时间:2019-01-14 作者:英语课 分类:VOA标准英语2014年(六月)


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New Waves of Refugees Draw Attention to Long-term Trends


WASHINGTON — Conflicts in Iraq, Ukraine and Syria have created waves of refugees, drawing renewed attention to the large number of people who have been displaced for years. As the global community observes World Refugee Day on Friday, the number of displaced people has grown to more than 45 million - the highest level in the past two decades. Armed conflicts remain the dominant 1 cause.


The number of refugees and internally displaced people in Iraq is growing. Iraqis who fled their homes after the 2003 allied 2 invasion were joined in recent years by Syrians. Large-scale displacement 3 has resumed with Sunni insurgent 4 attacks in Iraq's north. Many ethnic 5 Turkmen have left the city of Tal Afar.


"We were really afraid. We were afraid that a bomb would hit us or something, that something would happen to us. That's why we left," said one Turkmen fleeing the city.


Members of the Iraqi Turkmen Front say they will fight back.


"The Turkmen are in a difficult situation in Tal Afar. An estimated 150,000 people have fled. They need help. They will never forget what is happening," said the front’s Kasim Kar.


Syrian refugees in Jordan, Turkey and Lebanon are beginning to lose hope of ever returning home. Some of the children born there have never seen their country of origin. The head of the United Nations refugee agency, Antonio Guterres, visited some of the overcrowded camps this week.


"We have only 20 percent of the Syrian children in Lebanon in formal education, in formal schools where they can get a diploma, where they can use to move ahead in their lives. So, it's very little what we are doing. We need much more support from the international community for Syrian refugees, but also much more support for a country like Lebanon, for Jordan - countries that are facing an enormous challenge," said Guterres.


Countries near conflict zones that host large groups of refugees can find caring for them a significant burden. Guterres has repeatedly called for more donations from developed countries.


"An attitude of compassion 6 and solidarity 7 from the international community in relation to the Syrian refugees and to the countries hosting them is needed more than ever. And what the international community is doing is very little compared with the suffering and the needs of the people we met, namely those that we met today," he said.


While donors 8 have difficulty satisfying the needs of existing refugees, new conflicts create new waves of displaced people. About 90,000 people have fled Pakistan's military offensive against militants 9 in North Waziristan this month.


"We fled because of the bombardment. When the jets started bombing, and the gunship helicopters started bombing all over the place, we decided 10 to flee," said one resident.


According to the United Nations, during the last year alone, someone was forced to abandon his or her home every four seconds. But figures reveal only one aspect of this human tragedy. Conflict tears apart the lives of thousands of families. Nearly half of all refugees are below the age of 18, and a growing number are fleeing on their own.



adj.支配的,统治的;占优势的;显性的;n.主因,要素,主要的人(或物);显性基因
  • The British were formerly dominant in India.英国人从前统治印度。
  • She was a dominant figure in the French film industry.她在法国电影界是个举足轻重的人物。
adj.协约国的;同盟国的
  • Britain was allied with the United States many times in history.历史上英国曾多次与美国结盟。
  • Allied forces sustained heavy losses in the first few weeks of the campaign.同盟国在最初几周内遭受了巨大的损失。
n.移置,取代,位移,排水量
  • 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。
adj.叛乱的,起事的;n.叛乱分子
  • Faruk says they are threatened both by insurgent and government forces.法鲁克说,他们受到暴乱分子和政府军队的双重威胁。
  • The insurgent mob assembled at the gate of the city park.叛变的暴徒聚在市立公园的门口。
adj.人种的,种族的,异教徒的
  • This music would sound more ethnic if you played it in steel drums.如果你用钢鼓演奏,这首乐曲将更具民族特色。
  • The plan is likely only to aggravate ethnic frictions.这一方案很有可能只会加剧种族冲突。
n.同情,怜悯
  • He could not help having compassion for the poor creature.他情不自禁地怜悯起那个可怜的人来。
  • Her heart was filled with compassion for the motherless children.她对于没有母亲的孩子们充满了怜悯心。
n.团结;休戚相关
  • They must preserve their solidarity.他们必须维护他们的团结。
  • The solidarity among China's various nationalities is as firm as a rock.中国各族人民之间的团结坚如磐石。
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》
激进分子,好斗分子( militant的名词复数 )
  • The militants have been sporadically fighting the government for years. 几年来,反叛分子一直对政府实施零星的战斗。
  • Despite the onslaught, Palestinian militants managed to fire off rockets. 尽管如此,巴勒斯坦的激进分子仍然发射导弹。
adj.决定了的,坚决的;明显的,明确的
  • 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。
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account headings
allopathic-medicine
alniphyllum peierospermum mats.
amortization rent
anesthesia unit
anticipated interest
artillery field piece
authorized entry
automaics
bagyo
balearica
ballistic correction of the moment
beam recording
body wisdom
carbon steel roll
carbynic
catalyst pretreatment
centrallizing
cesar estrada chavezs
chief of the executive
chordotonal
constant voltage system
continuity concept
contrast potentiometer
Cooper Creek
CSPRNG
desglucohellebrin
diktonius
direct spike
disturbance of electromagnetic field
emergency lamp signal telegraph
equiform group
espirito
family Phyllidae
feel ill at east
fissurae petrosquamosa
fritt
gasfree
graphite gneiss
heterodynamous insect
honeycomb-radiator
hydraulic piercing press
increment dump
inrunning nip point
intra-district
intratracheal injection
jordanian dinars
litai
maricara
marine surveillance
mass divergence
meanwhiles
medina(al madinah)
melloul
monitor panel
montclair
myrmeleontidaes
naprapaths
nervous as a cat
Niobo-tantalo-titanate
overdefines
Peillonnex
Phayam, Ko
photorefractive coupler
picture period
pinnel
plectomycetess
pleuromitic
Polygonum ocreatum
pool hall
prewithdrawal demolition target
production-ready
purchase and sale by will
republics
right skewness
Santa Catarina Barahona
sell on commission
sharp-shooter
sialyltransferase
site-plan
skin of paint
smoker keratosis
Sombrero Chan.
Sorelianism
special cargo list
Stop yap ping
sulphonic acid
sunk costs
taungya system
teaboxes
tetragonal alternating class
the bitter truth
to spin
to throw down
torus uteri
unicasted
warren beatty
wave around
whalefishes
wrist stiffness syndrome
X-ray drill