听力原文:
On February 26th FIFA’s member associations will hold a secret ballot—what else?—in Zurich to choose a newpresident who will replace Sepp Blatter. The omens are not good. Mr Blatter bequeathed his successor an organisation in crisis. His fifth term was cut short after the indictment last year of several of the game’s biggest-wigs for alleged money-laundering. He has since been suspended from football for eight years for making an undocumented SFr2m ($2.1m) payment to Michel Platini, then head of Europe’s football body. (Mr Platini, once a favourite to succeed Mr Blatter, has also been suspended from the game; both men deny wrongdoing.)
重点词汇:
1 ballot(不可数名词, 可数名词)the system of voting in writing and usually in secret; an occasion on which a vote is held (无记名)投票选举;投票表决 secret ballot 无记名投票; 不记名投票;
2 Zurich n. 苏黎世;
3 omen n. 前兆; 征兆; 预兆; 兆头; vt. 预示; 预告; 有…的前兆;
4 bequeath vt. 将(财物等)遗赠给; 将(知识等)传给(后人)
5 indictment n. 诉状,起诉书; <尤美>刑事起诉书; 控告,起诉;
6 big wig <俚>大人物,要人,大亨; wig 假发
7 allegeVERB(未提出证据而)断言,指称,声称
If you allege that something bad is true, you say it but do not prove it
8 money laundering N-UNCOUNT 洗钱
Money laundering is the crime of processing stolen money through a legitimate business or sending it abroad to a foreign bank, to hide the fact that the money was illegally obtained.
9 SFr Swiss Franc 瑞士法郎
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