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(单词翻译:双击或拖选)
Harare
18 February 2007
In Zimbabwe, police attacked opposition1 supporters trying to attend political events in the capital, Harare, and the second largest city, Bulawayo. Peta Thornycroft reports for VOA, police banned the rallies in defiance2 of a court order to allow the one in the capital to go ahead.
Zimbabwe's leader of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), Morgan Tsvangirai, argues with a policeman after being refused to hold a rally in Harare, 18 Feb 2007
Police used tear gas and water cannons3 to disperse4 opposition supporters who arrived for an opposition rally in a poor township of Harare, and witnesses say hundreds of people were arrested.
Riot police barricaded5 the area in defiance of a High Court order to allow the rally to take place. The court overruled a police ban on gatherings6. The police had argued they did not have sufficient manpower or time to secure the event.
The founder7 of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change, Morgan Tsvangirai, was planning to announce his candidacy for next year's presidential elections, during the rally.
In the city of Bulawayo on Saturday, MDC parliament member David Coltart said police attacked and arrested several people taking part in what was billed as a "defiance campaign," led by academic Arthur Muutambara, who heads another faction8 of the MDC.
Welshman Nucbe, of Muutambara's faction, said Home Affairs Minister Kembo Mohadi told him Friday that security ministers had decided9 to ban opposition gatherings because of rising tensions in the country.
With dramatically rising inflation, at nearly 1,600 percent a year, opposition to President Robert Mugabe and his ruling ZANU-PF party has recently spread far beyond the two factions10 of the MDC.
In the past two weeks, analysts12 say, there were more spontaneous protests, labor13 disturbances14 and arrests than at any time in the past four years.
Veteran Zimbabwe political analyst11 Brian Raftopoulos says there is a rising tide of discontent. He said the Zimbabwe government now has few options open to it to resolve the economic and political crisis.
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n.反对,敌对 | |
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2 defiance | |
n.挑战,挑衅,蔑视,违抗 | |
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3 cannons | |
n.加农炮,大炮,火炮( cannon的名词复数 ) | |
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4 disperse | |
vi.使分散;使消失;vt.分散;驱散 | |
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5 barricaded | |
设路障于,以障碍物阻塞( barricade的过去式和过去分词 ); 设路障[防御工事]保卫或固守 | |
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6 gatherings | |
聚集( gathering的名词复数 ); 收集; 采集; 搜集 | |
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7 Founder | |
n.创始者,缔造者 | |
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8 faction | |
n.宗派,小集团;派别;派系斗争 | |
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9 decided | |
adj.决定了的,坚决的;明显的,明确的 | |
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10 factions | |
组织中的小派别,派系( faction的名词复数 ) | |
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11 analyst | |
n.分析家,化验员;心理分析学家 | |
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分析家,化验员( analyst的名词复数 ) | |
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13 labor | |
n.劳动,努力,工作,劳工;分娩;vi.劳动,努力,苦干;vt.详细分析;麻烦 | |
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n.骚乱( disturbance的名词复数 );打扰;困扰;障碍 | |
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