VOA常速英语:Experts Tackling Education in Africa

account for占有，占...百分比
例句：APEC members account for more than half of the world's economic output.
亚太经合组织成员的经济总量在世界占一半以上。

2. UNESCO, for instance, develops individual programs catering to each country's needs based on the U.N.'s Education for All initiative (EFA).

cater to迎合;为...服务
例句：Those newspapers cater to the lowest tastes.
这些报纸迎合低级趣味。
base on使建立在…基础上,立足
例句：Action should be based on solid facts.
行动应有确凿的事实为依据。

3. "EFA focuses on basic education and a few years later we have MDGs whose education goal is primary education, but they go on to list other goals to do with development, to do with child mortality, food security and all that," said Njenga.

focus on对(某事或做某事)予以注意
例句：Many firms are focusing on increasing their markets overseas.
许多商行都专注于扩大国外市场。
do with处理;对待
例句：What are we going to do with the problem?
我们将怎样来处理这个问题呢?

4. One reason we might not meet MDGs in terms of, for instance, child mortality is because we don't have human resources. Where do human resources come from?

come from来自，源出；产自
例句：This word comes from Latin.
这个词源于拉丁语。

5. Instead of focusing on a bottom-up approach that promotes basic education for all, the AU plan is geared more toward developing stronger African universities, that will produce graduates who are focused on solving African problems.

instead of (用…)代替…, (是…)而不是…, (用…)而不用…
例句：He has been playing all afternoon instead of getting on with his work.
他整个下午一直在玩, 没有继续工作。

6. Njenga says here too, on the university level, Africa is lagging behind.

lag behind落后
例句：Why is this country lagging behind in the development of space technology?
这个国家为什么在航天技术的发展方面落在人家后面?

7. UNESCO's Massaquoi objects to the African Union characterization of the U.N. as being too focused on primary education.

object to反对
例句：They objected to me on personal grounds.
他们出于个人的原因反对我。

8. "We cannot make progress with basic education unless we also strengthen higher education," added Massaquoi.

make progress前进,进步
例句：The boy has made great progress this year.
这男孩今年进步很大。

9. So whereas the emphasis would appear to be on basic education, all of the other inputs that we strengthen and bring about quality of education, closing the gender gap and so on are also addressed by other programs including higher education.

bring about引起
例句：Science has brought about many changes in our lives.
科学为我们生活带来很大变化。