VOA慢速英语2012--Many Congolese Still Need Emergency Aid
时间：2019-01-14 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2012年(十二月)
Many Congolese Still Need Emergency Aid
Humanitarian 1 agencies are still trying to reach thousands of people in the eastern DRC who were displaced by the recent military offensive by M23 rebels. Many of the displaced fear they may have to flee violence yet again.
The situation in Goma, capital of North Kivu Province, is described as calm during the day, but marked by nighttime banditry. Goma is a hub of humanitarian activity. The Congolese army retook control after M23 rebels withdrew last week.
“We are obviously still looking at a really acute humanitarian situation here. We have about 130,000 people living in camps in and around Goma and those are just the camps here. We also know in Masisi territory to the west of Goma there’s a lot of fighting there between several different armed groups. We can’t access that area very easily at the moment; and we’re really concerned about the situation there as well,” said Oxfam spokesperson Christina Corbett, who is in Goma.
Oxfam is working in three of the main camps around Goma. Two are overcrowded. The camps are filled with those who’ve been displaced numerous times over the past month. That’s in addition to many displacements 3 over recent years. A new camp is currently under construction to help alleviate 4 the overcrowding.
“We are scaling-up our response so that we can reach about 100,000. We truck a lot of water into these camps. The main focus of our work is water and sanitation 5, and we bring a lot of clean water into the camps. But the infrastructure 6 that was already set up in some of these camps is not able to cope with the number of people that are now living in some of these camps,” she said.
If water is not trucked into the camps, Corbett said the displaced are forced to get water from Lake Kivu or use dirty water to wash or drink.
She said, “There’s still enormous uncertainty 7 here, and people don’t really know what is going to happen. This constant displacement 2 does take a huge toll 8 on the population, and it takes people away from their lands. They’re not farming so they can’t grow the food that they need.”
Corbett said Goma continues to have periodic power outages, which affects pumping clean water into the city. She added if the situation remains 9 calm, the infrastructure should become more reliable.
Oxfam and other aid agencies said the response to the situation in eastern Congo remains underfunded. They also call on all armed groups in the region to allow them access to those in need.
- She has many humanitarian interests and contributes a lot to them.她拥有很多慈善事业，并作了很大的贡献。
- The British government has now suspended humanitarian aid to the area.英国政府现已暂停对这一地区的人道主义援助。
- They said that time is the feeling of spatial displacement.他们说时间是空间位移的感觉。
- The displacement of all my energy into caring for the baby.我所有精力都放在了照顾宝宝上。
- The laws of physics are symmetrical for translational displacements. 物理定律对平移是对称的。 来自辞典例句
- We encounter only displacements of the first type. 我们只遇到第一类的驱替。 来自辞典例句
- The doctor gave her an injection to alleviate the pain.医生给她注射以减轻疼痛。
- Nothing could alleviate his distress.什么都不能减轻他的痛苦。
- The location is exceptionally poor,viewed from the sanitation point.从卫生角度来看，这个地段非常糟糕。
- Many illnesses are the result,f inadequate sanitation.许多疾病都来源于不健全的卫生设施。
- We should step up the development of infrastructure for research.加强科学基础设施建设。
- We should strengthen cultural infrastructure and boost various types of popular culture.加强文化基础设施建设，发展各类群众文化。
- Her comments will add to the uncertainty of the situation.她的批评将会使局势更加不稳定。
- After six weeks of uncertainty,the strain was beginning to take its toll.6个星期的忐忑不安后，压力开始产生影响了。
- The hailstone took a heavy toll of the crops in our village last night.昨晚那场冰雹损坏了我们村的庄稼。
- The war took a heavy toll of human life.这次战争夺去了许多人的生命。