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The world this week
本周国际要闻

Politics
政治版块

The leaders of the G7 countries headed to the Cornish resort of Carbis Bay for a summit, their first in two years and the first for Joe Biden as America's president.
七国集团(G7)领导人前往康沃尔的旅游胜地卡比斯湾(Carbis Bay)参加峰会，这是两年来的该组织的首次峰会，也是乔·拜登(Joe Biden)就任美国总统以来的首次峰会。

Ahead of the summit, G7 finance ministers met in London, where they proposed the biggest shake-up of corporate tax since the 1920s,
在这次峰会前，七国的财长在伦敦举行了会议，他们提出了自上世纪20年代以来最大规模的公司税改革，

backing a minimum global rate of at least 15% and a clampdown on companies that park profits in tax havens.
支持全球最低公司税税率至少为15%，并打击将利润转移到避税天堂的公司。

But the proposals will need the support of other countries.
但这些提议需要其他国家的支持。

Democrats had to rethink their plan to pass comprehensive legislation on electoral reform, known as the For the People Act,
民主党人不得不重新考虑他们的计划，即通过关于选举改革的全面立法——《人民法案》(For the People Act)。

when Joe Manchin, a Democratic senator from West Virginia, said he would not support it because it lacked Republican support.
来自西弗吉尼亚州的民主党参议员乔·曼钦(Joe Manchin)表示，他不会支持该法案，因为它缺乏共和党人的支持。

Mr Manchin also definitively ruled out backing any attempt to weaken the filibuster, another headache for the Democrats in a Senate that is split 50-50.
曼钦还明确表示不会支持任何弱化阻挠议事的企图，这是参议院民主党人的另一个头疼问题，因为参议院中民主党人的意见是50对50。

America's border agency intercepted 180,034 illegal migrants in May, a new 21-year high.
美国边境管理局5月拦截了180,034名非法移民，人数创21年来新高。

The number of unaccompanied children at the border is falling, as is the number of migrants from Central America.
边境上无人陪伴的儿童数量正在下降，来自中美洲的移民数量也在下降。

In her first trip abroad as vice-president, Kamala Harris went to Guatemala and warned potential migrants not to enter the United States, as they would be turned back.
在就任副总统后的首次海外之行中，卡玛拉·哈里斯(Kamala Harris)前往危地马拉，警告潜在移民不要进入美国，因为他们会被遣返。

Pedro Castillo, a left-wing former schoolteacher, narrowly won Peru's presidential run-off.
前左翼教师佩德罗·卡斯蒂略(Pedro Castillo)以微弱优势赢得秘鲁总统大选。

With just 50.2%, a lead of 70,000 out of 17.5m votes cast, he has a weak mandate and will preside over a bitterly divided country.
他只获得了50.2%的选票，在1750万张选票中领先7万张，他得到的授权很少，并且将领导一个严重分裂的国家。

His conservative opponent, Keiko Fujimori, claimed there had been fraud, although there is little evidence of this.
他的保守派对手藤森庆子(Keiko Fujimori)声称选举存在欺诈行为，尽管几乎没有证据证实这一点。

In Nicaragua Daniel Ortega, the strongman president who hopes to win a fifth term in elections in November, appeared to be further muzzling the opposition,
在尼加拉瓜，希望在11月的选举中赢得第五个任期的强人总统丹尼尔·奥尔特加(Daniel Ortega)似乎进一步压制了反对派，

when four prominent opposition politicians were detained in the space of a few days.
当时四位著名的反对派政客被拘留了数日。

There were mixed results for Morena, the party of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, in mid-term elections in Mexico.
在墨西哥中期选举中，总统安德烈斯·曼努埃尔·洛佩斯·奥布拉多尔总统所属政党莫雷那党（Morena）的结果喜忧参半。

It and its allies lost their two-thirds majority in the national legislature's lower house, but it remains the most popular party and has expanded its national footprint.
该党及其盟友失去了议会下院三分之二的多数席位，但它仍是最受欢迎的政党，并扩大了在全国的影响力。

A court in Moscow ruled that two organisations connected to Alexei Navalny, a jailed opposition leader in Russia, were "extremist",
莫斯科一家法院裁定，与被监禁的俄罗斯反对派领导人阿列克谢·纳瓦尔尼(Alexei Navalny)有关的两个组织是“极端主义”组织，

and thus should be shut down and their members barred from standing in elections.
因此应被取缔，并禁止其成员参加选举。

The move, which follows a change in the law that came into effect just five days earlier,
这一举措是在五天前生效的一项法律变化后采取的，

is clearly aimed at preventing supporters of Mr Navalny from running in parliamentary elections expected in September.
目的显然是阻止纳瓦尔尼的支持者参加预计将于9月举行的议会选举。

The hearing was held behind closed doors.
这次的听证会是秘密举行的。

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1. turned back 往回走；阻挡

He turned back to his work.

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2. shut down 关闭

The computer system will be shut down over the weekend.

计算机系统周末关闭a8A&q8OJvc~2#mTee|K5。

3. presidential run-off 总统大选

A run-off presidential election on November 8th turned sour well before results were announced.

11月8日的一场决胜选举在宣告结果之前就已然变味8W_-78RKRLVZ3H。

4. ruled out 排除；否决；取消

The proposed solution was ruled out as too expensive.

建议的解决方案被认为花钱太多而遭否决0cPFpvG0Sf。

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opponent	[ə'pəunənt]	想一想再看 n. 对手，敌手，反对者 adj. 敌对的，反	联想记忆 X 单词opponent 联想记忆：源于：oppose（v 反对），op反，pose放－反对
extremist	[iks'tri:mist]	想一想再看 n. 极端主义者，过激分子
global	['gləubəl]	想一想再看 adj. 全球性的，全世界的，球状的，全局的	联想记忆 X 单词global 联想记忆：北京有一个global的厅
mandate	['mændeit]	想一想再看 n. 命令，指令，要求，托管地 vt. 把(某一地区)置
summit	['sʌmit]	想一想再看 n. 顶点;最高阶层 vi. 参加最高级会议，	联想记忆 X 单词summit 联想记忆： summ总，加+it表名词→山的顶峰像数量总和→一样→最高数量→最高峰
reform	[ri'fɔ:m]	想一想再看 v. 改革，改造，革新 n. 改革，改良	联想记忆 X 单词reform 联想记忆： re再次+form形状→再形成→改革，改造
comprehensive	[.kɔmpri'hensiv]	想一想再看 adj. 综合的，广泛的，理解的	联想记忆 X 单词comprehensive 联想记忆： com共同，prehens抓住－把相关信息一起抓住－全面的
evidence	['evidəns]	想一想再看 n. 根据，证据 v. 证实，证明	联想记忆 X 单词evidence 联想记忆： e出+vid看+ence→[明显的证据]证据，证人
solution	[sə'lu:ʃən]	想一想再看 n. 解答，解决办法，溶解，溶液	联想记忆 X 单词solution 联想记忆： solut松开+ion→溶解；解决
democratic	[.demə'krætik]	想一想再看 adj. 民主的，大众的，平等的	联想记忆 X 单词democratic 联想记忆： demo人民+-ic…的→民主的，民主主义的；民主政体的