These are less bountiful times; aid promises that were made, somewhat reluctantly, at the Gleneagles summit five years ago are being quietly broken.

援助承诺虽已做出，但多少有点勉强，五年前在格伦·伊格尔斯首脑会议上做出的承诺也没有履行。

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At the G8 summit in Gleneagles in 2005, when the rich world made heroic pledges to tackle poverty in Africa, EU members promised to raise aid budgets to 0.56% of GNP by 2010 and 0.7% by 2015.

在格伦·伊格尔斯召开的2005年G 8峰会上，那些富裕的国家曾许下豪言壮语，答应帮助非洲脱贫，而欧盟成员国则承诺将援助预算在2010年和2015年分别提高至GNP(国民生产总值)的0.56%和0.7%。

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Max Lawson, a policy officer at Oxfam, describes the reneging of countries on promises they made to increase aid at the G8 summit at Gleneagles in 2005 as a scandal.

马克斯·劳森是乐施会的一位政策官员。他说，一些国家背弃他们2005年在格伦·伊格尔斯八国峰会所作的增加援助的承诺，这是个丑闻。

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Few have lived up to the commitments they made to increase aid at the Gleneagles summit in 2005, and some are talking about cutting aid budgets.

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