VOA常速英语2021--突尼斯复兴运动党一名高级官员被逮捕

AFP is reporting that plainclothes police officers in Tunisia's capital on Friday arrested a senior official of the Ennahdha party which played a central role in the country's politics until a power grab by the current president, Kais Saied.

法新社报道，周五，突尼斯首都的便衣警察逮捕了复兴运动党的一名高级官员。在现任总统凯伊斯·赛义德夺权之前，该党在该国政治中一直扮演着核心角色。

The party condemned¹ the arrest of Noureddine Bhiri, a former justice minister and deputy president of the Islamist-inspired Ennahdha party.

该党谴责了对前司法部长、伊斯兰复兴运动党副主席努尔丁·比里的逮捕行为。

Tunisia was the only democracy to emerge from the Arab Spring revolts of roughly a decade ago.

突尼斯是大约十年前阿拉伯之春起义中唯一崛起的民主国家。

But civil society groups and the president's opponents have expressed fear of a slide back into authoritarianism².

但公民社会团体和总统的反对者表示，他们担心国家会重新陷入威权主义。

South Africans on Friday took their last chance to pay their respects to Archbishop Desmond Tutu on the eve of a funeral for the revered³ anti-apartheid fighter.

周五，在德斯蒙德·图图大主教葬礼前夕，南非人最后一次向这位备受尊敬的反种族隔离斗士致敬。

Since Thursday, nearly 3,000 mourners have filed through Cape⁴ Town's St. George's Cathedral before the simple pine casket containing Tutu's remains⁵.

自周四以来，近3000名哀悼者排队穿过开普敦的圣乔治大教堂，瞻仰装有图图遗体的简易松木棺材。

Members of Tutu's family hugged and consoled each other as the coffin⁶ returned for the second and final day of the lying-in-state.

在遗体瞻仰期的第二天，也就是最后一天，当棺材被运回，图图的家人相互拥抱安慰。

Tutu died peacefully age 90 on Sunday.

图图周日于平静中离世，享年90岁。

He was considered a moral compass who had helped to hold the country out of the darkness of the apartheid era.

他被视为是帮助这个国家走出黑暗的种族隔离时代的道德指南针。

Tutu was for years the emblem⁷ of the struggle to end white minority rule as Nelson Mandela and other leaders languished⁸ in prison.

多年来，图图一直是终结白人少数统治斗争的象征，与此同时，纳尔逊·曼德拉和其他领导人在监狱里饱受煎熬。

A total of 45 journalists were killed worldwide in 2021, according to the International Federation⁹ of Journalists, or IFJ, on Friday. It said it's "one of the lowest death tolls¹⁰" they had ever recorded.

据国际记者联合会(IFJ)周五透露，2021年全球共有45名记者被杀。该联合会称，这是他们有记录以来“死亡人数最少的年份之一”。

The IFJ said the media workers "more often than not were killed for exposing corruption¹¹, crime and abuse of power in their communities."

IFJ称，这些媒体工作人员“经常因为揭露他们所在社会的腐败、犯罪和滥用权力而被杀害”。

1 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。

2 authoritarianism   

权力主义，独裁主义

参考例句：

• Modern authoritarianism is a vestige of traditional personal rule. 现代独裁主义则是传统的个人统治的残余。
• In its latter days it was a byword for authoritarianism, incompetence, and corruption. 在后期，它是独裁、无能和腐化的代号。

3 revered   

v.崇敬，尊崇，敬畏( revere的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• A number of institutions revered and respected in earlier times have become Aunt Sally for the present generation. 一些早年受到尊崇的惯例，现在已经成了这代人嘲弄的对象了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The Chinese revered corn as a gift from heaven. 中国人将谷物奉为上天的恩赐。 来自辞典例句

4 cape   

n.海角，岬；披肩，短披风

参考例句：

• I long for a trip to the Cape of Good Hope.我渴望到好望角去旅行。
• She was wearing a cape over her dress.她在外套上披着一件披肩。

5 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。

6 coffin   

n.棺材，灵柩

参考例句：

• When one's coffin is covered,all discussion about him can be settled.盖棺论定。
• The coffin was placed in the grave.那口棺材已安放到坟墓里去了。

7 emblem   

n.象征，标志；徽章

参考例句：

• Her shirt has the company emblem on it.她的衬衫印有公司的标记。
• The eagle was an emblem of strength and courage.鹰是力量和勇气的象征。

8 languished   

长期受苦( languish的过去式和过去分词 )； 受折磨； 变得（越来越）衰弱； 因渴望而变得憔悴或闷闷不乐

参考例句：

• Our project languished during the holidays. 我们的计划在假期间推动得松懈了。
• He languished after his dog died. 他狗死之后，人憔悴了。

9 federation   

n.同盟，联邦，联合，联盟，联合会

参考例句：

• It is a federation of 10 regional unions.它是由十个地方工会结合成的联合会。
• Mr.Putin was inaugurated as the President of the Russian Federation.普京正式就任俄罗斯联邦总统。

10 tolls   

（缓慢而有规律的）钟声( toll的名词复数 )； 通行费； 损耗； （战争、灾难等造成的）毁坏

参考例句：

• A man collected tolls at the gateway. 一个人在大门口收通行费。
• The long-distance call tolls amount to quite a sum. 长途电话费数目相当可观。

11 corruption   

n.腐败，堕落，贪污

参考例句：

• The people asked the government to hit out against corruption and theft.人民要求政府严惩贪污盗窃。
• The old man reviled against corruption.那老人痛斥了贪污舞弊。