VOA标准英语2009年-Sri Lanka to Boost Investment in Tamil Pro
时间：2019-02-03 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2009年(十一月)
By Steve Herman
New Delhi
09 November 2009
Sri Lanka Minister of Public Administration & Home Affairs, Sarath Amunugama, at World Economic Forum's India summit, 09 Nov 2009
Sri Lanka plans to pour development money into Tamil-dominated provinces that suffered economically during years of civil war. A Sri Lankan cabinet minister spoke 1 at the World Economic Forum's India summit.
Sri Lankan government officials are predicting the island nation's $41 billion economy will expand between seven and eight percent next year.
Larger prospects 2 for growth are being proclaimed by government officials after this year's defeat of the Tamil Tiger rebels, which brought an end to a quarter century of civil war.
A group of the island's top business leaders is visiting New Delhi to entice 3 more of their Indian counterparts to invest in Sri Lanka.
India is already Sri Lanka's top source of imports, totaling $3.5 billion annually 4. But analysts 5 say foreign direct investment is hampered 6 by high corporate 7 taxes and a legacy 8 of socialist-era policies and bureaucracy.
Sri Lanka's Minister of Public Administration and Home Affairs, Sarath Amunugama, says the government has taken a policy decision to develop the Tamil-dominated provinces which, for years, were effectively controlled by the now-defeated rebels.
"It is only fair that we do that because that area has not seen growth for three decades," Amunugama saud, "And, if I may put it that way, a disproportionately large part of the forthcoming budget would be allocated 9 for growth in the North and East."
United Nations officials say about 40,000 Tamils have returned to their villages in the past two weeks under Colombo's resettlement plan. But more than 160,000 are still in displacement 10 camps.
They fled this year's fighting between government troops and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. The rebel group failed in its violent quest to establishment an ethnic 11 homeland on the island, which is dominated by the mainly Buddhist 12 Sinhalese.
Despite a doubling of its gross domestic product in the past five years, Sri Lanka still requires foreign aid and loans.
Amunugama, who is also the deputy finance minister, says the United States and the West have been supplanted 13 as the primary aid donors 14 by India, China, Japan, Iran and Arab countries, including Libya.
The International Monetary 15 Fund last week released the second payment of a controversial $2.6 billion loan to Colombo.
The United States, which has the largest voting share on the IMF's executive board, was seen as attempting to delay the huge loan to pressure Sri Lanka to address human rights issues in the country.
The United States and European Union are among the voices in the international community still pressing for accountability for thousands of civilian 16 deaths at the end of the Sri Lankan civil war.
The Colombo government has denied any war crimes were committed by its forces and is promising 17 to investigate. It also accuses the defeated rebels of deliberately 18 firing upon or using as human shields terrified civilians 19 who tried to flee the fighting during the government's final offensive.
- They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
- The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。
- 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。
- Nothing will entice the children from television.没有任何东西能把孩子们从电视机前诱开。
- I don't see why the English should want to entice us away from our native land.我不明白，为什英国人要引诱我们离开自己的国土。
- Many migratory birds visit this lake annually.许多候鸟每年到这个湖上作短期逗留。
- They celebrate their wedding anniversary annually.他们每年庆祝一番结婚纪念日。
- 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。
- 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。
- This is our corporate responsibility.这是我们共同的责任。
- His corporate's life will be as short as a rabbit's tail.他的公司的寿命是兔子尾巴长不了。
- They are the most precious cultural legacy our forefathers left.它们是我们祖先留下来的最宝贵的文化遗产。
- He thinks the legacy is a gift from the Gods.他认为这笔遗产是天赐之物。
- They said that time is the feeling of spatial displacement.他们说时间是空间位移的感觉。
- The displacement of all my energy into caring for the baby.我所有精力都放在了照顾宝宝上。
- 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。
- The old lady fell down in adoration before Buddhist images.那老太太在佛像面前顶礼膜拜。
- In the eye of the Buddhist,every worldly affair is vain.在佛教徒的眼里，人世上一切事情都是空的。
- In most offices, the typewriter has now been supplanted by the computer. 当今许多办公室里，打字机已被电脑取代。
- The prime minister was supplanted by his rival. 首相被他的政敌赶下台了。
- Please email us to be removed from our active list of blood donors. 假如你想把自己的名字从献血联系人名单中删去，请给我们发电子邮件。
- About half this amount comes from individual donors and bequests. 这笔钱大约有一半来自个人捐赠及遗赠。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The monetary system of some countries used to be based on gold.过去有些国家的货币制度是金本位制的。
- Education in the wilderness is not a matter of monetary means.荒凉地区的教育不是钱财问题。
- There is no reliable information about civilian casualties.关于平民的伤亡还没有确凿的信息。
- He resigned his commission to take up a civilian job.他辞去军职而从事平民工作。
- The results of the experiments are very promising.实验的结果充满了希望。
- We're trying to bring along one or two promising young swimmers.我们正设法培养出一两名有前途的年轻游泳选手。
- The girl gave the show away deliberately.女孩故意泄露秘密。
- They deliberately shifted off the argument.他们故意回避这个论点。