VOA标准英语2009年-Senegal's President Says He'll Run in 2012

By Scott Stearns
Dakar
17 September 2009
 
Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade¹
Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade says he intends to run for re-election in 2012.

President Wade told VOA's French to Africa service that he intends to stand for a third term in the country's next election.

President Wade says he will be a candidate in 2012, God willing, if God gives him a long life.

The 83-year-old's ruling party did poorly in this year's local government election, losing control of both the municipal council in the capital Dakar and in Senegal's second city St. Louis.

President Wade's election nine years ago ended four decades of post-independence rule by the Senegalese Socialist² Party. He was re-elected in 2007 with more than 50 percent of the vote in the first round.

Many political observers believed the ruling party would nominate the president's son Karim as its 2012 candidate. Karim Wade has organized a group of younger Senegalese activists³ known as the concrete generation. But he lost his first political race for a seat on Dakar's municipal council and has since been named by his father to serve as a government minister.

While suggesting that he would like to see his son succeed him by telling VOA that any parent would like to see his son become president, Mr. Wade says, for now, he intends to seek another term in office.

President Wade says he has the right to be president in an election that he says will be open and without cheating.

President Wade gave the interview in Washington where he signed a $540 million contract with the U.S. Millennium⁴ Challenge Corporation to reduce poverty.

1 wade   

v.跋涉，涉水；n.跋涉

参考例句：

• We had to wade through the river to the opposite bank.我们只好涉水过河到对岸。
• We cannot but wade across the river.我们只好趟水过去。

2 socialist   

n.社会主义者；adj.社会主义的

参考例句：

• China is a socialist country,and a developing country as well.中国是一个社会主义国家，也是一个发展中国家。
• His father was an ardent socialist.他父亲是一个热情的社会主义者。

3 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》

4 millennium   

n.一千年，千禧年；太平盛世

参考例句：

• The whole world was counting down to the new millennium.全世界都在倒计时迎接新千年的到来。
• We waited as the clock ticked away the last few seconds of the old millennium.我们静候着时钟滴答走过千年的最后几秒钟。