VOA标准英语2011--African Union Honors Rwanda Genocide Vic
时间：2019-01-14 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2011年(四月)
African Union Honors Rwanda Genocide Victims
The African Union held a moment of silence Thursday to mark the 17th anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda.
A lone 1 candle wrapped in purple ribbon burned in the center of the African Union plenary hall as diplomats 2 and dignitaries stood in silence to honor the nearly one million, mostly ethnic 3 Tutsis, who died in 100 days of carnage in Rwanda in 1994.
Rwanda's AU ambassador Joseph Nsengimana said the ceremony has become an annual tradition in this diplomatic capital to signify that the slaughter 4 was an offense 5 against all Africans.
"The AU is the African organization, and the genocide in Rwanda is not only a crime against Rwanda, it is a crime against humanity Africa comprised," he said. "So afer the genocide, AU like U.N., decided 6 to organize every year a ceremony to remember what happened in Rwanda in a way to take lesson and learn from the experience of Rwanda, to realize, never again.
The killing 7 began April 7, when ethnic Hutus went on a rampage, outraged 8 by the death of Rwanda's president Juvenal Habyiramana when his plane was shot down over Kigali airport the previous day. During the next three months, an average of 10,000 ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus a day were brutally 9 killed, many hacked 10 to death with machetes.
A French judge blamed the current Rwandan President Paul Kagame and some of his associates for carrying out the attack on President Habyiramana's plane. At the time, Kagame was leader of a Tutsi rebel group.
Kagame strongly denies the charge, and blames Hutu extremists for the attack.
- A lone sea gull flew across the sky.一只孤独的海鸥在空中飞过。
- She could see a lone figure on the deserted beach.她在空旷的海滩上能看到一个孤独的身影。
- These events led to the expulsion of senior diplomats from the country. 这些事件导致一些高级外交官被驱逐出境。
- The court has no jurisdiction over foreign diplomats living in this country. 法院对驻本国的外交官无裁判权。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- This music would sound more ethnic if you played it in steel drums.如果你用钢鼓演奏，这首乐曲将更具民族特色。
- The plan is likely only to aggravate ethnic frictions.这一方案很有可能只会加剧种族冲突。
- I couldn't stand to watch them slaughter the cattle.我不忍看他们宰牛。
- Wholesale slaughter was carried out in the name of progress.大规模的屠杀在维护进步的名义下进行。
- I hope you will not take any offense at my words. 对我讲的话请别见怪。
- His words gave great offense to everybody present.他的发言冲犯了在场的所有人。
- This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
- There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。
- Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
- Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
- Members of Parliament were outraged by the news of the assassination. 议会议员们被这暗杀的消息激怒了。
- He was outraged by their behavior. 他们的行为使他感到愤慨。
- The uprising was brutally put down.起义被残酷地镇压下去了。
- A pro-democracy uprising was brutally suppressed.一场争取民主的起义被残酷镇压了。