VOA标准英语2012--Mali Military Intervention Support Growing
时间:2019-01-14 作者:英语课 分类:VOA标准英语2012年(十月)
Mali Military Intervention 1 Support Growing
In Mali's capital city of Bamako Men gather every morning at roadside newspaper vendors 2 to debate the headlines, more specifically, what to do about the north dominates discussion.
The territory fell to al-Qaida-linked Islamist militants 3 in April amid the chaos 4 that followed a March 22 coup 5 in the south.
As the crisis drags on, hopes for a negotiated solution appear to be fading. What was once fierce resistance to the prospect 6 of foreign troops in Mali appears to be waning 7.
Many in Bamako say they worry that Mali's army is still too disorganized and poorly equipped to take back the region alone.
Bamako resident Moussa Cisse says the Malian military needs training. It is disorganized at this moment and needs the help of ECOWAS, but only with training. He says then Mali can liberate 8 the north by itself.
But hundreds of Malians marched in Bamako against the idea of ECOWAS military deployment 9. The protest was organized by COPAM, a coalition 10 backing the junta 11 that toppled the government. The coalition has objected to ECOWAS involvement in Mali since the coup and has staged regular demonstrations 12.
It was hard not to compare the turnout to the thousands of people who marched last week in support of ECOWAS troops coming to Mali.
Local analysts 13 say those who oppose foreign assistance are being marginalized within the interim 14 government, which appears to be increasingly independent from coup leaders.
Attitudes are also shifting in the North, not just about foreign military assistance, but also about the idea of an offensive.
VOA spoke 15 over the phone with residents of occupied northern towns who asked not to be named for fear of being targeted by Islamist militants.
One resident of Gao said he believes that the time for negotiations 16 has passed, after months of living under harsh Islamist rule.
He says military intervention is necessary. Mali has negotiated with armed groups in the past, he says, but the problems always come back a few years later and this time is different. He says the population has "had enough" and it is time for war in order to "clear the path." He says there is nothing to negotiate, because the Islamists want Sharia or nothing.
A resident of Timbuktu now living in Bamako echoed these sentiments, arguing his friends and family who stayed behind all support military action.
The people in the north are suffering, he says, and when they heard about a possible military intervention by ECOWAS, he says everyone was happy. He says Mali is a secular 17 country and there cannot be Sharia law because Malians live together, whether one is Christian 18, animist or Muslim.
The U.N. refugee agency says at least 450,000 northerners have fled into neighboring countries or into the government-held south since the start of the year.
A recent report by the U.N. assistant secretary-general for human rights cited many human rights abuses committed by Islamists in the north, including amputations, recruitment of child soldiers and "enforced marriages that are a smokescreen for enforced prostitution." Smoking and music are banned, and in many towns women are forced to wear a veil and are forbidden from interacting with men in public.
Amid these reports, many Malians appear to be reaching the conclusion this crisis is fundamentally different from past rebellions, in which secular, ethnic 19 Tuareg separatists sought greater autonomy and independence for the region.
But there continues to be a broad mix of opinions regarding how a military intervention should be carried out. Many Malians who support military intervention say they fear that a hastily-planned, poorly-executed military campaign, by either the army or a regional force, would just make the crisis worse.
- The government's intervention in this dispute will not help.政府对这场争论的干预不会起作用。
- Many people felt he would be hostile to the idea of foreign intervention.许多人觉得他会反对外来干预。
- The vendors were gazundered at the last minute. 卖主在最后一刻被要求降低房价。
- At the same time, interface standards also benefIt'software vendors. 同时,界面标准也有利于软件开发商。 来自About Face 3交互设计精髓
- The militants have been sporadically fighting the government for years. 几年来,反叛分子一直对政府实施零星的战斗。
- Despite the onslaught, Palestinian militants managed to fire off rockets. 尽管如此,巴勒斯坦的激进分子仍然发射导弹。
- After the failure of electricity supply the city was in chaos.停电后,城市一片混乱。
- The typhoon left chaos behind it.台风后一片混乱。
- 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。
- This state of things holds out a cheerful prospect.事态呈现出可喜的前景。
- The prospect became more evident.前景变得更加明朗了。
- Her enthusiasm for the whole idea was waning rapidly. 她对整个想法的热情迅速冷淡了下来。
- The day is waning and the road is ending. 日暮途穷。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
- They did their best to liberate slaves.他们尽最大能力去解放奴隶。
- This will liberate him from economic worry.这将消除他经济上的忧虑。
- He has inquired out the deployment of the enemy troops. 他已查出敌军的兵力部署情况。
- Quality function deployment (QFD) is a widely used customer-driven quality, design and manufacturing management tool. 质量功能展开(quality function deployment,QFD)是一个广泛应用的顾客需求驱动的设计、制造和质量管理工具。
- 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。
- The junta reacted violently to the perceived threat to its authority.军政府感到自身权力受威胁而进行了激烈反击。
- A military junta took control of the country.一个军政权控制了国家。
- 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。
- 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 government is taking interim measures to help those in immediate need.政府正在采取临时措施帮助那些有立即需要的人。
- It may turn out to be an interim technology.这可能只是个过渡技术。
- 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。
- negotiations for a durable peace 为持久和平而进行的谈判
- Negotiations have failed to establish any middle ground. 谈判未能达成任何妥协。
- We live in an increasingly secular society.我们生活在一个日益非宗教的社会。
- Britain is a plural society in which the secular predominates.英国是个世俗主导的多元社会。
- They always addressed each other by their Christian name.他们总是以教名互相称呼。
- His mother is a sincere Christian.他母亲是个虔诚的基督教徒。