2006年VOA标准英语-Supporters of Ivory Coast President Protes

By Joe Bavier
Abidjan
16 January 2006

Protesters walk past a make shift road block in the streets of Abidjan, Ivory Coast  
  
Angry supporters of Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo have taken to the streets in Abidjan to protest the recommendation by international mediators to dissolve parliament. The recently appointed transitional government is calling for calm, but pro-Gbagbo militants² say they are planning more demonstrations³.

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Beginning early Monday morning, militant¹ supporters of Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo raised barricades⁵ and blocked traffic in the Abidjan neighborhood known as Riviera.

The area is home to the new headquarters of the United Nations peacekeeping mission, as well as several embassies and the hotel where the International Working Group on Ivory Coast met Sunday.

In a statement read at the end of the meeting, the group recommended not extending the mandate⁶ of the country's National Assembly, which expired in December.

The recommendation has been met with angry reactions by supporters of the president, whose party and its allies dominate the body.

We're in the streets, said one protester manning a barricade⁴ in Riviera. We're not moving. As long as this decision holds, he said, we'll be in the streets.

By early afternoon, pro-Gbagbo militants had taken over key intersections⁷ throughout the city, erecting⁸ more barricades and burning tires.

The war-divided country's newly appointed government of transition is calling for calm.

Interior minister Joseph Dja Ble, in a statement broadcast on state television, said the decision of the International Working Group was a recommendation and did not mean parliament had been dissolved.

However, leaders of the movement known as the Young Patriots⁹ were meeting in the early afternoon Monday. One leader, Toure Moussa, said more protests would follow.

"We are surprised, and I am very, very surprised by the way they are dealing¹⁰ with the Ivorian crisis," said Moussa. "We are preparing to do more than what has happened this morning. That's what we are preparing."

Several vehicles belonging to the U.N. peacekeeping mission were attacked Sunday and more than 100 angry supporters of the president attempted to march to the heavily guarded hotel where the International Working Group was meeting. They were turned back by security forces.

1 militant   

adj.激进的，好斗的；n.激进分子，斗士

参考例句：

• Some militant leaders want to merge with white radicals.一些好斗的领导人要和白人中的激进派联合。
• He is a militant in the movement.他在那次运动中是个激进人物。

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 demonstrations   

证明( demonstration的名词复数 )； 表明； 表达； 游行示威

参考例句：

• Lectures will be interspersed with practical demonstrations. 讲课中将不时插入实际示范。
• The new military government has banned strikes and demonstrations. 新的军人政府禁止罢工和示威活动。

4 barricade   

n.路障，栅栏，障碍；vt.设路障挡住

参考例句：

• The soldiers make a barricade across the road.士兵在路上设路障。
• It is difficult to break through a steel barricade.冲破钢铁障碍很难。

5 barricades   

路障，障碍物( barricade的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The police stormed the barricades the demonstrators had put up. 警察冲破了示威者筑起的街垒。
• Others died young, in prison or on the barricades. 另一些人年轻时就死在监牢里或街垒旁。

6 mandate   

n.托管地；命令，指示

参考例句：

• The President had a clear mandate to end the war.总统得到明确的授权结束那场战争。
• The General Election gave him no such mandate.大选并未授予他这种权力。

7 intersections   

n.横断( intersection的名词复数 )；交叉；交叉点；交集

参考例句：

• Traffic lights have been placed at all major intersections. 所有重要的交叉路口都安装了交通信号灯。
• Intersections are of the greatest importance in highway design. 在道路设计中，交叉口占有最重要的地位。 来自辞典例句

8 erecting   

v.使直立，竖起( erect的现在分词 )；建立

参考例句：

• Nations can restrict their foreign trade by erecting barriers to exports as well as imports. 象设置进口壁垒那样，各国可以通过设置出口壁垒来限制对外贸易。 来自辞典例句
• Could you tell me the specific lift-slab procedure for erecting buildings? 能否告之用升板法安装楼房的具体程序？ 来自互联网

9 patriots   

爱国者，爱国主义者( patriot的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Abraham Lincoln was a fine type of the American patriots. 亚伯拉罕·林肯是美国爱国者的优秀典型。
• These patriots would fight to death before they surrendered. 这些爱国者宁愿战斗到死，也不愿投降。

10 dealing   

n.经商方法，待人态度

参考例句：

• This store has an excellent reputation for fair dealing.该商店因买卖公道而享有极高的声誉。
• His fair dealing earned our confidence.他的诚实的行为获得我们的信任。