It's difficult to come to a place like Sierra Leone and forget about all the negative press and preconceptions you (and your family and friends) have.
到塞拉利昂这样一个地方来,要完全忘记你,还有家人和朋友们对这个国家的负面看法很难。
This is not something we can tackle from the beach here in Sierra Leone, as it is a global problem.
这不是我们在塞拉利昂海滩上能对付得了的问题,这是一个全球难题。
As public relations jobs go, selling a positive image of Sierra Leone has to be among the most challenging.
正如公共关系的工作一样,积极推广塞拉利昂的正面形象是最具挑战性的工作之一。
Sierra Leone, where British military forces stopped a bloody civil war in 2000, gets less of the world's attention, but was one of the quieter successes for Blairite liberal intervention.
在塞拉利昂英国的武装力量2000年阻止了一场血腥的国内战争,这个国家很少受到世界的关注,但是这是布莱尔自由干预主义更安静的成功之一。
Doubting that they would, this newspaper advocated a hybrid tribunal, like the one set up in Sierra Leone, that would include foreign judges and operate under international law.
值得怀疑。基于此,本刊曾倡议建立一个混合法庭,就像当年在塞拉利昂一样:法庭吸纳部分外国法官,并且依国际法行事。
Two months later I was on a plane to Sierra Leone to spend a month with Tribewanted.
两个月之后,我上了来塞拉利昂的飞机,我要到部族客来度过一个月的时间。
In the dry months of the year a simple ferry crosses a river in southeastern Sierra Leone; a car-carrying pontoon propelled by men with notched wooden sticks that lock to the guiding cable.
在每年干旱的几个月里,有一条简易渡轮往返于塞拉利昂东南的河流两岸。人们通过开过槽并固定在导索上的木棒推进能承载车辆的浮筏。
Sierra Leone had been a country where public tears never failed to attract the sympathy of strangers but nobody put out a hand to comfort her.
塞拉利昂曾经是这样的一个国家,当众流泪的人总会有人表示出同情,但现在没有人去安慰她。
But a further 50, including Niger and Sierra Leone, as detailed in the Lancet paper, do not get enough from the international community.
但仍有50国,《柳叶刀》文摘详细说明,包括尼日尔和塞拉利昂,没有从国际社会得到足够的资金。
So, when I heard about the opportunity to be a first footer for the new project in Sierra Leone, I jumped at the chance.
所以,当我听说有机会成为塞拉利昂新部族的第一批成员,我就抓住了这个机会。
Sierra Leone, for instance, which experienced horrors rather like Darfur's, has become a strong proponent of justice and a firm believer in the part it must play in ending conflicts.
例如塞拉利昂,这个国家有过类似达尔富尔的恐怖经历,已经变成一个正义的坚强支持者,而且坚决认为自己应该在终止各种冲突中献出自己的一份力量。
The Royal Family can have a rest - the English Premier League is now comfortably the biggest British cultural export here in Sierra Leone.
英国皇家可以歇一歇了——英格兰甲级联赛已经轻而易举地成为对塞拉利昂最大的不列颠文化输出者。
Sierra Leone is a poor west African country that has English as its official language.
塞拉利昂是西非的一个贫穷的国家,官方语言是英语。
In addition, a new ward dedicated to the care of patients with Lassa fever is under construction in Sierra Leone, sponsored by the European Union.
此外,由欧洲联盟赞助,正在塞拉利昂建造一所病房,专门用于拉沙热患者的医护。
It is a tangible sign, according to the foreign donors who paid for their training, that after a civil war that devastated the country from 1991 to 2002, Sierra Leone is moving forward again.
据一位资助训练他们的外国捐款人表示,这种迹象非常切合塞拉利昂的实际:1991年到2002年的内战让国家惨遭毁灭,如今这个国家再次向好的方向走了下去。
Little is known about the fish of Sierra Leone, and we have had a great start already.
关于塞拉利昂的鱼类人们知之不多,我们只是开了一个头。
There is a “sweet spot” for piracy: countries like Cambodia or Cameroon provide far more conducive environments for it than Haiti, Liberia and Sierra Leone, which are too dysfunctional.
这有就有了对付海盗的最佳方式:像柬埔寨或喀麦隆等非常混乱的国家,比起海地,利比里亚和塞拉利昂更利于形成这个活动。
One day in September while travelling, bleary eyed, on the London Underground, an article in a newspaper caught my eye: an opportunity to join a community project in Sierra Leone.
九月的一天,我睡眼朦胧地在伦敦地铁上,一份报纸抓住了我的眼球:参加部族客塞拉利昂项目。
The Kosovo and Sierra Leone missions are uncontroversial in Britain now-a testament both to their success and to the bigger, bloodier wars that would come later.
目前在英国,人们对科索沃和塞拉里昂的行动已经不再有争议了——对这两个行动,以及后来那更大型、更血腥战争的价值证明将要到来。
Sierra Leone is effectively off-grid and run on generators, offering a fantastic opportunity to supply its energy needs with renewable sources - just as long as the will is there, of course.
塞拉利昂实际上没有电网和营运的发电厂,这就为使用再生能源提供了极好的机会,当然还需要有决心。
"Recent events in Togo shouldn't obscure peace in Sierra Leone or Angola, growth in Tanzania, or a housing boom in Ghana," says Nankani, pointing out some recent gains.
“多哥的近期局势不应掩盖塞拉里昂或安哥拉的和平局面、坦桑尼亚的经济增长或加纳的房地产繁荣景象,”南卡尼道出了近期取得的一些成就。
Production outlook is also positive in Africa, where high world prices may sustain a two percent growth, particularly in Egypt, Guinea, Nigeria and Sierra Leone.
非洲的生产前景也是有利的,高昂的世界大米价格可能使那里的增长维持在两成,特别是在埃及、几内亚、尼日利亚和塞拉利昂。
Anybody who sits down with a spreadsheet will quickly wind up questioning whether the risk-adjusted returns on a Sierra Leone or Guinea startup iron-ore mine are really better.
凡是坐下来看试算表的家伙,立马收起了对塞拉利昂或者几内亚铁矿是否真是更好风险调整回报的疑问。
The pirate fishing is impacting the fish stocks of Sierra Leone, whilst the local fishermen we share the beach with are just trying to make a living and provide for their families.
偷渔对塞拉利昂的存渔量带来冲击,但是和我们同住一个海滩的当地渔民不过是为了养家糊口。
Ms. Peace teaches science at Saint Joseph's, a high school in eastern Sierra Leone.
皮斯女士在塞拉利昂东部的圣·约瑟高中教理科。
For Mr Butcher it meant a 350-mile (560km) walk into the forests of Sierra Leone (“the poorest country on Earth”) and Liberia (“one of the world's most failed and scarred states”).
布彻要徒步穿越长达350英里(560公里)的森林,这片森林位于两个国家内,一个是世界上最贫穷的国家塞拉利昂,另一个是世界上最失败和战争影响最深的国家之一——利比里亚。
He is a big fan of the sort of military commitments that enabled Britain, for example, to restore peace to Sierra Leone in early 2002.
他热衷于那种得以使英国在2002年早期恢复塞拉利昂和平的军事承诺类型。
He is a big fan of the sort of military commitments that enabled Britain, for example, to restore peace to Sierra Leone in early 2002.
他热衷于那种得以使英国在2002年早期恢复塞拉利昂和平的军事承诺类型。
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