VOA慢速英语:Banking Reform Is Central to Burma’s Economic Progress

短语讲解：

1. Burma's financial industry has suffered from years of mismanagement under military rule.

suffer from 患（某种病），受（某种病痛）折磨
例句：Do you suffer from insomnia?
你患了失眠症吗？

2. Because the effect of that is not only to restrict the amount of imports that come into this country, and it really needs a lot of imports, but there’s an added effect to it and that is that keeps the exchange rate artificially high.

a lot of 许多
例句：What happened? We heard a lot of yelling.
发生了什么事？我们听到许多争吵声。

3. For example, Nyi Nyi owns a workshop in Rangoon. He and his family manufacture toys for buyers from as far away as Hong Kong.

for example 比如说
例句：We have, for example, adopted payment by installments.
比如说：我们采取分期付款。

4. Burma is seeking to fully link, or integrate, its economy with its neighbors in the ASEAN economic group by 2015.

seek to 设法；企图，试图
例句：These are the objectives which businesses should seek to pursue.
这些是商业部门应该努力设法达到的目标。