时间:2019-01-24 作者:英语课 分类:英语语言学习


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From VOA Learning English, this is the Technology Report in Special English.
 
The World Bank estimates there are about 650 million mobile phone users in African countries south of the Sahara Desert. That is greater than the number of users in the United States and European Union.
Samia Melhem works for the World Bank to increase information technologies in Africa. She says mobile phones are the fastest growing technology on the continent.
 
“Faster than TV, definitely faster than electricity. More people have access to mobile phones and hence communication. More people have internet access today in Africa than they have access to water, clean water, or even sanitation 1. So we can say that this has been the most significant revolution in terms of changing the African landscape and how people live their daily life.” 
 
CNN television recently named seven ways of life it says have been revolutionized because of mobile phones. They include political activism, education, entertainment, disaster management, agriculture and health.
 
Another area is banking 2. Reports say half or more of the adults in Gabon, Kenya and Sudan use mobile money. Rene Mendy sells goods in the streets of Dakar, Senegal. But he never had enough money to open a bank account.
 
Now he uses a mobile phone banking service called Orange Money. With his telephone, he can add or take out as little as one dollar. He can make payments and send money to family members who live far away.
 
Orange Money says it serves four million customers in ten countries. The World Bank’s Samia Melham notes that the French company is facing competition from other mobile banking services.
 
“The mobile banking is a huge trend. And people in the West don’t understand it, because most people have bank accounts and they have credit cards. It [mobile banking] is the instantaneous acquisition of cash at a much lower cost. The cost is the cost of sending an SMS, which is almost nothing compared to what traditional transfer agents, like Western Union, would charge - 10 dollars or more for a particular money transfer.”
 
In education, the United Nations agency UNESCO is holding its second Mobile Learning Week in Paris later this month. Conference delegates are to discuss how mobile phone use can increase the number of people who read. Other issues include how mobile technologies can support teachers, and make it easier for girls and women to receive an education.
 
 
And that's the VOA Special English Technology Report, written by Karen Leggett. Transcripts 3, MP3s and podcasts of our reports are at voaspecialenglish.com. I'm Steve Ember.

n.公共卫生,环境卫生,卫生设备
  • The location is exceptionally poor,viewed from the sanitation point.从卫生角度来看,这个地段非常糟糕。
  • Many illnesses are the result,f inadequate sanitation.许多疾病都来源于不健全的卫生设施。
n.银行业,银行学,金融业
  • John is launching his son on a career in banking.约翰打算让儿子在银行界谋一个新职位。
  • He possesses an extensive knowledge of banking.他具有广博的银行业务知识。
n.抄本( transcript的名词复数 );转写本;文字本;副本
  • Like mRNA, both tRNA and rRNA are transcripts of chromosomal DNA. tRNA及rRNA同mRNA一样,都是染色体DNA的转录产物。 来自辞典例句
  • You can't take the transfer students'exam without your transcripts. 没有成绩证明书,你就不能参加转学考试。 来自辞典例句
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airmanship
all-direction propeller
Altopascio
amarjeet
annular eclipse of sun
apparatus urogenitaliss
assimilation root
bactreia
bayes estimator of constant risk
be antagonistic to
be beyond the compass of
Bellona I.
Benflumentol
black africas
block bill
blue colo(u)red milk
butter-ham
chrome-dome
contract of property insurance
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coprolaba
cronite
deleveraged
delpregnin
Denver City
Desdemin
desertings
diastrephia
dirt poor
drift chamber
dry stained
duendes
economic cooperation as joint ventrues
electric control of rig
Eligulate
eosinophilia
ex allotment
flexible bond
flickering lamp
garden snail
genus Trichecus
Green Economics
gum damar
Gyöngyös Oroszi
henrys
holmium(Ho)
illumination of retina
inconsumptible
internal reforming
interrelate
limosus
Marenzio
maritime bridge
medicozoological
melanin stimulating hormone
national good quality product
nitpickers
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oilcloths
orthoboric
out and in search
outlimb
over hedge and ditch
pachydermodactyly
PACP
Pim1p
plant hatchet
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Port Davey
port hinterland
press barons
price-to-earning
productress
Pāthargāma
reciprocating-plate feeder
resistance percussive-welding
restraining structure
resyklin
reverse idler gear shaft
richard iis
ronin
scn
sedimentary iron
sensori-motor skill
set off box
sisssos-s
smectogen
Soukra
Spenser Mts.
strengths
stress-intensity factor
style-conscious
Sulfacetyl
system base register
telescope tube
three-point form
unconvertible loan stock
vineyard
wetherllite (hetaeroite)
wmv
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yellow union