时间:2019-01-11 作者:英语课 分类:VOA慢速英语2009年(五)月


英语课

This is the VOA Special English Development Report.


Every three weeks, a truck drives to a rural 1 community in the Kingdom of Swaziland. The purpose of the trip is to buy the hand-made products of local women and place new orders.


The Swazi women make and sell woven baskets, placemats for dinner tables and other objects for the home. The women gained their weaving skills long ago. Traditionally, women in the African nation work with long grasses to make the thatched roofs that cover houses.


The manufacture 2 of goods is important for the women because they can do this at home. Many care for a number of children, including those whose parents died of AIDS. Swaziland is said to have the highest known rate of infection for the virus that causes the disease 3.
 
Lomtandaso Hlope weaves part of a grass basket


But life is brighter for the women weavers 4 today than it was seventeen years ago. That is when a business project called Gone Rural was launched 5. Today, more than seven hundred women take their goods to Gone Rural for sale. One of their main materials is Lutindzi grass, which grows only in mountain areas. Gone Rural also has some products available in other materials.


The project now has sales of five hundred thousand dollars worth of goods each year. The goods are sold in more than thirty countries around the world.


Three years ago, Gone Rural started a nonprofit organization called Gone Rural boMake. Its purpose is to provide for the educational, health and social needs of the women and their communities. The parent organization gives Gone Rural boMake at least twenty percent of its profits and helps with administrative 6 costs. The non-profit organization's projects include working to provide communities with clean drinking water.


Lomtandaso Hlope was one of the first seven hundred women to weave for Gone Rural. Years ago, she and other women from her community went to the Gone Rural office in the town of Malkerns. They showed their goods to Jenny Thorne, who established Gone Rural. Miz Thorne happily accepted what they made.


Lomtandaso Hlope and her friends have been selling to Gone Rural ever since. Their community is among thirteen that sell to the group. She has educated her own children and grandchildren with the money earned from her work.


This VOA Special English Development Report was written by Jerilyn Watson. I'm Steve Ember.



adj.乡下的,田园的,乡村风味的
  • He lived a rural life.他过着田园生活。
  • We left the city for a rural home.我们离开城市,去农村安家。
n.产品,制造,制造业;vt.制造,加工;vi.参与制造
  • The equipment is of our own manufacture.这设备是我们自己制造的。
  • Plastic is an important manufacture.塑料是种重要产品。
n.疾病,弊端
  • The doctors are trying to stamp out the disease.医生正在尽力消灭这种疾病。
  • He fought against the disease for a long time.他同疾病做了长时间的斗争。
织工,编织者( weaver的名词复数 )
  • The Navajo are noted as stockbreeders and skilled weavers, potters, and silversmiths. 纳瓦霍人以豢养家禽,技术熟练的纺织者,制陶者和银匠而著名。
  • They made out they were weavers. 他们假装是织布工人。
v.发射( launch的过去式和过去分词 );[计算机]开始(应用程序);发动;开展(活动、计划等)
  • He launched a bitter diatribe against the younger generation. 他对年轻一代发起了猛烈的抨击。
  • The product was launched amid much fanfare worldwide. 这个产品在世界各地隆重推出。
adj.行政的,管理的
  • The administrative burden must be lifted from local government.必须解除地方政府的行政负担。
  • He regarded all these administrative details as beneath his notice.他认为行政管理上的这些琐事都不值一顾。
学英语单词
-mer
adhering ridge
administrative myth
anca
angular standard
Anklam
ASXRED
backup rolls
bad gandersheim (gandersheim)
big bill haywoods
branch sales office
callos-
caudolateral
cedefops
clerkless
cleveite
coefficient of pipe-line orifice
construction flow process
corner cutting tile
crucible bath furnace
deaister
decoy duck
defecography
delf
Dikmen
double-work
electric flux line
endamoebas
epiberberine
etching reagrnt
family life style
fidley grating
fight with one's own shadow
filled can
Fischer, Emil
four-pole circuit
fund for operation of foreign exchange
Generation-Skipping Trust
go into a flat spin
gold-laced
greening disease of laver
gutshots
Hauptmannian
horizontal field of view
ifru
image enlargement
immune neglect
income offset by depletion
inseparately
international classification of patents
isophonic contour
jeans-and-t-shirt
karstenite (anhydrite)
kukulkans
Lagrangian coordinates
Leptospira pyrogenes
mashed vegetable
Medicago arborea
multidisciplinarianism
multifractally
negative impulse
nitrosyl bromide
nonadditive genetic variance
panelling
parachute jumper
pick up
plebiscitum
poor communication
post office network list
preimpact
presidential election campaign fund
priestism
Psammodontidae
random ore pillar
revolving spindle
rhythmetic
rotating concentric tube distilling column
ryemele
safe zone
Sai Dao Tai, Khao
santocel
Sardini
scrawnily
semicircular vault
sex-linked hypogamma globinemia
Shia Muslim
sincere
spatter-lash
Staryy Aybesi
stavrite
stop start switch
summer-fallowed
Sunday run
tapestries
temperature gauge pipe
thinktanks
three L's
Tukulti-Ninurta Epic
vibration(al) spectrum
wide anode
zonal index of circulation
zosimoes