时间:2019-01-31 作者:英语课 分类:VOA2004(下)--新闻盘点


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By Lisa McAdams
Ukraine's parliament has overwhelmingly passed a broad package of constitutional and electoral reforms, clearing the way for a new presidential run-off election December 26. 
Parliament met in extraordinary session for the second time in as many days and, in a surprising move, voted to approve a broad package of constitutional and electoral reforms by a vote of 402 to 21.
After days of deadlock 1 and debate, deputies clapped and cheered as the speaker of Ukraine's parliament, Vladymir Lytvyn, announced that the measures had passed.
Speaker Lytvyn congratulates the deputies for reconciling their differences, an act he said proves Ukraine is united and indivisible.
The measures change Ukraine's electoral laws to prevent incidents of fraud, which plagued last month's presidential run-off elections.
The package also includes controversial constitutional changes that will weaken the powers of the president.  Namely, the president will now need parliamentary approval to appoint the country's top ministerial posts. 
Outgoing President Leonid Kuchma, who was in the chamber 2 during the vote, later signed the bill into law.
The opposition 3 had resisted the constitutional reforms, but yielded to President Kuchma's camp to clear the way for the new ballot 4
In return, the opposition also gained parliamentary approval to dismiss the central election commission that oversaw 5 the last round of elections.  Deputies later voted in a new commission.  That vote saw 11 of the 15-member commission members retaining their posts, but the former chief, Sergei Kivalov, was ousted 6
Pro-government forces declared the votes a victory for Ukraine and said attention now needs to focus on how to finance the next round of elections.  
Opposition leader Yulia Timoshenko, whose bloc 7 voted against the measures, said the moves only serve to strengthen pro-government forces, which have close to a majority in parliament.  Ms. Timoshenko says her bloc will test the measures in the Constitutional Court.
The parliament vote clears the way for international election monitors to begin preparations to oversee 8 the next round of presidential run-off elections on December 26.  The contest again pits pro-Russia Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych against opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko.
注释:
overwhelmingly 压倒性地, 不可抵抗地
indivisible 不能分割的
ballot 投票



n.僵局,僵持
  • The negotiations reached a deadlock after two hours.两小时后,谈判陷入了僵局。
  • The employers and strikers are at a deadlock over the wage.雇主和罢工者在工资问题上相持不下。
n.房间,寝室;会议厅;议院;会所
  • For many,the dentist's surgery remains a torture chamber.对许多人来说,牙医的治疗室一直是间受刑室。
  • The chamber was ablaze with light.会议厅里灯火辉煌。
n.反对,敌对
  • The party leader is facing opposition in his own backyard.该党领袖在自己的党內遇到了反对。
  • The police tried to break down the prisoner's opposition.警察设法制住了那个囚犯的反抗。
n.(不记名)投票,投票总数,投票权;vi.投票
  • 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。
v.监督,监视( oversee的过去式 )
  • He will go down as the president who oversaw two historic transitions. 他将作为见证了巴西两次历史性转变的总统,安然引退。 来自互联网
  • Dixon oversaw the project as creative director of Design Research Studio. 狄克逊监督项目的创意总监设计研究工作室。 来自互联网
驱逐( oust的过去式和过去分词 ); 革职; 罢黜; 剥夺
  • He was ousted as chairman. 他的主席职务被革除了。
  • He may be ousted by a military takeover. 他可能在一场军事接管中被赶下台。
n.集团;联盟
  • A solid bloc of union members support the decision.工会会员团结起来支持该决定。
  • There have been growing tensions within the trading bloc.贸易同盟国的关系越来越紧张。
vt.监督,管理
  • Soldiers oversee the food handouts.士兵们看管着救济食品。
  • Use a surveyor or architect to oversee and inspect the different stages of the work.请一位房产检视员或建筑师来监督并检查不同阶段的工作。
学英语单词
activity holiday
Alzenau
ARDA (analog recording dynamic analyzer)
arrival current curve
Arteriviridae
asphodels
azafen
babied
back swing actuator
barbed wire, barbwired
bevelled washer
biological rotation
blow-up pan
boob-baiter
buck-saw
butting collision
cat o' mountain
characteristics of electrical product
Chasmistes
chemorecer1tor
choke plug
Class Two license
contact-free
contour sander
cooling air temperature
daisy chain bus arbitration
damping chamber
dilaurate
drive gear carrier
duplex ileum
earthing cable
elephantids
entrenched meander
experimental regulation
federal radionavigation plan
Fedorivka
Ferrel cell
frozen black hole
fruitsets
generative transformational grammar
gillsonite
godown changes
haliaetus
Illicium philippinense
in direction
in lieu
inherent delay
interaction representation
jokanaan
Kavadh I
Kikunae
leather tensile strength machine
lodine
lower semi-continuous hull
magnefy
Marquelia, R.
megacities
Monobrachy
multiple rate of exchange
neezing
nitro-acinitro tautomerism
nonresectabl
normal association analysis
ohlund
ouk
paper chases
participating fee
pathogenesis of concurrent Zang-Fu disease
Pearson's solution
podogynium
Polkton
porrections
Prenanthes
prepolymerize
profluvious
restorability
sapirs
schwartzes
search rescue beacon equipment
self-deliverance
semi-cycle
semiconductors
set something on foot
shock absorber bracket
sieving method
single-error mode
smoke suppressant
solorina simensis
souvenier
specific material demand
stomatal pit
supply chain sustainability
tarpaulin canvas
technical selling
thingumbobs
time information
universal logical circuit
unnotably
went on a journey
white-handedness
Willa Cather