5.8阅读笔记

food baskets 粮食产地

Irrespective of 不论，不管

subsistence farming

1:  farming or a system of farming that provides all or almost all the goods required by the farm family usually without any significant surplus for sale

2:  farming or a system of farming that produces a minimum and often inadequate return to the farmer —called also subsistence agriculture

subsistence farmer noun

hawk [hɔk]v.兜售，沿街叫卖

yam [yam]n.山药，白薯

a street preacher 街头传教士

in convoy ['kɑnvɔɪ]:  together in a line The ships were sailing in convoy.

death-defying :very dangerous

persecution [,pɝsɪ'kjʊʃən] n. 迫害；烦扰

extortionate [ɪk'stɔrʃənət] a. 敲诈的，勒索的，要价过高的

Muammar Gaddafi 穆哈迈尔·卡扎菲

evacuate [ɪ'vækjuet] v. 撤离，疏散

International Organization for Migration 国际移民组织

Stranded ['strændɪd]a.搁浅的，陷入困境的

Confer [kən'fɝ] v.授予，给予

Remittance[rɪ'mɪtns] n.汇款

Ministry of the Interior内政部

African Development Bank非洲开发银行

African Economic Outlook非洲经济展望

external finance外来资金

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Ghana ['ɡɑ:nə] n.加纳（非洲西部国家）

Ghanaian [ɡəˈneɪən] a./n.加纳人

Brong Ahafo Region布朗阿哈福地区

Nkoranza 恩科兰扎（加纳中北部的城镇）

Burkina Faso 布基纳法索（西非国家）

Agadez, Niger 尼日尔阿加德兹市（尼日尔，非洲中西部国家）

Borkou region 乍得地区

Within the English speaking world, there are three widely used systems to describe the age of the child. The first is the 'equivalent ages', then countries that base their education systems on the 'British model' use one of two methods to identify the year group, while countries that base their systems on the 'American K-12 model' have refer to their year groups as 'grades'. This terminology extends into research literature. Below is a convenient comparison