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Business Matters: US Africa summit 5 Aug 14

Tue, 5 Aug 14

As President Obama prepares to welcome 50 African leaders to Washington, Alex Vines from the UK's Royal Institute of International Affairs tells Mark Whittaker why it is that the US is playing catch up with China when it comes to investment in Africa. The BBC's Tamasin Ford¹ visits Liberia and meets a café owner who explains the difficulties of providing hot and cold drinks in a country where only two per cent of the population have access to mains electricity. We hear from the US where workers at cut price supermarket chain, Market Basket, are striking in support of their sacked CEO. How often do you hear a story like that? And Lucy Kellaway of the Financial Times has some tips for those of you who want to get away with slacking off at work. In our New York bureau, Professor Ann Lee; over in Singapore, Simon Littlewood, President of the Asia Now consulting group.

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n.浅滩，水浅可涉处；v.涉水，涉过

参考例句：

• They were guarding the bridge,so we forded the river.他们驻守在那座桥上，所以我们只能涉水过河。
• If you decide to ford a stream,be extremely careful.如果已决定要涉过小溪，必须极度小心。