And when it came to the tiny island nation of Sao Tome& Principe, I would have been stuck without a team of volunteers in Europe and the US who translated a book of short stories by Santomean writer Olinda Beja just so that I could have something to read.

Macquarie estimated China's steel inventory peaked in January, and has since dropped about 15 %.

麦格理证券公司估计中国的钢铁库存在1月份达到顶峰, 此后下降了约15%.

Sanyo and Panasonic account for nearly 30 % of all capacity, according to Macquarie Research.

据麦格理研究公司(MacquarieResearch)数据,三洋和松下在全部产能中占据接近30%.

Since the 1990 s, Macquarie has amassed a workforce of 2,000 in the Americas.

自上世纪90年代以来, 麦格理已经在美洲地区积累了2000人的劳动力.

Photographs have emerged that show several channels of water , built on properties along the Macquarie marshes.

照片显露出麦可瑞湿地上, 盖了许多水道.

in April, eight Red Cross workers in the Democratic Republic of Congo;

4月份，8名红十字会工作人员在刚果民主共和国被绑架；

A unit of China North Industries Corp., Wanbao says it controls more than$ 10 billion worth of mineral resources., including the Myanmar mine and a cobalt deposit in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

该公司是中国兵器工业集团公司（China North Industries Corp.）的子公司，自称控制着价值100多亿美元的矿产资源，包括上述缅甸的铜矿和刚果民主共和国的一座钴矿。

Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Ethiopia also had increases. H.I.V. has slowed the progress in reducing maternal deaths.

阿富汗，印度，巴基斯坦，尼日利亚，刚果民主共和国和埃塞俄比亚也有所上升。H.I.V减缓了降低孕产妇死亡率的进程。

He will also travel to the Democratic Republic of Congo, Botswana, Tanzania and Seychelles.

他还将访问刚果民主共和国、博茨瓦纳、坦桑尼亚和塞舌尔。

Its only natural homeland is now the Democratic Republic of Congo. Bonobos are our closest animal relative ( sharing about 99 per cent of our DNA) and physically resemble our distant ancestors.

刚果民主共和国是它们仅存的自然栖息地。倭黑猩猩是我们最亲近的动物亲属（与我们的DNA有99%相同），在行为举止上与我们的远祖十分相似。

Aid agencies estimate almost a million people have been displaced in the North Kivu region of DRC by the upsurge in violence between rebels known as the M23 and government forces.

援助机构估计有近一百万人由于刚果民主共和国北部基伍省地区被称为M23的叛军和政府军激增的暴力行为而流离失所。

The Ebola virus was discovered in the Democratic Republic of Congo, then known as Zaire, in 1976.

1976年，当时叫作扎伊尔的刚果民主共和国发现了埃博拉病毒。

The U.N.'s special envoy for the DRC, Alan Doss, said the additional peacekeepers must be of sufficient strength to be effective.

联合国驻刚果民主共和国特使Alan Doss表示，新增维和部队必须足够强硬，起到应有作用。

Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of Congo are the hardest hit countries in that region.

尼日利亚和刚果民主共和国是该地区受冲击最严重的国家。

He has served in the Democratic Republic of Congo and spent time in Liberia.

他曾经在刚果民主共和国工作，也曾到过利比亚。

Dodd-Frank, the American law designed to address the financial crisis, has a provision requiring companies to disclose if they were using minerals like tungsten and gold exported illegally from the Democratic Republic of Congo or neighboring countries.

旨在应对金融危机的联邦法律《多德-弗兰克法案》（Dodd-Frank）中有一条规定，企业必须披露，是否使用了刚果民主共和国或其邻国非法出口的钨和黄金等矿物。

Democratic Republic of Congo: Armed groups here battle over profits from gold, as well as tin, tantalum and tungsten ( also known as the "three Ts")-the so-called conflict minerals that are necessary to produce the specialized components of many electronic devices.

刚果民主共和国：这里的武装组织为了争夺黄金，以及锡、钽和钨（即“3T”）的利润而战斗。这些所谓的“争端矿物”是生产很多专业的电子产品元件所必须的。

Located in the far western extreme of the Democratic Republic of Congo, several dams and hydropower plants would deliver 42000 megawatts, nearly twice the size of the world's largest power station, the Three Gorges Dam in China.

大因加项目的地址位于刚果民主共和国的最西端，由多座大坝和水电站构成，装机容量将达4.2万兆瓦，接近目前世界第一大水电站中国三峡（Three Gorges Dam）的两倍。

Western journalists instinctively reached for it when they came to her hospital in Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo, in Joseph Conrad's "heart of darkness."

来到她的医院时，西方记者也本能地四下搜寻它的踪影。这所医院位于戈马，隶属刚果民主共和国，约瑟夫.康拉德（Joseph Conrad）笔下的《黑暗中心》。

Diamonds from Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo joined the illegal exodus.

安哥拉和刚果民主共和国的钻石也加入了非法销售的行列。

The war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo has seen six Ebola outbreaks.

兵连祸结的刚果民主共和国已经六次暴发埃博拉疫情。