VOA慢速英语 2008 1015a
时间：2019-01-11 作者：英语课 分类：VOA慢速英语2008（十）月
英语课
This is the VOA Special English Health Report.
Wednesday, October fifteenth, is the first Global Handwashing Day. Activities are planned in more than twenty countries to get millions of people in the developing world to wash their hands with soap.
For example, private donors 1 will give one hundred fifty thousand bars of soap to schools in Ethiopia. The Education Ministry 2 wants one million schoolchildren to wash their hands for Wednesday's event.
Experts say people around the world wash their hands but very few use soap at so-called critical moments. These include after using the toilet, after cleaning a baby and before touching 3 food.
Global Handwashing Day is the idea of the Public-Private Partnership 4 for Handwashing with Soap. Partners include the United Nations Children's Fund, American government agencies, the World Bank and soap makers 5 Unilever and Procter and Gamble. The goal, they say, is to create a culture of hand washing with soap.
The organizers say all soaps are equally effective at removing disease-causing germs. They say the correct way to wash is to wet your hands with a small amount of water and cover them with soap. Rub it into all areas, including under the fingernails. Rub for at least twenty seconds.
Then, rinse 6 well under running water. Finally, dry your hands with a clean cloth or wave them in the air.
The Partnership for Handwashing says soap is important because it increases the time that people spend washing. Soap also helps to break up the grease and dirt that hold most of the germs. And it usually leaves a pleasant smell, which increases the likelihood that people will wash again.
The partnership says washing with soap before eating and after using the toilet could save more lives than any vaccine 7 or medicine. It could help reduce cases of diarrhea by almost half. And it could reduce deaths from pneumonia 8 and other breathing infections by one-fourth.
Diarrhea is the second leading cause of child deaths, killing 9 more than one and a half million children a year. Pneumonia is the leading cause, killing about two million children under five each year. Hand washing can also prevent the spread of other diseases.
When people get germs on their hands, they can infect themselves by touching their eyes, nose or mouth. Then they can infect others.
And that's the VOA Special English Health Report, written by Caty Weaver 10. For a link to a Handwashing Handbook in English, Spanish, French and Swahili, go to voaspecialenglish.com. I'm Steve Ember.
Wednesday, October fifteenth, is the first Global Handwashing Day. Activities are planned in more than twenty countries to get millions of people in the developing world to wash their hands with soap.
For example, private donors 1 will give one hundred fifty thousand bars of soap to schools in Ethiopia. The Education Ministry 2 wants one million schoolchildren to wash their hands for Wednesday's event.
Experts say people around the world wash their hands but very few use soap at so-called critical moments. These include after using the toilet, after cleaning a baby and before touching 3 food.Global Handwashing Day is the idea of the Public-Private Partnership 4 for Handwashing with Soap. Partners include the United Nations Children's Fund, American government agencies, the World Bank and soap makers 5 Unilever and Procter and Gamble. The goal, they say, is to create a culture of hand washing with soap.
The organizers say all soaps are equally effective at removing disease-causing germs. They say the correct way to wash is to wet your hands with a small amount of water and cover them with soap. Rub it into all areas, including under the fingernails. Rub for at least twenty seconds.
Then, rinse 6 well under running water. Finally, dry your hands with a clean cloth or wave them in the air.
The Partnership for Handwashing says soap is important because it increases the time that people spend washing. Soap also helps to break up the grease and dirt that hold most of the germs. And it usually leaves a pleasant smell, which increases the likelihood that people will wash again.
The partnership says washing with soap before eating and after using the toilet could save more lives than any vaccine 7 or medicine. It could help reduce cases of diarrhea by almost half. And it could reduce deaths from pneumonia 8 and other breathing infections by one-fourth.
Diarrhea is the second leading cause of child deaths, killing 9 more than one and a half million children a year. Pneumonia is the leading cause, killing about two million children under five each year. Hand washing can also prevent the spread of other diseases.
When people get germs on their hands, they can infect themselves by touching their eyes, nose or mouth. Then they can infect others.
And that's the VOA Special English Health Report, written by Caty Weaver 10. For a link to a Handwashing Handbook in English, Spanish, French and Swahili, go to voaspecialenglish.com. I'm Steve Ember.
n.捐赠者( donor的名词复数 )；献血者；捐血者；器官捐献者
- Please email us to be removed from our active list of blood donors. 假如你想把自己的名字从献血联系人名单中删去，请给我们发电子邮件。
- About half this amount comes from individual donors and bequests. 这笔钱大约有一半来自个人捐赠及遗赠。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.(政府的)部；牧师
- They sent a deputation to the ministry to complain.他们派了一个代表团到部里投诉。
- We probed the Air Ministry statements.我们调查了空军部的记录。
n.合作关系，伙伴关系
- The company has gone into partnership with Swiss Bank Corporation.这家公司已经和瑞士银行公司建立合作关系。
- Martin has taken him into general partnership in his company.马丁已让他成为公司的普通合伙人。
n.制造者，制造商（maker的复数形式）
- The makers of the product assured us that there had been no sacrifice of quality. 这一产品的制造商向我们保证说他们没有牺牲质量。
- The makers are about to launch out a new product. 制造商们马上要生产一种新产品。 来自《简明英汉词典》
v.用清水漂洗，用清水冲洗
- Give the cup a rinse.冲洗一下杯子。
- Don't just rinse the bottles. Wash them out carefully.别只涮涮瓶子，要仔细地洗洗里面。
n.牛痘苗，疫苗；adj.牛痘的，疫苗的
- The polio vaccine has saved millions of lives.脊髓灰质炎疫苗挽救了数以百万计的生命。
- She takes a vaccine against influenza every fall.她每年秋季接种流感疫苗。
n.肺炎
- Cage was struck with pneumonia in her youth.凯奇年轻时得过肺炎。
- Pneumonia carried him off last week.肺炎上星期夺去了他的生命。
n.巨额利润；突然赚大钱，发大财
- Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
- Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。