2006年VOA标准英语-Israel Charges Palestinian Parliament Speaker W

By Jim Teeple
Jerusalem
22 August 2006

Israeli military authorities on Tuesday charged the Palestinian parliament speaker, who is also a leader of Hamas, with membership in an outlawed¹ organization.  The action comes amid renewed clashes between Israeli forces and Palestinian militants².

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Abdel Aziz Dweik reacts during a hearing at Israeli military court,  Aug. 22, 2006

Abdel Aziz Dweik, the Palestinian parliament speaker, was led into a military court in shackles³ Tuesday and charged with belonging to an outlawed organization.

Military prosecutors⁴ say in addition to being active in an outlawed organization, Dweik spoke⁵ with Damascus-based Hamas leader Khaled Mashal, about transferring large sums of money to the Palestinian territories. Speaking to journalists, Dweik said he did not recognize the court's authority.

Calling the proceedings⁶ a political trial, the Palestinian parliament speaker says he is an elected official of the Palestinian government.

Dweik is the most senior Hamas leader to be charged so far by Israeli authorities. They have arrested about 30 Hamas lawmakers, including five cabinet ministers since Palestinian militants abducted⁷ an Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit, in late June.

Israeli forces say they killed three Palestinian militants early Tuesday who were trying to cross into Israel from the Gaza Strip. Israeli troops backed by helicopter gunships conducted house-to-house searches in Gaza on Tuesday near the Karni crossing, the main cargo⁸ crossing point between Israel and Gaza. Israel also carried out airstrikes in the area.

Palestinian civil servants, including teachers, said Tuesday they will begin an open-ended strike on September 2., the first day of the school year to protest the Hamas government not paying their salaries since March. The strike is expected to affect about 80,000 of the estimated 165,000 Palestinian civil servants.

Most Palestinian civil servants have not been paid in months because international donors⁹ have suspended aid to the Palestinian Authority because the Hamas government refuses to recognize Israel.

1 outlawed   

宣布…为不合法（outlaw的过去式与过去分词形式）

参考例句：

• Most states have outlawed the use of marijuana. 大多数州都宣布使用大麻为非法行为。
• I hope the sale of tobacco will be outlawed someday. 我希望有朝一日烟草制品会禁止销售。

2 militants   

激进分子，好斗分子( militant的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The militants have been sporadically fighting the government for years. 几年来，反叛分子一直对政府实施零星的战斗。
• Despite the onslaught, Palestinian militants managed to fire off rockets. 尽管如此，巴勒斯坦的激进分子仍然发射导弹。

3 shackles   

手铐( shackle的名词复数 )； 脚镣； 束缚； 羁绊

参考例句：

• a country struggling to free itself from the shackles of colonialism 为摆脱殖民主义的枷锁而斗争的国家
• The cars of the train are coupled together by shackles. 火车的车厢是用钩链连接起来的。

4 prosecutors   

检举人( prosecutor的名词复数 )； 告发人； 起诉人； 公诉人

参考例句：

• In some places,public prosecutors are elected rather than appointed. 在有些地方，检察官是经选举而非任命产生的。 来自口语例句
• You've been summoned to the Prosecutors' Office, 2 days later. 你在两天以后被宣到了检察官的办公室。

5 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。

6 proceedings   

n.进程，过程，议程；诉讼(程序)；公报

参考例句：

• He was released on bail pending committal proceedings. 他交保获释正在候审。
• to initiate legal proceedings against sb 对某人提起诉讼

7 abducted   

劫持，诱拐( abduct的过去式和过去分词 )； 使（肢体等）外展

参考例句：

• Detectives have not ruled out the possibility that she was abducted. 侦探尚未排除她被绑架的可能性。
• The kid was abducted at the gate of kindergarten. 那小孩在幼儿园大门口被绑架走了。

8 cargo   

n.(一只船或一架飞机运载的)货物

参考例句：

• The ship has a cargo of about 200 ton.这条船大约有200吨的货物。
• A lot of people discharged the cargo from a ship.许多人从船上卸下货物。

9 donors   

n.捐赠者( donor的名词复数 )；献血者；捐血者；器官捐献者

参考例句：

• Please email us to be removed from our active list of blood donors. 假如你想把自己的名字从献血联系人名单中删去，请给我们发电子邮件。
• About half this amount comes from individual donors and bequests. 这笔钱大约有一半来自个人捐赠及遗赠。 来自《简明英汉词典》