VOA标准英语2009-More Money to Help Africa Weather Financial Cris
时间：2019-01-13 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2009年(五月)
Africa's biggest investors 1 and lenders are making available another $15 billion to help the continent weather the global financial crisis.
President of African Development Bank Donald Kaberuka in Dakar, 12 May 2009
The $15 billion is meant to promote trade, strengthen Africa's financial sector 2, and increase lending for agricultural projects, infrastructure 3, and small- and medium-size businesses.
The increased support to help Africa cope with the global financial crisis is a coordinated 4 response from the African Development Bank, the French Development Agency, the European Investment Bank, the Development Bank of Southern Africa, German Financial Cooperation, the World Bank, and the International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation.
Those agencies say pooling resources enables African governments to more effectively reduce the humanitarian 5 costs of the global economic slowdown while addressing longer-term structural 6 issues that have traditionally hampered 7 growth.
Opening the African Development Bank's annual meeting in Dakar, Treasurer 8 Pierre Van Peteghem says the agency has been meeting the challenges of the financial crisis with more than $5 billion worth of grants and loans approved last year. That is up nearly 14 percent from 2007.
Van Peteghem says the principle task for the bank in this difficult time is accelerating support for countries that are economically distressed 9, particularly those who no longer have enough equity 10 to meet emergency expenses.
He says the African Development Bank is working to maintain commercial flows affected 11 by the significant withdrawal 12 of foreign banks which have caused local banks to lose their lines of credit and have thus undercut financing for infrastructure.
Van Peteghem says the Bank's response to the financial crisis aims to limit the danger of economic recession and the negative effect that would have on meeting United Nations millennium 13 development goals.
He says the slowdown could wipe out African gains in the recent past with economic crises leading to financial and social crises as growth slows and debt is more difficult to repay.
The bank expects falling commodity prices will result in average African budget deficits 14 of more than five percent for 2009, compared to an average three percent surplus last year.
- a con man who bilked investors out of millions of dollars 诈取投资者几百万元的骗子
- a cash bonanza for investors 投资者的赚钱机会
- 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。
- We should step up the development of infrastructure for research.加强科学基础设施建设。
- We should strengthen cultural infrastructure and boost various types of popular culture.加强文化基础设施建设，发展各类群众文化。
- The sound has to be coordinated with the picture. 声音必须和画面协调一致。
- The numerous existing statutes are complicated and poorly coordinated. 目前繁多的法令既十分复杂又缺乏快调。 来自英汉非文学 - 环境法 - 环境法
- She has many humanitarian interests and contributes a lot to them.她拥有很多慈善事业，并作了很大的贡献。
- The British government has now suspended humanitarian aid to the area.英国政府现已暂停对这一地区的人道主义援助。
- The storm caused no structural damage.风暴没有造成建筑结构方面的破坏。
- The North American continent is made up of three great structural entities.北美大陆是由三个构造单元组成的。
- The search was hampered by appalling weather conditions. 恶劣的天气妨碍了搜寻工作。
- So thought every harassed, hampered, respectable boy in St. Petersburg. 圣彼德堡镇的那些受折磨、受拘束的体面孩子们个个都是这么想的。
- Mr. Smith was succeeded by Mrs.Jones as treasurer.琼斯夫人继史密斯先生任会计。
- The treasurer was arrested for trying to manipulate the company's financial records.财务主管由于试图窜改公司财政帐目而被拘留。
- He was too distressed and confused to answer their questions. 他非常苦恼而困惑，无法回答他们的问题。
- The news of his death distressed us greatly. 他逝世的消息使我们极为悲痛。
- They shared the work of the house with equity.他们公平地分担家务。
- To capture his equity,Murphy must either sell or refinance.要获得资产净值，墨菲必须出售或者重新融资。
- She showed an affected interest in our subject.她假装对我们的课题感到兴趣。
- His manners are affected.他的态度不自然。
- The police were forced to make a tactical withdrawal.警方被迫进行战术撤退。
- They insisted upon a withdrawal of the statement and a public apology.他们坚持要收回那些话并公开道歉。
- The whole world was counting down to the new millennium.全世界都在倒计时迎接新千年的到来。
- We waited as the clock ticked away the last few seconds of the old millennium.我们静候着时钟滴答走过千年的最后几秒钟。