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阿拉伯面世界临贫困与粮食的挑战

2012-02-07来源:VOA
短语讲解:
1. It blames the situation on vulnerability to volatile food prices, natural disasters and water scarcity.

blame on把责任推给…
例句:They blamed the failure on John.
他们把失败的责任推给约翰。

2. And the kind of policy implication out of this is [that] in the wake of the Arab awakening and the whole drive for more transparency, a major issue to tackle is also data availability and access in order to improve decision making and information of the people

in the wake of尾随,紧跟,仿效
例句:Plague came in the wake of earthquake.
地震之后紧跟着就是瘟疫。
in order to为了
例句:We started early in order to arrive before dark.
为了在天黑前到达,我们很早就动身了。

3. So consumer demand puts a strain on food supplies.

put on增加; 强使承担
例句:The additional work put a great strain on him.
额外的工作使他负担极大。

4. So the food gap will increase, which obviously increases the vulnerability of that region to global food price shocks – the ones that we saw in 2008 and to some extent in 2010

to some extent某种程度上,(多少)有一点
例句:Women have changed history to some extent.
从某种程度上讲,女人改变了历史。

5. The IFPRI report also raised concerns about high child “under nutrition” rates.

concern about使(自己)关心…
例句:There is no need for you to concern yourself about where I was last night.
你没必要关心我昨晚在哪儿。

6. Breisinger described children as the most vulnerable segment in society, while at the same time being society’s greatest asset.

describe as描述为
例句:I should describe the attempt as a failure.
我认为这次尝试失败了。

7. It says, often, not enough of the household income is spent on food, saying in Yemen, for example, 25 percent is spent on Khat.

spend on把…花在…
例句:He doesn't spend much time on his homework.
他花在作业上的时间不多。

8. It also says greater emphasis should be placed on creating jobs by increasing exports other than oil.

place on把…放在…上; 把…强加于…; 重视; 着眼于
例句:In recent years our country has placed great importance on economic construction.
近几年来我们国家非常重视经济建设。