口译学习材料-中国反驳希拉里非洲讲话

发布时间：2012-09-18

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在非洲访问期间，美国国务卿希拉里·克林顿警告当地领导人不要与“那些想攫取非洲财富的国家合作”，无端影射中国。这一言论彻底激怒中国，中国官媒日前发表英文评论称希拉里的讲话“充满恶意、粗鲁、信口雌黄”。

Chinese state media have lashed out at Hillary Clinton, US secretary of state, after she warned African leaders about co-operation with countries who want to exploit the continent’s resources.

state media 官方媒体

lash out 猛烈抨击

secretary of state 国务卿

exploit resources 开发/掠夺/攫取资源

On a tour of sub-Saharan Africa to promote political stability, Mrs Clinton said this week that the US would stand up for democracy and universal human rights, “even when it might be easier or more profitable to look the other way, to keep the resources flowing”.

sub-Saharan 撒哈拉沙漠以南的

stand up for 支持，拥护

“Not every partner makes that choice, but we do and we will,” she said, without naming China, in a speech delivered in Senegal.

deliver a speech 发表演讲

Senegal [,senə'ɡɔ:l] 塞内加尔

The “implication that China has been extracting Africa’s wealth for itself is utterly wide of the truth”, a commentary from Beijing’s official Xinhua news agency said on Friday of Mrs Clinton’s comment that the US was committed to a model that “adds value rather than extracts it”.

implication 暗示

extract one’s wealth 榨取财富

be wide of the truth 与事实相差甚远

be committed to 致力于，以......为己任

Mrs Clinton’s words offered “cheap shots” and were part of “a plot to sow discord between China and Africa” for the US’s “selfish gain”, said Xinhua. It added that her trip was part of a hidden agenda, “aimed at least partly at discrediting China’s engagement with the continent and curbing China’s influence there”.

cheap shot 恶意中伤，卑鄙手段，偷袭

sow discord between ... and ... 在...之间制造不和，挑拨...

a hidden agenda 别有企图，幕后动机

discredit 损害......的信誉，破坏对......的信任

curb 抑制，控制

Mrs Clinton’s 11-day trip to Africa comes as China continues to gain influence in markets across the continent – home to vast resource wealth and some of the world’s fastest-growing countries.

continue to gain influence in ... 不断扩大在......方面的影响力

While President Barack Obama unveiled a new Africa strategy in June, focusing on democracy, economic growth, security and development, China has promised Africa $20bn in loans in the next three years.

unveil 使公诸于众，揭露

promise xx in loans 承诺xx 的贷款

China, which put Sino-African trade at $166bn last year, overtook the US as Africa’s largest partner three years ago.

overtake 赶上，超过

“There is a general sense that China appears to be eclipsing America in Africa,” said Comfort Ero, Africa programme director at the International Crisis Group.

There is a general sense that ... 普遍感觉

eclipse v. 使黯然失色，遮蔽，给......投上一层阴影

International Crisis Group 国际危机小组

“This is her Mrs Clinton’s second big pitch to try to sell the differences between the US and China in a positive way, suggesting the US has Africa’s interests at heart and is genuinely concerned with progress around democracy, and that China is only interested in grabbing resources,” said Ms Ero, referring to a visit by Mrs Clinton to Africa last year.

sell 出售，推销，使接受，宣传

have one’s interests at heart 把......放心上

be concerned with ... 关心

grab resources 攫取资源

Mrs Clinton, whose trip takes in Senegal, Uganda, South Sudan, Kenya, Malawi, South Africa and Ghana, was accompanied by a large US business delegation, and stressed Africa’s economic potential. “We believe that if you want to make a good investment in the midst of what is still a very difficult global economy, go to Africa,” she said during the same speech.

be accompanied by 由......陪同；伴随有......

She voiced fears that the continent was “backsliding” on democracy.

voice v. 表达，吐露

backslide 倒退，退步

Meanwhile, she has faced criticism over her close relationship with President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda, whose army makes up the bulk of a heavily US-funded African Union force that fights Islamist militants in Somalia, but who has refused to step down.

the bulk of 大多数

militant 武装分子

step down 下台

The US focus on governance is “inconsistent and shifts with its interests”, said Daniel Kalinaki, managing editor of Uganda’s Daily Monitor newspaper. After 2010 bombings in Uganda, carried out by al-Qaeda-linked, Somalia-based militants, “all the talk of democracy was suddenly replaced by talk about regional security and Somalia”.

governance n. 统治，管理

inconsistent 不一致的，前后矛盾的

shift with ... 随着......来转变

bombing 轰炸

Al-Qaeda 基地（恐怖）组织

Mrs Clinton met Mr Museveni and President Salva Kiir of South Sudan on Friday, stressing the need for strong institutions and adherence to the constitution. She is due to meet President Mwai Kibaki of Kenya on Saturday before travelling to Malawi and then South Africa.

adhere to 坚持

Additional reporting by Kathrin Hille in Beidaihe, China

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