VOA常速英语2008年-Bush Arrives in Tanzania

By Scott Stearns
Dar es Salaam¹
16 February 2008

President Bush is in Tanzania on the second stop of a five-nation tour of Africa. VOA White House Correspondent Scott Stearns has the story.

President Bush was greeted at the airport in Dar es Salaam by Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete and by groups dancing and drumming to traditional Tanzanian music. 

President Kikwete is the new chairman of the African Union.  So his Sunday meeting with President Bush at Dar es Salaam's State House is sure to focus on more than just Tanzania.

U.S. officials say the leaders are expected to discuss the rebellion in Chad, the continuing economic decline in Zimbabwe, and the political crisis in Kenya following December's disputed elections.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice travels to Kenya on Monday to stress the president's desire for a power-sharing deal and an end to ethnic² violence that has killed over 1,000 people and displaced 300,000 more.

While Mr. Bush hopes the trip focuses most on efforts to boost economic development and fight HIV/AIDS and malaria³, there will be no escaping conflict, including the violence in Sudan's troubled Darfur region, Somalia, and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

Jennifer Cooke is co-director of the Africa program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a private policy research group in Washington.

"I think it's going to be a fairly upbeat trip; I think that's the hope," she said.  "There is, however, there are many crises roiling⁴ on the continent that will certainly come up, Somalia being one of them; Kenya, continuing conflict in DRC, Darfur; Zimbabwe which, in the last trip that Bush took, he called upon President Mbeki to be kind of the good-faith negotiator between the parties in Zimbabwe.  We have not seen a lot of progress on that, and that may come back to haunt him in this particular trip."

President Bush says he is disappointed that South African President Thabo Mbeki has not been able to do more to resolve Zimbabwe's political crisis.

Speaking in Benin before his arrival in Tanzania, President Bush said resolving African conflict is certainly part of his trip, but progress toward improving literacy and health care should not be forgotten.

"This is a large place with a lot of nations, and no question not everything is perfect," he said.  "On the other hand, there are a lot of great success stories, and the United States is please to be involved with those success stories."

While in Tanzania, President Bush will visit a U.S. funded AIDS clinic and meet with survivors⁵ and family members of victims of the 1998 U.S. Embassy bombing that killed 11 Tanzanians.

1 salaam   

n.额手之礼，问安，敬礼；v.行额手礼

参考例句：

• And the people were so very friendly:full of huge beaming smiles,calling out "hello" and "salaam".这里的人民都很友好，灿然微笑着和我打招呼，说“哈罗”和“萨拉姆”。
• Salaam is a Muslim form of salutation.额手礼是穆斯林的问候方式。

2 ethnic   

adj.人种的，种族的，异教徒的

参考例句：

• 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。

3 malaria   

n.疟疾

参考例句：

• 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。

4 roiling   

v.搅混（液体）( roil的现在分词 )；使烦恼；使不安；使生气

参考例句：

• Now, all that could be seen was the roiling, lead--coloured sea, with its thunderously heaving waves. 狂风挟着暴雨如同弥漫大雾，排挞呼号，在海上恣意奔驶。 来自汉英文学 - 现代散文
• Rather, it is a roiling, seething cauldron of evanescent particles. 相反，它是一个不断翻滚、剧烈沸腾的大锅，内有逐渐消失的粒子。 来自互联网

5 survivors   

幸存者，残存者，生还者( survivor的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The survivors were adrift in a lifeboat for six days. 幸存者在救生艇上漂流了六天。
• survivors clinging to a raft 紧紧抓住救生筏的幸存者