时间:2018-12-05 作者:英语课 分类:PBS访谈社会系列


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   A longtime president of Zimbabwe, 93-year-old Robert Mugabe faces impeachment 1 proceedings 2 tomorrow.


  In a televised speech today, Mugabe acknowledged the criticism of his 37 years in power, but he stopped short of stepping down.
  Many expected he would. Journalists Tatira Zwinoira is just outside Zimbabwe's capital of Harare, joinning to me now via Skype with more.
  Tatira, you're watching. I'm sure the televised newscast expecting a significant transition of power, but he didn't step down.
  Yes. He shocked everybody in the nation, was largely expected since he was ousted 3 as the ZANU-PF president and first secretary just this afternoon and given a 24 hour ultimatum 4 that he resigns as president.
  They thought that for all intents and purposes, he might want to take the less disgraceful way out of, you know power and use this state address to resign which he didn't.
  In fact, he went a step further in his speech to say that he's gonna be presiding over the ZANU-PF Congress which is gonna be done next month.
  But which, it left many baffled because he was just expelled as the president! So how? In what capacity is it gonna be presiding over the ZANU-PF Congress?
  Given the marches that we saw on the streets yesterday, what kind of support does Robert Mugabe have left?
  Well, I was talking to some sources of mine after this whole speech. It's very clear that there are some people who are helping 6 him.
  This is unconfirmed, but from what I'm getting from my sources is that he actually read the wrong speech!
  So there was a part where he was supposed to resign today and the reason why he didn't do that is because he wanted to put the generals on the spot.
  That means generals...Because they have been saying this is not a coup 7, so the differences if they force a coup, if it comes out as a proper military coup, then these army generals lose legitimacy 8 for their actions.
  Right now they are using the Constitution. They are using the march which happened yesterday which was attended by you know, even into the, you know, over 100,000 people in town. They're using all of that to justify 9 their action.
  So is Mugabe then trying to force this into a military coup?
  Most definitely he is. For all intents and purposes, he is trying to force it.
  And now the next question now becomes how best will the military use their plan B?
  Because impeachment was always plan B.
  In fact, you could actually argue that was always the original plan but they just thought that
  they had humiliated 10 him so much with ZANU-PF, you know, putting him out of the party just this afternoon that he was just gonna take the graceful 5 way out.
  But he's still remaining adamant 11 and this is just how he, who is always been. He doesn't bow to anyone. undefined

1 impeachment
n.弹劾;控告;怀疑
  • Impeachment is considered a drastic measure in the United States.在美国,弹劾被视为一种非常激烈的措施。
  • The verdict resulting from his impeachment destroyed his political career.他遭弹劾后得到的判决毁了他的政治生涯。
2 proceedings
n.进程,过程,议程;诉讼(程序);公报
  • He was released on bail pending committal proceedings. 他交保获释正在候审。
  • to initiate legal proceedings against sb 对某人提起诉讼
3 ousted
驱逐( oust的过去式和过去分词 ); 革职; 罢黜; 剥夺
  • He was ousted as chairman. 他的主席职务被革除了。
  • He may be ousted by a military takeover. 他可能在一场军事接管中被赶下台。
4 ultimatum
n.最后通牒
  • This time the proposal was couched as an ultimatum.这一次该提议是以最后通牒的形式提出来的。
  • The cabinet met today to discuss how to respond to the ultimatum.内阁今天开会商量如何应对这道最后通牒。
5 graceful
adj.优美的,优雅的;得体的
  • His movements on the parallel bars were very graceful.他的双杠动作可帅了!
  • The ballet dancer is so graceful.芭蕾舞演员的姿态是如此的优美。
6 helping
n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的,辅助的
  • The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
  • By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。
7 coup
n.政变;突然而成功的行动
  • 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。
8 legitimacy
n.合法,正当
  • The newspaper was directly challenging the government's legitimacy.报纸直接质疑政府的合法性。
  • Managing from the top down,we operate with full legitimacy.我们进行由上而下的管理有充分的合法性。
9 justify
vt.证明…正当(或有理),为…辩护
  • He tried to justify his absence with lame excuses.他想用站不住脚的借口为自己的缺席辩解。
  • Can you justify your rude behavior to me?你能向我证明你的粗野行为是有道理的吗?
10 humiliated
感到羞愧的
  • Parents are humiliated if their children behave badly when guests are present. 子女在客人面前举止失当,父母也失体面。
  • He was ashamed and bitterly humiliated. 他感到羞耻,丢尽了面子。
11 adamant
adj.坚硬的,固执的
  • We are adamant on the building of a well-off society.在建设小康社会这一点上,我们是坚定不移的。
  • Veronica was quite adamant that they should stay on.维罗妮卡坚信他们必须继续留下去。
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