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(单词翻译:双击或拖选)
Moscow
10 April 2007
Ukraine's political crisis enters its second week, with no signs of a breakthrough. Pro-reform President Viktor Yushchenko and Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych, a supporter of closer ties with Moscow, have held more talks aimed at defusing the standoff, but failed to reach a compromise. VOA's Lisa McAdams in Moscow reports:
President Yushchenko met rival Prime Minister Yanukovych as thousands of the prime minister's supporters converged1 again in downtown Kiev.
The protests had dwindled2 a bit during the long Easter holiday weekend, but demonstrators were back out again in force in support of Mr. Yanukovych. He and his supporters say the president's decree last Monday to dissolve parliament and call new elections May 27 is unconstitutional.
Supporters of Ukrainian PM Viktor Yanukovych attend a rally in Independence Square in Kiev, Ukraine, 10 Apr 2007 |
Ukraine's Constitutional Court is to take up the issue on Wednesday in a process that could yield a result at any time in the next month.
Until then, the battle of wills plays out in the streets, with Yanukovych's Regions Party vowing6 to bring thousands of more demonstrators to Kiev as time goes on. This pro-government supporter, Valentina Mikhalenko, says she is demonstrating against Yushchenko's pro-Western aims, such as NATO membership for Ukraine.
Valentina says she and other pro-government supporters do not want to see Ukraine join NATO. She says they want to stay close to Russia and other former Soviet7 Republics like Belarus.
Opposition8 supporters have been largely absent from the streets in order to lessen9 the chance for confrontation10. But opposition leaders have said they could still bring their supporters out in protest, if deemed necessary in the coming days.
Polls show that if an election were held today, President Yushchenko's Our Ukraine Party would place a distant third, behind Orange Revolution ally Yulia Timoshenko's bloc11 and the Regions Party.
1 converged | |
v.(线条、运动的物体等)会于一点( converge的过去式 );(趋于)相似或相同;人或车辆汇集;聚集 | |
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2 dwindled | |
v.逐渐变少或变小( dwindle的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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3 reiterated | |
反复地说,重申( reiterate的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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4 usurp | |
vt.篡夺,霸占;vi.篡位 | |
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5 maneuvers | |
n.策略,谋略,花招( maneuver的名词复数 ) | |
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6 vowing | |
起誓,发誓(vow的现在分词形式) | |
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7 Soviet | |
adj.苏联的,苏维埃的;n.苏维埃 | |
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8 opposition | |
n.反对,敌对 | |
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9 lessen | |
vt.减少,减轻;缩小 | |
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10 confrontation | |
n.对抗,对峙,冲突 | |
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11 bloc | |
n.集团;联盟 | |
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