VOA慢速英语:A Call for Equal Rights for Women Farmers

1. A new report says if women farmers had the same rights as men,more could be done to reduce world hunger.

the same as 跟...一样
例句：The two brothers look the same as each other.
这兄弟俩长得一样。

2. Bread for the World says equal access to agricultural resourceswould help increase food security and economic growth.

access to 接近；通向…的入口
例句：Few men have direct access to the King. 
很少人能接近国王。 

3. Women constituted half of the agricultural labor force in notjust Africa, but the developing countries as a whole.

as a whole 作为一个整体;整个看来
例句：Is this true just in this country, or in the world as awhole?
只是在这个国家如此呢,还是就整个世界来看都这样?

4. And when you think of Africa alone, it's more than sixtypercent of the total agricultural labor force being provided bywomen."

think of 想到,考虑
例句：Don’t think of your product as a computer 
不要把你正在设计的产品认为是计算机 

5. They also receive less pay for the same work.

pay for 付款， 报偿
例句：I' ll give you double pay for working overtime. 
你加班我付你双倍工钱。 

6. For most of Africa, we have about eighty percent of thepopulation living in rural areas and they subsist on agriculture.

subsist on 依靠
例句：And how do the poor subsist on such a meagre amount? 
穷人又是怎样靠这般小数目维持生活的？ 

7. This is often because of legal as well as cultural reasons.

as well as 和...一样;和;也
例句：His interests included poetry as well as mathematics. 
他不仅喜爱数学而且也爱写诗。 

8. Bread for the World is urging the United States government toincrease development assistance, or at least not to decrease it.

at least 至少
例句：He smoked at least half a packet of cigarettes a day.
他每天至少抽半包烟。

9. They are able to have access to extension services, which willenable them to produce more and contribute to healthy societies."

be able to 能够
例句：He is able to lift a very heavy weight. 
他能举很重的份量。 

10. The report says, "Putting more income in the hands of womentranslates into improved child nutrition, health, and education."

translate into 把......翻译成......
例句：Literacy does not, of course, translate into depth of understanding of culture. 
当然，这并不代表对文化的深刻认识。