the scramble for africa

常見(jiàn)例句

Hence the scramble—not quite the scramble for Africa, an area of 30m square kilometres, but a scramble for half as much.
因此，這場(chǎng)瓜分的爭(zhēng)奪性使然--雖不至于分掉非洲的3千萬(wàn)平方公里、但起碼將近一半的面積。
John Ghazvinian toured Africa's major oil-producing countries and has written a book about it, titled Untapped: The Scramble For Africa's Oil.
加茲維尼恩巡回訪問(wèn)了非洲主要的產(chǎn)油國(guó)，并寫了一本題為《爭(zhēng)奪未開(kāi)發(fā)的非洲石油資源》。
That is about half the area involved in the 19th-century scramble for Africa, and some big claims have already been lodged: Canada is seeking 1.7m sq km and Australia 2.5m.
這個(gè)面積差不多是19世紀(jì)在非洲被爭(zhēng)奪面積的一半，而且一些大的索求已經(jīng)被提出：加拿大在尋求170萬(wàn)平方公里，澳大利亞索要250萬(wàn)。

Potentially, Zaire is the biggest prize since the new mining scramble for Africa started some four years ago.
ECONOMIST: Zaire
This is a sensitive point for Beijing: the Europeans have done especially well in the new scramble for oil in Africa.
ECONOMIST: African energy