VOA标准英语2012--Between the Kremlin and the Protesters: A Church Mediator?
时间：2018-12-16 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2012年(二月)
Between the Kremlin and the Protesters: A Church Mediator 1?
The patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church has a residence inside the Kremlin. The church depends heavily on government funding. When mass protests broke out this winter, few people expected sympathy from the church.
So Patriarch Kirill's January message came as a shock. He warned Prime Minister Vladimir Putin not to be deaf to the protesters.
The patriarch warned that if the government remains 2 insensitive to protests, it would be “a very bad sign.”
With the Orthodox Church claiming 80 million members in Russia, the patriarch wants to keep the national church above partisan 3 politics. Roman Lukin, a religion analyst 4 in Moscow, says Kirill's January message is key.
He says that the patriarch wants to place the church above political fights, to position itself as a mediator.
After a big rally in December, opposition 5 leader Alexei Navalny asked the church to mediate 6 between the opposition and Mr. Putin. Last week, Navalny met with a church leader to start a dialogue.
Meanwhile, the patriarch wants to avoid the kind of radicalization that led to the communist revolution, almost one century ago.
He says the authorities should listen to the people, correct the government’s policies and avoid the kinds of divisions that crippled Russia in the last century.
Before becoming patriarch, Kirill served for a decade as church spokesman. Now, he asks all parishes to create Internet homepages to better communicate with believers.
Pravmir, the main Orthodox website, now bubbles with blogs and sermons, some critical of Russia’s rampant 7 corruption 8.
Reverend Dmitri Sverdlov won a wide audience for blogging about last month’s parliamentary elections, the vote that sparked the protest movement.
The orthodox priest said the key is to improve Russia, without destroying it.
Presidential elections are set for March 4. Protests may continue. And if the Russian Winter becomes a "Russian Spring," a key mediating 9 role may be in store for the nation’s 1,000-year-old church.
- He always takes the role of a mediator in any dispute.他总是在争论中充当调停人的角色。
- He will appear in the role of mediator.他将出演调停者。
- 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。
- In their anger they forget all the partisan quarrels.愤怒之中，他们忘掉一切党派之争。
- The numerous newly created partisan detachments began working slowly towards that region.许多新建的游击队都开始慢慢地向那里移动。
- What can you contribute to the position of a market analyst?你有什么技能可有助于市场分析员的职务？
- The analyst is required to interpolate values between standards.分析人员需要在这些标准中插入一些值。
- 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。
- The state must mediate the struggle for water resources.政府必须通过调解来解决对水资源的争夺。
- They may be able to mediate between parties with different interests.他们也许能在不同利益政党之间进行斡旋。
- Sickness was rampant in the area.该地区疾病蔓延。
- You cannot allow children to rampant through the museum.你不能任由小孩子在博物馆里乱跑。
- 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。