联合国警告：流离失所的阿富汗人呈现不断恶化的局势
时间：2019-01-03 作者：英语课 分类：2016年VOA慢速英语(十一)月
UN Warns of Worsening Situation for Displaced 1 Afghans 联合国警告：流离失所的阿富汗人呈现不断恶化的局势
Hundreds of thousands of Afghans have been displaced from their homes because of continuing violence in the country.
They face severe hardship as the country’s harsh 2 winter approaches.
The United Nations calls these people “internally-displaced persons.” They include both those who fled their homes and those forced to return to Afghanistan from neighboring countries. The UN says more than one million people will be in this situation by the end of the year.
VOA spoke 3 with some of the refugees 4. VOA learned that many of them are helped for just one month. Those who have been displaced for longer than that struggle to find help. Noor Mohammed is one of them.
"I've been here from Sangin for seven or eight years because there is war there. We have no facilities here. Look, these kids are playing in the dirt. They don't go to school - there are no health facilities. Winter is coming and we have nothing to deal with it."
Most of those at risk are women and children. International aid groups believe they are vulnerable 5 to harm, including women like Najeeba.
“The government is not helping 6 us at all. They’ve just left us in these tents without any facilities.”
The U.N. has warned that the number of Afghans displaced from their homes because of war may increase by the end of the year. But the amount of help is growing smaller as the number of refugees rises.
Words in This Story
facility – n. something (such as a building or large piece of equipment) that is built for a specific purpose
vulnerable – adj. open to attack or harm
- Gradually factory workers have been displaced by machines. 工厂的工人已逐渐被机器取代。
- He was displaced by another young man. 他已被另一个年轻人顶替。
- The sunlight is very harsh.太阳光很刺眼。
- Although his words are harsh,there is positiveness in them.虽然他的话很苛刻，但有建设性。
- They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
- The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。
- The UN has begun making airdrops of food to refugees. 联合国已开始向难民空投食物。
- They claimed they were political refugees and not economic migrants. 他们宣称自己是政治难民，不是经济移民。
- He volunteered to protect her as she looked so vulnerable.她看上去很脆弱，他就主动去保护她。
- The company is in an economically vulnerable position.该公司目前经济状况不稳定。