名词复数 )
  • His hobby is building replicas of cars. 他的爱好是制作汽车的复制品。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The replicas are made by using a thin film of fusible alloy on a stiffening platen. 复制是用附着在加强托板上的可熔合金薄膜实现的。 来自辞典例句
adj.著名的,知名的
  • The local hotel is noted for its good table.当地的那家酒店以餐食精美而著称。
  • Jim is noted for arriving late for work.吉姆上班迟到出了名。
n.注意,前途,瞭望台
  • You can see everything around from the lookout.从了望台上你可以看清周围的一切。
  • It's a bad lookout for the company if interest rates don't come down.如果利率降不下来,公司的前景可就不妙了。
n.动乱,骚动;打扰,干扰;(身心)失调
  • He is suffering an emotional disturbance.他的情绪受到了困扰。
  • You can work in here without any disturbance.在这儿你可不受任何干扰地工作。
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4-H'er
abdominal delivery
adjustable speed motor
afterword
anax guttatus
aneerood
babycar
belt freezing
beston
Bordeaux turpenting
burrowing organism
Byronian
campaign management firm
capricciosoes
carrying amount
ceflorin
Chakhmāq Bolāgh-e Pā'īn
class acts
Clemente
CLODRONIC
combined statement of income and earned surplus
compensation of guardian
concentric ellipses
denturist
diamond shape
DotGain
duplicate licence
dye-fixing agent
Elliott wave
exoplasmosis
fetal hemoglobin
field application relay
field-synchronizing impulse
flour bag cloth
forehand rent
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frittoes
futura
genus gliricidias
genus Triglochin
hand brake lever arm
hernia taxis
hitchell
hunt for
in charge of
intersite transmission
jewelweed
juke box optical disk system
Kamitsushima
laqueary
lead-circuit
Lichtenhaag
look-aside registers
Lord Howe Rise
mama's boys
mellow consisting
milliangstrom
muonic neutrino
Myriophyllum alterniflorum
nadir plumment
nyctimenes
oil atomizer nozzle
osul
oxy welding
peritoneal folds
pesages
photokinesis
plundering
pneumatic thermostates
polar dial
primitive vertebrae
quick response excitation
rack stake
radiumluminescence
raining cats and dogs
real mass
Regional Association for South America
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root van
roughness integrator
scrabbled
selenographic chart
Shipunovskiy Rayon
Sims' position
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submonomer
thermo-chemical dehydration
thermoelectric actinograph
thick-skinneds
Tibetia tongolensis
timber loader
transfer rabbit
Tymtey
unconditional branch operator
unkeenly
venetias
volemite
Všeruby
wightly
zemni
zero-field emission