时间:2018-12-08 作者:英语课 分类:VOA2003(上)-体育专递


英语课

Broadcast: Jan 01, 2003


 


Zimbabwe's only independent daily newspaper, The Daily News, is back on 1)newsstands after an absence of more than a week. But the founding editor of the paper, one of best-known journalists in the country, has been fired from his job.


Geoff Nyarota said he was sacked because the paper's managers 2)accused him of trying to undermine their authority in a dispute with the paper's staff.


Editorial and production staff at The Daily News went on strike toward the end of December. Mr. Nyarota says the paper's owners were angry with him because he went to private sources to get money to give the staff of the paper an advance on their salaries for the Christmas holiday.


The strikers were seeking a 150 percent increase in pay in an effort to help them keep up, at least partially 1, with the country's inflation, now estimated to be nearly 200 percent a year.


The strike now appears to be over, although it is not clear if the staff got a pay rise.


The managers of the company that owns The Daily News will not discuss why Mr. Nyarota was fired. His deputy, Davison Maruziva, was asked to take over as acting 2 editor, but he refused to do so and resigned from the paper out of loyalty 3 to his fired boss.


In a country where most of the media are government controlled, Mr. Nyarota has insisted on his right to criticize the government and its president, Robert Mugabe. His 3)stance has earned him the hostility 4 of the government but praise from defenders 5 of a free press. His awards include the World Press Freedom prize from 4)UNESCO, the cultural branch of the United Nations.


Mr. Nyarota was arrested and charged several times under 5)legislation brought into force ahead of Mr. Mugabe's re-election last March.


Under the legislation, every media organization and journalist in Zimbabwe was required to register with a government commission by the end of December.


Several well-placed sources in the independent press have speculated that The Daily News management feared the government would not allow the newspaper to be registered while Mr. Nyarota remained as editor.


The government says the legislation is meant to, in the words of one official, introduce "ethical 6 behavior" in the private media, which the Mugabe government regularly accuses of participating in a Western propaganda campaign against it.


Several other journalist organizations have challenged the law on constitutional grounds, but the supreme 7 court is yet to rule.


Peta Thornycroft VOA news, Harare.


1)    newsstand[5nju:zstAnd]n. 报摊, 杂志摊


2)    accuse......of 被控告,指控


3)    stance [stAns]n.姿态,态度


4)    UNESCO联合国教科文组织


5)    legislation[7ledVis5leiFEn]n. 立法, 法律的制定(或通过)


 



1 partially
adv.部分地,从某些方面讲
  • The door was partially concealed by the drapes.门有一部分被门帘遮住了。
  • The police managed to restore calm and the curfew was partially lifted.警方设法恢复了平静,宵禁部分解除。
2 acting
n.演戏,行为,假装;adj.代理的,临时的,演出用的
  • Ignore her,she's just acting.别理她,她只是假装的。
  • During the seventies,her acting career was in eclipse.在七十年代,她的表演生涯黯然失色。
3 loyalty
n.忠诚,忠心
  • She told him the truth from a sense of loyalty.她告诉他真相是出于忠诚。
  • His loyalty to his friends was never in doubt.他对朋友的一片忠心从来没受到怀疑。
4 hostility
n.敌对,敌意;抵制[pl.]交战,战争
  • There is open hostility between the two leaders.两位领导人表现出公开的敌意。
  • His hostility to your plan is well known.他对你的计划所持的敌意是众所周知的。
5 defenders
n.防御者( defender的名词复数 );守卫者;保护者;辩护者
  • The defenders were outnumbered and had to give in. 抵抗者寡不敌众,只能投降。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • After hard fighting,the defenders were still masters of the city. 守军经过奋战仍然控制着城市。 来自《简明英汉词典》
6 ethical
adj.伦理的,道德的,合乎道德的
  • It is necessary to get the youth to have a high ethical concept.必须使青年具有高度的道德观念。
  • It was a debate which aroused fervent ethical arguments.那是一场引发强烈的伦理道德争论的辩论。
7 supreme
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。
学英语单词
Abies dayuanensis
aboukir
acetylalisol
acoustic navigation system
acoustical insulation board
alkyl metal
all-against-all
anthracology
anti-deteriorant
betwist-mountain
Bilečko Jezero
biological oceanography
birth-control campaigners
bloodworks
boom mic
bucket blade
Cai Lay
casadei
cheapener
checkrows
Classic Triad
coated bulb
Copsychus
crohn's
cubed
Cutaneo
daisy chained priority mechanism
delivering information
electro-deposit copper
english-based
febris recurrens europaea
flux monitors
gallery kiln
Gaussian equation
genus Gavia
Glengarry Ra.
go to school to sb
hamart-
highest possible key value
irenina hydrangeae
isoetid
Kampinda
land use survey
lead splash condenser
limit register
Lionel Hampton
log-lin
low-lying placenta
mean volume diameter
membrane modulus
metalepses
methyl n-undecyl ketone
methymethacrylate
mid-parent
mist-detection instrument
msstic tests
multi-stage method of washing
natural exhaust
new jack swing
Noikohis
nozzle tube lever block
nun's cloth
offset bulb
oncurable
one-piece casting
open wire link
orthographers
overrulest
Passive portfolio
paste reactor
peak temperature
pervestigation
photorelay
physical distancemeter
pinus longaevas
porphyry shell
precision measurement
preconsign
premixed gas
pulls
ranajit
reference fringe
relieve sb of
Rhododendron megeratum
rivieras
rr. musculares (n. femoralis)
Salfit
saline diuretic
scintillation decay time
silver(II) oxide
soft toys
starvation of processes
steam trap (upright bucket type)
Stegi
Stromatoporoidea
thallations
transparent electrode
triggered response
universal electron microscope
war machines
Warmeriville
Wellerellacea