2020年经济学人 一周要闻 巴黎疫情恶化 纽约疫情再度爆发 爱尔兰政府拒绝"封国"

Tanzania barred Tundu Lissu, the opposition¹ leader, from campaigning for president for seven days, claiming that his speeches criticising the government were “unethical”. Elections are on October 28th. Opposition offices have been firebombed.

坦桑尼亚禁止反对派领袖Tundu Lissu在七天内参加总统竞选，声称他批评政府的演讲是“不道德的”。选举将于10月28日举行。反对派办公室遭到燃烧弹袭击。

West Africa’s regional bloc², ECOWAS, blinked in its stand-off with the leaders of a coup³ in Mali and lifted sanctions on the country. It had previously⁴ insisted that power be handed to a civilian⁵ government and that it would not accept the appointment as president of Bah Ndaw, a former defence minister.

西非地区集团西非国家经济共同体(ECOWAS)对其与马里政变领导人的对峙含糊其辞，并解除了对该国的制裁。此前，军方坚持将权力移交给文官政府，并表示不会接受前国防部长巴恩多的总统任命。

Prince Bandar bin⁶ Sultan, a senior member of the royal family of Saudi Arabia, accused Palestinian leaders of betraying their people, in an interview on Saudi-owned television. The comments were seen as a signal of declining Saudi support for the Palestinians and a possible first step towards closer relations between Israel and the kingdom.

沙特王室高级成员班达尔·本·苏丹王子在沙特电视台的采访中指责巴勒斯坦领导人背叛了他们的人民。这些言论被视为沙特对巴勒斯坦人的支持下降的信号，也可能是以色列和沙特王国走向更紧密关系的第一步。

Fighting intensified⁷ in and around the disputed enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh. At least 200 people have been killed. Azerbaijan is trying to wrest⁸ back territory seized from it by neighbouring Armenia after the collapse⁹ of the Soviet¹⁰ Union. Turkey has armed Azerbaijan and encouraged it to break a fragile peace that has mostly held since 1994.

在有争议的纳戈尔诺-卡拉巴赫飞地及其周围，战争局势加剧。至少有200人丧生。阿塞拜疆正试图夺回苏联解体后被邻国亚美尼亚夺去的领土。土耳其为阿塞拜疆提供武装支持，并鼓励其打破自1994年以来一直维持的脆弱的和平。

The leaders of Golden Dawn, a neo-fascist Greek political party, were convicted in Athens of running a criminal organisation¹¹, after a party member murdered a rapper in 2013. The party itself has not been banned, but lengthy¹² prison terms are now expected for those who incited¹³ violence.

2013年，希腊新法西斯主义政党“金色黎明”(Golden Dawn)的一名党员谋杀了一名说唱歌手，该党领导人在雅典被判运营一个犯罪组织。该党本身并没有被取缔，但煽动暴力的人可能会被判长期监禁。

Coronavirus briefs

疫情一览

The governor of New York state, Andrew Cuomo, refused a request from the mayor of New York City, Bill de Blasio, to close non-essential businesses in parts of Brooklyn and Queens that have become virus hotspots, but imposed his own new restrictions¹⁴.

纽约州州长安德鲁·科莫拒绝了纽约市长白思豪的要求，拒绝关闭布鲁克林和皇后区一些已成为疫情热点地区的非必要企业，但他实施了的新的限制措施。

Bars and cafés in Paris were ordered to close again, this time for two weeks.

巴黎的酒吧和咖啡馆再次被勒令关闭，这次关闭时间为两周。

The Irish government rejected a plea from senior scientific advisers¹⁵ to place the country in a strict lockdown, saying that the risk to jobs of closing the economy was too great. Some restrictions were reimposed; people were again told to work remotely.

爱尔兰政府拒绝了高级科学顾问提出的将国家严格禁闭的请求，称关闭经济对就业的风险太大。并且重新恢复了一些限制措施；人们再次被告知要居家办公。

October 16th was set as the date for a travel bubble between Australia and New Zealand to begin. It will be limited to New Zealanders at first; New Zealand recently declared itself free of coronavirus, for the second time.

