VOA标准英语2012--American Wins Top World Bank Job - Again

American Wins Top World Bank Job - Again

Kim obviously is a man of many talents.

Before his nomination¹ to be president of the World Bank, he was president of Dartmouth College...

Where he played a comic role in a student musical.

More seriously, Kim also once headed United Nations' efforts to fight AIDS, founded a non-government organization that promotes healthcare around the world and taught at Harvard's schools of medicine and public health. 

In YouTube videos posted by Dartmouth College, Kim tells students a broad education can help them solve tough problems. His education includes degrees in medicine and anthropology². 

“In all the problems that I’ve taken on, I have not come at it from a purely³ philosophical⁴ or political perspective, but at one level, I’m a very practically-oriented physician that’s trying to solve problems so that people can live," said Kim.

New head of the World Bank and former Dartmouth College president, Jim Yong Kim, reaches out to shake hands as he arrives for meetings at the bank's headquarters in Washington, April 11, 2012. 

In a preview of his approach at the World Bank, Kim analyzed⁵ the U.S. healthcare system, urged officials to focus on data and results, and called for a new approach. 

“It is getting so bad that we think that finally there will be enough pressure so that we have to act. Unfortunately, for about the last 20 years, we have been saying that,” said Kim.

Critics say the World Bank deals with far more than just health care and they question whether Kim has enough experience to boost global growth to pay for improved health care, education and infrastructure⁶. One economist⁷ said the president of the World Bank needs to change its "feudal⁸" culture and focus on core economic issues. 

Anders Aslund of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, however, said Kim's experience running a college may be helpful. 

"Because there you also have people that you can’t sack [fire], institutions that you can't do away with very easily," he said.

Officials passed over Nigeria's highly-regarded finance minister to pick Kim. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said her years of work at the bank and life experience would have made her a strong leader for the world's largest development institution. 

“It’s not good enough to say you know about poverty. You have to live it to know what it means, and I did,” said Okonjo-Iweala.

A development expert who also is Colombia's former finance minister, Jose Antonio Ocampo, also sought the top World Bank job.

1 nomination   

n.提名，任命，提名权

参考例句：

• John is favourite to get the nomination for club president.约翰最有希望被提名为俱乐部主席。
• Few people pronounced for his nomination.很少人表示赞成他的提名。

2 anthropology   

n.人类学

参考例句：

• I believe he has started reading up anthropology.我相信他已开始深入研究人类学。
• Social anthropology is centrally concerned with the diversity of culture.社会人类学主要关于文化多样性。

3 purely   

adv.纯粹地，完全地

参考例句：

• I helped him purely and simply out of friendship.我帮他纯粹是出于友情。
• This disproves the theory that children are purely imitative.这证明认为儿童只会单纯地模仿的理论是站不住脚的。

4 philosophical   

adj.哲学家的，哲学上的，达观的

参考例句：

• The teacher couldn't answer the philosophical problem.老师不能解答这个哲学问题。
• She is very philosophical about her bad luck.她对自己的不幸看得很开。

5 analyzed   

v.分析( analyze的过去式和过去分词 )；分解；解释；对…进行心理分析

参考例句：

• The doctors analyzed the blood sample for anemia. 医生们分析了贫血的血样。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The young man did not analyze the process of his captivation and enrapturement, for love to him was a mystery and could not be analyzed. 这年轻人没有分析自己蛊惑著迷的过程，因为对他来说，爱是个不可分析的迷。 来自《简明英汉词典》

6 infrastructure   

n.下部构造，下部组织，基础结构，基础设施

参考例句：

• We should step up the development of infrastructure for research.加强科学基础设施建设。
• We should strengthen cultural infrastructure and boost various types of popular culture.加强文化基础设施建设，发展各类群众文化。

7 economist   

n.经济学家，经济专家，节俭的人

参考例句：

• He cast a professional economist's eyes on the problem.他以经济学行家的眼光审视这个问题。
• He's an economist who thinks he knows all the answers.他是个经济学家，自以为什么都懂。

8 feudal   

adj.封建的，封地的，领地的

参考例句：

• Feudal rulers ruled over the country several thousand years.封建统治者统治这个国家几千年。
• The feudal system lasted for two thousand years in China.封建制度在中国延续了两千年之久。