VOA标准英语2012--E. London Interfaith Groups Celebrate Olympics, Ramadan
时间：2019-01-13 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2012年(八月)
E. London Interfaith Groups Celebrate Olympics, Ramadan
In East London's York Hall, the United Kingdom's largest civil society organization, Citizens UK, organized an Iftar, the evening meal following a day of fasting during Ramadan. The group has been involved with the London Olympics Organizing Committee and came in part to celebrate the impact the Olympics are having on the community where the main stadiums have been constructed.
The group successfully advocated for a living wage of at least $12 an hour for everyone working at London Olympics jobs, as well as Olympic funding for local schools, hospitals and new affordable 1 housing.
Neil Jameson, the director of Citizens UK says the involvement of the East London Mosque 2 was essential in ensuring the economic development of this ethnically 3 diverse area of the city.
"The East London Mosque is the largest civil society organization in London, 10,000 people worship there. So we are them, effectively, and tonight we break the fast - non-Muslims and Muslims together - because that makes for a peaceful world and a peaceful Olympics," said Jameson.
Muhammad Bari, the chairman of the mosque, says in addition to the economic benefit the games are bringing to the area, the peaceful competition aspect of the Olympics has special meaning during Ramadan.
"They want to achieve the highest," said Bari. "So there is a healthy competition. There is harmony. There is less politics in it. So in a way it has been a superb 4 and useful experience for people of London and the whole of Britain."
At sundown the Muslim men gather at the back of the hall for the evening prayer, and after a long day of fasting they all share a meal.
Local field hockey player Darren Cheesman, who missed playing in the Olympics because of injury, says he can see the positive influence the Olympics is having in East London.
"So for me everything that is going on here is a direct kind of impact on what I do in my personal life, so yeah, it's great as an athlete to know that this is the first ethical 5 kind of Olympics, but it is also great to understand that that's going to have a legacy 6 on our community as well," said Cheesman.
Cheesman says the Olympics has helped bring East London residents of all faiths and ethnicities together, to use the games to work for the common good.
- The rent for the four-roomed house is affordable.四居室房屋的房租付得起。
- There are few affordable apartments in big cities.在大城市中没有几所公寓是便宜的。
- The mosque is a activity site and culture center of Muslim religion.清真寺为穆斯林宗教活动场所和文化中心。
- Some years ago the clock in the tower of the mosque got out of order.几年前，清真寺钟楼里的大钟失灵了。
- Ethnically, the Yuan Empire comprised most of modern China's ethnic groups. 元朝的民族成分包括现今中国绝大多数民族。 来自汉英非文学 - 白皮书
- Russia is ethnically relatively homogeneous. 俄罗斯是个民族成分相对单一的国家。 来自辞典例句
- The large bay has a superb backdrop of mountains.大海湾背靠着庄严的山脉。
- The hotel has a large dining room serving superb local cuisine.饭店有一个大餐厅供应上好的当地菜肴。
- It is necessary to get the youth to have a high ethical concept.必须使青年具有高度的道德观念。
- It was a debate which aroused fervent ethical arguments.那是一场引发强烈的伦理道德争论的辩论。