时间:2019-02-07 作者:英语课 分类:2007年VOA标准英语(二月)


英语课
By Peter Heinlein
United Nations
14 February 2007

The United Nations development aid agency has appointed tennis star Maria Sharapova as a goodwill 1 ambassador. From U.N. headquarters, VOA's Peter Heinlein reports Ms. Sharapova made a cash donation to help with Chernobyl recovery projects.






Maria Sharapova at the United Nations, 14 Feb 2007


Maria Sharapova at the United Nations, 14 Feb 2007



Maria Sharapova has come a long way in her 19 years. Now she wants to go back to her roots.


The world's top-ranked women's tennis player signed a letter Wednesday committing herself to promoting United Nations aid programs as a celebrity 2 goodwill ambassador.


The teenage tennis sensation has lived in the United States for most of her life. But she was born in Soviet 3 Siberia in 1987, and remains 4 a Russian citizen. Her parents had moved to Siberia to escape the fallout from the Chernobyl nuclear accident a year earlier, near their home in what is now Belarus. Her grandmother still lives in the Belarus town of Gomel, just across the Ukrainian border from Chernobyl.


She said one of her reasons for wanting to become a goodwill ambassador is her concern for the forgotten victims of Chernobyl.


"I was born in Siberia and I moved from Siberia when I was two years old because of Chernobyl, because both of my parents thought for my safety and the radiation that it was not right for me to live there," she said. "So that's why it means so much to me to be part of project because I was part of it as well."


Sharapova handed a check for $100,000 to U.N. Development Program official Ad Melkert. She says the money will be used to help residents in and around Chernobyl.


"This money is going to go toward computer centers in the affected 5 areas of Chernobyl," she said. "They're going to go to sports centers, family hospitals. Places like that."


The UNDP's Melkert said Sharapova's presence will help to shine a spotlight 6 on efforts to help the world poorest.


"We struggle with the knowledge that one billion people don't even have access to a glass of drinkable water, and two billion people do not have access to electricity, and therefore we must work with the private sector 7, with foundations, with individuals," she said.


Like any teenager, Sharapova giggled 8 when she was introduced to a packed news conference as the U.N.'s newest celebrity goodwill ambassador. Her first reaction was an expression of wonder at her surroundings.


"This is my first time here to this headquarters, and I just got to see all the different settings you see on TV, so it's pretty cool to sit in a chair and feel official for a little bit," she said.


As a UNDP goodwill ambassador, Sharapova joins several other celebrity envoys 9. Others include Norway's Crown Prince Haakon Magnus, Japanese actress Misako Konno, along with three soccer stars, Ronaldo of Brazil, Zinedine Zidane of France, and Didier Drogba of Ivory Coast.


For her services, the world's highest paid female athlete will earn a salary of $1 a year.




n.善意,亲善,信誉,声誉
  • His heart is full of goodwill to all men.他心里对所有人都充满着爱心。
  • We paid £10,000 for the shop,and £2000 for its goodwill.我们用一万英镑买下了这家商店,两千英镑买下了它的信誉。
n.名人,名流;著名,名声,名望
  • Tom found himself something of a celebrity. 汤姆意识到自己已小有名气了。
  • He haunted famous men, hoping to get celebrity for himself. 他常和名人在一起, 希望借此使自己获得名气。
adj.苏联的,苏维埃的;n.苏维埃
  • Zhukov was a marshal of the former Soviet Union.朱可夫是前苏联的一位元帅。
  • Germany began to attack the Soviet Union in 1941.德国在1941年开始进攻苏联。
n.剩余物,残留物;遗体,遗迹
  • He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
  • The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。
adj.不自然的,假装的
  • She showed an affected interest in our subject.她假装对我们的课题感到兴趣。
  • His manners are affected.他的态度不自然。
n.公众注意的中心,聚光灯,探照灯,视听,注意,醒目
  • This week the spotlight is on the world of fashion.本周引人瞩目的是时装界。
  • The spotlight followed her round the stage.聚光灯的光圈随着她在舞台上转。
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。
v.咯咯地笑( giggle的过去式和过去分词 )
  • The girls giggled at the joke. 女孩子们让这笑话逗得咯咯笑。
  • The children giggled hysterically. 孩子们歇斯底里地傻笑。 来自《简明英汉词典》
使节( envoy的名词复数 ); 公使; 谈判代表; 使节身份
  • the routine tit for tat when countries expel each other's envoys 国家相互驱逐对方使节这种惯常的报复行动
  • Marco Polo's travelogue mentions that Kublai Khan sent envoys to Malgache. 马可波罗游记中提到忽必烈曾派使节到马尔加什。
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ac cessorius
acute selenium poisoning
anthropometrists
Arras faience
associative processor system
azotometor
battle of Ivry
be enveloped in
biometric method
bogus tartan
bombinate
broadcast over
bullnose plane
busy book
Buxbaumiales
caging unit
Capromyidae
Carex haematostoma
carrier telegraph
causalist
change directory
cheap-money policy
chief registrar
city code
cliparts
clumse
coarse alignment
collateral income bond
condensed skimmed milk
congiuss
contour diagram
convexiusculus
coreitis
damart
deferred decision
encash
end of speed limit
equusearch
expert control system
external term
factory-fitting
fallibilistically
fascia pelvis visceralis
ferrous sulfate dosimeter
financial factors
flood victims
flow agitation
food labelling
froth floatation
grain-boundary flow
gurule
hennomartinite
High-memory area
homologically trivial
ice-plant
Impatiens extensifolia
inmecafe
interior communication cable
iodic acids
jack-towel
jump out of the frying pan into the fire
kontorovich
linear selection storage
lock home
Macuelizo
marine mussels
metallurgical economics
method of access
micromyx minutuss
negative-positive copying process
nonlinear prediction
number of crosslinks
oceanic tholeiite
P-governor
pack into
pancreas juices
penetration core
perilingual
pipestem
presumed
proof read
re-channels
remote batch processing terminal system
road asphalt liquid
second cousin
serial time sharing system
shoulder poles
soil shear stress
spitting feathers
staining smear examination
storage subsystem
supraradiary zone
tankle
tasteless of tongue
tensor light
transcarotid
translation exception
trupanea amoena
tube end cutting machine
vanilla ice - cream
virgulate
wrimple