时间:2019-02-04 作者:英语课 分类:2007年VOA标准英语(一月)


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By Sean Maroney
Washington
12 January 2007


Human rights groups held demonstrations 1 in the United States and elsewhere Thursday to protest the detention 2 of terrorism suspects at the U.S. facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. This week marks five years since the detention center opened. VOA's Sean Maroney reports from Washington.






Guantanamo protesters demonstrate in front of White House


Guantanamo protesters demonstrate in front of White House



Hundreds of protesters packed the sidewalk at the foot of the U.S. Supreme 3 Court, demanding that the United States close its Guantanamo Bay prison shouting "What do we want? Justice! When do we want it now? Now!" and in Spanish "Que queremos? Justicia! Cuando? Ahora!"


The prison opened five years ago in the wake of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States and after the start of the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan.


U.S. officials say the prison's purpose is to hold and question enemy combatants as part of the war on terror.


However, of the nearly 800 detainees the center has held, only 10 have faced charges.


Amnesty International's Larry Cox told the crowd the United States cannot continue to detain people indefinitely. "There's no evidence that we have been made safer. But there is growing evidence, every single day,- that the U.S. government's moral authority and its ability to advance human rights have been severely 4 diminished," he said.


Gitanjali Gutierrez, a lawyer with the Center for Constitutional Rights, has visited the prison and talked to its inmates 5. "I stand here as one of few civilian 6 individuals who has been able to go to Guantanamo and sit across a table with a man who is shackled 7 to the floor, who's been held for five years and has had very little contact with his family. Some of us have had to tell men about the death of their parents over these five years, about the birth of children that they have not seen and in some cases, about the death of a child," he said.


In a separate protest, authorities arrested nearly 100 protesters inside a Washington federal courthouse. The protesters wore orange jumpsuits such as those worn by Guantanamo detainees and demanded the release of the prisoners.


Other small protests against the U.S. detention center took place in Australia, Cuba and Britain.




证明( demonstration的名词复数 ); 表明; 表达; 游行示威
  • Lectures will be interspersed with practical demonstrations. 讲课中将不时插入实际示范。
  • The new military government has banned strikes and demonstrations. 新的军人政府禁止罢工和示威活动。
n.滞留,停留;拘留,扣留;(教育)留下
  • He was kept in detention by the police.他被警察扣留了。
  • He was in detention in connection with the bribery affair.他因与贿赂事件有牵连而被拘留了。
adj.极度的,最重要的;至高的,最高的
  • It was the supreme moment in his life.那是他一生中最重要的时刻。
  • He handed up the indictment to the supreme court.他把起诉书送交最高法院。
adv.严格地;严厉地;非常恶劣地
  • He was severely criticized and removed from his post.他受到了严厉的批评并且被撤了职。
  • He is severely put down for his careless work.他因工作上的粗心大意而受到了严厉的批评。
n.囚犯( inmate的名词复数 )
  • One of the inmates has escaped. 被收容的人中有一个逃跑了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The inmates were moved to an undisclosed location. 监狱里的囚犯被转移到一个秘密处所。 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。
给(某人)带上手铐或脚镣( shackle的过去式和过去分词 )
  • The hostage had been shackled to a radiator. 当时人质被铐在暖气片上。
  • He was shackled and in darkness of torment. 他被困在黑暗中备受煎熬。
学英语单词
active control tech nology
automation of cargo handling
axis of figure
bainitic transformation
bibliotherapist
blind bombing zone
Bromus magnus
bullock hearts
butt-jointed shell ring
Bükkzsérc
cadence detection
Callicarpa kochiana
chable
chondrogen
columnwise
combined arms team
computer network
contrary intention
corpora liberum pericardii
crosslevel
dar pahn
diphasic titration
dislocation mucleation
equidecomposability
expendable drone
external selection
extreme ultraviolet
fictious person
flat called
Francisco Jose de Goya
Gafac surfactant
give dosage form
ground robin
Herford
hey
isolation between inputs
Jerseytown
jimmying
Kadavu Island
kidney essence
king matker
legal discipline
locator variable
madioxytheria formosana
menformon
metal fuelled
mucolic acids
non-convex quadratic programming
nondelivered
North-West Frontier Province
ordnance engineering
os pharyngeum inferius
Osmoxylon
outlay for liquidation
pain receptor
panting girder
Peacekeeper missile
pick-up coil
pill maker
ply strain
plywood-covered
Porto Grande
pottled
predicting relation
Proxylide
Quipar, R.
rafter
rashie
registro
reticulated vein
shoaib
single row ball bearing with ring seal
six panel door
SL-SD
slip of pen
smooth approach
spectral source density
spray decoration
stalking horses
starter nozzle
stratified one-stage cluster sampling
strepsigonia diluta takamukui
subcutaenous calcareous granuloma
surface of translation
tension-active element
Teza
threa
thump-thump
track balance
transient radiation damage
true fibre
V die
venin-antivenin
ventilating tube
waveshape
within-participants design
woman on the beach
Yedineniya, Ostrov
yellowfins
ymesurid
Zeddam