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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.

词汇解析

obvious

难度：4星核心词汇，属常用3000词

英汉解释

adj.明显的；显然的

参考例句

用作形容词 (adj.)

It is obvious that she is very clever.

很明显，她挺聪明。

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collapse

难度：4星核心词汇，属常用3000词

英汉解释

v.（使）倒塌；（使）崩溃；（使）瓦解；折叠

n.倒塌；崩溃；暴跌

参考例句

用作动词 (v.)

The roof collapsed under the weight of snow.

房顶在雪的重压下突然坍塌下来。

用作名词 (n.)

The market collapse was caused by weakness of the dollar.

市场价格暴跌是由于美元疲弱引起的。

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brief

难度：5星基本词汇，属常用1000词

英汉解释

adj.短暂的；短期的；简短的；扼要的

n.摘要；案件陈述

vt.作…的概述；（向…）简单介绍

参考例句

用作形容词 (adj.)

There was a brief pause in the conversation.

对话中有短暂的停顿。

用作名词 (n.)

He drew up a brief for his speech.

他起草了一份讲话的摘要。

用作及物动词 (vt.)

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

主席将向董事会概述最近的发展。

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unexpected

难度：3星常用词汇，属常用6000词

英汉解释

adj.想不到的；意外的

参考例句

用作形容词 (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约会时间由星期二改到星期五。

The unexpected defeat came as a thunderbolt.

这意外的失败犹如晴天霹雳。

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split

难度：3星常用词汇，属常用6000词

英汉解释

v.分裂；将…分成若干部分；分摊；分离；劈开；裂开；<俚>离开

n.劈开；裂口；分裂；一份；水果冰淇淋

adj.分裂的；意见分歧的

参考例句

用作动词 (v.)

The party split into petty factions.

该党分裂成若干小派系。

用作名词 (n.)

Frost caused the split in the rock.

霜冻使岩石裂了一条缝。

用作形容词 (adj.)

They believe the killer has a split personality.

他们认为这个凶手人格分裂。

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victim

难度：4星核心词汇，属常用3000词

英汉解释

n.受害者；受骗者；牺牲

参考例句

用作名词 (n.)

She fell an easy victim to his temptation.

她经不起他的诱惑，轻易地被骗了。

He was the victim of injustice.

他是不公平的牺牲者。

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proposal

难度：4星核心词汇，属常用3000词

英汉解释

n.求婚；建议；提议

参考例句

用作名词 (n.)

The manager made a proposal for uniting the two companies.

经理提出了将两家公司联合起来的建议。

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

员工们摆出了各种提高销售额的提议。

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