时间:2018-12-08 作者:英语课 分类:VOA标准英语2010年(九)月


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Guinea could miss a proposed October 10th poll date for its presidential run-off, thanks to candidate disputes.


As Guineans remember the more than 150 people killed one year ago in a military attack on an opposition 1 protest in Conakry, the country continues to struggle to emerge from almost two years of political crisis.


Guinea is in the middle of a landmark 2 presidential poll meant to return the country to civilian 3 government after a military coup 4 in December 2008.


Electoral dispute


The first round was held on June 27, but efforts to organize a run-off between the two top-scoring candidates have stalled, due to fraud accusations 5, street violence, and most recently disagreement over the newly appointed electoral-commission head.


Presidential candidate, Cellou Dallein Diallo, protested the naming of Louceny Camara as head of the electoral commission last week, saying Camara supports rival candidate, Alpha Conde. Guinea's interim 6 president has therefore not been able to confirm an October 10th poll date, proposed by the electoral commission.


Examine the situation


The head of Guinea's National Transition Council, Hadja Rabiatou Sera Diallo, met with members of government Monday in Conakry to discuss the situation.


Diallo says they examined the internal rules of the electoral commission, the country's electoral code and the constitution, and prepared an assessment 7 and recommendations to get the country out of crisis. She says they will present this analysis to interim president, General Sekouba Konate. The final decision, she says, belongs to him.


The proposal prepared during Monday's meeting was not made public.


Diallo has also met with both candidates in the hopes of mediating 8 the disagreement.


Find a way to resolve crisis


She says on Monday, she and members of government were not discussing how to organize elections, but rather how to get Guinea out of crisis. She says they were not motivated by color, race or political affiliation 9. She says it is Guinea that concerns them, and therefore she says they can not be part of any efforts to slow down the electoral process that must move forward.


The run-off was originally set for September 19, but was postponed 10 just days before the vote, partly for technical reasons. Campaigning had been suspended two days earlier, after street violence between the two candidates' supporters left one dead and 50 wounded. The violence followed the conviction of two senior Guinea electoral officials for fraud during the first round of voting.

 



1 opposition
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。
2 landmark
n.陆标,划时代的事,地界标
  • The Russian Revolution represents a landmark in world history.俄国革命是世界历史上的一个里程碑。
  • The tower was once a landmark for ships.这座塔曾是船只的陆标。
3 civilian
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。
4 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。
5 accusations
n.指责( accusation的名词复数 );指控;控告;(被告发、控告的)罪名
  • There were accusations of plagiarism. 曾有过关于剽窃的指控。
  • He remained unruffled by their accusations. 对于他们的指控他处之泰然。
6 interim
adj.暂时的,临时的;n.间歇,过渡期间
  • 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。
7 assessment
n.评价;评估;对财产的估价,被估定的金额
  • This is a very perceptive assessment of the situation.这是一个对该情况的极富洞察力的评价。
  • What is your assessment of the situation?你对时局的看法如何?
8 mediating
调停,调解,斡旋( mediate的现在分词 ); 居间促成; 影响…的发生; 使…可能发生
  • So many factors are mediating. 如此众多的因素在起作用。
  • The contrast in mediating noted in the sitting room. 客厅中注重了调和中的对比。
9 affiliation
n.联系,联合
  • There is no affiliation between our organization and theirs,even though our names are similar.尽管两个组织的名称相似,但我们之间并没有关系。
  • The kidnappers had no affiliation with any militant group.这些绑架者与任何军事组织都没有紧密联系。
10 postponed
vt.& vi.延期,缓办,(使)延迟vt.把…放在次要地位;[语]把…放在后面(或句尾)vi.(疟疾等)延缓发作(或复发)
  • The trial was postponed indefinitely. 审讯无限期延迟。
  • The game has already been postponed three times. 这场比赛已经三度延期了。
学英语单词
anthroponomist
anti-mutagen
atropisomer
barbourin
Bett lead-refining
bitterroot
bonded material
campyloneis grevillei
cardoes
Carex praeclara
chevalier sans peur et sans reproche
cocaina
constant-width font
counter lamp
cross linked starch
crossword puzzles
Crufts
cylinder oil transfer pump
d'angers
dead nonterminal
dealkylation catalyst
denial of service attacks
Dinomys
disaccate
double end cutting and tenoning machine
drancies
Erzhausen
Eucalyptus pauciflora
European blackbird
ever-improvings
external crack problem
extinquish
family Oniscidae
family sclerotiniaceaes
financial planner
floating-point program
flush with
foot rot of pepper
force feed
Fusarc process
general-purpose GPU
gingrichs
Golgi-Mazzoni corpuscle
Home and hearth
honest to goodness
honeymoon rhinitis
hypodermalia
indicated outside air temperature (ioat)
input/output area
jackey
jellied gasoline
Kozlu
lactaceous
lead bath hardening
leather coating
make light of
market adjustments
medium-grade
medium-pressure blowpipe
minimal topology
minimum under clearance
missileer
Mohāri
Nāgrājrānpur
Old Tom
pelagiuss
pentabromide
percutaneous transluminal balloon valvuloplasty
preburned
Primula violacea
protocatechuyl
provisional job
re-igniting
remast
Ryūjin
sandalwood myoporum
scope range of the fluctuation of voltage
search and rescue unit
self-advancing support
shafting-grounding device
shed tears
short-hour motor
sizist
sleev
Stoliczka's mountain vole
stone fixing work
stop in one's tracks
sundi
switchboard fittings
syncretises
teawares
testimonialises
thatched roofs
tkachenko
Triclacetamol
unboisterous
upraising
Waldegg valve gear
whisperies
Willa Sibert Cather
woodthrush
zullow