2007年VOA标准英语-Shimon Peres Elected Israel's President
时间：2019-01-16 作者：英语课 分类：2007年VOA标准英语（六月）
Jerusalem
13 June 2007
Shimon Peres has been elected Israel's ninth president in a second round of parliamentary voting for the largely ceremonial post. VOA's Jim Teeple reports from Jerusalem, Mr. Peres has held virtually all of Israel's top civilian 1 jobs, without ever having won a national election in his six-decade political career.
Shimon Peres (r) and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, 13 Jun 2007
Shimon Peres, an 83-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner, will be sworn in on July 15 for a seven-year term as Israel's president, a largely ceremonial post that has come under a cloud of scandal in recent years.
Mr. Peres, won 86 out of 120 parliamentary votes in the second round of a secret ballot 2, after his two opponents withdrew when it became clear that he was the sentimental 3 favorite for the position. Speaking a short while later he pledged to try to serve as a unifying 4 force for Israelis.
Mr. Peres says the office of the presidency 5 is larger than any one man, and that he believes the vote to elect him president was one made out of friendship.
Mr. Peres lost the last race for president in 2000, when in a stunning 6 political surprise a prominent rabbi swung votes to a virtually unknown politician from the right-wing Likud Party, Moshe Katsav.
Earlier this year, Israel's attorney general said he planned to indict 7 Mr. Katsav on charges of rape 8 and abuse of power, based on sworn testimony 9 from several women who worked in the president's office. Mr. Katsav, who says he is innocent, has yet to be formally charged, but he stepped down from the presidency several months ago to fight the charges.
Mr. Katsav's predecessor 10, Ezer Weizman, also left before his seven-year term ended, after he was implicated 11, but never charged, in a case in which he was alleged 12 to have received more than $300,000 in gifts from a wealthy French businessman.
Ephraim Ya'ar, of Tel Aviv University, says Shimon Peres is a good choice to restore credibility to a tarnished 13 office.
"He has been able in recent years to overcome in recent years a lot of the personal animosity and also the internal cleavages [of Israeli politics], so I think in this respect he will be widely accepted by the Israeli public, and I think in this way he will restore, at least to some extent, wounds the institution of the presidency suffered in recent years," he said.
During his career, Mr. Peres has served as Minister of Defense 14, Finance, and Foreign Affairs and has twice held the office of Prime Minister. But he never won a national election to the office of prime minister, serving in a caretaker capacity, most notably 15 in the 1990s after Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated 16 by a Jewish extremist.
He shared a Nobel Peace Prize with Mr. Rabin, and with PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat, for helping 17 to craft the 1993 peace agreement that led to the establishment of limited Palestinian self-rule.
- There is no reliable information about civilian casualties.关于平民的伤亡还没有确凿的信息。
- He resigned his commission to take up a civilian job.他辞去军职而从事平民工作。
- The members have demanded a ballot.会员们要求投票表决。
- The union said they will ballot members on whether to strike.工会称他们将要求会员投票表决是否罢工。
- She's a sentimental woman who believes marriage comes by destiny.她是多愁善感的人，她相信姻缘命中注定。
- We were deeply touched by the sentimental movie.我们深深被那感伤的电影所感动。
- In addition, there were certain religious bonds of a unifying kind. 此外，他们还有某种具有一种统一性质的宗教上的结合。
- There is a unifying theme, and that is the theme of information flow within biological systems. 我们可以用一个总的命题，把生物学系统内的信息流来作为这一研究主题。
- 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。
- His plays are distinguished only by their stunning mediocrity.他的戏剧与众不同之处就是平凡得出奇。
- The finished effect was absolutely stunning.完工后的效果非常美。
- You can't indict whole people for the crudeness of a few.您不能因少数人的粗暴行为就控诉整个民族。
- I can indict you for abducting high school student.我可以告你诱拐中学生。
- The rape of the countryside had a profound ravage on them.对乡村的掠夺给他们造成严重创伤。
- He was brought to court and charged with rape.他被带到法庭并被指控犯有强奸罪。
- The testimony given by him is dubious.他所作的证据是可疑的。
- He was called in to bear testimony to what the police officer said.他被传入为警官所说的话作证。
- It will share the fate of its predecessor.它将遭受与前者同样的命运。
- The new ambassador is more mature than his predecessor.新大使比他的前任更成熟一些。
- These groups are very strongly implicated in the violence. 这些组织与这起暴力事件有着极大的关联。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Having the stolen goods in his possession implicated him in the robbery. 因藏有赃物使他涉有偷盗的嫌疑。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
- 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 mirrors had tarnished with age. 这些镜子因年深日久而照影不清楚。
- His bad behaviour has tarnished the good name of the school. 他行为不轨，败坏了学校的声誉。
- 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。
- Many students were absent,notably the monitor.许多学生缺席，特别是连班长也没来。
- A notably short,silver-haired man,he plays basketball with his staff several times a week.他个子明显较为矮小，一头银发，每周都会和他的员工一起打几次篮球。
- The prime minister was assassinated by extremists. 首相遭极端分子暗杀。
- Then, just two days later, President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. 跟着在两天以后，肯尼迪总统在达拉斯被人暗杀。 来自辞典例句