VOA标准英语2009年-Fiji's Diplomatic Tussle With Australia, N
时间：2019-02-12 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2009年(十一月)
By Phil Mercer
Sydney
04 November 2009
Australia has ordered Fiji's most senior diplomat 1 to leave the country in response to a decision by the Fijian military to expel its Australia's high commissioner 2. New Zealand's top official in Suva also has been thrown out after being accused of interfering 3 in Fiji's domestic affairs.
The latest quarrel among Australia, New Zealand and Fiji is over a group of expatriate judges from Sri Lanka that Fiji wants to recruit. They are to replace judges who were fired after declaring the military government illegal earlier this year.
Both Canberra and Wellington warned the judges from Sri Lanka that if they took the posts in Fiji they would be subject to travel bans imposed on all senior officials in the military administration.
The threat infuriated Fiji's interim 4 prime minister, Commodore Frank Bainimarama. He accused the high commissioners 5, or ambassadors, from New Zealand and Australia of meddling 6 in his country's internal affairs and ordered them to leave.
Australian officials describe the expulsions as unreasonable 7 and provocative 8, while Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has defended the decision Wednesday to expel Fiji's most senior diplomat.
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd
"The Fijian regime led by Commodore Bainimarama has conducted a military coup 9, he has violated the constitution, he has refused to hold elections and he's suspended the judiciary," noted 10 Rudd. "And so therefore we have taken a deliberately 11 hardline approach to this regime because we do not want this coup culture to spread elsewhere in the Pacific."
Australia and New Zealand's relations with and their small South Pacific neighbor, Fiji, have been in decline since an army coup in December 2006.
Fiji has seen four coups 12 since 1987. Commodore Bainimarama seized power claiming the elected government of Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase was dishonest and pursuing racist 13 policies against the ethnic 14 Indian minority.
Despite international pressure, the military leader has refused to commit to a swift return to democracy. Elections could be at least five years away, while the commodore conducts what he calls a mission to cleanse 15 Fiji of corruption 16 and racism 17.
His critics accuse him of behaving like a dictator and of trashing the country's reputation overseas while key industries, including tourism and sugar production, decline.
The Fijian archipelago lies about two-thirds of the way from Hawaii to New Zealand and has a population of just under a million people.
- The diplomat threw in a joke, and the tension was instantly relieved.那位外交官插进一个笑话，紧张的气氛顿时缓和下来。
- He served as a diplomat in Russia before the war.战前他在俄罗斯当外交官。
- The commissioner has issued a warrant for her arrest.专员发出了对她的逮捕令。
- He was tapped for police commissioner.他被任命为警务处长。
- The government is taking interim measures to help those in immediate need.政府正在采取临时措施帮助那些有立即需要的人。
- It may turn out to be an interim technology.这可能只是个过渡技术。
- The Commissioners of Inland Revenue control British national taxes. 国家税收委员管理英国全国的税收。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The SEC has five commissioners who are appointed by the president. 证券交易委员会有５名委员，是由总统任命的。 来自英汉非文学 - 政府文件
- 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
- I know that they made the most unreasonable demands on you.我知道他们对你提出了最不合理的要求。
- They spend an unreasonable amount of money on clothes.他们花在衣服上的钱太多了。
- She wore a very provocative dress.她穿了一件非常性感的裙子。
- His provocative words only fueled the argument further.他的挑衅性讲话只能使争论进一步激化。
- The monarch was ousted by a military coup.那君主被军事政变者废黜了。
- That government was overthrown in a military coup three years ago.那个政府在3年前的军事政变中被推翻。
- The local hotel is noted for its good table.当地的那家酒店以餐食精美而著称。
- Jim is noted for arriving late for work.吉姆上班迟到出了名。
- The girl gave the show away deliberately.女孩故意泄露秘密。
- They deliberately shifted off the argument.他们故意回避这个论点。
- China has seen many political coups within the ruling class. 中国统治阶级内部发生过很多政变。 来自互联网
- Thailand has had eighteen coups or coup attendance since nineteen thirty-two. 泰国1932年以来有18次政变或参加政变。 来自互联网
- a series of racist attacks 一连串的种族袭击行为
- His speech presented racist ideas under the guise of nationalism. 他的讲话以民族主义为幌子宣扬种族主义思想。
- This music would sound more ethnic if you played it in steel drums.如果你用钢鼓演奏，这首乐曲将更具民族特色。
- The plan is likely only to aggravate ethnic frictions.这一方案很有可能只会加剧种族冲突。
- Health experts are trying to cleanse the air in cities. 卫生专家们正设法净化城市里的空气。
- Fresh fruit juices can also cleanse your body and reduce dark circles.新鲜果汁同样可以清洁你的身体,并对黑眼圈同样有抑制作用。
- 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。