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英语课
By Naomi Schwarz
Dakar
19 February 2008


As President Bush visits Ghana during his six-day tour of five African nations, some Ghanaians say they hope his visit will mean increased aid and more trade with the United States.  Naomi Schwarz has more from VOA's regional bureau in Dakar with additional reporting by Ruby 1 Amable.


Posters of the U.S. president blanket downtown Accra, Ghana's capital, alongside those of Ghanaian president John Kufuor.  Radio talk shows feature discussions of Washington's multi-billion dollar campaigns to fight malaria 2 and AIDS in Africa.


This is only the second time a U.S. president has visited Ghana, and many residents say they are excited about the occasion.  University student Yenuetien Kombian says she is proud Ghana has been included on the itinerary 3 of Mr. Bush's African tour.


"For Ghanaians, I think that our economy, it is getting better, so we can now host someone like the president of America," Kombian said. "His visit will also show that our security system is in better shape now, so it is a good time for a Ghanaian like me. "


Analysts 4 say Ghana has had a close relationship with the Bush administration.  President Kufuor has met with his American counterpart several times in the past three years.


The two presidents are expected to discuss development issues, the fight against malaria and HIV, regional security and humanitarian 5 issues before Mr. Bush leaves on Wednesday.


Ghanaian student Kombian says she believes Mr. Bush's visit will mean more help for Ghana from the United States.


"In Tanzania he has promised them bed mosquito nets, which means in Ghana he will do the same," Kombian said. "Mostly when you are far off from a situation, you tend to sympathize when them, but when you are closer, as he is coming, you see the real things about malaria, so he will tend to empathize with us, so when he comes more aid, more assistance."


Tanzania, where Mr. Bush stopped earlier on his Africa tour, received a nearly $700 million-grant from the United States in September to fight malaria. 


But Ghanaian systems engineer Kwesi Odeng remains 6 skeptical 7 Bush's visit will help most Ghanaians.


"Taking a family for instance, I do not know how his visit is going to have impact on that particular family's life," Odeng said. "It could be one of these normal visits, with a lot of businessmen who are coming to look around and see where they can invest their money and reap bountifully, but not for our purpose."


He cautions Ghanaians against raising their hopes too high.


"Maybe we are just thinking them coming to help us, but they have their own agenda," Odeng said.


President Bush said in a speech before he left for the continent that helping 8 Africa develop is also a way of fighting terrorism, saying, in his words, "people who live in societies based on freedom and justice are more likely to reject the false promise of the extremist ideology 9."




n.红宝石,红宝石色
  • She is wearing a small ruby earring.她戴着一枚红宝石小耳环。
  • On the handle of his sword sat the biggest ruby in the world.他的剑柄上镶有一颗世上最大的红宝石。
n.疟疾
  • He had frequent attacks of malaria.他常患疟疾。
  • Malaria is a kind of serious malady.疟疾是一种严重的疾病。
n.行程表,旅行路线;旅行计划
  • The two sides have agreed on the itinerary of the visit.双方商定了访问日程。
  • The next place on our itinerary was Silistra.我们行程的下一站是锡利斯特拉。
分析家,化验员( analyst的名词复数 )
  • City analysts forecast huge profits this year. 伦敦金融分析家预测今年的利润非常丰厚。
  • I was impressed by the high calibre of the researchers and analysts. 研究人员和分析人员的高素质给我留下了深刻印象。
n.人道主义者,博爱者,基督凡人论者
  • 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。
n.剩余物,残留物;遗体,遗迹
  • He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
  • The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。
adj.怀疑的,多疑的
  • Others here are more skeptical about the chances for justice being done.这里的其他人更为怀疑正义能否得到伸张。
  • Her look was skeptical and resigned.她的表情是将信将疑而又无可奈何。
n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的,辅助的
  • The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
  • By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。
n.意识形态,(政治或社会的)思想意识
  • The ideology has great influence in the world.这种思想体系在世界上有很大的影响。
  • The ideal is to strike a medium between ideology and inspiration.我的理想是在意识思想和灵感鼓动之间找到一个折衷。
学英语单词
2-methylpindolol
a full plate
Adaplex
alkaline geochemical barrier
always afloat
asplenium pekinensis hance
ball cartridge
bartolotta
befathered
betare oya
blued chopping knide with wooden handle
Bohr quantization condition
cable sheave
charles v
cheatwood
Checkwriting
chemical pruning
claim notices
coalgas
cognitive test
combined tea-refining machine
continuous indication
copper(ii) phosphate
copy ... to
crank extension
cross-debt
delivery of check
driver pinion
elatigenin
electronic theodolite
elliptocytosis-1
emergency air bottle
etherealizes
final great circle course
Flueggea suffruticosa
fodder plant
genus venuss
glandis septum
graphic appraisal methods
hard magnetic materials
HICAT
homeocyte
host preparation facility
identifiable parameter
in installments
intended vessel
interventure
Jordanianizes
Kyrle
labial fold
lectorship
lindbloms
lipoteichoic acids
magnet roller
maintenance runaway
merrs
Mildred Didrikson
mitoclomine
molybdenum diiodide
Mouzay
multiband post acceleration tube
neoliberalist
no help for it
nod at
norvegicus
oil skipper
painted turtles
parasitopolis
patriotically
pinnatella ambigua
Poiseuille law
price restraint
Primula crocifolia
proper vector
recaps
recyclates
reinforcings
safeways
Scutellaria caudifolia
self-explanatory
sequential by key processing
seroalbumin human placental
silicon filament
sorting office
starry sturgeon
Stepnogorsk
supplementary accounts
tilted fault block
total usage amount
transmission velocity
Tuncurry
undastan
undecidable theory
use it or lose it
wake up to
waste caustic
wax-like
weighted accumulator
wet katathermometer
wood grain finish
wood substance
X-ray image receptor