VOA标准英语2009年-Voters in Guinea-Bissau Choosing New Leade
时间：2019-01-14 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2009年(七月)
Voters in Guinea-Bissau are choosing a new leader. Sunday's election is meant to replace President Joao Bernardo Vieira, who was killed by mutinous 1 troops five months ago.
Malam Bacai Sanha waits to speak during a rally, in the capital Bissau (File)
Voters in Guinea-Bissau are choosing between two men who have both led the country before.
Ruling-party candidate Malam Bacai Sanha is a former interim 2 president and chair of the national assembly who won last month's first round of voting with nearly 40 percent of ballots 3 cast. He is expected to gain the support of most of those who voted for an independent candidate who finished third.
Opposition 4 candidate Kumba Yala beat Sanha in the presidential run-off in 2000. But he may have difficulty building on the 29 percent of the vote he won last month because his presidency 5 is best remembered for financial mismanagement and the arrest of political opponents.
Though Mr. Yala is from the country's ethnic 6 majority, which has long controlled the military, he was toppled in a 2003 coup 7 before unilaterally declaring himself president and temporarily seizing the presidential palace in 2005.
Guinea-Bissau has a long history of army mutinies and coups 8. President Vieira was killed in March within hours of his chief political rival dying in a bomb blast.
One of the opposition candidates in the first round of voting was killed by military police who said he was resisting arrest on suspicion of plotting a coup. His family says he was shot in his bed at four in the morning.
In an open letter to Mr. Sanha and Mr. Yala before Sunday's vote, the Canadian International Institute of Applied 9 Negotiation 10 and the International Crisis Group called on the losing candidate to "refrain from taking any form of violent actions that could further undermine the fragile stability in the country."
The groups urged the winner to be magnanimous as he will face immense challenges as the new president "that should transcend 11 partisan 12 politics."
Both candidates wrapped up their campaigns calling for an end to political assassinations 13.
Regional diplomats 14 say the challenge for the new president will be forcing Bissau's military to respect civilian 15 leadership and keep out of politics.
- The mutinous sailors took control of the ship.反叛的水手们接管了那艘船。
- His own army,stung by defeats,is mutinous.经历失败的痛楚后，他所率军队出现反叛情绪。
- 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're counting the ballots. 他们正在计算选票。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The news of rigged ballots has rubbed off much of the shine of their election victory. 他们操纵选票的消息使他们在选举中获得的胜利大为减色。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- 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。
- Roosevelt was elected four times to the presidency of the United States.罗斯福连续当选四届美国总统。
- Two candidates are emerging as contestants for the presidency.两位候选人最终成为总统职位竞争者。
- 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。
- 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。
- China has seen many political coups within the ruling class. 中国统治阶级内部发生过很多政变。 来自互联网
- Thailand has had eighteen coups or coup attendance since nineteen thirty-two. 泰国1932年以来有18次政变或参加政变。 来自互联网
- She plans to take a course in applied linguistics.她打算学习应用语言学课程。
- This cream is best applied to the face at night.这种乳霜最好晚上擦脸用。
- They closed the deal in sugar after a week of negotiation.经过一星期的谈判，他们的食糖生意成交了。
- The negotiation dragged on until July.谈判一直拖到7月份。
- We can't transcend the limitations of the ego.我们无法超越自我的局限性。
- Everyone knows that the speed of airplanes transcend that of ships.人人都知道飞机的速度快于轮船的速度。
- In their anger they forget all the partisan quarrels.愤怒之中，他们忘掉一切党派之争。
- The numerous newly created partisan detachments began working slowly towards that region.许多新建的游击队都开始慢慢地向那里移动。
- Most anarchist assassinations were bungled because of haste or spontaneity, in his view. 在他看来，无政府主义者搞的许多刺杀都没成功就是因为匆忙和自发行动。 来自辞典例句
- Assassinations by Israelis of alleged terrorists habitually kill nearby women and children. 在以色列，自称恐怖分子的炸弹自杀者杀害靠近自己的以色列妇女和儿童。 来自互联网
- 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》