时间:2019-01-13 作者:英语课 分类:VOA标准英语2010年(五)月


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Ethiopians wait to cast their vote at a polling station in Dukem, Ethiopia, 40 km south of Addis Ababa, 23 May 2010


Ethiopian officials say a record number of voters have gone to the polls in an election expected to give Prime Minister Meles Zenawi's ruling party a huge majority in parliament.  Opposition 1 leaders charge the vote has been compromised.


As results began pouring in, ruling Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front spokesman Hailemariam Dessalegn cautiously predicted a turnout of up to 90 percent of the country's 32 million voters.


"We have not got information from remote areas, but until now we know it is more than 80 percent," he said.


But, when asked about how it looked in Addis Ababa?


"Above 90 percent, but even in the rural areas we can reach above 90 percent," he said.


 Analysts predict an overwhelming EPRDF victory that would hand Prime Minister Meles Zenawi another five-year term, possibly with more than the two-thirds majority he commands in parliament.  Preliminary results are expected Monday.


But opposition parties allege 2 widespread and systematic 3 cheating, especially in remote areas where observation is difficult.  Former Ethiopian president Negasso Gidada, now a leader of the main opposition coalition 4 known as Medrek, says in thousands of precincts, his observers were denied access to the voting and counting process.


"We say the election took place without our observation, and that means if our observers have not participated, the voting day has been compromised," he said.


Hailu Shewal, leader of the All Ethiopia Unity 5 Party went further.  He said reports from his party's field workers indicated a 'disastrous 6 situation', with opposition observers forced to flee in many places, and ruling party cadres marching voters into the voting booths and watching to see how they voted.


The 74-year-old veteran political leader said he is disgusted at the extent of the rigging, and vowed 7 to quit politics.


"I am not participating in a ridiculous election.  Never again," he said. "Maybe people think I am committing suicide, but politics is not my life.  I am not in the business of cheating."


The European Union and the African Union had about 240 observers spread across the country monitoring activities at 43,000 polling stations. After the polls closed, chief EU observer Thygs Berman called the election 'peaceful and quiet', but acknowledged there had been complaints of vote rigging.


"It is about of course the technical errors.  But there are more," Berman said. "There are complaints by political parties, there are complaints by candidates. We will see in the coming hours and days how we shall evaluate these complaints."


Berman said he had heard no reports of election-related violence.


Opposition leaders said despite the possibility of a crushing defeat they would not call their supporters into the streets to protest.


The last election for parliament, in 2005, ended in violence when police shot demonstrators protesting alleged 8 ruling party vote rigging.  At least 193 protesters and seven police officers died. 

 



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。
vt.宣称,申述,主张,断言
  • The newspaper reporters allege that the man was murdered but they have given no proof.新闻记者们宣称这个男人是被谋杀的,但他们没提出证据。
  • Students occasionally allege illness as the reason for absence.学生时不时会称病缺课。
adj.有系统的,有计划的,有方法的
  • The way he works isn't very systematic.他的工作不是很有条理。
  • The teacher made a systematic work of teaching.这个教师进行系统的教学工作。
n.结合体,同盟,结合,联合
  • The several parties formed a coalition.这几个政党组成了政治联盟。
  • Coalition forces take great care to avoid civilian casualties.联盟军队竭尽全力避免造成平民伤亡。
n.团结,联合,统一;和睦,协调
  • When we speak of unity,we do not mean unprincipled peace.所谓团结,并非一团和气。
  • We must strengthen our unity in the face of powerful enemies.大敌当前,我们必须加强团结。
adj.灾难性的,造成灾害的;极坏的,很糟的
  • The heavy rainstorm caused a disastrous flood.暴雨成灾。
  • Her investment had disastrous consequences.She lost everything she owned.她的投资结果很惨,血本无归。
起誓,发誓(vow的过去式与过去分词形式)
  • He vowed quite solemnly that he would carry out his promise. 他非常庄严地发誓要实现他的诺言。
  • I vowed to do more of the cooking myself. 我发誓自己要多动手做饭。
a.被指控的,嫌疑的
  • It was alleged that he had taken bribes while in office. 他被指称在任时收受贿赂。
  • alleged irregularities in the election campaign 被指称竞选运动中的不正当行为
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Accident-insurance
agate jasper
An Khanh
ant-lions
anthropometrist
apogonia formosana
astacins
automatic breech mechanism
automatic ignition
axial region
baille
benzilic acid rearrangement
bite indicator
broadbeam geometry
budget-cutting
CAVD-TEST
charge correlator
Chodro
coenochyma
coir rope
comminuation
copytaker
crystal-balling
CUSUMs
danza de los montoneros (mexico)
data description skeleton
DEAB
desert polish
diabellis
double warps
dual grid tube
ecclesi-
elotes
EOF (end of file)
European perches
external definition
faisable
fine grain development
flexible bus
gamosa
gas core reactor
get back to
give a view of
glove money
head down tilt
immunotransfusion
inband
jackup
labyrinth packing
larsenite
long interspersed element (LINE)
manchu filbert
MartinIndex.
Mechnica
Medveđa
Midgard
MS-Windows
mullites
musselin
N-Benzyloxycarbonyl-L-methionine
neutron density fluctuation
niobite (columbite)
nonnaturalist
normalness
notch position
nylon-covered
obviosity
out-of-service
owise
physiographic geology
Pleura parietalis
Polymnia uyedalia
practical marine engineering
propylene product
purge status date
Pyrausta nubilalis
railway distribution system
refraction index profile
road intersection
senseful
show one's right
side fired kiln
silicon resin
sinjiangensis
snetterton
space power unit
square-link chain
standard for discharge of pollutants
storage address display lights
story book
temperature divertor
Trego County
treiman
Tunga
Tyconius
unpremeditate
unsized coal
Untersberg
Vishālgarh
whitworth screw thread gauge
yardperson
yaw checking anchor