2006年VOA标准英语-Shi’ite Parties Gain Seats, No Word On Ki

By Kathie Scarrah
Washington, DC
23 January 2006
 
watch Iraq report

In Iraq, election officials confirmed that Shi’ite religious parties garnered¹ the most votes in last month's parliamentary elections.  And the fate of a kidnapped American journalist remains² unclear as the kidnappers³ deadline for the release of all Iraqi female prisoners passes. 

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Preliminary results of the December 15th election announced Friday indicate the United Iraqi Alliance, a Shi’ite religious party, secured 128 of 275 seats, ten seats short of a majority. The Kurdish Alliance won 53 seats.  And two Sunni Arab parties won a total of 55 seats.  Therefore the new Iraqi parliament will require a coalition⁴. 

Sean McCormack   
  

U.S. State Department spokesman Sean McCormack. said, "What form the government takes, who is seating in what seat, what coalitions⁵ are formed, what the platform of the government looks like -- those are questions for the Iraqis to answer themselves.  We encourage them, and the rest of the world encourages them to work together.  To work across lines, to work across whatever divisions may exist in society." 

The deadline for the current government to free Iraqi female prisoners, set by the captors of an American journalist, passed. 

 
American journalist Jill Carroll
  
The fate of Jill Carroll, a freelance reporter for an American newspaper, remains uncertain.  Her kidnappers had threatened to kill her Friday if their demand for the release of Iraqi female inmates⁶ was not met.   

There were many appeals to her captors as the deadline neared.  In Baghdad, a senior member of the Sunni Arab Iraqi Accordance Front, Adnan al Dulaimi, said Ms. Carroll's kidnapping was un-Islamic.   
 

Adnan al Dulaimi   
  
"I appeal to the kidnappers to release this journalist who came to Iraq to cover our situation, to defend our rights,” he said. “She is a journalist who condemned⁷ the war in Iraq and we call on everybody to protect all the journalists, and call on them to release all the journalists and innocent people."

Ms. Carroll was abducted⁸ January 7th after leaving al Dulaimi's office, where she had hoped to interview the political leader.  Her interpreter was killed in the attack. 

A delegation⁹ from the Washington-based Council of American Islamic Relations was in Jordan, enroute to Iraq to appeal for Ms. Carroll's life.  

Nihad Awad  
  
CAIR executive director Nihad Awad told the news media, "We appeal to them on humanitarian¹⁰ grounds, to release this reporter. She is known for her objectivity. Reporters should not be subject, and should not be harmed to any kind of kidnapping in any situation."

Pleas from Jim Carroll, the 28 year-old journalist's father, were also broadcast on Arabic television stations. 

More than 240 foreigners have been kidnapped since the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. Thirty-nine have been killed.

1 garnered   

v.收集并（通常）贮藏（某物），取得，获得( garner的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• Mr. Smith gradually garnered a national reputation as a financial expert. 史密斯先生逐渐赢得全国金融专家的声誉。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• He has garnered extensive support for his proposals. 他的提议得到了广泛的支持。 来自辞典例句

2 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。

3 kidnappers   

n.拐子，绑匪( kidnapper的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• They were freed yesterday by their kidnappers unharmed. 他们昨天被绑架者释放了，没有受到伤害。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The kidnappers had threatened to behead all four unless their jailed comrades were released. 帮匪们曾经威胁说如果印度方面不释放他们的同伙，他们就要将这四名人质全部斩首。 来自《简明英汉词典》

4 coalition   

n.结合体，同盟，结合，联合

参考例句：

• The several parties formed a coalition.这几个政党组成了政治联盟。
• Coalition forces take great care to avoid civilian casualties.联盟军队竭尽全力避免造成平民伤亡。

5 coalitions   

结合体，同盟( coalition的名词复数 )； （两党或多党）联合政府

参考例句：

• History testifies to the ineptitude of coalitions in waging war. 历史昭示我们，多数国家联合作战，其进行甚为困难。
• All the coalitions in history have disintegrated sooner or later. 历史上任何联盟迟早都垮台了。

6 inmates   

n.囚犯( inmate的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• One of the inmates has escaped. 被收容的人中有一个逃跑了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The inmates were moved to an undisclosed location. 监狱里的囚犯被转移到一个秘密处所。 来自《简明英汉词典》

7 condemned   

adj. 被责难的, 被宣告有罪的 动词condemn的过去式和过去分词

参考例句：

• He condemned the hypocrisy of those politicians who do one thing and say another. 他谴责了那些说一套做一套的政客的虚伪。
• The policy has been condemned as a regressive step. 这项政策被认为是一种倒退而受到谴责。

8 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。

9 delegation   

n.代表团；派遣

参考例句：

• The statement of our delegation was singularly appropriate to the occasion.我们代表团的声明非常适合时宜。
• We shall inform you of the date of the delegation's arrival.我们将把代表团到达的日期通知你。

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。