VOA原文：

Africa’s nations must develop strategies to address climate change, which poses an existential threat to the continent’s megacities, Gabon’s President Ali Bongo said at the third Africa Climate Week conference. African officials and experts should sharpen the positions they will present at the 27th annual United Nations climate change conference to be held in Egypt in November, said Bongo. The third African climate meeting is bringing together more than 1,000 government officials and stakeholders in Gabon’s capital Libreville. They are working to form strong African regional climate responses.

加蓬总统阿里·邦戈在第三届非洲气候周会议上说，非洲国家必须制定应对气候变化的战略，气候变化对非洲大陆的大城市构成了生存威胁。邦戈说，非洲官员和专家应该在11月于埃及举行的第27届联合国气候大会上强调他们的立场。第三届非洲气候会议在加蓬首都利伯维尔举行，1000多名政府官员和利益相关者参加了会议。他们正在努力形成强有力的非洲区域气候反应。

1.address climate change 应对气候变化

2.sharpen the position 强调立场

3.United Nations climate change conference 联合国气候变化大会

“Climate change is a profound challenge in Africa and a great challenge of our time, amplifying existing social, political and economic inequalities,” Patricia Scotland, secretary-general of the Commonwealth group of former British colonies, said to the meeting.

前英国殖民地英联邦集团秘书长帕特里夏·苏格兰在会议上表示，“气候变化是非洲面临的一个巨大挑战，也是我们这个时代的一个巨大挑战，它加剧了现有的社会、政治和经济不平等。”

4.a great challenge of our time 时代的巨大挑战

5.amplify existing social, political and economic inequalities 加剧现有的社会、政治和经济不平等

【拓展】

6.fulfill one's climate pledges 实现某人的气候承诺

例句：The former Irish President has called on African nations to pile on the pressure on rich, heavily-polluting countries to fulfill their climate pledges to the continent during a visit to Uganda.

爱尔兰前总统在访问乌干达期间呼吁非洲国家向富裕、污染严重的国家施加压力，让它们履行对非洲大陆的气候承诺。

7.extreme weather events 极端天气事件

例句：The African climate week comes as the continent reels from several extreme weather events such as drought in East Africa and the Horn of Africa, sandstorms and extreme heat in West Africa’s Sahel region, and destructive flash floods, storm surges including cyclones in central, western and southern Africa.

非洲气候周会议到来之际，非洲大陆正受到一些极端天气事件的影响，如东非和非洲之角的干旱，西非萨赫勒地区的沙尘暴和极端高温，以及非洲中部、西部和南部的破坏性山洪和风暴，包括龙卷风。