英语新闻听写 盖茨基金会投1.7亿美元提高女性经济权

In an op-ed published Monday in Quartz¹, Melinda Gates announced that she and husband, Bill Gates are pledging $170 million to help empower women economically around the world.

周一，在一篇发表于“Quartz”的专栏中梅琳达·盖茨宣布，她和丈夫比尔·盖茨承诺投入1.7亿美元，帮助全球女性获得经济权利。

Melinda writes that the money, from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, will be spent over four years "to help women exercise their economic power."

梅琳达写道，这些来自“比尔及梅琳达·盖茨基金会”的钱将在未来四年内用于“帮助女性行使她们的经济权。”

She then adds, "Women acting² on their own can do what all the philanthropic organizations in the world can never accomplish:

她还说道：“自主的女性能够做到世界上任何慈善组织永远都无法做到的事：

change the unwritten rule that women are lesser³ than men.

改变女性不如男性这个不成文的规定。

Our role, as we see it, is to make targeted investments that give women the opportunity to write new rules."

如我们所见，我们的角色就是进行定向投资，给予女性书写新规定的机会。”

1 quartz   

n.石英

参考例句：

• There is a great deal quartz in those mountains.那些山里蕴藏着大量石英。
• The quartz watch keeps good time.石英表走时准。

2 acting   

n.演戏，行为，假装；adj.代理的，临时的，演出用的

参考例句：

• Ignore her,she's just acting.别理她，她只是假装的。
• During the seventies,her acting career was in eclipse.在七十年代，她的表演生涯黯然失色。

3 lesser   

adj.次要的，较小的；adv.较小地，较少地

参考例句：

• Kept some of the lesser players out.不让那些次要的球员参加联赛。
• She has also been affected,but to a lesser degree.她也受到波及，但程度较轻。