VOA标准英语10月-Zimbabwe PM-Designate Tsvangirai to Attend Monday

Zimbabwe's prime minister designate Morgan Tsvangirai says he will attend a meeting of regional leaders in Harare Monday after he boycotted¹ the last session a week ago because he had no passport to travel to Swaziland. Peta Thornycroft reports that Mr. Tsvangirai will attend a last ditch regional meeting which will try and remove a deadlock² on filling top cabinet positions in any new government of national unity³.
　

Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai addresses supporters during rally in Masvingo, 19 Oct 2008

Morgan Tsvangirai still has no passport but will not need one for the next regional meeting because it will take place in Harare.

A Movement for Democratic Change spokesman said he is attending even though many conditions agreed to in the power sharing agreement signed on September 15 have been broken by President Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF.

MDC spokesman Nelson Chamisa said pro-democracy activists⁴ continue to be arrested and harassed⁵, in particular leading figures from the Women of Zimbabwe Arise organization. Three of them were arrested earlier this week at a peaceful protest outside government offices.

One, Jenni Williams, remains⁶ in detention⁷ in Bulawayo.

Chamisa also pointed⁸ to the state-controlled mass media, which runs the only two daily newspapers and the one television and four radio stations. The state media carries daily reports hostile to the MDC.

Having been denied a passport since June, Mr. Tsvangirai last weekend refused to attend a meeting called by the Southern African Development Community, SADC, which is mediating⁹ a settlement of Zimbabwe's ever deepening political, economic and humanitarian¹⁰ crisis.

Now he has said he will attend another SADC session in Harare, at which leaders from Mozambique, Angola. Swaziland and the Democratic Republic of Congo are expected to attend.

The SADC mediation¹¹, which began last year, and ended in failure eight months later, restarted after Zimbabwe's elections in March in which the MDC narrowly beat ZANU-PF in the parliamentary elections and Mr. Tsvangirai won the first round of the presidential poll from Mr. Mugabe.

Heading the team is former South African president Thabo Mbeki who has continued to facilitate despite fears that the power-sharing agreement is unlikely to succeed.

The present deadlock is about allocation of cabinet positions. ZANU-PF wants all the security posts, such as defense¹², the police and security ministries¹³ with Mr Tsvangirai, so far, being allocated¹⁴ the social service positions. Mr. Tsvangirai wants the home affairs ministry¹⁵ which controls the police.

Some of his lieutenants¹⁶, such as MDC secretary-general Tendai Biti want 10 ministries re negotiated including local government, information and foreign affairs.

Most of Zimbabwe's population is hungry and at least two million have been identified by the United Nations as in need of immediate¹⁷ food aid. Non governmental organizations say they are struggling to get around official red tape and begin emergency feeding programs.

1 boycotted   

抵制，拒绝参加( boycott的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• Athletes from several countries boycotted the Olympic Games. 有好几国的运动员抵制奥林匹克运动会。
• The opposition party earlier boycotted the Diet agenda, demanding Miyaji's resignation. 反对党曾杯葛国会议程，要宫路下台。

2 deadlock   

n.僵局，僵持

参考例句：

• The negotiations reached a deadlock after two hours.两小时后，谈判陷入了僵局。
• The employers and strikers are at a deadlock over the wage.雇主和罢工者在工资问题上相持不下。

3 unity   

n.团结，联合，统一；和睦，协调

参考例句：

• When we speak of unity,we do not mean unprincipled peace.所谓团结，并非一团和气。
• We must strengthen our unity in the face of powerful enemies.大敌当前，我们必须加强团结。

4 activists   

n.（政治活动的）积极分子，活动家( activist的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• 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》

5 harassed   

adj. 疲倦的，厌烦的 动词harass的过去式和过去分词

参考例句：

• He has complained of being harassed by the police. 他投诉受到警方侵扰。
• harassed mothers with their children 带着孩子的疲惫不堪的母亲们

6 remains   

n.剩余物，残留物；遗体，遗迹

参考例句：

• He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
• The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。

7 detention   

n.滞留，停留；拘留，扣留；(教育)留下

参考例句：

• He was kept in detention by the police.他被警察扣留了。
• He was in detention in connection with the bribery affair.他因与贿赂事件有牵连而被拘留了。

8 pointed   

adj.尖的，直截了当的

参考例句：

• He gave me a very sharp pointed pencil.他给我一支削得非常尖的铅笔。
• She wished to show Mrs.John Dashwood by this pointed invitation to her brother.她想通过对达茨伍德夫人提出直截了当的邀请向她的哥哥表示出来。

9 mediating   

调停，调解，斡旋( mediate的现在分词 )； 居间促成； 影响…的发生； 使…可能发生

参考例句：

• So many factors are mediating. 如此众多的因素在起作用。
• The contrast in mediating noted in the sitting room. 客厅中注重了调和中的对比。

10 humanitarian   

n.人道主义者，博爱者，基督凡人论者

参考例句：

• She has many humanitarian interests and contributes a lot to them.她拥有很多慈善事业，并作了很大的贡献。
• The British government has now suspended humanitarian aid to the area.英国政府现已暂停对这一地区的人道主义援助。

11 mediation   

n.调解

参考例句：

• The dispute was settled by mediation of the third country. 这场争端通过第三国的斡旋而得以解决。
• The dispute was settled by mediation. 经调解使争端得以解决。

12 defense   

n.防御，保卫；[pl.]防务工事；辩护，答辩

参考例句：

• The accused has the right to defense.被告人有权获得辩护。
• The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers.战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。

13 ministries   

（政府的）部( ministry的名词复数 )； 神职； 牧师职位； 神职任期

参考例句：

• Local authorities must refer everything to the central ministries. 地方管理机构应请示中央主管部门。
• The number of Ministries has been pared down by a third. 部委的数量已经减少了1/3。

14 allocated   

adj. 分配的 动词allocate的过去式和过去分词

参考例句：

• The Ford Foundation allocated millions of dollars for cancer research. 福特基金会拨款数百万美元用于癌症研究。
• More funds will now be allocated to charitable organizations. 现在会拨更多的资金给慈善组织。

15 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。

16 lieutenants   

n.陆军中尉( lieutenant的名词复数 )；副职官员；空军；仅低于…官阶的官员

参考例句：

• In the army, lieutenants are subordinate to captains. 在陆军中，中尉是上尉的下级。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
• Lieutenants now cap at 1.5 from 1. Recon at 1. 中尉现在由1人口增加的1.5人口。侦查小组成员为1人口。 来自互联网

17 immediate   

adj.立即的；直接的，最接近的；紧靠的

参考例句：

• His immediate neighbours felt it their duty to call.他的近邻认为他们有责任去拜访。
• We declared ourselves for the immediate convocation of the meeting.我们主张立即召开这个会议。