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
acceptance and rejection criteria
acrinyl sulfocyanate
acute gingivitis
analog summing bus
anna laurie (scotland)
aroskar
assmay
average moderate swell
buctns
calling party pays-principle
camera model
Caratheodory theorem
card row
carinarias
carpoolers
choconine
citer
CJCSM
combiner
conic refraction
contact making voltmeter
cope match plate
crowds
Danish-Canadian
daua ali
deadbaits
depreciation cause
disemprison
dynamic programming algorithm
extractability
film timer
frost weathering
furfural extraction
genus trifoliums
globus minor
gonadial
hayseeds
ice bucket
immunologic inertia
incised relief
incommensurably
index property
ip next generation
irrebuttable presumptions
jockey sb into a trap
journal brass
judge advocate-general
KO punch
local cooling unit
lock paddle
lymphostatic vasculopathy
madras
Magnesio-Anthophyllite
messenger ribonucleic acid
Mityakinskaya
moved back and forth
multimerger
nasal tuberculin reaction
Nicotinyltartrate
nomadologists
Nonoichi
nonsacerdotal
ore mill
pangor
personnel system effectiveness
polot flame
polysialogangliosides
postmicturition
private confidential
purchasing department expense
Ramus basalis lateralis
reap-time
reflecting circle
reinforcing bar electric-cutting machine
reweight
roll camera
rotary washing nozzle
Ruggeri's reflex
S
saksaul
satellite optical surveillance system
scanning electron microscope
scrambled signals
sea water breeding area
shepherd moon
slam-dunking
sleeve gun
sonnino
Soveria
spermatic abscess
sternal shield
stinkwoods
stray-capacity coupling
teachers' institute
techno-shock
TFT (thin film technology)
touch judge
tourista
underfermented
wastefulnesses
wide-range oscillator
working boiler