时间:2019-01-14 作者:英语课 分类:VOA标准英语2012年(二月)


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Africa Leaders Optimistic about Future of Continent


Delegates to the summit came from various African countries and from World Bank, African Development Bank and the United Nations Development Program.


Addressing the participants, Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe said the continent has been portrayed 1 by the Western powers as a ‘lost continent’ due to ethnic 2 conflicts and poverty.
"In the 1980s," he said, "Sub Saharan Africa faced gloomy macro-economic and development prospects 3, stagnant 4 economies and endemic poverty, therefore fueling talk in some quarters as the lost decade while the continent was portrayed as a hopeless one. This was in spite of Africa’s vast wealth of natural resources most of which is suffering from the deterioration 5 of unfair trade practices that came with settler colonialism and appetite for its endowment."
But with the rise of China and other emerging economies in Asia, Mugabe says Africa’s growth is now on an upward curve. He praised the African Capacity Building Foundation for working to improve Africa’s human and institutional capacity..
"This trend only bottomed up when China took off as an emerging economy, and now as a rising superpower," he said. "The African Capacity Building Foundation was created in 1991… I am happy to learn that the ABCF has grown to be a trusted leader in building capacity for Africa’s success in sustainable growth and poverty eradication 6."
Established 20 years ago, the ACBF aims to build to strengthen Africa’s governments and business communities so sustainable growth and poverty reduction will be possible.
With barely three years to go before the deadline for the Millennium 7 Development Goals, delegates at the meeting emphasized the role of capacity in Africa’s development agenda.
Finance Minister Tendai Biti told participants that a new African narrative 8 was emerging.
"I think over the years you have seen a new Africa coming with numbers of wars reducing, the number of conflicts reducing and a number of democratic elections increasing," he said.
Dr. Frannie Leautier, the Foundation’s Executive Secretary, said since its creation, ACBF has supported projects and programs in 45 African countries, including Zimbabwe.
"In the past 20 years, the Foundation has invested more than 500 million US dollars in capacity development in Africa," she said. "Its action has been most visible and successful in the area of economic policy analysis and management through its support of think-tanks and policy institutes. Across the continent, ACBF has nurtured 9 the growth of these institutes from cradle to current performing organizations."
The theme of the anniversary was ‘The Future of Africa is Now: The Critical Role of Capacity Development.’ The event included a series of learning and knowledge sharing events in several other cities across Africa, including Tunis (Tunisia), Kigali (Rwanda), Malabo (Equitorial Guinea) and Arusha, Tanzania. Similar events were also held in Paris, France. 

v.画像( portray的过去式和过去分词 );描述;描绘;描画
  • Throughout the trial, he portrayed himself as the victim. 在审讯过程中,他始终把自己说成是受害者。
  • The author portrayed his father as a vicious drunkard. 作者把他父亲描绘成一个可恶的酒鬼。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
adj.人种的,种族的,异教徒的
  • This music would sound more ethnic if you played it in steel drums.如果你用钢鼓演奏,这首乐曲将更具民族特色。
  • The plan is likely only to aggravate ethnic frictions.这一方案很有可能只会加剧种族冲突。
n.希望,前途(恒为复数)
  • There is a mood of pessimism in the company about future job prospects. 公司中有一种对工作前景悲观的情绪。
  • They are less sanguine about the company's long-term prospects. 他们对公司的远景不那么乐观。
adj.不流动的,停滞的,不景气的
  • Due to low investment,industrial output has remained stagnant.由于投资少,工业生产一直停滞不前。
  • Their national economy is stagnant.他们的国家经济停滞不前。
n.退化;恶化;变坏
  • Mental and physical deterioration both occur naturally with age. 随着年龄的增长,心智和体力自然衰退。
  • The car's bodywork was already showing signs of deterioration. 这辆车的车身已经显示出了劣化迹象。
n.根除
  • The eradication of an established infestation is not easy. 根除昆虫蔓延是不容易的。
  • This is often required for intelligent control and eradication. 这经常需要灵巧的控制与消除。
n.一千年,千禧年;太平盛世
  • 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。
n.叙述,故事;adj.叙事的,故事体的
  • He was a writer of great narrative power.他是一位颇有记述能力的作家。
  • Neither author was very strong on narrative.两个作者都不是很善于讲故事。
养育( nurture的过去式和过去分词 ); 培育; 滋长; 助长
  • She is looking fondly at the plants he had nurtured. 她深情地看着他培育的植物。
  • Any latter-day Einstein would still be spotted and nurtured. 任何一个未来的爱因斯坦都会被发现并受到培养。
学英语单词
actual performance of a company
all services
autopsy indicator
baby minders
Bat Yam
Bayeux Tapestry
broth medium
bruit de rappel
caphanic acid
Carthamus tinctorius L.
Chargaff's rule
consignment ledger
current boundary
cyanuric trichloride
daul distribution
definitive operation for Hirsch-sprung disease
Demolox
department key
dorsum lingu?
double effect
double wound relay
dzhokhar
end cut bur
energy absorption
Faculty of Advocates
figured glass
forced-oil cooled transformer
fork turck
formula income tax
frame-to-frame differences
front boundary cell
goldney
grandeur
granulous surface
heading rate
hip-flexion phenomenon
historicals
horizontal market
hyperlipoproteidemia
impurity level
initial photo interpretation report
Isaiah
isotopic geochronologic scale
James tract
Khloratsizin
landing craft vehicle and personnel (lcvp)
layer optics
leveling lug
liganentum venosum
lithotritist
lubu
lycopodium fargesii hert
maguari stork
merit pay system (mps)
Morescos
multiple replication
myasthenia gravis
Mylocon
neolithics
New Carrollton
Nikkaluokta
non structural
non-colinear point
not tell
oceanogenic sedimentation
optimal member of storage level
papulospore
parilla
parteis
Penutian
pluralized
positive gradient
prothiaden
putting the kibosh on
quietie
rapid sand filter rate
resonance wave coil
retrievers hoist
ribonucleic acid formation factor
Romberg integration
rotary rheometer
saly
Sangod
Schwarz-Christoffel formula
sedrick
Sekihoku-tōge
silver-eyed
skeleton displacement
slitlike
spigot die
swordfight
systems estimation
Taiko-yama
tetragalloyl erythrite
thorwald
thujamenthone
tramp navigation
typnoidal
urethrovaginal septum
Venado, R.
volume of passenger traffic
water cooled transformer