时间:2019-02-13 作者:英语课 分类:英语语言学习


英语课
This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. I'm Scott Simon. The outbreak of polio in northeast Syria has raised alarm across the region and prompted a major immunization campaign. The childhood disease that causes paralysis 1 and sometimes death can spread rapidly, especially with the massive movement of people fleeing war.
 
Thousands of Syrians still cross into neighboring countries every day, at least half of them are children. NPR's Deborah Amos reports from Beirut.
 
DEBORAH AMOS, BYLINE 2: In this refugee camp in eastern Lebanon, aid workers put sandbags around plastic tents to keep winter rains from flooding dirt floors. For weeks now, the threat for refugees was the coming cold. Now a bigger fear is polio. Lebanon hasn't had an outbreak in 12 years. The announcement of 10 confirmed cases in Eastern Syria was a wake-up call for the region, says Dr. Foaud Foaud. He's a professor of health services at American University, and says it requires a regional response by health workers and aid agencies.
 
DR. FOAUD FOAUD: I think it's not about just fast enough. They should be wide enough. They have to reach, you know, now, you know, five countries.
 
AMOS: How easy is that to do in time?
 
FOAUD: It's not easy at all. It's very difficult. But it's a must now.
 
AMOS: A must, he says, as Syrian refugees stream into neighboring Turkey, Iraq, Jordan and Lebanon. Here in Lebanon, health officials are sending out 5,000 workers for door-to-door immunizations. This weekend the center opens at the airport and at the border to immunize young children as they arrive. In Syria, the government launched an immunization campaign as soon as the first polio cases were reported.
 
JULIETTE TOUMA: I'm Juliette Touma. I'm the regional spokesperson for UNICEF.
 
AMOS: UNICEF, the United Nation's children fund, is a key agency supporting the program. UNICEF organized a vaccine 3 airlift that arrived in Beirut and will be trucked into Syria. One immediate 4 focus is in the east, Deir Ezzor, where the outbreak was first reported.
 
TOUMA: In the past few days, we managed to reach at UNICEF with partners more than 40,000 children in Deir Ezzor where the polio cases have been confirmed. This is only the beginning.
 
AMOS: The goal, says Touma, is to reach 1.6 million children across Syria, an enormous challenge in wartime. To reach the most vulnerable, aid agencies have to negotiate not just with the government but with rebel groups to allow them to work in areas they hold or surround.
 
TOUMA: The challenges are huge. Our staff have to cross sometimes over 50 checkpoints. It's a huge risk to reach people in need.
 
AMOS: Rebels present another challenge. Some are foreign fighters. There are strong suspicious that the virus that infected Syrian children could have come from Pakistan, says Dr. Foaud, a tragedy, he says. Polio was eradicated 5 in Syria 14 years ago, the first country in the Arab world to introduce mass immunization.
 
FOAUD: We're facing now strange people fighting in Syria. We're seeing strange diseases that we thought were finished. It means now, it's a collapsed 6 system. So, no one wants to say it's a failed state, but at least in some part, it is, it is.
 
AMOS: Now a regional health threat, the Syrian government is already under pressure to open humanitarian 7 corridors and allow cross-border aid. That pressure will get much stronger. Deborah Amos, NPR News, Beirut.

n.麻痹(症);瘫痪(症)
  • The paralysis affects his right leg and he can only walk with difficulty.他右腿瘫痪步履维艰。
  • The paralysis affects his right leg and he can only walk with difficulty.他右腿瘫痪步履维艰。
n.署名;v.署名
  • His byline was absent as well.他的署名也不见了。
  • We wish to thank the author of this article which carries no byline.我们要感谢这篇文章的那位没有署名的作者。
n.牛痘苗,疫苗;adj.牛痘的,疫苗的
  • The polio vaccine has saved millions of lives.脊髓灰质炎疫苗挽救了数以百万计的生命。
  • She takes a vaccine against influenza every fall.她每年秋季接种流感疫苗。
adj.立即的;直接的,最接近的;紧靠的
  • His immediate neighbours felt it their duty to call.他的近邻认为他们有责任去拜访。
  • We declared ourselves for the immediate convocation of the meeting.我们主张立即召开这个会议。
画着根的
  • Polio has been virtually eradicated in Brazil. 在巴西脊髓灰质炎实际上已经根除。
  • The disease has been eradicated from the world. 这种疾病已在全世界得到根除。
adj.倒塌的
  • Jack collapsed in agony on the floor. 杰克十分痛苦地瘫倒在地板上。
  • The roof collapsed under the weight of snow. 房顶在雪的重压下突然坍塌下来。
n.人道主义者,博爱者,基督凡人论者
  • 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。
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abatvoix
absolutely integrable
ad valorem method
aduncous
air compressor cylinder block
amstelkring
animal rightser
anterior ampullary nerve
anti-matter
antithesis
atp synthase
binary to analog converter
blast resistance mine
CAN Railpass
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check polynomial
Churachandpur
cirrigerous
Commodity Channel Index
correlation slope method
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deep-cycler
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digaetano
disci proligerus
discotheques
echinosoma formosanum
equipotential bonding
expect for
Ferromex
finger grass
Fischer's test-meal
formation resistivity factor
Foster's formula
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gluesticks
gum abscess
High Energy Physics Network
idle work
indijudicable
Jayne
key equation
King Emperor
kodiak islands
labour resources
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mares-tail
mazopathy
mendo
mho relays
museum display
mycoplasma agalactiae
Necator
negotiated quota
neuragmy
nonlinear computing element
nonreporting
one-stop service
oxidate
phenoxyacetates
planting hole
platform leveling
Polygonum huananense
practicability
progressive average inventory method
put to rout
pyraclostrobin
query by example
recombinant deoxyribonucleic acids
reducing sizing mill
regulation of speech
repayment of credit
retinency
retroperitoneal paraganglioma
revenge oneself on
rhombporphyry
rough grazing
self actuated controller
shaffner
silicon planar transistor
sing-kwa
skeletonema munzelii
Sorbus megalocarpa
superior vestibular area
tail warning set
teplita
the change of life
three-piece truck
tomkeys
towing airplane
trust under decree
unenthralling
unpauses
uraba
vapulatory
vascular spiders
ventricular groove
wolfe tone
work-rest cycle
yunz