The refugee situation in Uganda has reached crisis proportions, said U.S. Ambassador to Uganda Deborah Malac. In remarks to the Uganda Solidarity Summit on Refugees, she warned, To prevent a broader humanitarian disaster, the response of Ugandan auth

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(163) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2017年(6月)

Hunger Crisis in East Africa - Somalia Some 14.4 million people in Somalia, Ethiopia, and Kenya need humanitarian assistance, according to the United Nations. In some places, acute food insecurity could soon deteriorate into famine. Famines are rare,

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(119) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2017年(四月)

在这个有趣演讲中,生物学家Ameenah Gurib-Fakim介绍了在孤岛和非洲大陆上的稀有植物。其中包括变形树,或许能治疗哮喘的小岛香油膏,以及能解决未来食品危机的猴面包树和猴苹果

发表于:2018-12-09 / 阅读(217) / 评论(0) 分类 TED公开课:生态谜云

人口越来越多,优秀人才也越来越多,应聘工作变得越来越难,竞争压力越来越大....... This is not a word for word transcript. Rob: Hello and welcome to 6 Minute English. I'm Rob and with me today is Natalie. Natalie: Hi

发表于:2018-12-27 / 阅读(71) / 评论(0) 分类 一起听英语

More government support, including subsidies and a favorable pricing mechanism, is needed for the country to use desalinated seawater to quench its thirst, a top industry expert said。 The lack of an effective pricing mechanism for desalinated water

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(53) / 评论(0) 分类 英语笔译

Issues Collide Over Europes Migrant Crisis 欧洲移民危机引发问题 Europes migrant crisis has brought the situation of hundreds of thousands of people fleeing conflict or seeking a better life to the worlds attention. The migration has put pre

发表于:2019-01-12 / 阅读(96) / 评论(0) 分类 2015年VOA慢速英语(九)月

Honestly! I was in the middle of an important call. 老实说!我正在打一个非常重要的电话。 Yeah, and you never got see those firemen in action, did you Denise? 是啊,而且你再也不能看见那些消防员了,是吧丹尼斯?

发表于:2019-01-14 / 阅读(67) / 评论(0) 分类 职场英文口语

These days, many people young and old are experiencing a career-life crisis, asking: What do I do when I realize my dream job isnt so wonderful after all? 眼下,很多人──无论老少,都在经历着一场职业生涯的危机。他们都在扪

发表于:2019-01-17 / 阅读(76) / 评论(0) 分类 实用英语

And while a few Indonesians have recently joined ISIS, 虽然最近还是有些印尼人加入伊斯兰国 their number is tiny, far fewer in per capita terms than the number of Belgians. 但他们的数量是非常少的,按人均来计算比比利时

发表于:2019-01-18 / 阅读(66) / 评论(0) 分类 TED演讲国际问题篇

Neither immigration nor Islamic extremism are impossible to deal with. 移民问题和伊斯兰恐怖主义都不是不可能解决的 Join me now on one last trip, this time to Mexico. 现在跟我来看看最后的这个例子,这一次我们转向

发表于:2019-01-18 / 阅读(63) / 评论(0) 分类 TED演讲国际问题篇

And now Canada is taking even more. 并且现在加拿大正在接收更多的难民 And yet, if you ask Canadians what makes them proudest of their country, 如果你问加拿大人他们的国家最让他们感到骄傲的是什么 they rank multic

发表于:2019-01-18 / 阅读(53) / 评论(0) 分类 TED演讲国际问题篇

Slovenia 斯洛文尼亚 Very European 浓郁的欧洲色彩 Slovenias first big crisis since independence 斯洛文尼亚独立后首遇大危机 Beautiful but angry 美丽表面蕴藏危机 Slovenes have always felt rather pleased with themselves.

发表于:2019-01-27 / 阅读(62) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人财经系列

JUDY WOODRUFF: Finally tonight, we update the situation in Haiti, four years after it was hit by a catastrophic earthquake that killed more than 100,000 people. Efforts to rebuild the poverty-stricken island were led by the United Nations. But in a c

发表于:2019-01-27 / 阅读(69) / 评论(0) 分类 PBS访谈社会系列

Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, is right that the current refugee crisis is forcing Europe to consider whether it can live up to its own, self-proclaimed values. Unfortunately, the answer is likely to be No. 德国总理安格拉默克尔(Angel

发表于:2019-01-31 / 阅读(99) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

WASHINGTON, April 10 (Xinhua) -- Russian economy could contract as much as 1.8 percent this year, if the Ukraine crisis continues to roil and becomes more serious, said World Bank President Jim Yong Kim Thursday. If the crisis goes longer and has a d

发表于:2019-02-17 / 阅读(86) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

MUNICH, Germany, Feb. 12 (Xinhua) -- European countries need to find a systematic and European response to the refugee crisis, German Defense Minister Ursula Gertrud von der Leyen said here on Friday. Speaking to top diplomats from around the world a

发表于:2019-02-17 / 阅读(103) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

You thought the eurozone crisis was bad. Today, Europe faces no greater challenge than the mass exodus of refugees seeking a haven from the carnage in Syria and the turmoil in north Africa and the Sahel. It is equally clear that both the EUs response

发表于:2019-02-17 / 阅读(61) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

HARI SREENIVASAN: We take a closer look at Europe's approach to the crisis with William Swing, director-general of the International Organization for Migration and former U.S. diplomat, and David O'Sullivan, the European Union's ambassador to Washing

发表于:2019-02-25 / 阅读(67) / 评论(0) 分类 PBS访谈社会系列

So I'm here to tell you a story of success from Africa. 在这里,我要跟大家分享一个在非洲的成功故事。 A year and a half ago, 一年半以前 four of the five people who are full time members at Ushahidi, 在这里的5个人是Ush

发表于:2019-03-04 / 阅读(98) / 评论(0) 分类 TED演讲教育篇

Thailand 泰国 Everything is broken 支离破碎 Long in crisis, Thailand is close to the brink. Without compromises on both sides, it may well collapse 深陷危机,泰国局势急转直下。对峙双方若互不让步,该国局势可能即将崩

发表于:2019-03-09 / 阅读(139) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人商业系列