VOA标准英语2013--Chavez Spirit Lives On in Venezuelan Election Campaign
时间：2019-01-14 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2013年(四月)
Chavez Spirit Lives On in Venezuelan Election Campaign
An eternal flame marks the entrance of the National Pantheon, where the late President Hugo Chavez's body has been laid to rest. Every day, hundreds of his most loyal supporters, like Milagros Rodriguez, come to pay their last respects.
“Chavez is my heart and my life. I identify with him, and he will always be in all of us. We are Chavez and Chavez is everyone who has an awareness 1 of a free Venezuela and real socialism,” said Rodriguez.
While President Chavez is gone, his image is still everywhere in Caracas - from wall paintings to old campaign posters to a small memorial in a poor neighborhood of the city.
And in the presidential election, Chavez's memory and popularity are key components 2 of the campaign.
Former Vice 3 President Nicolas Maduro regularly invokes 4 the late president and once said Chavez’s spirit came to him as a tiny bird while he was on the campaign trail.
Campaign advertisements also show Chavez looking down on his chosen successor from heaven.
For many of the late president's supporters, this election is not about Maduro or his opponent Henrique Capriles or even about high inflation or rampant 5 crime in the country.
As high school student Willmaira Flores says, it is about defending President Chavez's legacy 6.
“Chavez wasn't just a person. He was a movement and the students understood that. We know what we've been through, what our parents have been through, and now we are here with all the benefits we must defend,” said Flores.
Political science professor Gabriel Reyes, at Andres Bello Catholic University, in Caracas, says it was a strategic decision early on by the Maduro Campaign to make the election about the spirit of Chavez.
“It is a message that has been planned, and they are trying to take the motive 7 why they should vote for him out of the earthly context," he said. "Because if the reason were rational or earthly it would be really difficult for them to win.”
And so far it seems to be working. President Maduro holds a significant lead over Capriles in the polls leading into Sunday's election.
- There is a general awareness that smoking is harmful.人们普遍认识到吸烟有害健康。
- Environmental awareness has increased over the years.这些年来人们的环境意识增强了。
- the components of a machine 机器部件
- Our chemistry teacher often reduces a compound to its components in lab. 在实验室中化学老师常把化合物分解为各种成分。
- He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
- They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。
- The Roundtable statement invokes the principles of the free market system. 企业界圆桌会议的声明援用了自由市场制度的原则。 来自辞典例句
- When no more storage is available, the system invokes a garbage collector. 当没有可用的存贮时，系统就调用无用单元收集程序。 来自辞典例句
- Sickness was rampant in the area.该地区疾病蔓延。
- You cannot allow children to rampant through the museum.你不能任由小孩子在博物馆里乱跑。
- They are the most precious cultural legacy our forefathers left.它们是我们祖先留下来的最宝贵的文化遗产。
- He thinks the legacy is a gift from the Gods.他认为这笔遗产是天赐之物。