延缓肯尼亚棉纺业复苏的因素.pdf

VOA 慢速讲解2011-9-20 第776 期 QIHUI 制作 可可英语: VOA : VOA : VVOOAA慢速讲解附字幕::延缓肯尼亚棉纺业复苏的因素 查看原文 第一部分：原文中英对照 这里是VOA 特别英语农业报道。 This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. 不动产代理人通常帮助其他人处理房产销 售的问题。但是十年前，肯尼亚一位代理人 handle handle Real estate agents usually hhaannddlleeproperty David Masika 为自己购买了一个棉纺厂。 sales for other people. But ten years ago David Masika, an agent in Kenya, bought a cotton mill for himself. 这座棉纺厂就是位于东部省份的Makueni The mill was Makueni Ginneries in Eastern Ginneries，根据六十年代的技术来运营。在 province. It was operating with technology David Masika 购买了这座棉纺厂后，第一年 from the nineteen sixties. It produced only two 只生产了200 千克棉花。 hundred kilos of cotton in its first year under ownership ownership new oowwnneerrsshhiipp. Last year Makueni Ginneries sold six hundred 去年，Makueni Ginneries 出售了60 万千克 thousand kilos, or about one thousand bales. It 棉花，或者1000 个棉包，自Masika 购买以 made its first profit since Mr. Masika bought 来首次实现盈利。 it. Business is good -- world prices for cotton are up. But David Masika worried that he might 生意很好，因为国际棉花价格大涨。但是 process process not have enough cotton to pprroocceessssif he David Masika 担心，如果他投资新技术，他 invested in new technology. 可能没有足够的棉花来加工。 vicious vicious DAVID MASIKA: We got into this vviicciioouuss circle where we then were wondering, do I completely modernize this thing when I do not DAVID MASIKA：“我们一直陷入这种恶性 know whether the cotton is coming?