VOA标准英语2011--Russia Seeks Democracy After Soviet Collapse
时间:2019-01-13 作者:英语课 分类:VOA标准英语2011年(十二月)
Russia Seeks Democracy After Soviet 1 Collapse 2
In the two decades since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia has made enormous economic progress. Incomes have increased 10 times. But bookending these changes are demonstrations 3 - in 1991 against communism, and today to revive Russia's deferred 4 dream of democracy.
20 years after fall of communism, Russians are demonstrating again
This time not for capitalist revolution, but for democratic reform.
Masha Lipman, who marched in the 1991 protests, is now an analyst 5 at Carnegie Moscow Center;
"It's very symbolic 6 that we are having this public activism on the rise exactly 20 years after the collapse of the USSR," noted 7 Lipman.
In 1991, the first priority was economic. Vladimir Ryzhkov, at the time, was trying to run a provincial 8 city.
"The economy was destroyed," recalled Ryzhkov. "Nothing worked. I remember we had meetings every day to discuss very simple questions: Where could we get coal? Where could we get kerosene 9? We even had a meeting to figure out how to assure the supply of bread and milk for the city."
In the 20 years since the Soviet collapse, Russians' real incomes have jumped. But democratic institutions have not kept pace.
Lilia Shibanova, runs an election observer group called Golos.
"As for the democratic reforms themselves, they ended very quickly," said Shibanova. "It was too short a time that they tried in this country to have them. I mean, real representative government, real elections, real, open debates. These were all shut down very quickly."
Pollster Lev Gudkov says basic institutions did not evolve alongside Russia's new consumerism.
"Government is still vertical 10, it is not controlled by the society and in essence, despite all the changes, is built the same way it was built in the Soviet Union. And its base is mainly political police, criminal police, there is no independent court, prosecution 11 and system of education," Gudkov said.
Now, a decade of stability and an explosion in internet connectivity widen the gulf 12 between Russians and their authoritarian 13 government.
Igor Yurgens runs a think tank here. He says 90 percent of Moscow's adults are now online, while government bureaucrats 14 remain "feudal 15."
"I am hearing retired 16 people, not very well dressed, who are on the internet saying to each other that 'I found a new hearing device,' It is a change of existential order," Yurgens said. "Feudalism versus 17 modernization 18 all in one basket which is not healthy which will find its resolution. Either evolutionary 19, for which I have a lot hope, or revolutionary, which I hope we avoid we have had our share."
A big test may be the turnout for a big democracy rally planned for Saturday - ironically, almost 20 years to the day since Mikhail Gorbachev announced the end of the Soviet Union.
- Zhukov was a marshal of the former Soviet Union.朱可夫是前苏联的一位元帅。
- Germany began to attack the Soviet Union in 1941.德国在1941年开始进攻苏联。
- The country's economy is on the verge of collapse.国家的经济已到了崩溃的边缘。
- The engineer made a complete diagnosis of the bridge's collapse.工程师对桥的倒塌做了一次彻底的调查分析。
- 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。
- The department deferred the decision for six months. 这个部门推迟了六个月才作决定。
- a tax-deferred savings plan 延税储蓄计划
- 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。
- It is symbolic of the fighting spirit of modern womanhood.它象征着现代妇女的战斗精神。
- The Christian ceremony of baptism is a symbolic act.基督教的洗礼仪式是一种象征性的做法。
- 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。
- City dwellers think country folk have provincial attitudes.城里人以为乡下人思想迂腐。
- Two leading cadres came down from the provincial capital yesterday.昨天从省里下来了两位领导干部。
- It is like putting out a fire with kerosene.这就像用煤油灭火。
- Instead of electricity,there were kerosene lanterns.没有电,有煤油灯。
- The northern side of the mountain is almost vertical.这座山的北坡几乎是垂直的。
- Vertical air motions are not measured by this system.垂直气流的运动不用这种系统来测量。
- The Smiths brought a prosecution against the organizers.史密斯家对组织者们提出起诉。
- He attempts to rebut the assertion made by the prosecution witness.他试图反驳原告方证人所作的断言。
- The gulf between the two leaders cannot be bridged.两位领导人之间的鸿沟难以跨越。
- There is a gulf between the two cities.这两座城市间有个海湾。
- Foreign diplomats suspect him of authoritarian tendencies.各国外交官怀疑他有着独裁主义倾向。
- The authoritarian policy wasn't proved to be a success.独裁主义的政策证明并不成功。
- That is the fate of the bureaucrats, not the inspiration of statesmen. 那是官僚主义者的命运,而不是政治家的灵感。 来自辞典例句
- Big business and dozens of anonymous bureaucrats have as much power as Japan's top elected leaders. 大企业和许多不知名的官僚同日本选举出来的最高层领导者们的权力一样大。 来自辞典例句
- Feudal rulers ruled over the country several thousand years.封建统治者统治这个国家几千年。
- The feudal system lasted for two thousand years in China.封建制度在中国延续了两千年之久。
- The old man retired to the country for rest.这位老人下乡休息去了。
- Many retired people take up gardening as a hobby.许多退休的人都以从事园艺为嗜好。
- The big match tonight is England versus Spain.今晚的大赛是英格兰对西班牙。
- The most exciting game was Harvard versus Yale.最富紧张刺激的球赛是哈佛队对耶鲁队。
- This will help us achieve modernization.这有助于我们实现现代化。
- The Chinese people are sure to realize the modernization of their country.中国人民必将实现国家现代化。
- Life has its own evolutionary process.生命有其自身的进化过程。
- These are fascinating questions to be resolved by the evolutionary studies of plants.这些十分吸引人的问题将在研究植物进化过程中得以解决。