VOA标准英语2009年-Guinea-Bissau Speaker Takes Oath as New Preside
时间:2019-02-03 作者:英语课 分类:VOA标准英语2009年(三月)
Guinea-Bissau's new interim 1 president is calling on his people to help restore stability to the nation, a day after the assassination 2 of President Joao Bernardo Vieira. National Assembly speaker Raimundo Perreira took the oath of office as president Tuesday during a special session of parliament. He told lawmakers he will serve until new elections can be organized.
Parliamentary leader Raimundo Perreira is sworn in as interim president in Bissau, Guinea-Bissau, 03 March 2009
Regional diplomats 3 are hopeful the constitutional transition will head off further violence.
Mr. Perreira is interim leader in keeping with the order of constitutional succession following President Vieira's murder. He will lead Guinea-Bissau until new elections within 60 days.
Much of life in the capital returned to normal Tuesday with shops and banks reopened and fewer military checkpoints.
Army leaders blame an isolated 5 group of soldiers for killing 6 the president. Naval 7 commander Jose Zamora Induta told reporters the president's killing was not related to Sunday's murder of Mr. Vieira's rival, armed forces chief of staff General Batista Tagme Na Waie.
Induta said the military has assured civilian 8 leaders that this is not a coup 9 d'etat, and the army will respect democratic principles.
Portugal's deputy foreign minister is in Bissau Tuesday for talks with civilian and military leaders along with a delegation 10 of foreign ministers from the Economic Community of West African States.
"The region wishes to see constitutional legality very quickly established," he said.
"The purpose of the visit is to ensure that there is constitutional succession in Guinea-Bissau and that the country can put the unfortunate events of the last few days behind it quickly and stay on the track of democratic development," said Mohamed Ibn Chambas, executive secretary of the regional ECOWAS alliance.
So far, Chambas says regional leaders are encouraged by the military's respect for rule of law and the government's creation of a commission of inquiry 11 into the murder of the president and the general.
"We cannot just ignore that and turn a page and pretend that these were not egregious 12 crimes," he said. "That would be condoning 13 impunity 14 if we did that. And we must be seen to be fighting impunity."
The current head of the regional alliance, Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua says the already fragile political situation in Guinea-Bissau has been further weakened by the twin killings 15.
The former Portuguese 16 colony has become a major transit 4 point for Latin American drug gangs shipping 17 cocaine 18 to Europe.
Guinea-Bissau also has its own history of ethnic 19 tensions between the majority Balanta, who control the army, and the minority Papel who gained commercial and political influence through President Vieira.
Several hundred Papel refugees have already crossed the border into Senegal saying they fear reprisals 20 from the Balanta military following the bomb blast that killed General Waie in a stairwell outside his office.
- The government is taking interim measures to help those in immediate need.政府正在采取临时措施帮助那些有立即需要的人。
- It may turn out to be an interim technology.这可能只是个过渡技术。
- The assassination of the president brought matters to a head.总统遭暗杀使事态到了严重关头。
- Lincoln's assassination in 1865 shocked the whole nation.1865年,林肯遇刺事件震惊全美国。
- These events led to the expulsion of senior diplomats from the country. 这些事件导致一些高级外交官被驱逐出境。
- The court has no jurisdiction over foreign diplomats living in this country. 法院对驻本国的外交官无裁判权。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- His luggage was lost in transit.他的行李在运送中丢失。
- The canal can transit a total of 50 ships daily.这条运河每天能通过50条船。
- His bad behaviour was just an isolated incident. 他的不良行为只是个别事件。
- Patients with the disease should be isolated. 这种病的患者应予以隔离。
- Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
- Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
- He took part in a great naval battle.他参加了一次大海战。
- The harbour is an important naval base.该港是一个重要的海军基地。
- 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 monarch was ousted by a military coup.那君主被军事政变者废黜了。
- That government was overthrown in a military coup three years ago.那个政府在3年前的军事政变中被推翻。
- The statement of our delegation was singularly appropriate to the occasion.我们代表团的声明非常适合时宜。
- We shall inform you of the date of the delegation's arrival.我们将把代表团到达的日期通知你。
- Many parents have been pressing for an inquiry into the problem.许多家长迫切要求调查这个问题。
- The field of inquiry has narrowed down to five persons.调查的范围已经缩小到只剩5个人了。
- When it comes to blatant lies,there are none more egregious than budget figures.谈到公众谎言,没有比预算数字更令人震惊的。
- What an egregious example was here!现摆着一个多么触目惊心的例子啊。
- I'm not condoning what he did, all right? 我并不是宽恕他的所作所为,好吗? 来自电影对白
- Communist Party conservatives abhor the idea of condoning explicIt'sex. 党内的保守势力痛恨对赤裸性爱内容的宽容。 来自互联网
- You will not escape with impunity.你不可能逃脱惩罚。
- The impunity what compulsory insurance sets does not include escapement.交强险规定的免责范围不包括逃逸。
- His statement was seen as an allusion to the recent drug-related killings. 他的声明被视为暗指最近与毒品有关的多起凶杀案。
- The government issued a statement condemning the killings. 政府发表声明谴责这些凶杀事件。
- They styled their house in the Portuguese manner.他们仿照葡萄牙的风格设计自己的房子。
- Her family is Portuguese in origin.她的家族是葡萄牙血统。
- We struck a bargain with an American shipping firm.我们和一家美国船运公司谈成了一笔生意。
- There's a shipping charge of £5 added to the price.价格之外另加五英镑运输费。
- That young man is a cocaine addict.那个年轻人吸食可卡因成瘾。
- Don't have cocaine abusively.不可滥服古柯碱。
- 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。