VOA标准英语2009年-UN Representative Criticizes Australia's A
时间：2018-12-16 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2009年(八月)
A U.N. representative says Australia's intervention 1 in dozens of troubled Aboriginal 2 communities is discriminatory and breaches 3 the country's international human-rights obligations.
Aboriginals 4 perform in the Sydney 2000 Summer Olympic Games
The U.N. special investigator 5 on indigenous 6 people, James Anaya, says that Aborigines in Australia face entrenched 7 racism 8. He says the government's controversial intervention in dysfunctional communities in the Northern Territory continued to discriminate 9 against Aborigines.
Two years ago troops, medical staff and social workers were deployed 10 in an attempt to combat violence and rampant 11 abuse of children in some aboriginal communities. Racial discrimination laws were suspended to allow the controversial policy to be implemented 12.
Alcohol and pornography were banned in the communities and indigenous residents were forced to spend a portion of their welfare payments on essentials such as food.
Some activists 13 say the measures violate human rights because they only target Aborigines.
James Anaya, special Rapporteur for the UN Human Rights commission (2008 File)
Anaya, an American professor of human rights law, says he agrees with that assessment 14.
"These measures overtly 15 discriminate against aboriginal peoples, infringe 16 their right of self-determination and stigmatize 17 already stigmatized 18 communities," he said.
Anaya just completed a 12-day tour to learn more about Australia's most disadvantaged community. Indigenous groups, church leaders and social justice organizations requested his visit.
Anaya is the first U.N. investigator on indigenous people to visit Australia's aboriginal communities. He congratulated Prime Minister Kevin Rudd for the historic apology he made last year to the country's original inhabitants for past injustices 19.
Anaya also welcomed calls for a new national body to represent Australia's Aborigines, which will need government approval.
Tom Calma, from the Australian Human Rights Commission, proposed the body, saying it will give the disadvantaged a powerful voice.
"It is a historic day. It is a day when as aboriginal and Torres Strait people we begin a new journey when we express our determination to put our futures 20 in our hands," he said.
A recent study has found the gap between non-indigenous Australians and their aboriginal neighbors was growing in areas such as child abuse and domestic violence. Aborigines also are more likely than other Australians to suffer from a variety of health problems, including chemical addiction 21, and their average life span is 17 years less.
Prime Minister Rudd said it was "a devastating 22 report" on an unacceptable situation.
- The government's intervention in this dispute will not help.政府对这场争论的干预不会起作用。
- Many people felt he would be hostile to the idea of foreign intervention.许多人觉得他会反对外来干预。
- They managed to wipe out the entire aboriginal population.他们终于把那些土著人全部消灭了。
- The lndians are the aboriginal Americans.印第安人是美国的土著人。
- He imposed heavy penalties for breaches of oath or pledges. 他对违反誓言和保证的行为给予严厉的惩罚。
- This renders all breaches of morality before marriage very uncommon. 这样一来，婚前败坏道德的事就少见了。
- He remained fascinated by the Aboriginals' tales. 他一直对澳大利亚土著居民的传说极感兴趣。
- They drove the aboriginals out of their lands at sword point. 他们以武力将土著人赶出他们的家园。
- He was a special investigator for the FBI.他是联邦调查局的特别调查员。
- The investigator was able to deduce the crime and find the criminal.调查者能够推出犯罪过程并锁定罪犯。
- Each country has its own indigenous cultural tradition.每个国家都有自己本土的文化传统。
- Indians were the indigenous inhabitants of America.印第安人是美洲的土著居民。
- Television seems to be firmly entrenched as the number one medium for national advertising.电视看来要在全国广告媒介中牢固地占据头等位置。
- If the enemy dares to attack us in these entrenched positions,we will make short work of them.如果敌人胆敢进攻我们固守的阵地，我们就消灭他们。
- He said that racism is endemic in this country.他说种族主义在该国很普遍。
- Racism causes political instability and violence.种族主义道致政治动荡和暴力事件。
- You must learn to discriminate between facts and opinions.你必须学会把事实和看法区分出来。
- They can discriminate hundreds of colours.他们能分辨上百种颜色。
- Tanks have been deployed all along the front line. 沿整个前线已部署了坦克。
- The artillery was deployed to bear on the fort. 火炮是对着那个碉堡部署的。
- Sickness was rampant in the area.该地区疾病蔓延。
- You cannot allow children to rampant through the museum.你不能任由小孩子在博物馆里乱跑。
- This agreement, if not implemented, is a mere scrap of paper. 这个协定如不执行只不过是一纸空文。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
- The economy is in danger of collapse unless far-reaching reforms are implemented. 如果不实施影响深远的改革，经济就面临崩溃的危险。 来自辞典例句
- 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》
- 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？
- There were some overtly erotic scenes in the film. 影片中有一些公开色情场面。
- Nietzsche rejected God's law and wrote some overtly blasphemous things. 尼采拒绝上帝的律法，并且写了一些渎神的作品。
- The jury ruled that he had infringed no rules.陪审团裁决他没有违反任何规定。
- He occasionally infringe the law by parking near a junction.他因偶尔将车停放在交叉口附近而违反规定。
- Children in single-parent families must not be stigmatized.单亲家庭的孩子们不应该受到歧视。
- They are often stigmatized by the rest of society as lazy and dirty.他们经常被社会中的其他人污蔑为懒惰、肮脏。
- He was stigmatized as an ex-convict. 他遭人污辱，说他给判过刑。 来自辞典例句
- Such a view has been stigmatized as mechanical jurisprudence. 蔑称这种观点为机械法学。 来自辞典例句
- One who committed many injustices is doomed to failure. 多行不义必自毙。
- He felt confident that his injustices would be righted. 他相信他的冤屈会受到昭雪的。
- He continued his operations in cotton futures.他继续进行棉花期货交易。
- Cotton futures are selling at high prices.棉花期货交易的卖价是很高的。
- He stole money from his parents to feed his addiction.他从父母那儿偷钱以满足自己的嗜好。
- Areas of drug dealing are hellholes of addiction,poverty and murder.贩卖毒品的地区往往是吸毒上瘾、贫困和发生谋杀的地方。
- It is the most devastating storm in 20 years.这是20年来破坏性最大的风暴。
- Affairs do have a devastating effect on marriages.婚外情确实会对婚姻造成毁灭性的影响。