VOA常速英语2020--美国国际开发署帮助非洲国家应对疫情

Next, an editorial reflecting the views of the United States government.The United States is proud of its long-standing partnership¹ with the nations of Africa, based upon mutual² interests, shared democratic values and a decades-long commitment to improving the lives of the African people. Much of our cooperation deals with aid delivery. In partnership with more than 120 countries, the U.S. Government is working to help defeat the COVID-19 pandemic. USAID takes the lead in this effort, in tandem³ with the State Department, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Department of Defense⁴, and others as part of an All-of-America response to support health systems, humanitarian⁵ assistance, and economic, security, and stabilization⁶ efforts. “It's important to note that this assistance is aligned⁷ across the three key core objectives of the president's Africa strategy,” said Assistant Administrator⁸ for Africa Chris Maloney: “The first objective being advancing trade and commercial ties with key African states to increase American and African prosperity. The second is protecting the United States from cross-border health and security threats. The third is supporting African states as progress towards stability, citizen responsive governance, and also what we call the drive to self-reliance here at USAID.”

接下来是一篇反映美国政府观点的社论。美国为其与非洲国家建立了长期的伙伴关系而感到自豪，这种伙伴关系的建立是基于共同利益、共同的民主价值观以及美国几十年致力于改善非洲人民的生活。我们之间的合作大多涉及提供援助。美国政府与120多个国家达成了伙伴关系，并致力于帮助战胜新冠肺炎疫情。美国国际开发署与国务院、美国疾病控制和预防中心、国防部以及其他机构一起，在这项努力中发挥带头作用，这是全美国为支持卫生系统、人道主义援助以及经济、安全和稳定努力而进行的部分作为。非洲事务助理署长克里斯·马洛尼表示：“需要指出的是，这种援助与总统提出的非洲战略的三个关键核心目标是一致的：“第一个目标是促进与主要非洲国家建立贸易和商业联系，以促进美国和非洲的繁荣。第二个目标是保护美国免受跨境卫生和安全威胁。第三个目标是在美国国际开发署的帮助下，支持非洲国家走向稳定、促进公民相应的治理，以及推进非洲国家逐步实现自力更生。”

“It's important to flag that, right now, we find ourselves also confronting COVID-19,” he said:"And I'm excited to report that today we've committed close to 350 million dollars to help countries across sub-Saharan Africa respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.”The tens of billions of dollars that the United States has invested over the past decades, particularly through PEPFAR and the President’s Malaria⁹ Initiative, has created incredible trust-based relationships for us across Africa, said Assistant Administrator Maloney: “One thing that I think has been exciting is, for example, in South Africa, we've had the ability to leverage¹⁰ about 20,000 health care workers working traditionally on the PEPFAR platform, so the anti-AIDS platform now pivots¹¹ to work on COVID.”“This ability to leverage these platforms that we've been able to develop in a covered space has been very, very important in our response,” said Assistant Administrator Maloney. “I'm confident that our relationships and the shared experiences that we've had with our African country partners over the past decades will continue to help us meet both today's COVID-19 crisis and the broader development issues at hand, head on.” That was an editorial reflecting the views of the United States government.

他说：“要注意的是，现在，我们发现我们自己也在对抗新冠肺炎。”“我很高兴地向大家报告，今天我们已承诺投入近3.5亿美元，帮助撒哈拉以南非洲各国应对新冠肺炎疫情。”过去几十年来，美国投入了数百亿美元，特别是针对防治疟疾紧急救援计划以及总统提出的疟疾倡议进行拨款，这为我们在非洲各地建立了极为深刻的信任关系，助理署长马洛尼说：“我认为有一件很令人兴奋的事情，比如说，在南非，我们能够利用那些从传统意义上是在PEPFAR平台上工作的约2万名卫生保健工作者，因此，这个艾滋病防治平台现在能转向为防治新冠肺炎。”助理署长马洛尼说：“在我们应对新冠肺炎的过程中能够利用这些平台，而且我们已经对这些平台进行开发，并有很强的覆盖能力，这非常非常重要”。“我相信，过去几十年来，我们与非洲国家伙伴建立的关系以及共同经历将继续帮助我们应对今天的新冠肺炎危机以及当前更广泛的发展问题，我们会迎难而上。”这是一篇反映美国政府观点的社论。

1 partnership   

n.合作关系，伙伴关系

参考例句：

• 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。

2 mutual   

adj.相互的，彼此的；共同的，共有的

参考例句：

• We must pull together for mutual interest.我们必须为相互的利益而通力合作。
• Mutual interests tied us together.相互的利害关系把我们联系在一起。

3 tandem   

n.同时发生；配合；adv.一个跟着一个地；纵排地；adj.（两匹马）前后纵列的

参考例句：

• Malcolm's contract will run in tandem with his existing one.马尔科姆的合同将与他手头的合同同时生效。
• He is working in tandem with officials of the Serious Fraud Office.他正配合欺诈重案办公室的官员工作。

4 defense   

n.防御，保卫；[pl.]防务工事；辩护，答辩

参考例句：

• The accused has the right to defense.被告人有权获得辩护。
• The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers.战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。

5 humanitarian   

n.人道主义者，博爱者，基督凡人论者

参考例句：

• She has many humanitarian interests and contributes a lot to them.她拥有很多慈善事业，并作了很大的贡献。
• The British government has now suspended humanitarian aid to the area.英国政府现已暂停对这一地区的人道主义援助。

6 Stabilization   

稳定化

参考例句：

• The position of barycentre on plane directly impacts the stabilization and manipulation of plane. 飞机重心位置直接影响飞机的稳定和操纵特性。
• With the higher olefins, stabilization of the energetic intermediates occurs more easily. 在较高的烯烃情况下，高能的中间物稳定作用更易出现。

7 aligned   

adj.对齐的，均衡的

参考例句：

• Make sure the shelf is aligned with the top of the cupboard.务必使搁架与橱柜顶端对齐。

8 administrator   

n.经营管理者，行政官员

参考例句：

• The role of administrator absorbed much of Ben's energy.行政职务耗掉本很多精力。
• He has proved himself capable as administrator.他表现出管理才能。

9 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。

10 leverage   

n.力量，影响；杠杆作用，杠杆的力量

参考例句：

• We'll have to use leverage to move this huge rock.我们不得不借助杠杆之力来移动这块巨石。
• He failed in the project because he could gain no leverage. 因为他没有影响力，他的计划失败了。

11 pivots   

n.枢( pivot的名词复数 )；最重要的人（或事物）；中心；核心v.（似）在枢轴上转动( pivot的第三人称单数 )；把…放在枢轴上；以…为核心，围绕（主旨）展开

参考例句：

• The success of the project pivots on investment from abroad. 这个工程的成功主要依靠外来投资。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The novel pivots around a long conversation between two characters. 这部小说是以两个人物的对话为中心展开的。 来自《简明英汉词典》