2006年VOA标准英语-Victims Of African Migration Include Abandoned
时间：2019-01-12 作者：英语课 分类：2006年VOA标准英语（十二月）
By Nico Colombant
Dakar
01 December 2006
Victims of African migration 1 are not only young people who go on reckless trips trying to get to Europe. They also include those affected 2 by economic migration within the continent. Among these are wives left behind by their husbands in unfamiliar 3 places. In the final part of a series on migration issues, VOA's Nico Colombant profiles Veronica Lefuka, a Zambian woman abandoned by her husband in a small Senegalese village.
Veronica Lefuka preparing a Senegalese dish
Veronica Lefuka seems well acclimated 4 to cooking Senegalese food.
"What I am doing at this time, I am cooking some Senegalese food," she explains. "I am cooking Thiep Djem, it is rice and fish, and oil, tomatoes and cube Maggi, and onions and everything like that."
She was taught by the wife of her husband's brother.
She met her husband in Zambia's copper 5 belt, in a mining town where he used to work. Everything was nice in Zambia, she says, but then he took her back to Senegal.
"We have two daughters and one son," she explains. "My husband decided 6 to bring the kids in Senegal, so we brought the kids. My husband took me to the village."
Her husband left soon after to seek work again - never to reappear.
"My husband, he left us here in Senegal. He went back to Zambia," she says. "Now it has been 10 years he never came [back to] Senegal. I have been here now for 14 years, alone with the children."
Her two daughters were forced to marry as teenagers in her husband's village, 400 kilometers east of Dakar. After that, she says she felt increasingly trapped.
Lefuka decided to head to the capital with her son, so he could get more of an education. She says she is a born-again Christian 7 and gets help from different churches to survive and pay for his studies.
"The truth is I am not working. People are giving me money, that is the truth," she says. "I did not work for all these years I stayed in Senegal. I am a born-again Christian. The Pentecostal church, the Catholic church, they try to help me sometimes."
Her son is now in second year of university, studying English. She has sacrificed so much for him and now Lefuka says she would like something better for her own life.
Veronica Lefuka says she feels like "somebody's ship in the ocean"
"I do not do anything. I am like somebody's ship in the ocean. I do not know what I am doing," she says. "I have got no power. I have nobody to help me. I have nothing."
She says all she has as documentation is an expired Zambian passport and an expired driver's license 8. She says she is not sure if she should stay in Senegal, where she has never felt at home, or try a perilous 9 and costly 10 trip back to Zambia.
She says when she married an enterprising migrant man, she had no idea this is how her life would turn out - so lost and so lonely.
- Swallows begin their migration south in autumn.燕子在秋季开始向南方迁移。
- He described the vernal migration of birds in detail.他详细地描述了鸟的春季移居。
- She showed an affected interest in our subject.她假装对我们的课题感到兴趣。
- His manners are affected.他的态度不自然。
- I am unfamiliar with the place and the people here.我在这儿人地生疏。
- The man seemed unfamiliar to me.这人很面生。
- The rice has been acclimated in this area. 水稻已能适应这一地区的环境。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
- Have you become acclimated to Taiwan yet? 你已适应台湾的环境了吗？ 来自辞典例句
- The students are asked to prove the purity of copper.要求学生们检验铜的纯度。
- Copper is a good medium for the conduction of heat and electricity.铜是热和电的良导体。
- This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
- There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。
- They always addressed each other by their Christian name.他们总是以教名互相称呼。
- His mother is a sincere Christian.他母亲是个虔诚的基督教徒。
- The foreign guest has a license on the person.这个外国客人随身携带执照。
- The driver was arrested for having false license plates on his car.司机由于使用假车牌而被捕。
- The journey through the jungle was perilous.穿过丛林的旅行充满了危险。
- We have been carried in safety through a perilous crisis.历经一连串危机，我们如今已安然无恙。