VOA标准英语2009年-Indian MPs Protest Joint Statement with Pa

Opposition¹ politicians in the Indian Parliament have staged a noisy walkout to express their anger about the joint² statement with Pakistan signed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh earlier this month.

Opposition protest on the floor of India's Parliament had the speaker of the Lok Sabha, Meira Kumar, at wit's end in a repeated plea for calm.

"Please address the chair. Please address the chair! Honorable member, what is this going on? What is this going on?" asked Kumar.

What was going on was an especially bitter and intense display of dismay among the opposition. It contends foreign powers - implicitly³ the United States - may have arm-twisted India's prime minister into signing the July 16 joint statement seen as appeasing⁴ Pakistan.

Raising particular ire is a reference to Pakistan's troubled Balochistan province in which Islamabad has accused New Delhi of encouraging rebellion.
　
Lawmakers led by Bharatiya Janata Party leader L.K. Advani (C) leave meeting with Indian Pres. to protest alleged⁵ capitulation to Pakistan, New Delhi, 28 Jul 2009

Lal Krishna Advani is the leader of the BJP, the Bhartiya Janata Party.

"Why is Balochistan mentioned here, which is a joint statement, a joint India-Pakistan statement? And for the first time in all these years. They have been making this allegation earlier also. And I am sure that the prime minister in his talk with Mr. Gilani must have told him that we have nothing to do with it," said Advani.

The finance minister, Pranab Mukherjee, who until recently was foreign minister, told Parliament Balochistan was a "unilateral" reference made by Pakistan in the joint statement. But he went on to say India wants to make it clear it is not meddling⁶ in the affairs of its neighbor and long-time rival.

"We do not believe in exporting our ideology⁷. We do not believe in exporting our sphere of influence. We do not believe in the interference in the internal matters of any other country," Mukherjee said.

The BJP, also upset that the joint statement agreed to de-link talking about terrorism from the overall peace process, then staged a walk-out from Parliament.

There is little else the opposition can do at this stage. Mr. Singh's Congress Party and its allies enjoy a comfortable majority in the national legislature, which would make any vote of no confidence a futile⁸ exercise.

1 opposition   

n.反对，敌对

参考例句：

• The party leader is facing opposition in his own backyard.该党领袖在自己的党內遇到了反对。
• The police tried to break down the prisoner's opposition.警察设法制住了那个囚犯的反抗。

2 joint   

adj.联合的，共同的；n.关节，接合处；v.连接，贴合

参考例句：

• I had a bad fall,which put my shoulder out of joint.我重重地摔了一跤，肩膀脫臼了。
• We wrote a letter in joint names.我们联名写了封信。

3 implicitly   

adv. 含蓄地, 暗中地, 毫不保留地

参考例句：

• Many verbs and many words of other kinds are implicitly causal. 许多动词和许多其他类词都蕴涵着因果关系。
• I can trust Mr. Somerville implicitly, I suppose? 我想，我可以毫无保留地信任萨莫维尔先生吧？

4 appeasing   

安抚，抚慰( appease的现在分词 )； 绥靖（满足另一国的要求以避免战争）

参考例句：

• Mr. Chamberlain had cherished the hope of appeasing and reforming him and leading him to grace. 张伯伦先生则满心想安抚他，感化他，教他温文知礼。
• A pleasing preacher is too often an appeasing preacher. 一昧讨好的传道人通常是姑息妥协的传道人。

5 alleged   

a.被指控的，嫌疑的

参考例句：

• It was alleged that he had taken bribes while in office. 他被指称在任时收受贿赂。
• alleged irregularities in the election campaign 被指称竞选运动中的不正当行为

6 meddling   

v.干涉，干预（他人事务）( meddle的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• He denounced all "meddling" attempts to promote a negotiation. 他斥责了一切“干预”促成谈判的企图。 来自辞典例句
• They liked this field because it was never visited by meddling strangers. 她们喜欢这块田野，因为好事的陌生人从来不到那里去。 来自辞典例句

7 ideology   

n.意识形态，(政治或社会的)思想意识

参考例句：

• The ideology has great influence in the world.这种思想体系在世界上有很大的影响。
• The ideal is to strike a medium between ideology and inspiration.我的理想是在意识思想和灵感鼓动之间找到一个折衷。

8 futile   

adj.无效的，无用的，无希望的

参考例句：

• They were killed,to the last man,in a futile attack.因为进攻失败，他们全部被杀，无一幸免。
• Their efforts to revive him were futile.他们对他抢救无效。