VOA常速英语:New World Bank Chief to Face Many Challenges

take up开始工作
例句：He will take up his post as the head of the civil courts at the end of next month.
他将于下个月底开始担任民事法庭的庭长。
agree on对某事〔物〕有同样看法, 商定〔同意〕某事, 商定做某事
例句：We agree on the question.
我们在这个问题上意见一致。

2. (The) United States would have been keen to get an American to head up the World Bank even if it would not have been an election year in the United States.

head up领导〔主管〕(某个团体)
例句：She heads up the Student Union.
她主管学生会的工作。

3. “Now what we’re seeing is lots of developing countries that are asking for a change in the selection process when the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund are going to elect new leaders,” he said.

ask for请求…, 要求…
例句：We often asked the veteran workers for advice.
我们常常向老工人求教。

4. The head of the European Center for International Political Economy likens the situation to the rise in influence of G20 nations in relation to the G8.

liken to把…比作…
例句：Life can be likened to a journey with an unknown destination.
生活可以被比作一次不知目的的旅行。

5. Developing countries today represent such a big part of the world economy – that means every time that world leaders need to get together in order to flesh out new policies these countries also need to be at the table.

get together集合，聚集
例句：He got them together to talk matters over.
他把他们召集一块儿来商量事情。
in order to为了…
例句：We started early in order to arrive before dark.
为了在天黑前到达,我们很早就动身了。
flesh out充实，使…有血有肉
例句：Permission for a warehouse development has already been granted and the developers are merely fleshing out the details.
货仓开发的许可证已获批准，开发商只是在充实细节。

6. Because whoever is going to lead the institution, they’re going to be challenged by a landscape of developing countries, which differ from each other much more than they did in the past.

differ from与…不同
例句：She differs from her sister in the color of her eyes.
她与她姐姐眼睛的颜色不同。

7. Hebelieves developing countries will probably call on the next World Bank president to streamline credit and loan procedures and to make the bank less bureaucratic.

call on要求, 请求
例句：He called on his friends to help him.
他向朋友求助。