行使政治权利的初夜, 从此人民不再是初哥
一句话提醒：利比亚举行40多年来首次大选，东部出现不和谐破坏事件。Hints:
Colonel Gaddafi
Libya
National Transitional Council
Assembly
Will Davis
Tripoli
Mohammed Benatomous School
Ashmadin Arifi
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答疑：xyfxyfxyf123http://t1.g.hjfile.cn/listen/201207/201207090538452977879.mp3When Colonel Gaddafi was killed nine months ago, he took with him to the grave the vestiges of his increasingly eccentric rule. These days the little green books and implausibly glamorous female bodyguards are gone. What's left is a country moving slowly and not always that steadily from dictatorship to democracy.
Today marks an important milestone on that journey with Libya's first nationwide election in nearly half a century. People who grew used to hearing one dominating voice have been given the chance for their own voices to be heard as they vote to replace the National Transitional Council with an Assembly whose task will be to usher in a new, more legitimate government. Not everyone is happy about the process. Election officials have confirmed that all the 1,500 polling stations, 100, mostly in the east, have been prevented from opening because of acts of sabotage. Will Davis filed this report from Tripoli.
Well before eight o'clock this morning when the polling stations opened across Libya, there was a steady, patient, but pretty excitable queue of voters at the Mohammed Benatomous School here in Tripoli, one of the biggest polling stations in the capital. Among those first in the queue was Ashmadin Arifi. We followed him as he went through the labourious process of finding his name on the list, going upstairs, waiting in another queue before receiving the ballot paper and putting his cross against the piece of paper. This is how we felt about the whole process.
"I feel free at last. It's such an unbelievable feeling. I cannot describe it. It's, I feel like a human being."9个月前卡扎菲上校被击毙，他那越来越怪诞的统治也就和他一样尘归尘土归土。那些天天手捧绿宝书，带着招人眼热的女保镖招摇过市的日子也一去不复返了。这个国家缓慢却不太稳定地从独裁统治向民主转变。
今天是利比亚向民主迈进的里程碑的日子 -- 近乎50年来第一次举行全国性的大选。曾经习惯于听唯一一个和尚念经的人们今后将拥有发出自己声音的机会， 他们将投票选举出用来取代临时国家委员会功能的议会， 其主要职责就是引领出一个新的更具合法性的政府。 不过不是所有人都对该转变进程满意。 选举官员证实，1500个投票站中有100个投票站， 多数在利比亚东部，通道遭到故意破坏而无法启用。 Will Davis来自的黎波里的报道。
早上八点之前，在利比亚全国各个投票站开启时，的黎波里最大的投票站之一的 Mohammed Benatomous学校前面已经有了排着长队准备投票的人们，他们坚定，而且相当的兴奋。长队中排在前面的人是Ashmadin Arifi。我们将跟随他完成这一系列麻烦的投票程序 -- 首先在名单里找到自己的名字，上楼，排在另一个长队后面，慢慢的轮到自己领取选票，然后在选票上画上X。这就是我们所感受到的整个投票程序。
我觉得我终于自由了，这种感觉真是让人难以置信，简直无法用语言描述。我觉得我终于像个人了。
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