VOA常速英语2007年-Pakistani Opposition Considers Alternatives Aft
时间：2019-02-17 作者：英语课 分类：VOA常速英语2007年（十一月）
Islamabad
14 November 2007
Security forces in Pakistan have largely succeeded in preventing mass protest rallies since emergency rule was imposed on November 3. VOA's Barry Newhouse reports from Islamabad that political opposition 1 parties are now discussing alternate ways to oppose President Pervez Musharraf, but are reluctant to boycott 2 January's planned elections.
Opposition party leader Imran Khan is the latest outspoken 3 critic of General Musharraf to be detained by police. Officers arrested the former cricket star at a university protest rally in Lahore Wednesday, days after he went into hiding to evade 4 detention 5.
Lawyers, journalists and other groups continue to hold small-scale demonstrations 6 against emergency rule. But Pakistan's opposition remains 7 splintered, with nearly all top organizers in detention or exile.
That includes former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, who has been placed under house arrest for a second time to prevent her from leading a mass protest against emergency rule.
Sherry Rehman, a spokeswoman for Ms. Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party, says the party is now holding talks with other opposition parties about forming a broader coalition 8. The aim, she says, would be to force a restoration of democracy.
"We're in talks about a single-point agenda to restore democracy," she said.
Ms. Bhutto, who returned to Pakistan recently under a power-sharing deal with President Musharraf, now says she could no longer serve in a future government with him. But Rehman says the party is not ready to boycott the January elections, which General Musharraf says can be held perfectly 9 well under emergency rule.
"That is a very major decision for a federal party with a large grassroots constituency," she said. "And there is pressure from our voters to not leave them unrepresented."
Ms. Bhutto has said that campaigning and holding polls under the emergency laws, which suspend basic rights, would be difficult.
But President Musharraf insists that not only are the country's emergency laws popular among Pakistanis, they will help ensure fair elections.
In an interview broadcast on state television Wednesday, the president invited outside observers to oversee 10 the polls.
"Emergency is not meant to get a hold of opposition, prevent them from coming," he said. "We are going to allow any observers coming from abroad and seeing the elections - the fairness and transparency."
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and other Western officials have called on General Musharraf to end emergency rule before the elections. In an interview with the New York Times newspaper published Wednesday, the General said he "totally" disagreed with Rice's request.
- 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。
- We put the production under a boycott.我们联合抵制该商品。
- The boycott lasts a year until the Victoria board permitsreturn.这个抗争持续了一年直到维多利亚教育局妥协为止。
- He was outspoken in his criticism.他在批评中直言不讳。
- She is an outspoken critic of the school system in this city.她是这座城市里学校制度的坦率的批评者。
- He tried to evade the embarrassing question.他企图回避这令人难堪的问题。
- You are in charge of the job.How could you evade the issue?你是负责人，你怎么能对这个问题不置可否？
- He was kept in detention by the police.他被警察扣留了。
- He was in detention in connection with the bribery affair.他因与贿赂事件有牵连而被拘留了。
- 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。
- He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
- The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。
- 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。
- The witnesses were each perfectly certain of what they said.证人们个个对自己所说的话十分肯定。
- Everything that we're doing is all perfectly above board.我们做的每件事情都是光明正大的。