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By Cindy Saine
Washington
27 June 2006



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Warren Buffett's blockbuster $30 billion gift to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has excited charitable organizations, which hope the tycoon's generosity 1 will be contagious 2. Buffett's donation is reportedly the largest donation in history. Average Americans cannot match that sum, but studies show they are also generous givers.


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Americans have a long tradition of devoting part of their time, labor 3 and financial resources to charitable causes. A study by the Giving USA Foundation released last week shows that in 2005, Americans increased their financial donations to charity by more than six percent. Giving USA Chairman Richard Jolly attributed much of the increase in giving to Americans' response to the Asian tsunami 4, the Pakistani earthquake and Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.


Foundation board member Robert Evans says he believes Americans are the world's most generous people. "Last year, the last calendar year, Americans gave $260 billion to non-profits, all over the United States, including international issues. Thirty-five percent of the giving went to religion," he said.


Evans said Americans give more to religious organizations than to any other cause, followed by education.


But are Americans really the most generous people on the planet? Critics have alleged 5 the United States is stingy because, in terms of a slice of its gross national product, the U.S. government lags behind other donor 6 nations.


Other experts say this statistic 7 is misleading, because Americans prefer to give through the private sector 8, making it very difficult to produce any reliable international comparisons.


David Roodman of the Center for Global Development in Washington cites an OECD (Organization for Economic Development and Cooperation) study saying the U.S. ranks fourth worldwide in private giving to foreign countries, after Norway, Ireland and Switzerland. "We give about 10 cent, per person, per day in private aid out of our own pockets to poorer countries, which puts us at number four among the usual list of rich countries, which has about 21 countries on it. So we're four out of 21," he said.


Roodman says 80 to 90 percent of all American charitable gifts stay in the United States. He said he hopes Buffett's and Gates' generosity will inspire other Americans to give even more to the least fortunate. "I think what Warren Buffett and Bill Gates may do is to change how everyday, regular Americans think about where to send their money and that could be a good thing," he said.


The Gates Foundation is committed to fighting global poverty and curing fatal diseases, as well as improving American education



n.大度,慷慨,慷慨的行为
  • We should match their generosity with our own.我们应该像他们一样慷慨大方。
  • We adore them for their generosity.我们钦佩他们的慷慨。
adj.传染性的,有感染力的
  • It's a highly contagious infection.这种病极易传染。
  • He's got a contagious laugh.他的笑富有感染力。
n.劳动,努力,工作,劳工;分娩;vi.劳动,努力,苦干;vt.详细分析;麻烦
  • We are never late in satisfying him for his labor.我们从不延误付给他劳动报酬。
  • He was completely spent after two weeks of hard labor.艰苦劳动两周后,他已经疲惫不堪了。
n.海啸
  • Powerful quake sparks tsunami warning in Japan.大地震触发了日本的海啸预警。
  • Coastlines all around the Indian Ocean inundated by a huge tsunami.大海啸把印度洋沿岸地区都淹没了。
a.被指控的,嫌疑的
  • It was alleged that he had taken bribes while in office. 他被指称在任时收受贿赂。
  • alleged irregularities in the election campaign 被指称竞选运动中的不正当行为
n.捐献者;赠送人;(组织、器官等的)供体
  • In these cases,the recipient usually takes care of the donor afterwards.在这类情况下,接受捐献者以后通常会照顾捐赠者。
  • The Doctor transplanted the donor's heart to Mike's chest cavity.医生将捐赠者的心脏移植进麦克的胸腔。
n.统计量;adj.统计的,统计学的
  • Official statistics show real wages declining by 24%.官方统计数字表明实际工资下降了24%。
  • There are no reliable statistics for the number of deaths in the battle.关于阵亡人数没有可靠的统计数字。
n.部门,部分;防御地段,防区;扇形
  • The export sector will aid the economic recovery. 出口产业将促进经济复苏。
  • The enemy have attacked the British sector.敌人已进攻英国防区。
学英语单词
15-hydroxyprostaglandin dehydrogenase
A. O. A.
abrasive grain
acidology
adphen
alpha-oestradiol
angakok
annual inflation rate
articularly
bacillus cloacae jordan b.zeae (burril) comes
bestestestest
bill collection
bipoiar taxis
black edging
blimming
bocas
buxuss
C. of C.
Caistor
Camellia acuticalyx
cann't
cantilever beam impact tester
cathode drop
cheq.
contredances
Corydalis trifoliata
cotton blushing
cotton tie
crosshead-pin
designator storage word
destruens mole
dispersed record
domain name system poisoning
driveabilities
drowned in
ellipsoid resonator
engine piston
esthiomenous
eulogious
experimental safety vehicle
folk-memories
g-sharp
gage location
gangliolytic
generate income
Grace City
gram force
groundwater
guide strip
highest-profile
hong kong identity card
hybrid transformer array
ice shove
imidie acid
initial mark up
innocenter
joyeusity
leconotide
limited information instrumental variables
line scanning waveform distortion
log charging
main products
make-up oil
mean-value theorem
microcide
modcom
module interconnection language
multichine
multinomial trials
net outflow of fund
one-dimensional structure
operating reports
ovc
parallel work flow
pelvicephalograph
placental
racewear
recontextualizing
regenerative detection
rehearing
reticulated tortrix
ribbon grass
robshaw
rotatory drier
sea notch
second c/d
self dual circuit
shearing wave
slow-down ions
sodium bromoiridite
spend ... on
support screw cap
sympathisers
Sysmä
teletels
ultraintuitionists
unitarded
upstream monopoist
uralloy
uranium(iii) sulfide
vertebrate palaeontology
yudofsky