COVID-Economy 2021118

Question 1

多哥

多哥人

Answer 1

Togo: a republic on the western coast of Africa on the Gulf of Guinea

Togolese

Question 2

当…他正在那一小块红色的土地里拿着镰刀除草

Answer 2

He was working his small plot of land, scything weeds down to the rust-colored soil.
plot专用的小块土地

Question 3

尽管他认识的人没有感染新冠病毒，疫情还是扰乱了他的生活。

Answer 3

Though he didn’t know anyone sickened by Covid-19, the pandemic had disrupted his life all the same.

Though…all the same.

Question 4

我们都有各自特别的手势。

Answer 4

we all have our own idiosyncratic gestures
乖僻的，怪异的
If you describe someone’s actions or characteristics as idiosyncratic, you mean that they are rather unusual.

Question 5

基本食物的价格开始急剧上涨

Answer 5

prices of basic foodstuffs began climbing precipitously.

这里的用的是复数形式foodstuffs

突然的；骤然的；急剧的
sudden and great

同义词： abrupt
a precipitous decline in exports
出口的急剧下降