听力万花筒 第278期:乌克兰血腥冲突,走向失控
日期:2014-02-11 08:25

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Ukraine Unrest: Opposition Offered Top Jobs
The Ukrainian President offers to share power as demonstrators try to seize government buildings across the country.
新闻背景:

乌克兰议会新通过的一份新的法律,旨在对公众集会进行严格的限制。这遭到了反对派的强烈不满。随后他们准备包围乌克兰议会以示抗议,但是遭到了警方的阻拦,随后爆发激烈冲突。
俄罗斯外交部长拉夫罗夫称,俄关注美国国务卿克里的言论,目前重要的是美国不要干预乌克兰事态进程,并避免激化冲突的言论。拉夫罗夫对媒体表示,他在第二次日内瓦会议期间分别与欧盟外交与安全政策高级代表阿什顿、意大利外长博尼诺、美国国务卿克里探讨了乌克兰局势。拉夫罗夫说,会议上的相关讨论令他感到,相比此前基辅独立广场示威刚刚开始时,克里等人认识到,向乌克兰反对派示好仅仅为了支持他们反对现任政府的做法是危险的。
根据乌克兰社会调查机构最新调查显示,对于当前的局势,乌克兰东西部地区立场相差较大。西部地区亲欧,因此对于反对派的抗议示威较为支持,目前,不少乌克兰西部城市也爆发了示威集会,声援基辅的示威者。而乌克兰东部地区的居民则大多对反对派的行为表示不满。有东部地区居民就表示,要想生活得更好,需要的不是暴力对抗,而是努力工作。

The fires are still burning by the barricades, the police still holding their line and the politician sticking to theirs. The President had offered major concessions to stay in power to make one of the opposition leaders prime minister, to make Vitali Klischko, former world heavyweight boxing champion deputy prime minister in charge of humanitarian affairs.
From the stage in Independent Square, they announced they were prepared to lead the country, but not with Yanukovych still in charge. Negotiations will now continue, but with the President who looks distinctively weakened, the protesters still calling for his head.
“I don't think people will admit this propose of Yanukovych. And people will stay here, in the place to continue the fight against this criminal government.”
“I think this is not what people on the streets and the Ukraine are waiting for, because they want resignation of Yanukovych, and not just by in a position with some, you know, posts in the government.”
This is no longer contained to the capital. This is Vinnytsia, 180km south in central Ukraine. They stormed the government’s regional headquarters. The police are numbered and under attack. This is what they think of their president yet. In Kiev, they briefly seized the energy ministry, forcing their way in with homemade shields and sticks. They barricaded themselves inside with tables and chairs. In streets so as I say, parliament hostilities are going strong, what truces their war still seems to be off. There were elements of the medieval siege to this note. They are using catapults to reach the police lines. And then through the barricades trooped a brigade of mothers, let through the frontline by Orthodox priests. They climbed over the rubble, through remains of burnt-out buses to stand and face the police. “We pleading with you,” they chant.
The women have come right all to the frontier. They are holding signs, saying they are mothers and they are repealing to the lines of the police, just metres here in front of them, appealing them to be with their people, not to attack their children. As the mothers were led back, the protesters started to sing the national anthem, hands on hearts on top of the barricades. They feel they are standing here for the future of their country. They have too much to lose to go home.

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重点单词
  • independentadj. 独立的,自主的,有主见的 n. 独立派人士,无
  • pleadingn. 恳求 动词plead的现在分词形式
  • containedadj. 泰然自若的,从容的;被控制的 v. 包含;遏制
  • chantn. 圣歌,赞美诗,旋律,喊叫 vt. 吟唱,诵扬,叫喊
  • championn. 冠军,优胜者,拥护者,勇士 vt. 保卫,拥护,为
  • announced宣布的
  • anthemn. 圣歌,赞美诗
  • medievaladj. 中世纪的
  • frontiern. 边界,边境,尖端,边缘
  • appealingadj. 引起兴趣的,动人的