VOA常速英语:Negotiating Medical Aid in Conflict Zones

depend on依赖, 依靠
例句：My success depends on my friend helping me.
我的成功是依靠我的朋友帮助我。

2. In recent years, medical and humanitarian workers have been increasingly put in harm’s way.

put in使处于某种状态
例句：The surprise attack put me in a fix.
这次突然袭击使我处于困境。

3. And all those incidents were tended to be seen as consequences of the blurring of the lines between humanitarian action and political and military intervention.

tend to易于; 倾向
例句：My grandmother tends to go to bed early every day.
我祖母每天通常比较早睡。

4. Negotiations center on a search for common ground.

center on重点在于…; 主要与…有关
例句：He centered his attention on the problem.
他把注意力集中在这个问题上。

5. You shouldn’t believe in yourself as the bearer of some absolute moral virtue.

believe in信任
例句：We believe in him, who is always true to his word.
我们信任他, 他总是说话算话的。

6. Everyone involved in the negotiations wants to benefit from an MSF presence.

involve in使参与〔陷入, 牵扯到〕
例句：The vast masses there have become involved in the health campaign.
那里的广大群众都参加了卫生运动。
benefit from通过…获益
例句：He thought he would benefit from going to school.
他认为上学对他有好处。

7. “When trying to set up a surgical project in Mogadishu in 2007, we have to gather around this table, virtual table, the warlords, their enemies, their archenemies, the Islamic insurrection, the clan leaders, so that they can all get a piece of it,” he said.

set up建立，建造, 创立, 竖立
例句：Plenty of foreign firms have set up factories here.
很多外国公司已在这里开办工厂。

8. Clan leaders may look upon the clinic as giving prestige to their area.

look upon把眼光投向〔以某种观点来看待或对待〕(某物或某人)
例句：They look upon me as their own brother.
他们把我当作自己的兄弟。

9. If you have expectations of doing anything, of conducting any work in Somalia where there is no government, virtually no health care system, you’ve got to enter into negotiations in every aspect of your work.

enter into参与
例句：We should enter into public life.
我们应当参与公共生活。

10. Patients would be brought to them after they’d been tortured by the police and MSF would help the authorities to put them back on their feet.

put back放回原处
例句：The boy put the ink bottle back where it came from.
那男孩把墨水瓶放回原处。