时间:2018-12-01 作者:英语课 分类:VOA慢速英语2007年(十二)月


英语课

This is the VOA Special English Development Report.


 
Pro-democracy activists 1 in 2006 listen to parliament proceedings 2 on a mobile phone in Katmandu, Nepal
Activists fight for different things. But one thing many activists around the world hold in common is their use of mobile phones as a tool for their work.


In South Africa, for example, AIDS activists are using text messages to direct people to the nearest H.I.V. testing station.


In Argentina, activists used their phones to get city officials in Buenos Aires to support a waste reduction campaign.


Politicians are often a target of mobile activism.


(SOUND)


This is a ringtone popular among Filipinos in the last two years. It came, supposedly, from a phone call between President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and an election official. Opponents said the call showed that she cheated in the two thousand four elections. The Philippine government said the call was recorded illegally and then falsified.


These and other examples of mobile activism can be found at MobileActive.org. MobileActive describes itself as a community of people who are using mobile technology in their work to make the world a better place. So far, two thousand people have become members of the site.


MobileActive.org offers free information about mobile-related tools and services. It also has resource guides on how to sign up voters, organize campaigns or raise money using mobile technology. 


Nokia, the mobile phone company, gave the group money to create its resource guides. Other partners have helped build its Web site and organize small training events. MobileActive hopes to hold its next meeting in July in Johannesburg.


Katrin Verclas helped start MobileActive in two thousand five. She lives in New York but we reached her on her mobile phone in Amman. She was in Jordan for a meeting of nongovernmental organizations and civil society groups. They were discussing uses for mobile technology in observing elections.


She noted 3 that in many countries, mobile phones are the least costly 4 way to communicate, and far more common than the Internet.


More than three billion people worldwide use mobile phones. And Katrin Verclas says people keep finding new uses for the technology. The goal of MobileActive, she says, is to collect their stories and experiences and then spread that knowledge.


And that's the VOA Special English Development Report, written by Jill Moss 5. I’m Steve Ember.


 



1 activists
n.(政治活动的)积极分子,活动家( activist的名词复数 )
  • His research work was attacked by animal rights activists . 他的研究受到了动物权益维护者的抨击。
  • Party activists with lower middle class pedigrees are numerous. 党的激进分子中有很多出身于中产阶级下层。 来自《简明英汉词典》
2 proceedings
n.进程,过程,议程;诉讼(程序);公报
  • He was released on bail pending committal proceedings. 他交保获释正在候审。
  • to initiate legal proceedings against sb 对某人提起诉讼
3 noted
adj.著名的,知名的
  • The local hotel is noted for its good table.当地的那家酒店以餐食精美而著称。
  • Jim is noted for arriving late for work.吉姆上班迟到出了名。
4 costly
adj.昂贵的,价值高的,豪华的
  • It must be very costly to keep up a house like this.维修这么一幢房子一定很昂贵。
  • This dictionary is very useful,only it is a bit costly.这本词典很有用,左不过贵了些。
5 moss
n.苔,藓,地衣
  • Moss grows on a rock.苔藓生在石头上。
  • He was found asleep on a pillow of leaves and moss.有人看见他枕着树叶和苔藓睡着了。
标签: voa 慢速英语
学英语单词
absence test
aerated salt bath nitriding
analytic
assimilation reduction
audit of cash in transit
Baradero
barium fluoiodide
Beagle, Canal
blow-dryings
bonneau
calpastatin
Capel-Curig
Cardio-conray
Carex thunbergii
caseanic acid
cellulated cloud system
childer
Clamatores
clearance lamp side light
clearing house in-book
consolatoriness
cony-fish
Crucianella
crustall plate
delivery on consignment
disclaimer of opinion
drip technique
dust fastness
eccope
elsinan
engine throttled back
erbakan
essy
explorer's gentian
facet coating
faxnows
Feynman Gell-Mann universal formula
forward-field impedance
Galatheidea
glandulosum
glassmaker's tool
haplo-
haythams
hemihelixes
hydropigenous
Högbo
immotility
indicated ore
intensity of photosynthesis
interchain interaction
International Association of Geodesy
invasive exotics
kaleidoscope model
Kitob
laborits
Mahārish, Ra's
make a speech
mass calculation
mausoleums at halicarnasus
Meretoja
metal cut
metal-bearing
molecular machine
monochromy
multiaddress computer
nail favus
new recruit
ngiew fawn (thailand)
Nivkh language
officially recognized standard
osagian series
other...than...
out of breath
pajamahs
parlay into profits
Pease R.
Piper hainanense
polargrapph
prairie voles
product planning and budgeting
rape-murder
reproduction curve
resin chip board
running-short
sales representatives
savenko
Send her down, Hughie!
superpimp
tabere
Tetrachlorodifluoroethane
trochophore theory
turquen
types of promotional communication
undocumented immigrant
usable sensitivity
Vidhidalstunga
W-256
wave rotation circulator
wild tamarinds
Zapf Dingbats
zarzas
zoning improvement plan