时间:2019-01-14 作者:英语课 分类:VOA标准英语2014年(十月)


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Ethiopian Workers Struggle After Repatriation 1 from Saudi Arabia 被遣返的埃塞俄比亚工人争取返回沙特


ADDIS ABABA— 


More than 160,000 Ethiopians working in Saudi Arabia were expelled last year and sent back home due to new stricter labor 2 regulations in the kingdom. Those forcibly repatriated 3 are doing their best to adjust, but are having difficulty making ends meet.


Nine of the repatriated Ethiopians from Saudi Arabia are running a chicken business on the outskirts 4 of Addis Ababa. The government provided them with poultry 5 training and the premises 6.


Almost a year later, returned Ethiopians such as Binyam Zerihun, who spent four years in Saudi Arabia as a truck driver, says he is optimistic despite his financial challenges.


“When I came back I didn’t have anything. Now there is a chance for a future,” says Zerihun.


Wenshjet Fantu spent 15 years in Saudi Arabia working as a maid.


“At this stage we don’t really have income from this, but at least we can cover the costs of feeding the chickens,” says Fantu.


Hundreds of thousands of Ethiopians are working in the Middle East in manual labor jobs. A domestic worker abroad makes up to $400 a month, earning 10 times more than on a slimilar job in Ethiopia.   


So when Saudi Arabia introduced stricter labor laws, tens of thousands of undocumented and illegal immigrants came back to Ethiopia, where they were given $47 pocket money and sent to their home region where they could register for training and small loans.


Konjit Debele, deputy head of the Addis Ababa Micro and Small Development Bureau, says a lot was done for the thousands that needed to be reintegrated:


“So we gave them different trainings - regarding psychological development, and also business fields. For instance, in [the] manufacturing sector 7, in [the] construction sector, [the] agricultural sector, trade and service sectors,” says Debele.


Fekadu Bekele, 25, spent almost two years in Saudi Arabia. When she came home, she and nine other women returnees set up a café and restaurant with a government loan. But she says it is not enough.


“We don’t have any salary, we just work here for nothing,” says Bekele.


Fekadu is not happy with life since she’s come back. In Saudi Arabia she earned $100 a month as a cook. She says the profit from the café is barely enough to pay back the loan.


“The government has given us jobs. But even though the government has given us work, there is no result from it,” says Bekele.


Fekadu says that if she had the opportunity, she would go back to Saudi Arabia.



n.遣送回国,归国
  • The Volrep programme is the preferred means of repatriation. 政府认为自愿遣返计划的遣返方法较为可取。 来自互联网
  • Arrange the cargo claiming and maritime affairs,crews repatriation,medical treatment,traveling so on. (六)洽办货物理赔,船舶海事处理,办理船员遣返,就医,旅游等。 来自互联网
n.劳动,努力,工作,劳工;分娩;vi.劳动,努力,苦干;vt.详细分析;麻烦
  • We are never late in satisfying him for his labor.我们从不延误付给他劳动报酬。
  • He was completely spent after two weeks of hard labor.艰苦劳动两周后,他已经疲惫不堪了。
v.把(某人)遣送回国,遣返( repatriate的过去式和过去分词 )
  • The refugees were forcibly repatriated. 难民被强制遣送回国。
  • Ancient artworks were repatriated from the US to Greece. 古代艺术品从美国遣送回希腊。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.郊外,郊区
  • Our car broke down on the outskirts of the city.我们的汽车在市郊出了故障。
  • They mostly live on the outskirts of a town.他们大多住在近郊。
n.家禽,禽肉
  • There is not much poultry in the shops. 商店里禽肉不太多。
  • What do you feed the poultry on? 你们用什么饲料喂养家禽?
n.建筑物,房屋
  • According to the rules,no alcohol can be consumed on the premises.按照规定,场内不准饮酒。
  • All repairs are done on the premises and not put out.全部修缮都在家里进行,不用送到外面去做。
n.部门,部分;防御地段,防区;扇形
  • The export sector will aid the economic recovery. 出口产业将促进经济复苏。
  • The enemy have attacked the British sector.敌人已进攻英国防区。
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8-hydroxyquinoline(oxine)
allotropical
alumina zirconate fibre reinforcement
ambocyte
amount of foreign exchange overbought
anglepoise lamp
animeverses
back course
bailout
barterable
Bataguacu
bismuth hydroxynitrate
boiler control
breeding place
brondbies
callable shares
car-tools
casassa
catechetical instruction
chopped beam method
close of financial year
codonanthum
collective rotation
compressed solar wind
concrete placement
contractual saving
corner grocery
corpus albicans
corrego do ouro
cotton lamp wicks
creep grazing
ctDNA
curvilineal drawing die
date of approval by senate
dealkylation catalyst
direct manure
document cabinet
doillon
enter into an engagement with
Eurya cuneata
forged and welded vessel
free from ship
freight to collect
geebung
grease gelling
Great Firewall of China
groser
gynecological physiology
hobo camps
implicated
iniforis poecila
intermediate valve
kennes
Lantana camara
like a bad halfpenny
malstrom
marine pollution in special form
Martiniquan, Martinican
mechanical flotation machine
mohsin
Muslimology
Nadezhdino
no-buffer queue
ogdohedra
oheloberries
oxidation rule
parallel spin
pass sentence upon sb
peeled resurfacing
penalty schedule
perform a study
pinching agent
plasmature
plotter step size
radiotelegraph room
radowitz
raston
rate control
reflected value
regional navigation(rnav)
relational structure record
runaway reaction
sassarara
skate through
south-african ruby (cape ruby)
squailing
standard vertical-tubes evaporator
survey and geological exploration
tak
tetraconta-
the dawn
to size
treehugger
trinity rivers
truncated icosahedra
tubal ligations
v.o
vacuum induction
verification process
visual synthesis of colour
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