VOA标准英语2013--Survivors of Kenya's Past Election Violence Are Hopeful Now
时间：2018-12-16 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2013年(三月)
Survivors 1 of Kenya's Past Election Violence Are Hopeful Now
There’s plenty of work to be done at this metal workshop in Nakuru. Workers here are fashioning security doors for local businesses and homes. But it is not as busy as it was five years ago, before the last presidential election.
Metal worker Bernard Wanzala said that actually is a good thing. “In 2007, people here made a lot of weapons. They sharpened a lot of machetes here saying they were going to use them for defense 2. But this year, I’ve not sharpened even one.”
Nakuru was at the center of much of the violence between ethnic 3 Kalenjin and Kikuyu mobs following the last election. Parts of the city still have not fully 4 recovered.
One area was a particularly hard hit area section of Nakuru during the post election violence that followed the last vote in 2007. Many of the people have come back here to rebuild their homes. And while they say they are hopeful for peace, there are still some concerns that violence could break out.
Samuel Kamau was burned out of his home five years ago. He said as a landowner, he has no interest in a repeat of violence. “We don’t want hatred 5, because we know we are the ones who will lose the most.”
Gladys Mwangi is worried, though, that tension could be brewing 6 in a nearby slum. “We are seeing the people who attacked us before moving their wives and children, while the men remain. Now we are wondering, what might be cooking?”
Many here say they are voting for presidential candidate Uhuru Kenyatta who is running neck-and-neck in recent polls with Prime Minister Raila Odinga.
The government has been deploying 7 police to Nakuru, and other hotspots in Kenya, ahead of the vote as an extra security precaution.
Keffa Karuoya, of the Internal Displacement 8 Policy and Advocacy Center [IDPAC], said the police presence has put some people on edge.
“I’ve told them, the best thing is to put the batons 9 down, the helmets down, and walk into the estates. Without guns, without anything, to reassure 10 the residents, even those that are fleeing, that the security is there,” said Karuoya.
The campaign season comes to an end on Monday, when Kenyans will elect a new president and a host of local representatives. The big question on everyone’s mind is whether the peace will hold.
- The survivors were adrift in a lifeboat for six days. 幸存者在救生艇上漂流了六天。
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- The accused has the right to defense.被告人有权获得辩护。
- The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers.战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。
- 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。
- The doctor asked me to breathe in,then to breathe out fully.医生让我先吸气，然后全部呼出。
- They soon became fully integrated into the local community.他们很快就完全融入了当地人的圈子。
- He looked at me with hatred in his eyes.他以憎恨的眼光望着我。
- The old man was seized with burning hatred for the fascists.老人对法西斯主义者充满了仇恨。
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- They said that time is the feeling of spatial displacement.他们说时间是空间位移的感觉。
- The displacement of all my energy into caring for the baby.我所有精力都放在了照顾宝宝上。