VOA标准英语2013--Guantanamo Prison Hunger Strike Grows
时间:2019-01-14 作者:英语课 分类:VOA标准英语2013年(五月)
Guantanamo Prison Hunger Strike Grows
It is a daily routine at the detention 1 facility; military staff, including a medical team, check to see who is eating and who is not.
For the staff at Joint 2 Task Force Guantanamo - whose mandate 3 is to be safe, humane 4, legal, and transparent 5 - the decision to force feed by inserting a tube into a detainee's nose and down to his stomach, is a matter of procedure.
Navy Captain Robert Durand is a spokesman for the Guantanamo facility.
“When a detainee refuses food, when they miss nine consecutive 6 meals and declare an intent to be a hunger striker, we label them as a hunger striker and we start monitoring their health. When they lose enough weight to endanger their health potentially, before they get to that point, usually about 85 percent of their ideal body weight, our joint medical group, the doctors and nurses and corpsmen, will make a recommendation to the joint task force commander that that detainee be enterally fed," he said.
The hunger strike began in February. The detainees, held for years, are protesting the U.S. government's failure to try those it suspects of being terrorists, or release the 86 detainees who have been cleared.
President Obama promised to close the prison when he took office in 2009, but his administration blames his failure to do so on Congressional restrictions 7 that require security guarantees from the countries that would receive them. Recently, he restated his desire to see the prison closed.
But words are not enough for advocates pressing Defense 8 Secretary Chuck Hagel to authorize 9 the release of those who have been cleared.
Attorney David Remes represents 17 of the hunger strikers.
"My message to Hagel is to work with the administration and begin signing the national security waivers that Congress granted the president, which provided him with the authority and flexibility 10 to transfer detainees who are at Guantanamo. The administration can not keep passing the buck 11 to Congress," he said.
U.S. military officials say their responsibility is limited to providing care for the detainees.
“Our job here is to make sure that they are held in a safe and humane manner and that when the time comes to transfer them, or release them, we will do that. But until that time comes, you can be assured that we will do our job to safely and humanely 12 detain them to the best of our ability," said Durand.
Just a few months ago, the issue of the Guantanamo detainees was largely ignored by the U.S. media. The hunger strike, and accounts of force-feeding, have put it back on Washington's radar 13.
- He was kept in detention by the police.他被警察扣留了。
- He was in detention in connection with the bribery affair.他因与贿赂事件有牵连而被拘留了。
- I had a bad fall,which put my shoulder out of joint.我重重地摔了一跤,肩膀脫臼了。
- We wrote a letter in joint names.我们联名写了封信。
- The President had a clear mandate to end the war.总统得到明确的授权结束那场战争。
- The General Election gave him no such mandate.大选并未授予他这种权力。
- Is it humane to kill animals for food?宰杀牲畜来吃合乎人道吗?
- Their aim is for a more just and humane society.他们的目标是建立一个更加公正、博爱的社会。
- The water is so transparent that we can see the fishes swimming.水清澈透明,可以看到鱼儿游来游去。
- The window glass is transparent.窗玻璃是透明的。
- It has rained for four consecutive days.已连续下了四天雨。
- The policy of our Party is consecutive.我党的政策始终如一。
- I found the restrictions irksome. 我对那些限制感到很烦。
- a snaggle of restrictions 杂乱无章的种种限制
- 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 said that he needed to get his supervisor to authorize my refund.他说必须让主管人员批准我的退款。
- Only the President could authorize the use of the atomic bomb.只有总统才能授权使用原子弹。
- Her great strength lies in her flexibility.她的优势在于她灵活变通。
- The flexibility of a man's muscles will lessen as he becomes old.人老了肌肉的柔韧性将降低。
- The boy bent curiously to the skeleton of the buck.这个男孩好奇地弯下身去看鹿的骸骨。
- The female deer attracts the buck with high-pitched sounds.雌鹿以尖声吸引雄鹿。
- Is the primary persona being treated humanely by the product? 该产品对待首要人物角色时是否有人情味? 来自About Face 3交互设计精髓
- In any event, China's interest in treating criminals more humanely has limits. 无论如何,中国对更人道地对待罪犯的兴趣有限。 来自互联网