首页
登录
职称英语
[originaltext] Washington (dpa)-The United States, never shy to lecture the r
[originaltext] Washington (dpa)-The United States, never shy to lecture the r
游客
2023-12-20
46
管理
问题
Washington (dpa)-The United States, never shy to lecture the rest of the world on the virtues of democracy, has become the target of ridicule from newspapers and hostile governments delighting at the Election 2000 paralysis.
The Washington Times noted that "nations used to being targets of lectures for their own election irregularities were taking barely disguised glee in the drawn-out battle for the White House between Republican George W. Bush and Democrat Al Gore.
The leaders of the United States allies have politely held back with mockery, but not so their newspapers, or officials from countries that have less than cordial ties with Washington. A brief selection of the global ridicule:
Rome’s La Republica judged in a front-page headline that Tuesday was "A day worthy of a banana republic. "
"Washington, we have a problem, " joked the French-language Swiss daily 24 Heures.
A Russian daily quipped about the "Divided States of America. "
British tabloid the Daily Mirror ran the headline "Forrest Chumps" with the kicker "This election’s like a box of chocolates you never know what you’re going to get. "
Iran’s Khabar state broadcaster delighted in showing the 1996 Hollywood comedy "My Fellow Americans, about corruption in the White House, on election night. "
In Russia, the recipient of generous advice from Washington over the years, President Vladimir Putin offered to send election monitors to help with the vote count.
His election commission chief Alexander Veshnyakov who was invited to the U. S. to observe the poll, rubbed salt into the wound by praising a system which "definitely enriches my understanding of how irregularities can occur. "
Officials in India, the world’s largest democracy, also offered advice and offered to send help, as did Zimbabwe.
There, the campaign chief of President Robert Mugabe, Jonathan Moyo, said: "Perhaps now we have reached a time when they can learn a lot from us. Maybe Africans and others should send observers to help Americans with their democracy. "
Libya’s U. N. envoy commented about the "Florida model: We can see from the elections that we are the true democracies and not this ridiculous American model. "
In a Washington press briefing, State Department spokesman Richard Boucher was forced to tell journalists questioning him that the United States had not entertained a proposal to allow observers from the Organization of American States, a common practice in elections in many Latin American countries.
Pushed by journalists, he added: "I think pretty much most of the world maybe most of the world outside this room understands that this is a regular, normal, legal, clear, transparent, open process for United States democracy. "
选项
A、transport
B、transparent
C、apparent
D、obscure
答案
B
解析
转载请注明原文地址:https://tihaiku.com/zcyy/3290716.html
相关试题推荐
[originaltext]HadIknownthatwecouldbuyexactlythesametypeofcamerache
[originaltext]HadIknownthatwecouldbuyexactlythesametypeofcamerache
[originaltext]IreallycannotdecidewhethertodigupinformationfromtheInt
[originaltext]IreallycannotdecidewhethertodigupinformationfromtheInt
[originaltext]IreallycannotdecidewhethertodigupinformationfromtheInt
[originaltext]IreallycannotdecidewhethertodigupinformationfromtheInt
[originaltext]Nowadays,moreandmoreyoungcouplesprefernottohaveachild
[originaltext]Ifthepriceoffuelcontinuestobeincreasingastheresultof
[originaltext]Ifthepriceoffuelcontinuestobeincreasingastheresultof
[originaltext]Ifthepriceoffuelcontinuestobeincreasingastheresultof
随机试题
Radioactivityoccursnaturally.Themainsourcecomesfromnaturalsourcesin
It’shardlynewsthattheimmigrationsystemismess.Foreignnationalshave
[originaltext]M:Goodmorning,Dr.Smith.MynameisPeter.Iamafreshmanin
与肾上腺素合用可导致严重心律失常的全麻药A.氟烷 B.氧化亚氮 C.乙醚
与排斥反应没有明显关系的是A.HLA-AB.HLA-BC.HLA-CD.HLA-
下列说法符合《党政机关公文处理工作条例》规定的是:A.公文的发文字号包括发文份数
持仓限额是指国务院期货监督管理机构对期货交易者的持仓量规定的最低数额。()
A.后果特别严重 B.其他严重情节 C.对人体健康造成严重危害 D.其他特
(2016年真题)假设我国某商业银行是一家系统重要性银行,2015年年末,该银行
根据《尾矿库安全监督管理规定》的规定,对生产运行的尾矿库,未经技术论证和安全生产
最新回复
(
0
)