2014年CRI 香港反占中获65万签名 乌克兰议会选举总统波罗申科阵营有望获胜

 

Hundreds of thousands of people in Hong Kong have signed on for an Anti-Occupy Central campaign.

The signatories are calling for the restoration of law and order, saying the demonstrations¹ are affecting their daily lives.

So far around 650-thousand people have signed the petition.

Meanwhile, protest leaders have suspended a vote on what their next steps are going to be in their month-long protests.

The protesters had planned a vote on a series of government proposals they rejected earlier in the week.

Exit polling is suggesting Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko's party is poised² to eek out a narrow victory in Ukraine's parliamentary election.

However, the Poroshenko bloc³ is positioned to fall well short of an outright⁴ majority.

Polling suggests Poroshenko's party is going to get around 22.2 percent of the vote.

Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk's Popular Front is polling only slightly behind.

Poroshenko Bloc and Popular Front are likely to form a coalition⁵ together with other pro-European parties to form the next government.

Preliminary official results are expected later on this Monday.

1 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。

2 poised   

a.摆好姿势不动的

参考例句：

• The hawk poised in mid-air ready to swoop. 老鹰在半空中盘旋，准备俯冲。
• Tina was tense, her hand poised over the telephone. 蒂娜心情紧张，手悬在电话机上。

3 bloc   

n.集团；联盟

参考例句：

• A solid bloc of union members support the decision.工会会员团结起来支持该决定。
• There have been growing tensions within the trading bloc.贸易同盟国的关系越来越紧张。

4 outright   

adv.坦率地；彻底地；立即；adj.无疑的；彻底的

参考例句：

• If you have a complaint you should tell me outright.如果你有不满意的事，你应该直率地对我说。
• You should persuade her to marry you outright.你应该彻底劝服她嫁给你。

5 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。