FIFA Corruption Scandal Deepens
时间：2019-01-14 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2015年(十二月)
FIFA Corruption 1 Scandal Deepens
LONDON—
The alleged 3 corruption at football’s world governing body FIFA plunged 4 to new depths this week when U.S. authorities charged more than a dozen officials with embezzling 5 money from the organization.
Two FIFA vice 6 presidents were arrested in Switzerland even as the body’s executive committee met to discuss key reforms.
This week was meant to mark a new chapter for FIFA – a key vote was approved on reforms designed to turn it into a "trusted and professional sports organization."
Instead, the scale of that task was made clear as 16 FIFA officials were charged Thursday by U.S. authorities, who allege 2 that huge sums were siphoned off, intended to help natural disaster relief and grassroots football programs, and lucrative 7 media rights sold off for bribes 8.
Targets
The charges target several of the most senior football executives in South and Central America. U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch said huge sums were involved.
"The scale of corruption alleged here in is unconscionable. And the message from this announcement should be clear. To every culpable 9 individual who remains 10 in the shadows hoping to evade 11 this ongoing 12 investigation 13: you will not wait us out and you will not escape our focus," said Lynch.
The U.S. charges came hours after the arrest of two FIFA vice presidents by Swiss police. The allegations lay bare the hypocrisy 14 at the heart of FIFA, says sports historian Philip Barker, who spoke 15 to VOA on Skype.
“The kind of coaching facilities that they are setting up, the coaching expertise 16 that they’re sending in, it all does come across as rather empty when it turns out that people are actually enriching themselves from the funds that are supposed to be helping 17 football at the grass roots. It’s very disturbing," said Barker.
Many charged
Eleven current and former members of FIFA's executive committee have been charged in the U.S. investigation. The acting 18 president of FIFA, Issa Hayatou, pledged full cooperation.
"The arrests underscore the necessity to establish a complete program of reforms for FIFA," said Hayatou.
Those reforms include reducing the power of FIFA’s executive committee and greater transparency. The body is due to elect a new president in February, but the criminal investigations 19 could engulf 20 that process, said Barker.
“This is one of the big problems with the FIFA investigations, that those who are perceived as being the new broom that might help to clean out the house have also been subject to allegations," he said.
Meanwhile, former President Sepp Blatter is suspended as part of a separate investigation by Swiss authorities into a $2 million payment to European soccer head Michel Platini.
- The people asked the government to hit out against corruption and theft.人民要求政府严惩贪污盗窃。
- The old man reviled against corruption.那老人痛斥了贪污舞弊。
- The newspaper reporters allege that the man was murdered but they have given no proof.新闻记者们宣称这个男人是被谋杀的，但他们没提出证据。
- Students occasionally allege illness as the reason for absence.学生时不时会称病缺课。
- It was alleged that he had taken bribes while in office. 他被指称在任时收受贿赂。
- alleged irregularities in the election campaign 被指称竞选运动中的不正当行为
- The train derailed and plunged into the river. 火车脱轨栽进了河里。
- She lost her balance and plunged 100 feet to her death. 她没有站稳，从100英尺的高处跌下摔死了。
- Accordingly, object embezzling waste to be carried temporarily the schedule of administration. 因此，反对贪污浪费就提上了临时中央政府的议事日程。 来自互联网
- Some were sentenced for taking bribes, others executed for embezzling funds. 有的因受贿而被判刑，有的因侵吞公款而被判处死刑。 来自互联网
- 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。
- He decided to turn his hobby into a lucrative sideline.他决定把自己的爱好变成赚钱的副业。
- It was not a lucrative profession.那是一个没有多少油水的职业。
- It was alleged that he had taken bribes while in office. 他被指称在任时收受贿赂。
- corrupt officials accepting bribes 接受贿赂的贪官污吏
- The judge found the man culpable.法官认为那个人有罪。
- Their decision to do nothing makes them culpable.他们不采取任何行动的决定使他们难辞其咎。
- He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
- The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。
- He tried to evade the embarrassing question.他企图回避这令人难堪的问题。
- You are in charge of the job.How could you evade the issue?你是负责人，你怎么能对这个问题不置可否？
- The problem is ongoing.这个问题尚未解决。
- The issues raised in the report relate directly to Age Concern's ongoing work in this area.报告中提出的问题与“关心老人”组织在这方面正在做的工作有直接的关系。
- In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
- He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。
- He railed against hypocrisy and greed.他痛斥伪善和贪婪的行为。
- He accused newspapers of hypocrisy in their treatment of the story.他指责了报纸在报道该新闻时的虚伪。
- 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。
- We were amazed at his expertise on the ski slopes.他斜坡滑雪的技能使我们赞叹不已。
- You really have the technical expertise in a new breakthrough.让你真正在专业技术上有一个全新的突破。
- The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
- By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。
- Ignore her,she's just acting.别理她，她只是假装的。
- During the seventies,her acting career was in eclipse.在七十年代，她的表演生涯黯然失色。
- His investigations were intensive and thorough but revealed nothing. 他进行了深入彻底的调查，但没有发现什么。
- He often sent them out to make investigations. 他常常派他们出去作调查。