时间:2018-12-07 作者:英语课 分类:文化聚焦


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40 一项关于世界妇女状况的最新调查


DATE=5-21-01
TITLE=DEVELOPMENT REPORT - World Mothers Study
BYLINE=Jill Moss 1


(Start at 1'01")This is Bill White with the VOA Special English Development Report. 
The international support group, Save the Children, has issued a new study on the condition of mothers around the world.  The report rates ninety-four countries on issues important to mothers.  They include health care and family planning services, the health of their children, education and (1) political involvement. 
(2) Sweden, (3) Norway and (4) Denmark were rated the highest, followed by other industrial countries. The United States was rated eleventh.  This is just one place ahead of (5) Cuba, which was the highest rated developing country. (6)Ethiopia, Burkina Faso, and Guinea Bissau were at the bottom of the list. 
Beryl Levinger was the leading researcher for the report.  Mizz Levinger says the report confirms what Save the Children has been saying for more than seventy years. The lives of children around the world will not improve unless the lives of their mothers improve.   
Mizz Levinger says there is a direct link between the health of children and the quality of health care, family planning services and education offered to mothers. 
The ten countries rated worst in the study have problems with childbirth. Less than one-third of the births in those countries are attended by trained health care (7) professionals.  Also, only three percent of the women use a system to prevent (8) pregnancies 2.  In these countries, one in twelve women die during childbirth. In the top ten countries on the list, the death rate for women during childbirth is only one in 6,000. 
Save the Children says more educational programs for mothers and girls will improve the ability of women to raise healthy babies.  The group says millions of lives could be saved if more money was invested 3 in training programs. Mizz Levinger says family planning alone could prevent one-fourth of all deaths among new- born babies and their mothers.  It would teach women to wait two or more years between births.  In (9) addition, Mizz Levinger says education about the disease 4 AIDS and violence at home are also needed.
The study by Save the Children is part of a new campaign aimed at improving the health and education of mothers around the world.  The group hopes to pressure lawmakers to increase international aid for women's programs.
This VOA Special English Development Report was written by Jill Moss.


注释:
(1)  political[ pE5litikEl ]adj.政治的, 行政上的
(2) Sweden[ 5swi:dn ]n.瑞典
(3) Norway[ 5nC:wei ]n.挪威(北欧国家)
(4) Denmark[ 5denmB:k ]n.丹麦(北欧国家,首都哥本哈根)
(5) Cuba[ 5kju:bE ]n.古巴(由古巴岛及其临近诸小岛组成的国家,首都为哈瓦那)
(6) Ethiopia[ 7i:Wi5EupjE ]n.埃塞俄比亚(非洲东部国家)
(7) professional[ prE5feFEnl ]n.自由职业者, 专业人员
(8) pregnancy[ 5pre^nEnsi ]n.怀孕
(9) addition[ E5diFEn ]n.加, 加起来



1 moss
n.苔,藓,地衣
  • Moss grows on a rock.苔藓生在石头上。
  • He was found asleep on a pillow of leaves and moss.有人看见他枕着树叶和苔藓睡着了。
2 pregnancies
怀孕,妊娠( pregnancy的名词复数 )
  • Since the wartime population needed replenishment, pregnancies were a good sign. 最后一桩倒不失为好现象,战时人口正该补充。
  • She's had three pregnancies in four years. 她在四年中怀孕叁次。
3 invested
v.投资,花费( invest的过去式和过去分词 );授予;(把资金)投入;投入(时间、精力等)
  • The money will be invested in managed funds. 这笔钱将投资于管理基金。
  • He invested his lawyer with complete power to act for him. 他让律师全权代办。 来自《简明英汉词典》
4 disease
n.疾病,弊端
  • The doctors are trying to stamp out the disease.医生正在尽力消灭这种疾病。
  • He fought against the disease for a long time.他同疾病做了长时间的斗争。
学英语单词
Aboriginals
accumulated earning tax
amors
anepithymia
antirecipocal circuit
apiose
army list, Army List
Autocompetition
batten ends
Bender Cassim
blows you off
boiling holes
cancerettes
cardiac dwarf
chained connection
chiang kan
choupori
chuuch
cleaning fan
Clinton County
cognitive development theory
conoce
cranlan
devisacope
directorate of standards
dredge
drive key
farmans
fine cargo
fore-lying
frequency primary standard
general nature
give free transportation of
homeyer
horseway
idle labor
in-situ soil test
incalculably
inland distribution depot
instantaneous total closure
intracapsular ligaments
isonomia
jurisprudentially
kordax (greece)
Kornilow's reflex
lacrimatories
lid spring
low voltage commutator
Madarao-yama
ministerial standard
monolithic photodiode
multiple virtual storage
nanopaper
nar nar
non-foaming oil
nonbarotropic
NSHS
on-line refuelling
one-year file
out-Herods
overmodulate
Pandion haliaetus
played with fire
political life
polyaoxylin
Posadasis spheriforme
pot limit
potentises
precast prestressed concrete
prefocation
professional dancer
protactinium(iv) oxide
protoplasma
Qin dynasty
record level
ReLC
resonant wire drawing force meter
Rhodininae
roadway
sequential testing
shahjahan
spheroidal weathering
spline surface
stock adjustment demand function
strut rod
sun-2 workstation
superpetrosal
superselling
telephone dials
tiruchchendur (tiruchendur)
toll line
transfunding
unfutured
unhorsed
uniform circular motion
us wrote
volumetric concentration
well-closed containet
westerfield
wolfram lamp
zotepine
zymogen