VOA常速英语:New Report Finds Agriculture Promotes African Economic Growth

contribute to促成
例句：Your suggestion has greatly contributed to the accomplishment of our work.
你的建议大大地促进了我们工作的完成。

2. The Montpellier Panel, made up of European agricultural experts, is calling for “growth with resilience” in Africa.

make up组成, 构成
例句：The audience was made up of very young children.
观众由小孩子们组成。
call for需要
例句：Your plan will call for a lot of money.
你的计划需要许多钱。

3. There are all the problems arising from global warming.

arise from产生于, 起因于
例句：The country's present difficulties arise from the reduced value of its money.
该国目前的困难起因于其货币的贬值。

4. What Africa ought to look at is the potential for growth with resilience.

ought to应该
例句：I feel that we ought to accept his proposal.
我觉得我们应该接受他的建议。

5. Resilience being the capacity to cope with these threats of many kinds.

cope with对付…
例句：I don't know how she copes with looking after her family and doing a full-time job.
既要照顾家庭又要工作, 我不知道她是怎样应下来的。

6. Some of these can come from agro-ecology.

come from由…造成, 源自
例句：Knowledge comes from practice.
知识来自于实践。

7. The Montpellier Panel describes resilient people as those “able to provide stable incomes, adequate nutrition and good health in the face of recurrent stresses and shocks.”

in the face of面对
例句：We should compose ourselves in the face of fear.
我们在危险时要保持镇静。

8. He says a growing number of African leaders are investing in agricultural.

invest in在…上投资, 在…投入(时间、精力等)
例句：The company lacks sufficient money to invest in new products.
公司没有足够的钱对新产品投资。

9. He describes Ghana as a shining example of how investments spur economic growth.

describe as描述为
例句：I should describe the attempt as a failure.
我认为这次尝试失败了。