第二步：精读重点段落

（Tips: 双击文中单词可以查释义并加入你的生词本哦）

Twist after twist

A crisis looms after a weird and disputed election

[1] JUAN ORLANDO HERNÁNDEZ, Honduras’s president, boasts that he has brought stability and security, but his run for re-election has caused turmoil. As The Economist went to press on November 30th it was unclear who had won the election held four days before. After Mr Hernández’s rival, Salvador Nasralla, posted an early lead, vote counting slowed to a crawl and the incumbent closed the gap. With 89% of the vote counted, Mr Hernández led by 0.8 percentage points.

• Honduras [hɑ:n'dʊrəs]  n.洪都拉斯（拉丁美洲国家）
• turmoil [ˈtɜ:rmɔɪl]  n.混乱;焦虑
• crawl [krɔl]  vi.爬行;缓慢行进;巴结 n.缓慢的爬行;自由式游泳;养鱼（龟）池
• incumbent [ɪnˈkʌmbənt]  adj.义不容辞的;在职的; n.在职者;教会中的任职者

[3] Those who believe that Mr Hernández’s National Party is trying to steal the election have grounds for suspicion. Before the vote, The Economist obtained a tape of what appears to be a training session for party members who would man polling stations. In it, the trainer instructs the workers how to carry out “Plan B”, a set of apparently fraudulent “strategies” that includes filling in leftover ballots, spoiling ballots and damaging barcodes on tally sheets if they record a majority for opposition parties. The purpose of this technique, says the government employee leading the session, is to delay inclusion of tally sheets favouring the opposition in the preliminary count. As Mr Hernández pulled into the lead on November 29th, opposition supporters consulting the TSE’s website claimed that nearly all tally sheets excluded from the count favoured Mr Nasralla.

• fraudulent [ˈfrɔ:dʒələnt]  adj.欺骗的，不诚实的;奸诈
• barcode [bɑ:'koʊd]  条形码

[5] Few expected Mr Nasralla, a telegenic sports broadcaster, to come as close to victory as he has. He was so short of cash that he continued presenting his weekly sports show during the campaign to stay visible. Yet he attracted voters angry about Mr Hernández’s bid for re-election, which was waved through by a pliant supreme court in 2015. Mr Nasralla’s anti-corruption message also resonated with voters.

• resonate [ˈrɛzəˌnet]  vi.共鸣或共振;回响

[6] He has long insisted that the vote would be rigged. “What we have in Honduras is a dictatorship,” he said before the election. He added to the confusion on November 29th by agreeing with Mr Hernández that both would accept the results of the TSE’s count, then reneging hours later. If the TSE does declare Mr Hernández the winner, Mr Nasralla will have three weeks to appeal to a court that he says “belongs” to the president. More twists await.

• rigged [rɪgd]  adj.作弊的，非法操纵的 v.给（船、桅杆）装配帆及索具
• await [əˈwet]  vt.等待;等候;期待

（Tips: 双击文中单词可以查释义并加入你的生词本哦）

Twist after twist

A crisis looms after a weird and disputed election

[1] JUAN ORLANDO HERNÁNDEZ, Honduras’s president, boasts that he has brought stability and security, but his run for re-election has caused turmoil. As The Economist went to press on November 30th it was unclear who had won the election held four days before. After Mr Hernández’s rival, Salvador Nasralla, posted an early lead, vote counting slowed to a crawl and the incumbent closed the gap. With 89% of the vote counted, Mr Hernández led by 0.8 percentage points.

• Honduras [hɑ:n'dʊrəs]  n.洪都拉斯（拉丁美洲国家）
• turmoil [ˈtɜ:rmɔɪl]  n.混乱;焦虑
• crawl [krɔl]  vi.爬行;缓慢行进;巴结 n.缓慢的爬行;自由式游泳;养鱼（龟）池
• incumbent [ɪnˈkʌmbənt]  adj.义不容辞的;在职的; n.在职者;教会中的任职者

[2] If the electoral tribunal (TSE) proclaims him the winner, that will not settle the matter. Mr. Nasralla told The Economist there will be protests. The tension evokes the mood after a coup in 2009 against then president Manuel Zelaya, after he tried to scrap presidential term limits. He now backs Mr Nasralla. University classes have been cancelled, probably to keep Mr. Nasralla’s young supporters at home. On the night of November 29th police fired tear gas at rock-throwing protesters near a building where ballots were stored, and it was evacuated; the TSE suspended counting after it said its system had crashed.

• tribunal [traɪˈbjunəl, trɪ-]  n.特别法庭;审理委员会;法官席;裁决

[3] Those who believe that Mr Hernández’s National Party is trying to steal the election have grounds for suspicion. Before the vote, The Economist obtained a tape of what appears to be a training session for party members who would man polling stations. In it, the trainer instructs the workers how to carry out “Plan B”, a set of apparently fraudulent “strategies” that includes filling in leftover ballots, spoiling ballots and damaging barcodes on tally sheets if they record a majority for opposition parties. The purpose of this technique, says the government employee leading the session, is to delay inclusion of tally sheets favouring the opposition in the preliminary count. As Mr Hernández pulled into the lead on November 29th, opposition supporters consulting the TSE’s website claimed that nearly all tally sheets excluded from the count favoured Mr Nasralla.

• fraudulent [ˈfrɔ:dʒələnt]  adj.欺骗的，不诚实的;奸诈
• barcode [bɑ:'koʊd]  条形码

[4] Plan B could determine the outcome of the election, though it is not certain it will. After a test of the vote-counting system two weeks before the election the boss of the TSE declared that “the system has worked very well”. But no good explanation exists for the delay in results, nor the sudden reversal of Mr Nasralla’s lead.
[5] Few expected Mr Nasralla, a telegenic sports broadcaster, to come as close to victory as he has. He was so short of cash that he continued presenting his weekly sports show during the campaign to stay visible. Yet he attracted voters angry about Mr Hernández’s bid for re-election, which was waved through by a pliant supreme court in 2015. Mr Nasralla’s anti-corruption message also resonated with voters.

• resonate [ˈrɛzəˌnet]  vi.共鸣或共振;回响

[6] He has long insisted that the vote would be rigged. “What we have in Honduras is a dictatorship,” he said before the election. He added to the confusion on November 29th by agreeing with Mr Hernández that both would accept the results of the TSE’s count, then reneging hours later. If the TSE does declare Mr Hernández the winner, Mr Nasralla will have three weeks to appeal to a court that he says “belongs” to the president. More twists await.

• rigged [rɪgd]  adj.作弊的，非法操纵的 v.给（船、桅杆）装配帆及索具
• await [əˈwet]  vt.等待;等候;期待