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英语课
By Derek Kilner
Nairobi
04 February 2008


South African businessman Cyril Ramaphosa has withdrawn 1 from his planned role as chief mediator 2 in talks to resolve Kenya's political crisis, after the Kenyan government expressed objections. As Derek Kilner reports from Nairobi, former U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan is currently leading a mediation 3 effort to put an end to violence that as killed about 900 people since a disputed presidential election in late December.


On Friday, representatives of President Mwai Kibaki and opposition 4 leader Raila Odinga agreed on a two-week plan for negotiations 6 toward resolving Kenya's political crisis. Mr. Annan had tapped Cyril Ramaphosa to lead a longer-term negotiation 5 to address underlying 7 issues of contention 8, including disputes over land and ethnic 9 tensions.


But Ramaphosa announced he is pulling out of the mediation team, after President Kibaki's side expressed opposition to his role.


"I thought that it is best that I should withdraw and go back to South Africa so that I do not become a stumbling block myself," said Ramaphosa. "My experience is that you can only play that role effectively if you have the confidence and full support of those that you are involved with in the mediation process."


Government and opposition representatives resumed discussions, focusing on the humanitarian 10 situation in the country. An estimated 300,000 people have been displaced by violence since the December 27 election.


On Tuesday, negotiators plan to discuss the conduct of the election itself and the role of the Electoral Commission. Supporters of Mr. Odinga claim the vote was rigged, and international observers have said the election was flawed.


The election results set off a wave of violent clashes across Kenya. Much of the violence has fallen along ethnic lines, with members of minority tribes driven out of several communities. Long-running disputes over land are thought to underlie 11 many of the clashes.


Violence continued through the weekend with more than 70 people killed since Friday. The latest clashes have involved members of the Kisii and Kalenjin communities near the town of Kisii in western Kenya.


Mr. Odinga has called for the deployment 12 of international peacekeepers from the African Union or United Nations. Kenya's foreign minister announced that the regional body IGAD would join in efforts to resolve the crisis. But with Kenya currently chairing the group, the opposition may reject the IGAD involvement.  




vt.收回;使退出;vi.撤退,退出
  • Our force has been withdrawn from the danger area.我们的军队已从危险地区撤出。
  • All foreign troops should be withdrawn to their own countries.一切外国军队都应撤回本国去。
n.调解人,中介人
  • He always takes the role of a mediator in any dispute.他总是在争论中充当调停人的角色。
  • He will appear in the role of mediator.他将出演调停者。
n.调解
  • The dispute was settled by mediation of the third country. 这场争端通过第三国的斡旋而得以解决。
  • The dispute was settled by mediation. 经调解使争端得以解决。
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.谈判,协商
  • They closed the deal in sugar after a week of negotiation.经过一星期的谈判,他们的食糖生意成交了。
  • The negotiation dragged on until July.谈判一直拖到7月份。
协商( negotiation的名词复数 ); 谈判; 完成(难事); 通过
  • negotiations for a durable peace 为持久和平而进行的谈判
  • Negotiations have failed to establish any middle ground. 谈判未能达成任何妥协。
adj.在下面的,含蓄的,潜在的
  • The underlying theme of the novel is very serious.小说隐含的主题是十分严肃的。
  • This word has its underlying meaning.这个单词有它潜在的含义。
n.争论,争辩,论战;论点,主张
  • The pay increase is the key point of contention. 加薪是争论的焦点。
  • The real bone of contention,as you know,is money.你知道,争论的真正焦点是钱的问题。
adj.人种的,种族的,异教徒的
  • 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。
n.人道主义者,博爱者,基督凡人论者
  • She has many humanitarian interests and contributes a lot to them.她拥有很多慈善事业,并作了很大的贡献。
  • The British government has now suspended humanitarian aid to the area.英国政府现已暂停对这一地区的人道主义援助。
v.位于...之下,成为...的基础
  • Technology improvements underlie these trends.科技进步将成为此发展趋势的基础。
  • Many facts underlie my decision.我的决定是以许多事实为依据的。
n. 部署,展开
  • He has inquired out the deployment of the enemy troops. 他已查出敌军的兵力部署情况。
  • Quality function deployment (QFD) is a widely used customer-driven quality, design and manufacturing management tool. 质量功能展开(quality function deployment,QFD)是一个广泛应用的顾客需求驱动的设计、制造和质量管理工具。
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abelisaurs
absorption loss water
admittance matrix
aggregate liquid asset
ahlburg
akkade
Alplily
application security layer
archaeornithess
bank-up water level
base of lung
beewax
beyeler
Bis-(isopropylamido)
blind riser
brightness contrast range
bromopyridine
bullae of lung
call round
cast-to-shape specimen
cathode-ray tube hazards
cede
change ability
chipman
chlorinated insecticide
Cockpit Country
color negative film
continuous x-ray spectrum
control relay forward
daudets
domestic loom
egg dance
electrical parameters of a television system
Ellis lsland
endometatoxic compound
enframed
fallibilists
feed through signal
foreland fold
glass atomizer
Gnathostomum
hack squat
haloprogin
have a feeling
have the gallows in one's face
Hayashi Razan
Herbesthal
hysterophytal
ice-pail experiment
ICGE
ingluvin
inspection of plate edges
insulism
Kellerian
kirsti
koni
Köhlen
medder
mnemotactic
mutual convertibility of yin-yang
namaskar
neuromodulatory
new ball
NitroglycerinFilm
nutritional exacting grade
objective acoustics
old maidish
optical yield
orthotectic deposit
overstressing
phyllachora euryae
polypoinia
potty
protomer
punch-and-judy show
revertible
Rockwall County
scholar's mates
similar action
sinus of the valve
slime plug
stepped out
stern casting
storage capacity of watershed
sub-project
successive inhibition
Tattersall's
Teleconference.
tendinitis of supraspinatus muscle
the cat s pyjamas
three-digit
three-pulse cascade canceler
tissue valve prosthesis
Tomichite
torans
tuyu
ulnar tuberosity
unfomented
unquenching
Volga-Ural Petroleum and Gas Province
wifebeater
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