罗格当选奥委会主席

72 罗格当选奥委会主席

DATE=7-21-01
TITLE=IN THE NEWS #490 - Olympics
 BYLINE=Jerilyn Watson

 (Start at 01'06") This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program, IN THE NEWS.
The (1)International Olympic Committee this week chose a doctor from (2)Belgium as its president.  Jacques Rogge (RAWG) will serve at least eight years.  He replaced Juan Antonio Samaranch of Spain who served as president for twenty-one years.
Doctor Rogge received support from more than half the (3)delegates¹ in a second vote during a meeting in (4)Moscow.  He has worked for many years with the International Olympic Committee, known as the I-O-C.  He is fifty-nine years old.
Kim Un-yong of South Korea placed second in the secret voting for president of the committee.  Other (5)candidates were Dick Pound of Canada, Pal² Schmitt of Hungary and Anita DeFrantz of the United States.
Last week, the I-O-C chose Beijing, China, to hold the summer Olympic Games of Two-Thousand-Eight.  Doctor Rogge will be the chief advisor³ to Beijing officials as they prepare for Olympic events.  The city received more than two times as many votes as Toronto, Canada, its closest (6)opponent.  Paris, France, Istanbul, Turkey, and Osaka, Japan also were competing to hold the Olympic Games in Two-Thousand-Eight.  
Committee delegates said they hope the Chinese government will become more open as it prepares for the games.  The delegates said they also hoped China's human-rights and (7)environmental (8)policies will improve.  China plans to begin its most important building project for the Olympics since the Great Wall was built.  It has also announced plans for a costly⁴ program to reduce pollution.  
Observers⁵ called the election⁶ of Doctor Rogge a move to reform the worldwide sports (9)organization.  The new president says he will place great importance on preventing Olympic competitors from using (10)banned drugs.  Experts say his long record of honesty may help the Olympics recover from charges of (11)illegal actions.  
The (12)accusations are linked to the winter games of Two-Thousand-Two.  Ten Olympic Committee members reportedly accepted gifts and large amounts of money to choose Salt Lake City, Utah, to hold the events.  The American government charged five people in connection with these gifts.  Earlier this week, a (13)federal judge (14)dismissed four of fifteen charges against two men who led Salt Lake City's campaign to get the Olympics.  The judge also (15)postponed their trial. 
The new president of the International Olympic Committee has been active in the Olympics since he was a young man.  Jacques Rogge is a champion sailor who (16)competed in three Olympic sailing events, the last in Nineteen-Seventy-Six.  He has been a member of the International Olympic Committee for ten years.  Doctor Rogge had a major (17)responsibility for plans for the Two-Thousand Olympics in Sydney, Australia.  Those games were highly⁷ successful.
This VOA Special English IN THE NEWS was written by Jerilyn Watson.  I'm Steve Ember.

(1)International Olympic Committee 国际奥委会
(2)Belgium [ 5beldVEm ]n.比利时(西欧国家,首都布鲁塞尔Brussels)
(3)delegate [ 5deli^it ]n.代表
(4)Moscow [ 5mCskEu ]n.莫斯科(俄罗斯首都)
(5)candidate [ 5kAndidit ]n.候选人
(6)opponent [ E5pEunEnt ] n.对手
(7)environmental [ in7vaiErEn5mentl ]adj.环境的
(8)policy [ 5pClisi ]n.政策
(9)organization [ 7C:^Enai5zeiFEn ]n.组织
(10)banned drug 违禁药物
(11)illegal [ i5li:^El ]adj.违法的
(12)accusation [ Akju(:)5zeiFEn ]n. [律]指控
(13)federal [ 5fedErEl ]adj.联邦的
(14)dismiss [ dis5mis ]vt.开除, 解职
(15)postpone [ pEust5pEun ]vt.推迟
(16)compete [ kEm5pi:t ]vi.比赛
(17)responsibility [ ris7pCnsE5biliti ]n.责任, 职责

1 delegates   

代表，代表团成员( delegate的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The conference was attended by delegates from 56 countries. 此次会议有来自56个国家的代表出席。
• Delegates expressed strong opposition to the plans. 代表强烈反对这些计划。

2 pal   

n.朋友，伙伴，同志；vi.结为友

参考例句：

• He is a pal of mine.他是我的一个朋友。
• Listen,pal,I don't want you talking to my sister any more.听着，小子，我不让你再和我妹妹说话了。

3 advisor   

n.顾问，指导老师，劝告者

参考例句：

• They employed me as an advisor.他们聘请我当顾问。
• The professor is engaged as a technical advisor.这位教授被聘请为技术顾问。

4 costly   

adj.昂贵的，价值高的，豪华的

参考例句：

• It must be very costly to keep up a house like this.维修这么一幢房子一定很昂贵。
• This dictionary is very useful,only it is a bit costly.这本词典很有用，左不过贵了些。

5 observers   

n.观察者( observer的名词复数 )；遵守者；观测者；目击者

参考例句：

• According to observers, the plane exploded shortly after take-off. 据目击者说，飞机起飞后不久就爆炸了。
• Some military observers fear the US could get entangled in another war. 一些军事观察家担心美国会卷入另一场战争。 来自《简明英汉词典》

6 election   

n.选举，选择权；当选

参考例句：

• There is no doubt but that he will win the election.毫无疑问，他将在竞选中获胜。
• The government will probably fall at the coming election.在即将到来的大选中，该政府很可能要垮台。

7 highly   

adv.高度地，极，非常；非常赞许地

参考例句：

• It is highly important to provide for the future.预先做好准备非常重要。
• The teacher speaks very highly of the boy's behaviour.老师称赞这个男孩的表现。