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On Wednesday, the World Health Organization announced that the number of people killed by the Ebola virus has now risen to over five thousand, with more than fourteen thousand infected. In respond to the crisis, a new fund has been set up by some of Africa’s richest business people from all over the continent not just the infected countries in West Africa.

The African Union, which is the only body mandated to approach the African countries for healthcare workers drawn from their military, approached us to assist them with raising money to support those healthcare workers. A lot of the African governments can’t afford such a mission. It’s quite a considerable cost. They have for immediate deployment one thousand healthcare workers. We have now raised, as of this morning, forty-five million dollars. And the African Union have now pressed the button to start deploying those additional healthcare workers.

How are commercial minds and business people like yourself able to help in this crisis in a way that maybe governments aren’t so good at?

But so I have many many other businesses across Africa. We’ve been preparing countries where we operate with their preparations. We’ve been providing resources. And we’ve been making donations. But this was a specific request by the African Union. They already have people on the ground. There are more than three hundred healthcare workers in those countries. But they obviously like everybody else have been taken by surprise by this severity of it and are scaling up. The healthcare workers are coming from the military, which means the African governments are also contributing their salaries, their upkeep.

Why do you think it’s important to work together as an African continent and try to…You’ve described this as a “a hundred percent African solution” to this problem. Why is that important to you?

It’s not about African solutions or Asian solutions or American solutions. We have a global pandemic. It just happened to have started in that part of the world. When we have a global crisis, we must respond as a global citizens.

How quickly are you hoping that these health workers will be able to get on the ground and start helping as a direct result of the money you’ve managed to raise?

We want to get them there as quickly as possible.

詞匯解析

obvious

難度：4星核心詞匯，屬常用3000詞

英漢解釋

adj.明顯的；顯然的

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用作形容詞 (adj.)

It is obvious that she is very clever.

很明顯，她挺聰明。

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collapse

難度：4星核心詞匯，屬常用3000詞

英漢解釋

v.（使）倒塌；（使）崩潰；（使）瓦解；折疊

n.倒塌；崩潰；暴跌

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用作動(dòng)詞 (v.)

The roof collapsed under the weight of snow.

房頂在雪的重壓下突然坍塌下來(lái)。

用作名詞 (n.)

The market collapse was caused by weakness of the dollar.

市場(chǎng)價(jià)格暴跌是由于美元疲弱引起的。

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brief

難度：5星基本詞匯，屬常用1000詞

英漢解釋

adj.短暫的；短期的；簡(jiǎn)短的；扼要的

n.摘要；案件陳述

vt.作…的概述；（向…）簡(jiǎn)單介紹

參考例句

用作形容詞 (adj.)

There was a brief pause in the conversation.

對(duì)話中有短暫的停頓。

用作名詞 (n.)

He drew up a brief for his speech.

他起草了一份講話的摘要。

用作及物動(dòng)詞 (vt.)

The chairman will brief the Board on the most recent developments.

主席將向董事會(huì)概述最近的發(fā)展。

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unexpected

難度：3星常用詞匯，屬常用6000詞

英漢解釋

adj.想不到的；意外的

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用作形容詞 (adj.)

Because of something unexpected, I wonder if I can change my appointment from Tuesday to Friday.

由于想不到的原因，我不知道是否可以把約會(huì)時(shí)間由星期二改到星期五。

The unexpected defeat came as a thunderbolt.

這意外的失敗猶如晴天霹靂。

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split

難度：3星常用詞匯，屬常用6000詞

英漢解釋

v.分裂；將…分成若干部分；分?jǐn)?；分離；劈開(kāi)；裂開(kāi)；<俚>離開(kāi)

n.劈開(kāi)；裂口；分裂；一份；水果冰淇淋

adj.分裂的；意見(jiàn)分歧的

參考例句

用作動(dòng)詞 (v.)

The party split into petty factions.

該黨分裂成若干小派系。

用作名詞 (n.)

Frost caused the split in the rock.

霜凍使巖石裂了一條縫。

用作形容詞 (adj.)

They believe the killer has a split personality.

他們認(rèn)為這個(gè)兇手人格分裂。

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victim

難度：4星核心詞匯，屬常用3000詞

英漢解釋

n.受害者；受騙者；犧牲

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用作名詞 (n.)

She fell an easy victim to his temptation.

她經(jīng)不起他的誘惑，輕易地被騙了。

He was the victim of injustice.

他是不公平的犧牲者。

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proposal

難度：4星核心詞匯，屬常用3000詞

英漢解釋

n.求婚；建議；提議

參考例句

用作名詞 (n.)

The manager made a proposal for uniting the two companies.

經(jīng)理提出了將兩家公司聯(lián)合起來(lái)的建議。

Various proposals were put forward by the employees for increasing sales.

員工們擺出了各種提高銷售額的提議。

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