CCTV9英语新闻：英拉请求军事援助来维护选举_在线英语听力室

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Now for the situation in Thailand... where the state of emergency declared to quell¹ months of protests, is in its third day.

For more, we're joined by Tony Cheng, CCTV's correspondent in Bangkok.

Q1: Tony. The Constitutional Court is set to discuss who has the authority to postpone² the election, the poll organising agency or the caretaker government. Have you got some information about the ruling? And how will it affect the election?

Q2: Caretaker Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra met with the military on Thursday to ask them to safeguard the election. Tell us more about that.

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1 quell
v.压制，平息，减轻
参考例句：
Soldiers were sent in to quell the riots.士兵们被派去平息骚乱。 The armed force had to be called out to quell violence.不得不出动军队来镇压暴力行动。

2 postpone
v.延期，推迟
参考例句：
I shall postpone making a decision till I learn full particulars.在未获悉详情之前我得从缓作出决定。 She decided to postpone the converastion for that evening.她决定当天晚上把谈话搁一搁。

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CCTV9英语新闻：英拉请求军事援助来维护选举