VOA常速英语2007年-Senegalese Authorities Disperse Protest After R
时间：2019-01-16 作者：英语课 分类：VOA常速英语2007年（十一月）
Dakar
21 November 2007
Senegalese security forces broke up a union march after groups of young men rioted in several parts of the capital Dakar, erecting 1 burning barricades 2, destroying market areas and attacking government offices. Protesters are complaining President Abdoulaye Wade 3 is not doing enough to help workers and the poor, while trying to embellish 4 the city for an upcoming summit of Islamic nations. VOA's Nico Colombant has more from Dakar.
Hundreds of union members marched in central Dakar Wednesday despite a ban on their protest announced just as they were about to begin.
The unions called on police to join them on their side. Instead security forces fired tear gas.
A security official explained he was hoping to make the march secure, but was now under orders to stop it.
March organizer Cheikh Diop said this is not normal, and that he will plan a new protest when the city is calmer.
He says the protest is against higher prices, low salaries, and inadequate 5 employment policies, among other problems.
Another marcher and union leader, Fatou Samba, says Senegalese now only eat once or twice a day. She says many families are abandoning their children, while young men try to flee to Europe, and young women are turning to prostitution.
An official at ruling party offices in the Medina neighborhood of Dakar shows how angry youths ransacked 6 the place earlier in the day as he tried to pick up official documents which have scattered 7 outside in the street.
He says this is not protesting, but unnecessary anarchy 8.
Nearby, a young street hawker says President Wade does not understand the plight 9 of the poor. He says they have to work by any possible means to survive.
The protests follow a decision by authorities to ban street vending 10 and clear out informal market stalls along main arteries 11, which are being renovated 12 ahead of a scheduled March summit of Islamic countries.
- Nations can restrict their foreign trade by erecting barriers to exports as well as imports. 象设置进口壁垒那样，各国可以通过设置出口壁垒来限制对外贸易。 来自辞典例句
- Could you tell me the specific lift-slab procedure for erecting buildings? 能否告之用升板法安装楼房的具体程序？ 来自互联网
- The police stormed the barricades the demonstrators had put up. 警察冲破了示威者筑起的街垒。
- Others died young, in prison or on the barricades. 另一些人年轻时就死在监牢里或街垒旁。
- We had to wade through the river to the opposite bank.我们只好涉水过河到对岸。
- We cannot but wade across the river.我们只好趟水过去。
- I asked him not to embellish the truth with ideas of his own.我要他不对事实添油加醋。
- Can you embellish your refusal just a little bit?你可以对你的婉拒之辞略加修饰吗？
- The supply is inadequate to meet the demand.供不应求。
- She was inadequate to the demands that were made on her.她还无力满足对她提出的各项要求。
- The house had been ransacked by burglars. 这房子遭到了盗贼的洗劫。
- The house had been ransacked of all that was worth anything. 屋子里所有值钱的东西都被抢去了。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
- Gathering up his scattered papers,he pushed them into his case.他把散乱的文件收拾起来，塞进文件夹里。
- There would be anarchy if we had no police.要是没有警察，社会就会无法无天。
- The country was thrown into a state of anarchy.这国家那时一下子陷入无政府状态。
- The leader was much concerned over the plight of the refugees.那位领袖对难民的困境很担忧。
- She was in a most helpless plight.她真不知如何是好。
- Why Are You Banging on the Vending Machine? 你为什么敲打这台自动售货机？ 来自朗文快捷英语教程 2
- Coca-Cola had to adapt almost 300,000 vending machines to accept the new coins. 可口可乐公司必须使将近三十万台自动贩卖机接受新货币。 来自超越目标英语 第5册
- Even grafting new blood vessels in place of the diseased coronary arteries has been tried. 甚至移植新血管代替不健康的冠状动脉的方法都已经试过。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- This is the place where the three main arteries of West London traffic met. 这就是伦敦西部三条主要交通干线的交汇处。 来自《简明英汉词典》