VOA标准英语2009年-Imprisoned Businessman and Kremlin Critic Faces
时间：2019-01-13 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2009年(二月)
Mikhail Khodorkovsky, formerly 1 Russia's richest man, has been transferred from a Siberian prison to Moscow to face trial for alleged 2 embezzlement 3 and money laundering 4. Khodorkovsky is already serving an eight-year sentence on charges of fraud and tax evasion 5, but human rights activists 7 say the case against the former oil tycoon 8 is politically motivated to punish him for criticizing the Kremlin.
Mikhail Khodorkovsky in the defendant's box in the courtroom in Moscow (May 2005 file photo)
A spokeswoman for the Khamovniki District Court in Moscow, Anna Usacheva, confirms that Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his former business associate Platon Lebedev have been transferred to the capital, where a trial against them is scheduled to begin on March 3. They are charged with embezzlement of nearly one trillion rubles, about $27 billion at Tuesday's exchange rate, and of laundering an additional $12 billion.
Khodorkovsky was head of the private Yukos Oil Company until his arrest in 2003. Two years later, he was given an eight-year prison sentence, which he has been serving in Russia's Chita region near China. Yukos was subsequently dismantled 10 and its assets were nationalized.
The head of Russia's For Human Rights organization, Lev Ponomarev, told VOA that Khodorkovsky's imprisonment 11 had a chilling effect on criticism by businesses of the Kremlin.
Ponomarev says Russia's entire business community bowed to authority, served it, and filled its campaign coffers with money. He says he has seen no movements that would indicate the position of Russian business was different from that of the Kremlin.
The activist 6 notes that many Russian businesspeople would likely share Khodorkovsky's fate if they spoke 9 out.
Before his arrest and imprisonment, Mikhail Khodorkovsky was known to have political ambitions and business analysts 12 considered Yukos finances to be transparent 13.
Lev Ponomarev says Russia's human rights community will be monitoring the new trial to help protect the legal rights of the accused, who face more time in prison if convicted.
Khodorkovsky is facing a separate charge for an alleged sexual assault against a former cellmate in 2006. The cellmate, Alexander Kuchma, slashed 14 the businessman's face reportedly out of revenge. But another inmate 15, Denis Yurinsky, who supervised Khodorkovsky in a prison sewing shop, told the Kommersant-Vlast Weekly magazine that authorities put Kuchma up to make a false charge to discredit 16 Khodorkovsky's parole application.
- We now enjoy these comforts of which formerly we had only heard.我们现在享受到了过去只是听说过的那些舒适条件。
- This boat was formerly used on the rivers of China.这船从前航行在中国内河里。
- 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
- He was accused of graft and embezzlement and was chained and thrown into prison.他因被指控贪污盗窃而锒铛入狱。
- The judge sent him to prison for embezzlement of funds.法官因他盗用公款将其送入监牢。
- Separate the white clothes from the dark clothes before laundering. 洗衣前应当把浅色衣服和深色衣服分开。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- He was charged with laundering money. 他被指控洗钱。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The movie star is in prison for tax evasion.那位影星因为逃税而坐牢。
- The act was passed as a safeguard against tax evasion.这项法案旨在防止逃税行为。
- He's been a trade union activist for many years.多年来他一直是工会的积极分子。
- He is a social activist in our factory.他是我厂的社会活动积极分子。
- 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》
- The tycoon is on the verge of bankruptcy.那名大亨濒临破产的边缘。
- The tycoon has many servants to minister to his needs.那位大亨有很多人服侍他。
- They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
- The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。
- The plant was dismantled of all its equipment and furniture. 这家工厂的设备和家具全被拆除了。
- The Japanese empire was quickly dismantled. 日本帝国很快被打垮了。
- His sentence was commuted from death to life imprisonment.他的判决由死刑减为无期徒刑。
- He was sentenced to one year's imprisonment for committing bigamy.他因为犯重婚罪被判入狱一年。
- City analysts forecast huge profits this year. 伦敦金融分析家预测今年的利润非常丰厚。
- I was impressed by the high calibre of the researchers and analysts. 研究人员和分析人员的高素质给我留下了深刻印象。
- 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。
- Someone had slashed the tyres on my car. 有人把我的汽车轮胎割破了。
- He slashed the bark off the tree with his knife. 他用刀把树皮从树上砍下。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- I am an inmate of that hospital.我住在那家医院。
- The prisoner is his inmate.那个囚犯和他同住一起。