VOA常速英语2008年-Morgan Tsvangirai Accuses Zimbabwe Government o

By Peta Thornycroft
Harare
05 April 2008

In Zimbabwe, Morgan Tsvangirai, who led his party to victory in parliamentary elections, said Saturday there is no need for a runoff of the presidential election, because he won that vote as well with a 50 percent majority. Peta Thornycroft reports from Harare that lawyers for Tsvangirai were chased away from the High Court Saturday as they tried to lodge¹ an application to demand official release of the results of the presidential poll.

Zimababwean opposition² leader Morgan Tsvangirai Saturday accused the government of President Robert Mugabe of preparing a war against Zimbabwe's people in order to reverse what Tsvangirai called the people's will.

"We know that thousands of army recruits are being recruited," he said.  "Militants³ are being rehabilitated⁴.  And some few claiming to be war veterans are already on the warpath."

He also accused the government of adding to Zimbabwe's hyperinflation by printing money to win any runoff vote.

"The reserve bank printing presses are in overdrive to print more money for further bribery⁵ activities, financing of violence and creation of no-go areas for the MDC," he adeed.  "ZANU-PF is thus preparing a war on the people such as we have witnessed in 2000 and 2002."

The remarks come one week after Zimbabwe's elections in which Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) won a majority of seats in parliament. The Election Commission Saturday said the ruling ZANU-PF and opposition MDC parties each won 30 seats in the newly created Senate.

But Zimbabweans are still eagerly awaiting the results of the presidential vote, which Tsvangirai's party and civic⁶ groups say he won according to their tallies⁷ of results posted at polling stations.

The delay led the MDC to seek to petition the High Court in Harare to demand that the country's Election Commission release the presidential election results.

But on Saturday, the MDC's lawyer, Alex Muchadahama, was prevented from filing the plea.

In public view, he was barred by armed men from entering the court.  He said, although he was upset, he would try again on Sunday.

On Saturday, the State controlled Herald⁸ newspaper said the MDC has encouraged white farmers to reclaim⁹ land from which they were evicted¹⁰ in recent years under a so-called land reform program. The farms were given to some liberation war veterans and family members of government and party officials.

The newspaper said that war veterans loyal to Mr Mugabe have been aroused.

The issue of land distributions to black Zimbabweans was the most consistent theme of ZANU-PF's pre-election campaign. Land has now become the ruling party's most important post election rallying point, with the party's hardcore warning that an MDC government would reverse land seizures¹¹ from whites.

For the first time in several years, white commercial farmers in southeastern Zimbabwe, who continue growing crops on small pieces of their original holdings, are now under siege.

The Commercial Farmers Union said Saturday war veterans have moved onto four farms and a tourist lodge owned by farmers about 250 kilometers south east of Harare.  It said the police have not intervened.

1 lodge   

v.临时住宿，寄宿，寄存，容纳；n.传达室，小旅馆

参考例句：

• Is there anywhere that I can lodge in the village tonight?村里有我今晚过夜的地方吗？
• I shall lodge at the inn for two nights.我要在这家小店住两个晚上。

2 opposition   

n.反对，敌对

参考例句：

• 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。

3 militants   

激进分子，好斗分子( militant的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The militants have been sporadically fighting the government for years. 几年来，反叛分子一直对政府实施零星的战斗。
• Despite the onslaught, Palestinian militants managed to fire off rockets. 尽管如此，巴勒斯坦的激进分子仍然发射导弹。

4 rehabilitated   

改造（罪犯等）( rehabilitate的过去式和过去分词 )； 使恢复正常生活； 使恢复原状； 修复

参考例句：

• He has been rehabilitated in public esteem. 公众已恢复对他的敬重。
• Young persons need to be, wherever possible, rehabilitated rather than punished. 未成年人需要受到尽可能的矫正而不是惩罚。

5 bribery   

n.贿络行为，行贿，受贿

参考例句：

• FBI found out that the senator committed bribery.美国联邦调查局查明这个参议员有受贿行为。
• He was charged with bribery.他被指控受贿。

6 civic   

adj.城市的，都市的，市民的，公民的

参考例句：

• I feel it is my civic duty to vote.我认为投票选举是我作为公民的义务。
• The civic leaders helped to forward the project.市政府领导者协助促进工程的进展。

7 tallies   

n.账( tally的名词复数 )；符合；（计数的）签；标签v.计算，清点( tally的第三人称单数 )；加标签（或标记）于；（使）符合；（使）吻合

参考例句：

• Cash on hand tallies with the figure in the accounts. 现款跟账上的数目没有出入。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
• He tallies his own marks. 他把自己的得分记了下来。 来自《简明英汉词典》

8 herald   

vt.预示...的来临，预告，宣布，欢迎

参考例句：

• In England, the cuckoo is the herald of spring.在英国杜鹃鸟是报春的使者。
• Dawn is the herald of day.曙光是白昼的先驱。

9 reclaim   

v.要求归还，收回；开垦

参考例句：

• I have tried to reclaim my money without success.我没能把钱取回来。
• You must present this ticket when you reclaim your luggage.当你要取回行李时，必须出示这张票子。

10 evicted   

v.（依法从房屋里或土地上）驱逐，赶出( evict的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• A number of tenants have been evicted for not paying the rent. 许多房客因不付房租被赶了出来。
• They had evicted their tenants for non-payment of rent. 他们赶走了未交房租的房客。

11 seizures   

n.起获( seizure的名词复数 )；没收；充公；起获的赃物

参考例句：

• Seizures of illicit drugs have increased by 30% this year. 今年违禁药品的扣押增长了30%。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Other causes of unconsciousness predisposing to aspiration lung abscess are convulsive seizures. 造成吸入性肺脓肿昏迷的其他原因，有惊厥发作。 来自辞典例句