VOA标准英语2011--Human Rights Violations Mount in Bahrain
时间：2019-01-03 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2011年(三月)
The United Nations Human Rights Office expresses great concern about the deteriorating 1 human rights situation in Bahrain. It says it is receiving reports of more people who have gone missing, been killed and subjected to intimidation 2 and harassment 3.
The U.N. Human Rights Office says over the past week alone, between 50 and 100 people are reported missing. And of these, two who had earlier been missing now have turned up dead.
U.N. spokesman Rupert Colville says the office is receiving reports of people speaking to the media being detained and threatened. He says some are in fear of reprisals 4.
"Those arrested are reported to include political activists 5, human rights defenders 6 and doctors and nurses from the Salmaniya hospital," Colville said. "Some, including female nurses, have been released quite quickly; others have not. Many of those who have been reporting on the situation to the outside world, including to us, have had their communications cut, and in some cases, the mobile phones of their close relatives have also been cut off."
The Salmaniya hospital complex in the capital, Manama, has been taken over by the military. There are numerous reports the military is preventing injured people from entering the hospital to seek medical attention.
Colville says the Human Rights Office has been inundated 7 with emails since it issued a press release last week denouncing violations 8 committed by the Bahraini military and security forces. He says the emails claim the U.N. has got it wrong and that it is the protestors who are completely at fault.
"Many of these emails are very similar in content, suggesting an orchestrated campaign," he added. "That said, some or even many of the emails may well be genuine. It is clear that everyone in Bahrain is to a greater or lesser 9 degree concerned by what is going on. But clearly, the most traumatized are not the people sending these emails, but those people whose colleagues, friends and relatives have been killed, injured, harassed 10, intimidated 11, beaten, or have been arrested or gone missing."
Colville says the authorities must scrupulously 12 abide 13 by international standards. And that, he notes, means people should not be arbitrarily arrested and detained without clear evidence they have committed a crime.
He says people should not be arrested for demonstrating peacefully nor for talking to journalists. He says injured people should not be prevented from receiving medical care.
- The weather conditions are deteriorating. 天气变得越来越糟。
- I was well aware of the bad morale and the deteriorating factories. 我很清楚，大家情绪低落，各个工厂越搞越坏。
- The Opposition alleged voter intimidation by the army.反对党声称投票者受到军方的恐吓。
- The gang silenced witnesses by intimidation.恶帮用恐吓的手段使得证人不敢说话。
- She often got telephone harassment at night these days.这些天她经常在夜晚受到电话骚扰。
- The company prohibits any form of harassment.公司禁止任何形式的骚扰行为。
- They did not want to give evidence for fear of reprisals. 他们因为害怕报复而不想作证。
- They took bloody reprisals against the leaders. 他们对领导进行了血腥的报复。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- His research work was attacked by animal rights activists . 他的研究受到了动物权益维护者的抨击。
- Party activists with lower middle class pedigrees are numerous. 党的激进分子中有很多出身于中产阶级下层。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The defenders were outnumbered and had to give in. 抵抗者寡不敌众，只能投降。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- After hard fighting,the defenders were still masters of the city. 守军经过奋战仍然控制着城市。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- We have been inundated with offers of help. 主动援助多得使我们应接不暇。
- We have been inundated with every bit of information imaginable. 凡是想得到的各种各样的信息潮水般地向我们涌来。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- This is one of the commonest traffic violations. 这是常见的违反交通规则之例。
- These violations of the code must cease forthwith. 这些违犯法规的行为必须立即停止。
- Kept some of the lesser players out.不让那些次要的球员参加联赛。
- She has also been affected,but to a lesser degree.她也受到波及，但程度较轻。
- We try to make sure children don't feel intimidated on their first day at school. 我们努力确保孩子们在上学的第一天不胆怯。
- The thief intimidated the boy into not telling the police. 这个贼恫吓那男孩使他不敢向警察报告。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- She toed scrupulously into the room. 她小心翼翼地踮着脚走进房间。 来自辞典例句
- To others he would be scrupulously fair. 对待别人，他力求公正。 来自英汉非文学 - 文明史