联合国难民署报告称难民数量已创纪录
时间：2019-01-14 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2015年(六月)
UNHCR Report: Record Number of People Forced to Flee Homes 联合国难民署报告称难民数量已创纪录
WASHINGTON—
The United Nations refugee agency says a record number of people worldwide have been displaced by war, violence and persecution 1 and the number of people forced to flee their homes is rapidly growing.
In a new report issued Thursday, the UNHCR says that at the end of 2014, there were nearly 60 million forcibly displaced people, about 8 million more than the year before and about 20 million more than a decade ago. The increase since 2013 was the highest ever in a single year.
A major exodus 2 of people from their homes started in 2011 with the eruption 3 of civil war in Syria; but, in the past five years, armed conflicts and persecution also have sent people fleeing from their homes in Africa, Asia and Europe. Last year 42,500 people a day left their homes due to some type of violence.
"The world became a mess and if people think that humanitarians 5 can clean up the mess, they are wrong. We don't have the capacity to pick up the pieces," said Antonio Guterres, the U.N. High Commissioner 6 for Refugees.
One in every 122 humans is now either a refugee or internally displaced or seeking asylum 7. The report is a reflection of the state of the world today, said Guterres.
Syria is currently the world's biggest producer of displaced people and refugees, followed by Afghanistan and Somalia. Syria's neighbor, Turkey, has become the world's top refugee-hosting nation. Greece and Italy are swamped with refugees who want to settle in Europe.
European officials cannot agree on how to share the burden.
"Italy and Germany certainly both agree that we need to arrive at a more equitable 8 distribution in Europe. In our view, the best way is mandatory 9 quotas 10 for the European member states," said German Foreign Minister Frank Walter Steinmeier.
Several EU members have balked 11 at the idea and Hungary has announced plans to seal its border with Serbia. Many refugees use the Balkan route to reach Hungary on the way to Germany and Sweden.
In Southeast Asia, a move to block overland refugee routes from Myanmar into Thailand led to a humanitarian 4 crisis in the Andaman Sea when thousands of refugees switched to the sea route.
- He had fled from France at the time of the persecution. 他在大迫害时期逃离了法国。
- Their persecution only serves to arouse the opposition of the people. 他们的迫害只激起人民对他们的反抗。
- The medical system is facing collapse because of an exodus of doctors.由于医生大批离去，医疗系统面临崩溃。
- Man's great challenge at this moment is to prevent his exodus from this planet.人在当前所遇到的最大挑战，就是要防止人从这个星球上消失。
- The temple was destroyed in the violent eruption of 1470 BC.庙宇在公元前1470年猛烈的火山爆发中摧毁了。
- The eruption of a volcano is spontaneous.火山的爆发是自发的。
- 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。
- Finally, humanitarians saw it as a means of helping to feed the hungry of the world. 人道主义者把这一计划看成是为世界上那些忍饥挨饿的人提供粮食的一项措施。 来自英汉非文学 - 政府文件
- All humanitarians fought against slavery. 所有人道主义者都为反对奴隶制而斗争过。 来自互联网
- The commissioner has issued a warrant for her arrest.专员发出了对她的逮捕令。
- He was tapped for police commissioner.他被任命为警务处长。
- The people ask for political asylum.人们请求政治避难。
- Having sought asylum in the West for many years,they were eventually granted it.他们最终获得了在西方寻求多年的避难权。
- This is an equitable solution to the dispute. 这是对该项争议的公正解决。
- Paying a person what he has earned is equitable. 酬其应得,乃公平之事。
- It's mandatory to pay taxes.缴税是义务性的。
- There is no mandatory paid annual leave in the U.S.美国没有强制带薪年假。
- In fulfilling the production quotas, John made rings round all his fellow workers. 约翰完成生产定额大大超过他的同事们。
- Quotas of the means of production are allocated by the higher administrative bodies to the lower ones. 物资指标按隶属关系分配。