边远山区的卫生保健
35 边远山区的卫生保健
DATE=6-11-01
TITLE=DEVELOPMENT REPORT - Health Care for Distant Villages
BYLINE= Marilyn Christiano
（Start at 59" ）This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Development Report.
Providing medical care for people who live far from cities is a problem in many areas of the world. They are too far away to be served by the hospitals, doctors and drugs of modern medicine.
This is especially true of native people who live in small villages that are difficult to reach.
In the past, each (1)tribal 1 village had its own medical experts who knew the local plants that had been used as medicines for years. These medicine men and women knew natural (2)methods of (3)treating diseases 2 and injuries. In recent years, however, many of the native (4) healers have died and their knowledge has died with them.
(5)Efforts are being made in many areas to provide medical services to far away (6) tribal villages. One way to do this is to send teams of doctors and nurses at different times during the year to provide medical care. Yet this does not provide any long-term 3 health care.
So some (7)organizations are training local people to improve the health of native groups who are far from modern medical centers. For example, an organization called the Medical (8)Mission 4 Sisters works 5 with local people in twenty nations around the world. Anna Dengel began the group seventy-five years ago in Washington 6, D. C. Its goal is to provide medical care to the poor, especially women and children. The Roman (9) Catholic 7 religious 8 workers are trained as doctors and nurses.
Sister Isabel Harmon has been a Medical Mission Sister for fifty years. Many of those years she spent in Africa, mainly in Ghana. For the past eight years, she has lived in Oaxaca, (10)Mexico. There she works with the Health Promoters Training Program. It trains about forty students at a time who come from villages in the mountains that surround the city of Oaxaca.
The students are men and women who live in the villages. They are taught ways to (11)prevent sickness caused by poor housing 9 and a lack of (12)pure water and a balanced (13)diet. They also are taught (14)traditional healing 10 methods to treat common sicknesses. Then they go back to their villages to provide health care and to teach others what they have learned 11.
Sister Isabel and the nurses and doctors she works with travel often to the villages to continue the training. Next week we will tell more about this training.
This VOA Special English Development Report was written by Marilyn Christiano.
This is Steve Ember.
(1) tribal [ 5traibEl ]adj.部落的, 种族的
(2) method [5meWEd]n.方法
(3) treat [ tri:t ] vt.治疗
(4) healer [ `hi:l[] n.医治者,
(5) effort [5efEt]n.努力
(6) tribal [ `traibl] adj.部落的, 种族的
(7) organization [ 7C:^Enai5zeiFEn ]n.组织, 机构, 团体
(8) mission [ 5miFEn ]n.代表团
(9) catholic [ `kAW[lik] n.天主教徒 adj.天主教的
(10) Mexico [5meksIkEJ]n.墨西哥(拉丁美洲国家)
(11) prevent [ pri5vent ]v.防止, 预防
(12) pure [ pjuE ]adj.纯净的, 无垢的
(13) diet [ 5daiEt ]n.通常所吃的食物
(14) traditional [trE5dIFEn(E)l]adj.传统的
- He became skilled in several tribal lingoes.他精通几种部族的语言。
- The country was torn apart by fierce tribal hostilities.那个国家被部落间的激烈冲突弄得四分五裂。
- Smoking is a causative factor in several major diseases. 抽烟是引起几种严重疾病的病因。
- The illness frequently coexists with other chronic diseases. 这种病往往与其他慢性病同时存在。
- It isn't a long-term policy.这不是长久之计。
- We must calculate on a long-term basis.我们要作长期打算。
- He was charged with an important mission.他受委托承担一项重要使命。
- I'll leave you to undertake an important mission.我要让你承担一项重要使命。
- We expect writers to produce more and better works.我们期望作家们写出更多更好的作品。
- The novel is regarded as one of the classic works.这篇小说被公认为是最优秀的作品之一。
- His birthplace is Washington,but he lives in San Francisco.他出生于华盛顿，但住在旧金山。
- They, together with my father,have gone to Washington.他们和我父亲一起去华盛顿了。
- The Pope is the supreme leader of the Roman Catholic Church.教皇是罗马天主教的最高领袖。
- She was a devoutly Catholic.她是一个虔诚地天主教徒。
- She is very religious person who goes to church every Sunday.她十分虔诚，每个星期天都上教堂。
- It is hard for me to reject religious beliefs.要我抛弃自己的宗教信仰是困难的。
- Do you think our housing sales will turn around during this year?你认为今年我们的住宅销路会好转吗？
- The housing sales have been turning down since the summer.入夏以来，房屋的销售量日趋减少。
- miraculous powers of healing 神奇的治病能力
- She seems to have a vocation for healing. 看来她具备治病救人的才能。 来自《简明英汉词典》