总统选举在即 巴西提升安保级别

 Brazilian military and police have tightened¹ security across the country ahead of Sunday's run-off vote between President Dilma Rousseff and her centre-right rival Aecio Neves.

On Friday, thousands of soldiers began deployment² to favelas in Rio de Janeiro and several other states.

The troops are to provide logistical help, as well as ensuring law and order.

They will be concentrated mostly in remote areas of the country's less developed northern and western states.

Claudio Pereira is a spokesperson for the Brazilian military police.

巴西总统选举前提升安保级别"This weekend, Saturday and Sunday, we will have 35-thousand military police officers working for the election, guarding the ballot³ boxes, taking care of all the voting areas, 5,418 voting centres."More than 140 million Brazilian voters are expected to vote in what many observers consider the most divisive presidential race in decades.

The latest polls give left-leaning incumbent⁴ Rousseff a slight edge in the race to lead the world's fifth-largest nation.

Rousseff's Workers' Party has governed Brazil for the past 12 years.

Centre-right challenger Neves is the presidential candidate of the Brazilian Social Democracy Party, PSDB.

1 tightened   

收紧( tighten的过去式和过去分词 )； （使）变紧； （使）绷紧； 加紧

参考例句：

• The rope holding the boat suddenly tightened and broke. 系船的绳子突然绷断了。
• His index finger tightened on the trigger but then relaxed again. 他的食指扣住扳机，然后又松开了。

2 deployment   

n. 部署,展开

参考例句：

• He has inquired out the deployment of the enemy troops. 他已查出敌军的兵力部署情况。
• Quality function deployment (QFD) is a widely used customer-driven quality, design and manufacturing management tool. 质量功能展开(quality function deployment,QFD)是一个广泛应用的顾客需求驱动的设计、制造和质量管理工具。

3 ballot   

n.（不记名）投票，投票总数，投票权；vi.投票

参考例句：

• The members have demanded a ballot.会员们要求投票表决。
• The union said they will ballot members on whether to strike.工会称他们将要求会员投票表决是否罢工。

4 incumbent   

adj.成为责任的，有义务的；现任的，在职的

参考例句：

• He defeated the incumbent governor by a large plurality.他以压倒多数票击败了现任州长。
• It is incumbent upon you to warn them.你有责任警告他们。