Brazilian President appoints new Sports Minister

 　　RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct. 27 (Xinhua) -- Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff on Thursday appointed Aldo Rebelo as the country's new Sports Minister.

　　Rebelo, who is expected to take office on Monday, replaces Orlando Silva, who stepped down on Wednesday following accusations¹ of heading a scheme to embezzle² Ministry³ funds.

　　The new minister is a House Representative affiliated⁴ to the Communist Party of Brazil (PC do B), the same as Silva. The Sports Minister is the only position taken by PC do B in Rousseff's administration.

　　Rebelo, 55, presided a decade ago a special Congressional committee in charge of investigating the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF). Recently, he was the main author of a project to reform Brazil's Forest Code.

　　The project earned Rebelo a bad relations with environmentalists, for whom the project is exceedingly favorable to the agricultural sector⁵ and less concerned with actual environmental protection.

　　The change in the Sports Ministry is the eighth cabinet shift in 10 months of Rousseff's government. Two swapped⁶ positions and six resigned, five of them following corruption⁷ accusations.

1 accusations   

n.指责( accusation的名词复数 )；指控；控告；（被告发、控告的）罪名

参考例句：

• 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。

2 embezzle   

vt.贪污，盗用；挪用(公款；公物等)

参考例句：

• I suppose they embezzle a lot.我想他们贪污了不少。
• The cashier embezzled $50,000 from the bank and ran away.银行的出纳盗用了五万美元，并且逃跑了。

3 ministry   

n.(政府的)部；牧师

参考例句：

• They sent a deputation to the ministry to complain.他们派了一个代表团到部里投诉。
• We probed the Air Ministry statements.我们调查了空军部的记录。

4 affiliated   

adj. 附属的, 有关连的

参考例句：

• The hospital is affiliated with the local university. 这家医院附属于当地大学。
• All affiliated members can vote. 所有隶属成员都有投票权。

5 sector   

n.部门，部分；防御地段，防区；扇形

参考例句：

• The export sector will aid the economic recovery. 出口产业将促进经济复苏。
• The enemy have attacked the British sector.敌人已进攻英国防区。

6 swapped   

交换（工作）( swap的过去式和过去分词 )； 用…替换，把…换成，掉换（过来）

参考例句：

• I liked her coat and she liked mine, so we swapped. 我喜欢她的外套，她喜欢我的外套，于是我们就交换了。
• At half-time the manager swapped some of the players around. 经理在半场时把几名队员换下了场。

7 corruption   

n.腐败，堕落，贪污

参考例句：

• 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。