澳大利亚和新西兰之间的旅行通道——旅游泡泡将于10月16日开始。起初只面向新西兰人开放；新西兰最近宣布，该国第二次摆脱了冠状病毒。

1 opposition   

n.反对，敌对

参考例句：

• The party leader is facing opposition in his own backyard.该党领袖在自己的党內遇到了反对。
• The police tried to break down the prisoner's opposition.警察设法制住了那个囚犯的反抗。

2 bloc   

n.集团；联盟

参考例句：

• A solid bloc of union members support the decision.工会会员团结起来支持该决定。
• There have been growing tensions within the trading bloc.贸易同盟国的关系越来越紧张。

3 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。

4 previously   

adv.以前，先前（地）

参考例句：

• The bicycle tyre blew out at a previously damaged point.自行车胎在以前损坏过的地方又爆开了。
• Let me digress for a moment and explain what had happened previously.让我岔开一会儿，解释原先发生了什么。

5 civilian   

adj.平民的，民用的，民众的

参考例句：

• There is no reliable information about civilian casualties.关于平民的伤亡还没有确凿的信息。
• He resigned his commission to take up a civilian job.他辞去军职而从事平民工作。

6 bin   

n.箱柜；vt.放入箱内；[计算机] DOS文件名:二进制目标文件

参考例句：

• He emptied several bags of rice into a bin.他把几袋米倒进大箱里。
• He threw the empty bottles in the bin.他把空瓶子扔进垃圾箱。

7 intensified   

v.（使）增强， （使）加剧( intensify的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• Violence intensified during the night. 在夜间暴力活动加剧了。
• The drought has intensified. 旱情加剧了。 来自《简明英汉词典》

8 wrest   

n.扭，拧，猛夺；v.夺取，猛扭，歪曲

参考例句：

• The officer managed to wrest the gun from his grasp.警官最终把枪从他手中夺走了。
• You wrest my words out of their real meaning.你曲解了我话里的真正含义。

9 collapse   

vi.累倒；昏倒；倒塌；塌陷

参考例句：

• The country's economy is on the verge of collapse.国家的经济已到了崩溃的边缘。
• The engineer made a complete diagnosis of the bridge's collapse.工程师对桥的倒塌做了一次彻底的调查分析。

10 Soviet   

adj.苏联的，苏维埃的；n.苏维埃

参考例句：

• Zhukov was a marshal of the former Soviet Union.朱可夫是前苏联的一位元帅。
• Germany began to attack the Soviet Union in 1941.德国在1941年开始进攻苏联。

11 organisation   

n.组织，安排，团体，有机休

参考例句：

• The method of his organisation work is worth commending.他的组织工作的方法值得称道。
• His application for membership of the organisation was rejected.他想要加入该组织的申请遭到了拒绝。

12 lengthy   

adj.漫长的，冗长的

参考例句：

• We devoted a lengthy and full discussion to this topic.我们对这个题目进行了长时间的充分讨论。
• The professor wrote a lengthy book on Napoleon.教授写了一部有关拿破仑的巨著。

13 incited   

刺激，激励，煽动( incite的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• He incited people to rise up against the government. 他煽动人们起来反对政府。
• The captain's example incited the men to bravery. 船长的榜样激发了水手们的勇敢精神。

14 restrictions   

约束( restriction的名词复数 )； 管制； 制约因素； 带限制性的条件（或规则）

参考例句：

• I found the restrictions irksome. 我对那些限制感到很烦。
• a snaggle of restrictions 杂乱无章的种种限制

15 advisers   

顾问，劝告者( adviser的名词复数 )； （指导大学新生学科问题等的）指导教授

参考例句：

• a member of the President's favoured circle of advisers 总统宠爱的顾问班子中的一员
• She withdrew to confer with her advisers before announcing a decision. 她先去请教顾问然后再宣布决定。