9.01【VOA常速英语】所有的目光都集中在肯尼亚的独立选举和边界委员会上

[VOA常速英语】所有的目光都集中在肯尼亚的独立选举和边界委员会上Kenyans are counting down. 肯尼亚人正在倒计时。

It's just a matter of hours before they cast their ballots to determine who will become the president of this country and other leaders of this country for the next five years.
他们只需要几个小时的投票就能确定，谁将成为这个国家的总统，以及未来五年这个国家的其
他领导人。

It's a work day here in Nairobi, but if you look at the in the background there're not as many people. 今天是内罗毕的工作日，但如果你看看背景中，就会发现没有那么多人。

Nairobi on a Monday usually will be very very crowded people going up and down the street, but a day
before the elections a great number of people have traveled to go and vote in the areas they registered to vote.
内罗毕周一通常会有非常非常拥挤的人在街上来回走动，但是在选举的前一天，有大量的人前往他们登记投票的地区投票。

Now many go to their ancestral lands, I passed by bus stations this morning and indeed there were so many people there lined up to catch the buses to take them back to their home area, so they can vote there on Tuesday.
现在许多人去他们的祖籍，我今天早上路过的汽车站，事实上，那里有如此多的人排队乘坐公交车回自己的家乡，这样他们就可以在周二在那里投票。

In fact even to areas where you know their flights, I call some of the offices and they tell us that they were fully booked because everybody's trying to get to their areas of voting.
事实上，在你知道他们航班的地区，我打给一些办公室，他们告诉我们说他们的机票已经订满
了，因为每个人都在努力进入自己的投票区域。

Now an update for this day is that the biggest activity for the electoral commission officials now is to deliver the ballot boxes and ballot papers to the different polling stations all across the country.
今天的最新消息是，选举委员会官员目前最大的活动，是把投票箱和选票送到全国各地的不同投票站。

Different regions have already received their ballot boxes and ballot papers, there are a few others from reports we get that hadn't received their ballot papers by early morning, but officials have assured and guaranteed citizens that, the ballot box boxes and ballot papers will be at the polling stations sometime today probably before the end of the day and therefore they should be in place in position for the process, as it begins very early on Tuesday.
不同地区已经收到了投票箱和选票，从我们得到的报告来看，还有一些人到凌晨还没有收到选票，但官员们向市民保证，投票箱和选票将在今天的某个时候到达投票站，很可能在一天结束之前，因此他们应该为这一进程做好准备，因为这一进程将于周二凌晨开始。

Well in terms of security the government says has said that it has deployed law enforcement officials all around the country.
在平安方面，政府表示已经在全国各地部署了执法人员。

They do not anticipate, they say they do not anticipate any situation of violence but just in case of anything.
他们说，他们预计不会发生任何暴力事件，只是以防万一。

They have deployed unnecessary law enforcement officials to different parts of the country, who will take care of any situation that may arise.
他们在该国不同地区部署了不必要的执法人员，他们将处理可能出现的任何情况。

In terms of the citizenry they say they do not expect anything abnormal.
在公民方面，他们表示，他们预计不会出现任何异常情况。

They hope to have a very smooth process as they cast their ballots on Tuesday他们希望在周二投票时能有一个非常顺利的过程，
and that after that the results should be accepted by all who participate,在此之后，结果应该被所有参与的人接受，
those who lose should accept their loss and indeed concede to those who win,失败者应该接受他们的失败，并确实向胜利者让步，
because as they argue this country will exist after the 9th of August this year因为正如他们所说的那样，这个国家在今年8月9日之后还会存在，
and none of them has the appetite to go back to the violence that was witnessed in 2007,他们中没有人愿意回到2007年的暴力事件，
or for that matter some of the skirmishes that we saw in 2021.
也没有人愿意重演我们在2021年看到的一些小规模冲突。

So all eyes are on the IEBC, the electoral commission body to see how well they have organized the process所以所有人都在关注选举委员会，看看他们组织这一过程的情况如何，
and how well and smoothly the process will go down on Tuesday August the 9th.
以及这一过程将如何顺利地在8月9日星期二进行。

This is Vincent Macquarie VOA news Nairobi Kenya这是文森特•麦格理在肯尼亚内罗毕为您播报。