时间:2018-12-08 作者:英语课 分类:VOA标准英语2018年(九月)


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Assisting Good Governance and Health in Nigeria


The U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, recently announced additional assistance to support achieving the goals outlined in the bilateral 1 Development Objectives Assistance Agreement between the U.S. and Nigerian governments signed in 2015.


美国国际开发署(USAID)最近宣布会进行额外的捐助,以助力实现双边《发展目标援助协议》中规划的目标,这是2015年美国与尼日利亚两国政府签订的协议。


25 million dollars will strengthen good governance by supporting state governments' efforts to bolster 2 Nigeria's Open Government Partnership 3 commitments to improve transparency and fight corruption 4.An additional 1.5 million dollars will support a healthier, more educated population in targeted states through the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, also known as PEPFAR, for a total of 26.5 million dollars in additional assistance.


The additional new funding brings the total U.S. government assistance provided under the five-year Development Objectives agreement to 1.1 billion dollars.


加上这笔新的额外援助金,美国政府在为期5年的《发展目标援助协议》下就提供了11亿美元的总资金了。


USAID is also working with federal and state health ministries 5 to build stronger health systems with the aim of guaranteeing equitable 6 access to quality healthcare services nationwide.


美国国际开发署还与各联邦和州立卫生部合作,目标是构建更强大的卫生系统,确保全国人民都可以平等的方式享受高质量的医疗服务。


USAID collaborated 7 with Nigeria's ministries of Budget and National Planning, Health, Agriculture, Power, and Education, as well as state-level government counterparts to structure the bilateral assistance agreement, which runs through 2020.


美国国际开发署与尼日利亚预算部、国家规划部、卫生部、农业部、能源部、教育部联手,此外还与国家级政府机构合作,以构建双边援助协议,该协议一直持续到2020年。


“The United States believes that as the most populous 8 country in Africa, with the largest economy on the continent, Nigeria holds tremendous influence over the future of Africa,” Acting 9 Mission Director Erin Holleran said. “USAID is committed to partnering with the government and the people of Nigeria to address its development challenges.”


美国认为,作为非洲人口最多的国家以及经济体量最大的国家,尼日利亚对非洲的未来影响巨大,代理署长艾琳(Erin Holleran)如是说道。美国国际开发署致力于与尼日利亚政府及人民合作,以应对尼日利亚的诸多发展挑战。



1 bilateral
adj.双方的,两边的,两侧的
  • They have been negotiating a bilateral trade deal.他们一直在商谈一项双边贸易协定。
  • There was a wide gap between the views of the two statesmen on the bilateral cooperation.对双方合作的问题,两位政治家各自所持的看法差距甚大。
2 bolster
n.枕垫;v.支持,鼓励
  • The high interest rates helped to bolster up the economy.高利率使经济更稳健。
  • He tried to bolster up their morale.他尽力鼓舞他们的士气。
3 partnership
n.合作关系,伙伴关系
  • The company has gone into partnership with Swiss Bank Corporation.这家公司已经和瑞士银行公司建立合作关系。
  • Martin has taken him into general partnership in his company.马丁已让他成为公司的普通合伙人。
4 corruption
n.腐败,堕落,贪污
  • The people asked the government to hit out against corruption and theft.人民要求政府严惩贪污盗窃。
  • The old man reviled against corruption.那老人痛斥了贪污舞弊。
5 ministries
(政府的)部( ministry的名词复数 ); 神职; 牧师职位; 神职任期
  • Local authorities must refer everything to the central ministries. 地方管理机构应请示中央主管部门。
  • The number of Ministries has been pared down by a third. 部委的数量已经减少了1/3。
6 equitable
adj.公平的;公正的
  • This is an equitable solution to the dispute. 这是对该项争议的公正解决。
  • Paying a person what he has earned is equitable. 酬其应得,乃公平之事。
7 collaborated
合作( collaborate的过去式和过去分词 ); 勾结叛国
  • We have collaborated on many projects over the years. 这些年来我们合作搞了许多项目。
  • We have collaborated closely with the university on this project. 我们与大学在这个专案上紧密合作。
8 populous
adj.人口稠密的,人口众多的
  • London is the most populous area of Britain.伦敦是英国人口最稠密的地区。
  • China is the most populous developing country in the world.中国是世界上人口最多的发展中国家。
9 acting
n.演戏,行为,假装;adj.代理的,临时的,演出用的
  • Ignore her,she's just acting.别理她,她只是假装的。
  • During the seventies,her acting career was in eclipse.在七十年代,她的表演生涯黯然失色。
学英语单词
acute poisoning
agia
alirios
allan poe
ampholytic detergent
anti-politicss
articulation of shoulder
at closing time
Axis Power
bangana r.
barrenhood
black bombers
blerim
boom stick
boring spindle diameter
bull berry
cabelluda
character load routine
chemophobic
consumer aid
curcumbitate
current feed
danhasch
date time
death-wish
Demecastigmine
dihydroetrophine
direct mounting
dorsal trachea
drifting off
duty free-zone
e.r.
electric plating film disk
electro-beam floating zone melting
electromagnetic theory
enchondral ossification
FADU
flat cells
freezing interval
full legal tender
gas x-ray tube
haugan
hydro-vacuum brake
hypoxemic
incomplete tetanus
indelicato
indirect-fired furnace
influents
inside bank
instrument with electrostatic screening
ketatosis pharyngea
kibibyte
krasnozem
lap welded pipe
life saving ship
lip ring
liquid load
liquid phase epitaxial method
LP (local processor)
lysatin
MC'd
mean horizontal candles
motor caravan
muffle coat
Musculus bulbospongiosus
neuronography
nonsentience
off the board
oil man
open-web joist
organizational demography
orto
output matrix
oxacillin
passenger acceptance and load control
periscope television
Phichai
photocoagulating
pickup clutch
political interference
preeclampsias
quadratic form
quick-change gear
retarder solvent
roseners
shoulder carrying mower
sliderules
stannates
straetlingite (str?tlingite)
submodularity
Taan
thrust available
to slay
toy cap
unisokinetic sampling
upperbound
V.I.P.
Velimlje
VFIB/CA
western whiptail
whirrrr
xanthic ferralsols