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英语课
By Peta Thornycroft
Harare
02 April 2008


Zimbabwe's ruling ZANU-PF party has lost its majority in parliament according to the latest official result from the Zimbabwe Election Commission. And, as Peta Thornycroft reports for VOA from Harare, this news follows an earlier announcement from the opposition 1 Movement for Democratic Change that it believes its candidate, Morgan Tsvangirai, has won more than 50 percent of the vote in the presidential race.


 


The Zimbabwe Election Commission's latest results indicate that the MDC and its allies will have an historic, small, parliamentary majority. ZANU-PF has held the majority in parliament since independence from Britain in 1980.


But this news was pre-empted by the opposition Movement for Democratic Change, which in a media conference announced that its tally 2, which it says coincides with that of the independent Zimbabwe Election Support Network, shows that its presidential candidate Tsvangirai got 50.3 percent of the vote. So far there is no official tally of votes cast in the race for president.


If the MDC tally of the presidential race is correct, this would mean that Tsvangirai has won an outright 3 victory over the 84-year-old incumbent 4, President Robert Mugabe.


MDC Secretary General Tendai Biti says this means there should be no need for a run-off in the presidential race which would have to take place in 21 days from when the result is officially announced. But he said Tsvangirai would be willing to contest a run-off, if the Commission insists one is required.


"A runoff in 21 days," said Biti. "That is what the law says. If that is the case, without prejudice to our position this party will contest the runoff, but we would have hoped for a situation that there will be a conceding of the result for a number of reasons, and the number of reasons being that it is unlikely that the people's will, will in any way be reversed in that run-off. If anything, there will actually be an embarrassing margin 5 in favor of the opposition in the runoff. There is no question about that.


Biti said he hopes President Mugabe will realize that any run-off would deliver him a smashing defeat.


He adds that the party's assessment 6 of the election results are based on actual votes cast, counted and verified by the Zimbabwe Election Commission at each individual polling station. But he notes that there are some outstanding results which have not yet been released.


Political analysts 7 say the margins 8 are so narrow that the MDC might be forced to accept a run-off because disputes about even one or two voting stations could significantly change the overall percentages.


Biti said the margin of error was very small, adding that his party has already called for verification of the officially announced results at some polling stations because of discrepancies 9 with its own records.


Meanwhile the ruling ZANU-PF has described the MDC's tally of the presidential race as "wishful". Party spokesman Bright Matonga said no party could decide the winner but suggested ZANU-PF has accepted there might be a run-off for the presidential election.


The elections last Saturday were for four contests, the presidency 10, parliament, senate and local government.




n.反对,敌对
  • 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。
n.计数器,记分,一致,测量;vt.计算,记录,使一致;vi.计算,记分,一致
  • Don't forget to keep a careful tally of what you spend.别忘了仔细记下你的开支账目。
  • The facts mentioned in the report tally to every detail.报告中所提到的事实都丝毫不差。
adv.坦率地;彻底地;立即;adj.无疑的;彻底的
  • 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。
adj.成为责任的,有义务的;现任的,在职的
  • He defeated the incumbent governor by a large plurality.他以压倒多数票击败了现任州长。
  • It is incumbent upon you to warn them.你有责任警告他们。
n.页边空白;差额;余地,余裕;边,边缘
  • We allowed a margin of 20 minutes in catching the train.我们有20分钟的余地赶火车。
  • The village is situated at the margin of a forest.村子位于森林的边缘。
n.评价;评估;对财产的估价,被估定的金额
  • This is a very perceptive assessment of the situation.这是一个对该情况的极富洞察力的评价。
  • What is your assessment of the situation?你对时局的看法如何?
分析家,化验员( analyst的名词复数 )
  • City analysts forecast huge profits this year. 伦敦金融分析家预测今年的利润非常丰厚。
  • I was impressed by the high calibre of the researchers and analysts. 研究人员和分析人员的高素质给我留下了深刻印象。
边( margin的名词复数 ); 利润; 页边空白; 差数
  • They have always had to make do with relatively small profit margins. 他们不得不经常设法应付较少的利润额。
  • To create more space between the navigation items, add left and right margins to the links. 在每个项目间留更多的空隙,加左或者右的margins来定义链接。
n.差异,不符合(之处),不一致(之处)( discrepancy的名词复数 )
  • wide discrepancies in prices quoted for the work 这项工作的报价出入很大
  • When both versions of the story were collated,major discrepancies were found. 在将这个故事的两个版本对照后,找出了主要的不符之处。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.总统(校长,总经理)的职位(任期)
  • Roosevelt was elected four times to the presidency of the United States.罗斯福连续当选四届美国总统。
  • Two candidates are emerging as contestants for the presidency.两位候选人最终成为总统职位竞争者。
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0816
acid alizarin blue
alternating current to direct current
anytiiing
approaching cutoff
arm-wrestling
autoconer
aveiro
Babilafuente
bandera
betimely
black-whiter
board director
cardinal bishop
Chemopeel
close calls
complete willingness
computed tomography (ct)
cousinhood
crystal imprint
culturebox
daub coat
davis mts.
Doug.
dried beef
electrobiochemical
fashing
flash-butt welding
floppy discs
foot-path
fractometer
gap filler radar
gargets
go to sb's rescue
goatherder
Gourmont, Remy de
government house
gravimetric baseline
greasing of insulator
Harwit's imaging spectrometer
have one's eye well in
haveta
i-kumen
infrahyoid muscles
injointed
ins
insinuates
internet media services
ISMC
J. B.
Kiriaki
Kotar
lattice-type frame
linkage (morgan 1910)
lutra longicaudis
Mahiya
mathematical skill
maximum chord of blade
mill glazed paper
minimum exclusion distance
morphology of crystals
multipath error
music of the renaissance
narrow range
nightshirt
nonarable
nonpoultry
nu bodies
off-drove
olanzapinerexa
onramps
open waltz
packet assembler disassembler
perfections
personal dosimetry
postage-stamps
pseudo-yeast
rack one's brain s
ray bradburies
reconnaissance strategic missile
rectorial
redraft
regal-
roots-music
SCOLSHIP
scramblement
sideband carrier
slip out of someone's hands
social withdrawal
spring beard needle
star-light
Sullivan, Annie
temperature-sensing
toxicological pathology
tree-walk collecting information
turret armor
usable storage
veterinary service
vibration design chart
voltage controlled avalanche oscillator
weissler
yield timbering