Transcript:

The allegations against President Schmitt began in January when a leading Hungarian weekly magazine, HVG, published what it said was clear proof that a large part of his 1992 doctoral thesis on the history of the Olympic games was a word-for-word translation of a work by a Bulgarian author.

President Schmitt is a well-respected former sportsman, who twice won Olympic medals in the Hungarian fencing team. He is also stalwart member of the governing Fidesz party, and was elected in 2010 for a 5-year term. An investigatory committee of the Budapest Semmelweis University confirmed that much of the thesis was copied, but criticised the former university authorities for failing to enforce sufficiently high standards.

Now the rector of the university has said he will begin proceedings to strip the President of his honorary title of doctor. President Schmitt said that he had no intention of resigning. What happens next may depend on the degree of support he feels from his own party.

Vocabulary:

allegations n. 沒有根據的指控

leading adj. 領導的，主要的

doctoral thesis 博士論文

a word-for-word translation of 字對字翻譯

fencing team 劍擊隊

stalwart adj. 堅定的

former adj. 從前的

to strip vt. 剝奪

honorary title 榮譽稱號

resigning vt. 辭職