VOA标准英语2009年-Former Military Ruler Delays Start of Maur
时间：2019-01-13 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2009年(五月)
Presidential campaigning is under way in Mauritania. But the country's former military ruler has delayed the start of his campaign to give international mediators more time to resolve the country's political crisis.
Campaigning began without the man widely expected to win Mauritania's June 6 vote.
General Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz ( file photo)
Former military ruler Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz postponed 1 the launch of his campaign for 24 hours because he says he wants to boost efforts to find a negotiated settlement with political opponents who are boycotting 3 the vote.
The former general says the election will take place as planned, but he is delaying the start of his campaign to give international mediators a chance to make progress toward resolving the political crisis that has followed last August's coup 4.
Aziz toppled Mauritania's first freely-elected leader, Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi, and refused African Union demands to reinstate him because Aziz said that would not be in the best interest of the Mauritanian people.
So he changed the constitution to allow retired 5 members of the military to run for office before retiring from the military to run for president in this special election his government is organizing next month.
Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi (file photo)
President Abdallahi wants Mauritanians to boycott 2 that vote. The National Front for the Defense 6 of Democracy, which supports the ousted 7 president, and the Alliance of Democratic Forces, which was the main opposition 8 party before the coup, are both demonstrating against the ballot 9.
But they have also been meeting with mediators from the African Union and neighboring Senegal. The political parties say preconditions for engaging with the military include canceling the election, releasing political prisoners, and opening state-run media.
Senegal has proposed delaying the vote so opposition parties currently boycotting the ballot can join the electoral process.
Aziz, who has also been meeting with the mediators, says he has made many concessions 10 and is prepared to make even more. But he says his political opponents will have to make concessions as well to find a way out of the situation.
Aziz says the opposition boycott will have no impact on voter turn-out. If he is not convinced by prospects 11 for a mediated 12 solution, Aziz says he will open his campaign Friday in the southern city of Kiffa, 600 kilometers outside the capital.
- The trial was postponed indefinitely. 审讯无限期延迟。
- The game has already been postponed three times. 这场比赛已经三度延期了。
- We put the production under a boycott.我们联合抵制该商品。
- The boycott lasts a year until the Victoria board permitsreturn.这个抗争持续了一年直到维多利亚教育局妥协为止。
- They're boycotting the shop because the people there are on strike. 他们抵制那家商店，因为那里的店员在罢工。
- The main opposition parties are boycotting the elections. 主要反对党都抵制此次选举。
- The monarch was ousted by a military coup.那君主被军事政变者废黜了。
- That government was overthrown in a military coup three years ago.那个政府在3年前的军事政变中被推翻。
- 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 accused has the right to defense.被告人有权获得辩护。
- The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers.战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。
- He was ousted as chairman. 他的主席职务被革除了。
- He may be ousted by a military takeover. 他可能在一场军事接管中被赶下台。
- 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。
- The members have demanded a ballot.会员们要求投票表决。
- The union said they will ballot members on whether to strike.工会称他们将要求会员投票表决是否罢工。
- The firm will be forced to make concessions if it wants to avoid a strike. 要想避免罢工，公司将不得不作出一些让步。
- The concessions did little to placate the students. 让步根本未能平息学生的愤怒。
- There is a mood of pessimism in the company about future job prospects. 公司中有一种对工作前景悲观的情绪。
- They are less sanguine about the company's long-term prospects. 他们对公司的远景不那么乐观。