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英语课
By Lisa Schlein
Geneva
02 November 2007

The UN Children's Fund says 103 children in Chad who it says were abducted 1 by the French Charity, Zoe's Ark, will be kept in an orphanage 2 in the town of Abeche, until their families are located. Lisa Schlein reports for VOA that UNICEF says aid agencies are looking after the children.


The UN Children's Fund says the children will remain in the orphanage in Abeche while the judicial 3 process gets underway.


Six workers from the French Charity, Zoe's Ark, are charged with attempted kidnapping. Three French journalists and six European members of the group's aircrew also face charges.


Last week, the plane carrying the children was stopped moments before it was to take off from Abeche, and the children were rescued. The plane was going to fly to France where workers from Zoe's Ark said the children would be placed temporarily with French families.


Zoe's Ark said the children were orphans 4 from Sudan's conflict-ridden province of Darfur, a claim rejected by UNICEF and two other international agencies.


UNICEF Spokeswoman, Miranda Eels 5, says a team of social workers is looking after the children. "All their needs in terms of health and nutrition, water, toys, medicine, they are all being attended to," she said. "Preliminary results show that they are healthy with no sign of malnutrition 6 or trauma 7. Six children have been treated for minor 8 injuries, such as small wounds. Five have haven 9 treated for encephalitis and four for fever."


The children include 21 girls and 82 boys. Most are aged 10 3-5. The youngest is about 1 year old, and the oldest about 10.


Eeles says interviews with the children indicate most probably come from Chadian villages near the cities of Adre and Tine alongside the Chad-Sudan border. She says several aid workers plan to go to this area next week to seek more information about the children's background. She says they will speak to community and village leaders to learn more about the children's situation and to clear up their nationality.


"That particular border appears at times to be quite superficial depending on the security situation," she noted 11. "There is quite a lot of movement between Chad and Sudan. So, there are children from Sudan living in Chad. There are children from Chad living in Sudan. The plan for next week is to try and determine exactly where these children are from. But, at the moment, we are not entirely 12 sure exactly if they are Chadian or Sudanese."


Meanwhile, the International Committee of the Red Cross says it has visited the foreigners detained by the Chadian authorities. It says the detainees have written Red Cross messages to their families.




劫持,诱拐( abduct的过去式和过去分词 ); 使(肢体等)外展
  • Detectives have not ruled out the possibility that she was abducted. 侦探尚未排除她被绑架的可能性。
  • The kid was abducted at the gate of kindergarten. 那小孩在幼儿园大门口被绑架走了。
n.孤儿院
  • They dispensed new clothes to the children in the orphanage.他们把新衣服发给孤儿院的小孩们。
  • They gave the proceeds of the sale to the orphanage.他们把销售的收入给了这家孤儿院。
adj.司法的,法庭的,审判的,明断的,公正的
  • He is a man with a judicial mind.他是个公正的人。
  • Tom takes judicial proceedings against his father.汤姆对他的父亲正式提出诉讼。
孤儿( orphan的名词复数 )
  • The poor orphans were kept on short commons. 贫苦的孤儿们吃不饱饭。
  • Their uncle was declared guardian to the orphans. 这些孤儿的叔父成为他们的监护人。
abbr. 电子发射器定位系统(=electronic emitter location system)
  • Eels have been on the feed in the Lower Thames. 鳗鱼在泰晤士河下游寻食。
  • She bought some eels for dinner. 她买回一些鳗鱼做晚餐。
n.营养不良
  • In Africa, there are a lot of children suffering from severe malnutrition.在非洲有大批严重营养不良的孩子。
  • It is a classic case of malnutrition. 这是营养不良的典型病例。
n.外伤,精神创伤
  • Counselling is helping him work through this trauma.心理辅导正帮助他面对痛苦。
  • The phobia may have its root in a childhood trauma.恐惧症可能源于童年时期的创伤。
adj.较小(少)的,较次要的;n.辅修学科;vi.辅修
  • The young actor was given a minor part in the new play.年轻的男演员在这出新戏里被分派担任一个小角色。
  • I gave him a minor share of my wealth.我把小部分财产给了他。
n.安全的地方,避难所,庇护所
  • It's a real haven at the end of a busy working day.忙碌了一整天后,这真是一个安乐窝。
  • The school library is a little haven of peace and quiet.学校的图书馆是一个和平且安静的小避风港。
adj.年老的,陈年的
  • He had put on weight and aged a little.他胖了,也老点了。
  • He is aged,but his memory is still good.他已年老,然而记忆力还好。
adj.著名的,知名的
  • The local hotel is noted for its good table.当地的那家酒店以餐食精美而著称。
  • Jim is noted for arriving late for work.吉姆上班迟到出了名。
ad.全部地,完整地;完全地,彻底地
  • The fire was entirely caused by their neglect of duty. 那场火灾完全是由于他们失职而引起的。
  • His life was entirely given up to the educational work. 他的一生统统献给了教育工作。
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adsorption chromatography
Aguas Zarcas
Aimargues
air feeder
Alleppey
Almen extreme pressure lubricant testing machine
annuniciator
ASCB
barley sugar
beddy-bye(s)
Bethnal Green
blueing process
body-snatcher
broad-brim
Bulbophyllum reptans
carcelle
celery leaf spot
certificate of bank balances
charge position
Computing Surface
curriculums
Dali City
dress-coated
eight-year study
Eun.
extramaster
follow ... inclinations
free-electron laser
fringe setae
frontierlands
gauze kerchief
girals
graverobbers
griddlecakes
higher-ranked
index of scanning helix
keel clearance
Korean Strait
Lented
LF reject
lienomycin
llano
low potential metal
lumped parameter circulator
macroamylasemic
melting speed ratio
mode of deformation
mother-of-thousands
Mount's Bay
non riparian
nonrefugee
north-easterners
Old Pretender
oligodotia
Oloiserri
organouranium compound
passive incontinence
ping-pong buffer
plain module board
planimetric line
plate cylinder
poker coordinates
prefacive
pulpitis
rairoad engineering
range span
record-collector
Rhododendron hukwangense
salween r.
segled card
Selma chalk
shock position
sounding device
stauntonin
stores fund
supernutrition
surirella voigtii
surplus
Suzuka-tōge
swr indicator
syndrome of stagnated gallbladder qi with disturbing phlegm
Sāngla
tetrahedral angle
thermoperiodicity
transverse occipital sulcus
trond
tub-fast
tummy crunch
Turbellaria
two-pence piece
ultra-high-speed lift
unhele
unobservable quantity
unsety
variable quadri-correlator
vicchio
wavefront advance
wet-bulbs
Wohlhynian fever
wtnh
Xuan Duong
zonary placentation