时间:2018-12-08 作者:英语课 分类:VOA标准英语2012年(十二月)


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Putin's Start Points to Authoritarian 1 Rule Through 2018



In May, angry protests greeted Vladimir Putin's return to the Kremlin for a third term as president of Russia.


On inauguration 2 day, Putin's motorcade swept through eerily 3 empty streets of Moscow, Europe's largest city. The streets were emptied by police -- and by a special five-day holiday.


Opposition 4 leader Vladimir Ryzhkov says Putin is an authoritarian leader, ruling in isolation 5.


"If you look at Putin's last 6 months, after he came back to the Kremlin, he became much more conservative, pro-Orthodox church, anti-Western, autocratic,” Ryzhkov said.


Pussy 6 Riot feminist 7 musicians were tried for protesting against Putin in Moscow's main cathedral. The resulting two-year jail sentences boosted the Orthodox Church's backing of Mr. Putin.


Nationalists were happy to see the Kremlin cut American foreign aid programs here, and to see Cossack patrols in Moscow.


Laws restricting rallies and Internet access were rushed through the Duma by Russia's ruling party, concerned by what it viewed as foreign-sponsored subversion 8. New laws labeled political activists 9 and political actions that were legal last year "foreign agents" and "treason."


Over 150 years ago, the slogan 'Orthodoxy, Autocracy 10, and Nationalism' was the formula the czars used to rule Russia. Will it work in 2013?


President Putin says Russians first and foremost want law and order.


Speaking December 20 at his annual marathon press conference, he said: "The anarchy 11 of the 1990s brought about the discrediting 12 of a market economy and democracy. People started to fear those things. And I believe that order, discipline, following the letter of the law, it doesn't contradict democracy."


Ryzhkov again: "A big part of Russian society is still semi-Soviet, semi-czarist,” said Ryzhkov, co-chairman of the Republican Party of Russia. “So it's an old, old, old idea and methodology on strong hand, a great power, a country surrounded by enemies, first of all Americans."


In December, President Putin reaffirmed his year-long campaign against what he sees as foreign attempts to subvert 13 his regime. Following those comments, Russia’s Duma passed a vaguely 14 worded law that potentially bans more Russian non governmental organizations from receiving foreign donations.


Before the vote, President Putin said in a nationally televised address: "Direct or indirect interference in our domestic political processes is unacceptable. Those politicians who receive money from abroad for their political activity and thus serve, in all likelihood, alien interests shouldn't be politicians in the Russian Federation 15."


President Putin also is trying a positive tactic 16. He is trying to snatch a key flag from the protesters: the fight against corruption 17.


In recent weeks, corruption probes have brought down a Russian defense 18 minister, Anatoly Serdyukov, and several high-ranking officials. State television has treated viewers to scenes of police removing bricks of 100 dollar bills from the home safes of government officials.


Bernard Sucher, an American entrepreneur, is skeptical 19 about this highly publicized fight.


"As you start going from small to medium you start running into all of the heavy, dead hand of the Russian bureaucracy and red tape,” said Sucher, who has started companies here for the last 20 years. “Clearly we have at a minimum a reshuffling of the chairs at the top table. That is not the same thing as addressing on a systematic 20 or any kind of programmatic way even the symptom of corruption."


Whatever the strategy, President Putin's goal is the same: to reach the end of his term - 2018. 




