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英语课
By Nico Colombant
Dakar
21 January 2007






Mauritania


Mauritania



The large sparsely 1 populated desert country of West Africa, Mauritania, has held a senate election as part of a post-coup process to bring about civilian 2 rule. VOA's Nico Colombant reports from our regional bureau in Dakar.


Nearly 3,700 municipal councilors voted to select a 56-seat senate Sunday, with results expected in the coming days.


This was the latest step in an electoral process that will culminate 3 with a presidential election in March.


Local political analyst 4 Racine Sy says Mauritanians are pleased with all the elections.


"It is something that is new, and during a lot of years they did not think that something like this could happen in this country to have free and democratic elections like this," said Racine Sy.


A regional observer, Bob LaGamma, with the U.S.-based group Council for the Community of Democracies, says democratic progress in Mauritania could spur similar advancement 5 elsewhere.


"Mauritania is very significant in the broader context of democratization in Africa because it is kind of a border country that embraces both North Africa and sub-Saharan Africa," added LaGamma.


He expects the senate vote to be very competitive, like the legislative 6 elections last year.


"One would reasonably expect that there would be a number of parties competing for power, no one of which will dominate and therefore compromise and coalitions 7 may be in the future of Mauritania," continued LaGamma.


Political leaders Ahmed Ould Daddah and Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidallah both have parties which did reasonably well in the legislative election, and expect good scores in the senatorial vote.


They are also two of the main presidential candidates, in a crowded field.


A recent entry is Messaoud Ould Boulkheir, a descendant of former slaves. Slavery is still practiced in parts of Mauritania. Analyst Sy says Boulkheir will spur interest, but he does not believe he has an overall chance.


"I do not think he has a lot of chance to be a winner because you have two tendencies here, we have independent candidates, and we have also the traditional parties of the opposition," said Sy.


Leaders of a military junta 8 that overthrew 9 former strongman Maaouiya Ould Taya in August 2005 have pledged not to run. The deposed 10 former leader remains 11 in exile. His supporters have been competitive in the elections.




adv.稀疏地;稀少地;不足地;贫乏地
  • Relative to the size, the city is sparsely populated. 与其面积相比,这个城市的人口是稀少的。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The ground was sparsely covered with grass. 地面上稀疏地覆盖草丛。 来自《简明英汉词典》
adj.平民的,民用的,民众的
  • 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。
v.到绝顶,达于极点,达到高潮
  • The celebration of the centenary will culminate with a dinner.百年庆典活动将以宴会作为高潮。
  • Everyone feared that the boundary dispute between these two countries would culminate in a war.人人都担心,这两国间的边境争端将以一场战争到达顶点。
n.分析家,化验员;心理分析学家
  • What can you contribute to the position of a market analyst?你有什么技能可有助于市场分析员的职务?
  • The analyst is required to interpolate values between standards.分析人员需要在这些标准中插入一些值。
n.前进,促进,提升
  • His new contribution to the advancement of physiology was well appreciated.他对生理学发展的新贡献获得高度赞赏。
  • The aim of a university should be the advancement of learning.大学的目标应是促进学术。
n.立法机构,立法权;adj.立法的,有立法权的
  • Congress is the legislative branch of the U.S. government.国会是美国政府的立法部门。
  • Today's hearing was just the first step in the legislative process.今天的听证会只是展开立法程序的第一步。
结合体,同盟( coalition的名词复数 ); (两党或多党)联合政府
  • History testifies to the ineptitude of coalitions in waging war. 历史昭示我们,多数国家联合作战,其进行甚为困难。
  • All the coalitions in history have disintegrated sooner or later. 历史上任何联盟迟早都垮台了。
n.团体;政务审议会
  • The junta reacted violently to the perceived threat to its authority.军政府感到自身权力受威胁而进行了激烈反击。
  • A military junta took control of the country.一个军政权控制了国家。
overthrow的过去式
  • The people finally rose up and overthrew the reactionary regime. 人们终于起来把反动的政权推翻了。
  • They overthrew their King. 他们推翻了国王。
v.罢免( depose的过去式和过去分词 );(在法庭上)宣誓作证
  • The president was deposed in a military coup. 总统在军事政变中被废黜。
  • The head of state was deposed by the army. 国家元首被军队罢免了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.剩余物,残留物;遗体,遗迹
  • 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。
学英语单词
Acree-Rosenheim test
analog loading
Bemanevika
biopsychological
Bouillargues
Brassica chinensis
Calamus rhabdocladus
cattle hoisting windlass
cluster point of a sequence
corticalosteotomy
covalently linked
curved frame
deerlick
devilhopper
differential wages
diffused base
discoverance
disinflames
dogstones
double groove weld
dourbie (la dourbie riviere)
dressed seed
drink-hail
electric button sewing machine
end-float coupling
engagement of head
exposed peat
ezans
fifteen all
fissurae interhemisphaerica
floating-point underflow
fluidtight
fog-horns
frequency planning
friction
gemeotre
gor'kov
ground contact length of crawler
heliophilous plant
high-voltage microscope
homozygous(bateson & saunders 1902)
ichis
in-plane shear crack
innercircle
intermure
intrasubclass
jespersens
large sized can
law of differential advantage
lead(ii) propionate
magnocurarine
Maurian
minicomputer concentrator
modicity
money-centre
Morte d'Arthur
mueang kemmarat (khemarat)
multi-storey building
off-world
oology
paracycloid
pigment resin printing
pluriovulate
pot man
prairie asters
propeller control switch
radonil
ramification valve
residual amplitude modulation
Sabanetas
sangui
sanguineless
save water
scotstoun
sea current energy
semitractor
ship girder
shipping process
shoulder eyebolt
sideyns
skipping a beat
soaking auxiliary
sodication
sodium thioaurite
Special Tickets for Crippled Soldiers
spelled fluorimeter
spinning-twisting machine
Spiraea schochiana
stells
technical levelling
thermoluminescent dating
three-pole circuit beaker
thrust balance
to have the lee ga u -ge of
tuning-forks
two-marks
undertunic
utricle saccule
uvio-
vacuum impregnating
visual axis
wash-way