VOA标准英语2013--斯里兰卡称抵制阻碍不了英联邦峰会成功召开
时间：2019-01-31 作者：英语课 分类：VOA常速英语2013年(十一月)
Some Boycott 1 Sri Lanka Commonwealth 2 Meeting 斯里兰卡称抵制阻碍不了英联邦峰会成功召开
LONDON — The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting gets underway Friday in Sri Lanka. Critics say Colombo should not host the summit because of widespread allegations of human rights abuses by Sri Lankan government forces. Those ciritcs warn the Commonwealth, which has its roots in the former British empire, risks losing relevance 3 if it fails to confront the issue.
Human rights groups allege 4 up to 40,000 civilians 5 were killed in 2009 as Sri Lankan government forces waged a final assault against ethnic 6 Tamil separatists. The battle ended the three-decade long war against the Tamil Tiger militants 7, but at a huge cost, says Yolanda Foster of Amnesty International.
“We are talking about deliberate shelling of civilians, targeting of hospitals; and the U.N. described these violations 8 as a grave assault on international law," said Foster.
The war may be over, but Foster says allegations of human rights abuses continue to emerge from Sri Lanka.
“We receive reports of enforced disappearances 9, attacks on journalists, and there is also rampant 10 custodial 11 torture in the country," she said.
Sri Lanka’s government has strongly denied the claims of human rights abuses.
But the allegations prompted Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper to boycott the heads of government meeting. Indian officials say Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has also decided 12 not to attend.
Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron says Sri Lanka has serious questions to answer - but he did not accede 13 to demands to pull out of the summit.
The decision to hold the biennial 14 meeting in Colombo was a long process, says Richard Uku of the Commonwealth Secretariat, the coordinating 15 body of the organization.
“That decision is made by the Commonwealth leaders, the heads themselves. And they took that decision. They considered it three times in 2007, in 2009 they considered it favorably, and they confirmed that when they met in Perth in 2011," said Uku.
Campaigners say the Commonwealth must tackle allegations of abuses by its members head-on, or else risk sliding into irrelevancy 16. Again, Yolanda Foster of Amnesty International.
“The Commonwealth has a set of human rights principles enshrined in its charter in the Harare declaration, and Sri Lanka is trampling 17 on some of these very important Commonwealth principles," she said.
Last month Gambia announced it was withdrawing from the Commonwealth, saying it was a ‘neo-colonialist institution’. The decision was criticized by human rights groups.
Richard Uku denies there is a crisis in the Commonwealth, and says 62 years after it was founded, the organization retains great relevance.
“We are a voice for small states and vulnerable states at international forums 18 where many of these small countries do not often have an opportunity to make their concerns heard," he said.
This year Britain’s Prince Charles will represent his mother the Queen in Sri Lanka. The 87-year-old monarch 19 is head of the Commonwealth and observers say her diplomatic skills have held the organization together during the past six decades.
- We put the production under a boycott.我们联合抵制该商品。
- The boycott lasts a year until the Victoria board permitsreturn.这个抗争持续了一年直到维多利亚教育局妥协为止。
- He is the chairman of the commonwealth of artists.他是艺术家协会的主席。
- Most of the members of the Commonwealth are nonwhite.英联邦的许多成员国不是白人国家。
- Politicians' private lives have no relevance to their public roles.政治家的私生活与他们的公众角色不相关。
- Her ideas have lost all relevance to the modern world.她的想法与现代社会完全脱节。
- 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。
- the bloody massacre of innocent civilians 对无辜平民的血腥屠杀
- At least 300 civilians are unaccounted for after the bombing raids. 遭轰炸袭击之后，至少有300名平民下落不明。
- This music would sound more ethnic if you played it in steel drums.如果你用钢鼓演奏，这首乐曲将更具民族特色。
- The plan is likely only to aggravate ethnic frictions.这一方案很有可能只会加剧种族冲突。
- The militants have been sporadically fighting the government for years. 几年来，反叛分子一直对政府实施零星的战斗。
- Despite the onslaught, Palestinian militants managed to fire off rockets. 尽管如此，巴勒斯坦的激进分子仍然发射导弹。
- This is one of the commonest traffic violations. 这是常见的违反交通规则之例。
- These violations of the code must cease forthwith. 这些违犯法规的行为必须立即停止。
- Most disappearances are the result of the terrorist activity. 大多数的失踪案都是恐怖分子造成的。 来自辞典例句
- The espionage, the betrayals, the arrests, the tortures, the executions, the disappearances will never cease. 间谍活动、叛党卖国、逮捕拷打、处决灭迹，这种事情永远不会完。 来自英汉文学
- Sickness was rampant in the area.该地区疾病蔓延。
- You cannot allow children to rampant through the museum.你不能任由小孩子在博物馆里乱跑。
- The teenagers were convicted of manslaughter and given a two-year custodial sentence. 这些青少年被判过失杀人罪，及二年的监禁（拘留）刑罚。
- This article interrogates the cultural experience of being a non custodial mother. 本文审视一位无监护权的母亲所感受到的文化体验。
- This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
- There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。
- They are ready to accede to our request for further information.我们要是还需要资料，他们乐于随时提供。
- In a word,he will not accede to your proposal in the meeting.总而言之，他不会在会中赞成你的提议。
- The workers were strongly against the biennial election.工人们强烈反对两年一次的选举。
- His is a biennial,and one of the most useful pasture plants we have.这是两年生植物，也是我们最有用的牧草之一。
- He abolished the Operations Coordinating Board and the Planning Board. 他废除了行动协调委员会和计划委员会。 来自辞典例句
- He's coordinating the wedding, and then we're not going to invite him? 他是来协调婚礼的，难道我们不去请他？ 来自电影对白
- Diplomats denounced the leaders for trampling their citizens' civil rights. 外交官谴责这些领导人践踏其公民的公民权。
- They don't want people trampling the grass, pitching tents or building fires. 他们不希望人们踩踏草坪、支帐篷或生火。
- A few of the forums were being closely monitored by the administrators. 有些论坛被管理员严密监控。
- It can cast a dark cloud over these forums. 它将是的论坛上空布满乌云。