中英对照读新闻》Police charge director of Miss Nicaragua pageant with running “beauty queen coup” plot 警方指控尼加拉瓜小姐选美主办人策划「选美政变」
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23岁尼加拉瓜小姐帕拉西奥丝，11月18日摘下环球小姐后冠。（美联社）(photo:LTN)◎陈成良
Nicaraguan police said Friday they want to arrest the director of the Miss Nicaragua pageant, accusing her of intentionally rigging contests so that anti-government beauty queens would win the pageants as part of a plot to overthrow the government.
尼加拉瓜警方週五表示，他们想逮捕尼加拉瓜小姐选美比赛的负责人，指控她蓄意操纵比赛，让反政府选美皇后赢得选美比赛，这是推翻政府阴谋的一部分。
It all started Nov. 18, when Miss Nicaragua, Nicaragua’s Sheynnis Palacios won the Miss Universe competition. The government of President Daniel Ortega briefly thought it had scored a rare public relations victory, calling her win a moment of “legitimate joy and pride.”
这一切始于11月18日，当时尼加拉瓜小姐、尼加拉瓜的谢尼斯·帕拉西奥丝赢得环球小姐比赛。总统丹尼尔·奥蒂嘉的政府曾短暂认为自己取得罕见的公关胜利，称她的胜利是「正当的喜悦和骄傲」。
But the tone quickly soured the day after the win when it emerged that Palacios had posted photos of herself on Facebook participating in one of the mass anti-government protests in 2018.
但在获胜后的第二天，当帕拉西奥丝在脸书上发佈自己参加2018年大规模反政府抗议活动的照片时，气氛迅速恶化。
The protests were violently repressed, and human rights officials say 355 people were killed by government forces. (AP)
这些抗议活动遭到暴力镇压，人权官员表示，有355人被政府军队杀害。（美联社）
新闻辞典
rig：操纵，对…做手脚。例句：He first blamed the referee, and then said that the game was rigged.（他先是责备裁判，接着又说比赛被人动过手脚。）
legitimate︰形容词，合法的、正当的。例句：He is the legitimate heir to the property.（他是这笔财产的合法继承人。）
