VOA常速英语:Rural Women in Africa Speak Out at Climate Conference

短语讲解：

1. It looked and sounded like a celebration.

sound like听起来像
例句：What he said sounded like a fairy tale.
他说的听上去简直像一篇神话。

2. Women from all across Africa, some as far north as Kenya, came out to the rally at a Kawaulu-Natal University in Durban, several kilometers from the downtown convention center where the more subdued, official meetings on climate change are taking place.

come out出来
例句：Come out and get some fresh air.
出来吸点新鲜空气。
take place发生; 举行
例句：The evening party will take place on New Year's Eve.
晚会将在除夕那天举行。

3. The women say they have felt the real impact of climate change in their communities, as shifting weather patterns have caused wells to dry up and harvests to diminish.

dry up (使…)干涸
例句：The long drought dried up all the wells.
长期的干旱使所有的井都干涸了。

4. Canstance Mogale, representing the Landless Movement of South Africa, directed taunts and jeers at the U.S. delegation, blaming them of holding up progress on a global climate pact.

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。

5. The women's assembly is mostly skeptical that governments are acting on their behalf.

act on奉行; 按照…而行动
例句：The police are acting on the information received.
警方正根据获得的情报采取行动。

6. Mercia Andrews, the director of the South African Trust for Community Outreach and Education, said the organization fits in with her country's history of social movements.

fit in with (使)适合, (使)与…一致
例句：Your ideas fit in with mine.
你的想法和我的一致。

7. We have shaken this country before, we brought down apartheid, now is another turn.

bring down击败，使失败，使倒台
例句：This scandal may well bring the president down at the next election.
这件丑闻也许会使总统在下次选举中失败。

8. The U.N.-backed Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has said Africa is the region that will suffer most from the effects of climate change.

suffer from受苦;患病
例句：He suffered from poverty all his life.
他一生受贫穷之苦。

9. It is not clear whether the world's climate negotiators will come up with a deal to significantly cut greenhouse gas emissions, and expectations for a strong global pact are very low.

come up with (针对问题等)想出;提供
例句：He could not come up with a proper answer.
他想不出一个合适的回答。

10. With more mass action and protests planned on the sidelines of the COP 17, the women of rural Africa will be sure they are seen and heard.

plan on指望; 打算
例句：We planned on Mary for the decorations, but she was sick.
我们正指望让玛丽来布置, 但她病了。