CCTV9英语新闻：Thai gov’t plays down talk of coup ahead of city "shutdown"_在线英语听力室

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Thailand’s Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has played down talk of a military coup¹ in the country, ahead of a planned "shutdown" of the capital next week by protesters.

Yingluck said on Friday that military intervention² would not help the country and that was really not what democracy was about. Yingluck said that the government is able to control the protests.

Thai senior officials also said the government is prepared, and life would go on much as normal. The government has planned to deploy³ over 20,000 police to the capital to maintain order. Pro-government protesters also planned mass rallies around the capital on Sunday against the shutdown.

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1 coup
n.政变；突然而成功的行动
参考例句：
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。

2 intervention
n.介入，干涉，干预
参考例句：
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。

3 deploy
v.（军）散开成战斗队形，布置，展开
参考例句：
The infantry began to deploy at dawn.步兵黎明时开始进入战斗位置。 The president said he had no intention of deploying ground troops.总统称并不打算部署地面部队。

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CCTV9英语新闻：Thai gov’t plays down talk of coup ahead of city "shutdown"