1 authoritarian
n./adj.专制(的),专制主义者,独裁主义者
  • Foreign diplomats suspect him of authoritarian tendencies.各国外交官怀疑他有着独裁主义倾向。
  • The authoritarian policy wasn't proved to be a success.独裁主义的政策证明并不成功。
2 inauguration
n.开幕、就职典礼
  • The inauguration of a President of the United States takes place on January 20.美国总统的就职典礼于一月二十日举行。
  • Three celebrated tenors sang at the president's inauguration.3位著名的男高音歌手在总统就职仪式上演唱。
3 eerily
adv.引起神秘感或害怕地
  • It was nearly mid-night and eerily dark all around her. 夜深了,到处是一片黑黝黝的怪影。 来自汉英文学 - 散文英译
  • The vast volcanic slope was eerily reminiscent of a lunar landscape. 开阔的火山坡让人心生怪异地联想起月球的地貌。 来自辞典例句
4 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。
5 isolation
n.隔离,孤立,分解,分离
  • The millionaire lived in complete isolation from the outside world.这位富翁过着与世隔绝的生活。
  • He retired and lived in relative isolation.他退休后,生活比较孤寂。
6 pussy
n.(儿语)小猫,猫咪
  • Why can't they leave my pussy alone?为什么他们就不能离我小猫咪远一点?
  • The baby was playing with his pussy.孩子正和他的猫嬉戏。
7 feminist
adj.主张男女平等的,女权主义的
  • She followed the feminist movement.她支持女权运动。
  • From then on,feminist studies on literature boomed.从那时起,男女平等受教育的现象开始迅速兴起。
8 subversion
n.颠覆,破坏
  • He was arrested in parliament on charges of subversion for organizing the demonstration.他因组织示威活动在议会上被以颠覆破坏罪名逮捕。
  • It had a cultural identity relatively immune to subversion from neighboring countries.它的文化同一性使它相对地不易被邻国所颠覆。
9 activists
n.(政治活动的)积极分子,活动家( activist的名词复数 )
  • His research work was attacked by animal rights activists . 他的研究受到了动物权益维护者的抨击。
  • Party activists with lower middle class pedigrees are numerous. 党的激进分子中有很多出身于中产阶级下层。 来自《简明英汉词典》
10 autocracy
n.独裁政治,独裁政府
  • The revolution caused the overthrow of the autocracy.这场革命导致了独裁政体的结束。
  • Many poor countries are abandoning autocracy.很多贫穷国家都在放弃独裁统治。
11 anarchy
n.无政府状态;社会秩序混乱,无秩序
  • There would be anarchy if we had no police.要是没有警察,社会就会无法无天。
  • The country was thrown into a state of anarchy.这国家那时一下子陷入无政府状态。
12 discrediting
使不相信( discredit的现在分词 ); 使怀疑; 败坏…的名声; 拒绝相信
  • It has also led to the discrediting of mainstream macroeconomics. 它还使得人们对主流宏观经济学产生了怀疑。
13 subvert
v.推翻;暗中破坏;搅乱
  • The rebel army is attempting to subvert the government.反叛军队企图颠覆政府统治。
  • They tried to subvert our state and our Party. This is the crux of the matter.他们是要颠覆我们的国家,颠覆我们的党,这是问题的实质。
14 vaguely
adv.含糊地,暖昧地
  • He had talked vaguely of going to work abroad.他含糊其词地说了到国外工作的事。
  • He looked vaguely before him with unseeing eyes.他迷迷糊糊的望着前面,对一切都视而不见。
15 federation
n.同盟,联邦,联合,联盟,联合会
  • It is a federation of 10 regional unions.它是由十个地方工会结合成的联合会。
  • Mr.Putin was inaugurated as the President of the Russian Federation.普京正式就任俄罗斯联邦总统。
16 tactic
n.战略,策略;adj.战术的,有策略的
  • Reducing prices is a common sales tactic.降价是常用的销售策略。
  • She had often used the tactic of threatening to resign.她惯用以辞职相威胁的手法。
17 corruption
n.腐败,堕落,贪污
  • The people asked the government to hit out against corruption and theft.人民要求政府严惩贪污盗窃。
  • The old man reviled against corruption.那老人痛斥了贪污舞弊。
18 defense
n.防御,保卫;[pl.]防务工事;辩护,答辩
  • The accused has the right to defense.被告人有权获得辩护。
  • The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers.战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。
19 skeptical
adj.怀疑的,多疑的
  • Others here are more skeptical about the chances for justice being done.这里的其他人更为怀疑正义能否得到伸张。
  • Her look was skeptical and resigned.她的表情是将信将疑而又无可奈何。
20 systematic
adj.有系统的,有计划的,有方法的
  • The way he works isn't very systematic.他的工作不是很有条理。
  • The teacher made a systematic work of teaching.这个教师进行系统的教学工作。
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