时间:2018-12-08 作者:英语课 分类:2007年VOA标准英语(八月)


英语课
By Suzanne Presto 1
New York
31 August 2007


The U.N. Assistant Secretary General for Humanitarian 2 Affairs and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator 3, Margareta Wahlstrom, says the humanitarian situation in Sudan's western Darfur region is worsening.  From VOA's United Nation's bureau, Suzanne Presto reports.






A Sudanese refugee woman carries her baby outside a private home where she and others are temporarily being housed in Kadesh Barnea, Israel, 19 Aug. 2007


A Sudanese refugee woman carries her baby outside a private home where she and others are temporarily being housed in Kadesh Barnea, Israel, 19 Aug 2007



Wahlstrom says 4 million people in the Darfur region rely on humanitarian assistance.  She says the region has been the scene of the world's largest humanitarian operation for the past three years, and she says the problems have grown even more critical in the past few months. 


The U.N. emergency relief coordinator says violence and insecurity displaced another 55,000 people between June and late August, bringing the total to 250,000 this year, and 2.2 million people in total.


Wahlstrom says aid workers are concerned that malnutrition 4 is on the rise in Darfur.  She says several surveys indicate that, in certain areas, about one-in-five people (17 percent) are malnourished.


Wahlstrom says there is a lean season every year in Darfur, but she says aid workers have never seen this pattern of decline. 


"With a huge effort of the international and humanitarian community, from 2004 the situation stabilized 5 from a health and nutritional 6 perspective," she said.  "So this is the first time we see the potential of a deterioration 7 for which we are very worried, and we put this in the context of the very unstable 8 situation."


An estimated 200,000 people in Darfur have been killed during more than four years of fighting between rebels, the government and militia 9 groups.


In late July, the U.N. approved a joint 10 United Nations-African Union peacekeeping force for Darfur.  When fully 11 deployed 12 it will be the world's largest peacekeeping mission, comprised of more than 19,000 military personnel and about 6,400 police officers.


Wahlstrom says humanitarian workers have high hopes for this force.


"The expectation that the result of the deployment 13 of the mission on the situation of people will yield almost immediate 14 impact will be very high," she added.


On the subject of broader relief efforts, Wahlstrom says Sudanese authorities have been more cooperative in recent months, particularly in terms of administrative 15 tasks, such as issuing visas to relief workers.  But she notes that humanitarian groups are concerned that authorities ordered the top official in Sudan for the international aid agency CARE to leave the country.




1 presto
adv.急速地;n.急板乐段;adj.急板的
  • With something so important,you can't just wave a wand and presto!在这么重大的问题上,你想挥动一下指挥棒,转眼就变过来,办不到!
  • I just turned the piece of wire in the lock and hey presto,the door opened.我把金属丝伸到锁孔里一拧,嘿,那门就开了。
2 humanitarian
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。
3 coordinator
n.协调人
  • The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, headed by the Emergency Relief Coordinator, coordinates all UN emergency relief. 联合国人道主义事务协调厅在紧急救济协调员领导下,负责协调联合国的所有紧急救济工作。
  • How am I supposed to find the client-relations coordinator? 我怎么才能找到客户关系协调员的办公室?
4 malnutrition
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。
5 stabilized
v.(使)稳定, (使)稳固( stabilize的过去式和过去分词 )
  • The patient's condition stabilized. 患者的病情稳定下来。
  • His blood pressure has stabilized. 他的血压已经稳定下来了。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
6 nutritional
adj.营养的,滋养的
  • A diet lacking in nutritional value will not keep a person healthy.缺乏营养价值的饮食不能维持人的健康。
  • The labels on food products give a lot of information about their nutritional content.食品上的标签提供很多关于营养成分的信息。
7 deterioration
n.退化;恶化;变坏
  • Mental and physical deterioration both occur naturally with age. 随着年龄的增长,心智和体力自然衰退。
  • The car's bodywork was already showing signs of deterioration. 这辆车的车身已经显示出了劣化迹象。
8 unstable
adj.不稳定的,易变的
  • This bookcase is too unstable to hold so many books.这书橱很不结实,装不了这么多书。
  • The patient's condition was unstable.那患者的病情不稳定。
9 militia
n.民兵,民兵组织
  • First came the PLA men,then the people's militia.人民解放军走在前面,其次是民兵。
  • There's a building guarded by the local militia at the corner of the street.街道拐角处有一幢由当地民兵团守卫的大楼。
10 joint
adj.联合的,共同的;n.关节,接合处;v.连接,贴合
  • I had a bad fall,which put my shoulder out of joint.我重重地摔了一跤,肩膀脫臼了。
  • We wrote a letter in joint names.我们联名写了封信。
11 fully
adv.完全地,全部地,彻底地;充分地
  • The doctor asked me to breathe in,then to breathe out fully.医生让我先吸气,然后全部呼出。
  • They soon became fully integrated into the local community.他们很快就完全融入了当地人的圈子。
12 deployed
(尤指军事行动)使展开( deploy的过去式和过去分词 ); 施展; 部署; 有效地利用
  • Tanks have been deployed all along the front line. 沿整个前线已部署了坦克。
  • The artillery was deployed to bear on the fort. 火炮是对着那个碉堡部署的。
13 deployment
n. 部署,展开
  • He has inquired out the deployment of the enemy troops. 他已查出敌军的兵力部署情况。
  • Quality function deployment (QFD) is a widely used customer-driven quality, design and manufacturing management tool. 质量功能展开(quality function deployment,QFD)是一个广泛应用的顾客需求驱动的设计、制造和质量管理工具。
14 immediate
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。
15 administrative
adj.行政的,管理的
  • The administrative burden must be lifted from local government.必须解除地方政府的行政负担。
  • He regarded all these administrative details as beneath his notice.他认为行政管理上的这些琐事都不值一顾。
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addiction to eating foreign bodies
ahannu
alcohol consumption
amaechi
autoincrements
basigamy
benedict xivs
Bensulfene
beverage factory
beyond suspicion
biflorine
bola tie
chlorofluorocarbon oil
congo rivers
conventional welding current
crewels
CYCL
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delayed posting
deliyanniss
DEMO Conference
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dining rooms
direction of strong wind
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dutch carrying trade
entomologising
enzymelike
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ferrocyanide ion
firm butter
first-timers
flagship
floating octal point
freeballs
fresh water ecology
graptoloid
heavily etched surface
hepatic cell carcinoma
inner twist
isostyracinepoxide
j.lindeberg
jelly eggs
klown
Kundt, August Adolph
lichenivorous
linguea
Longreach
low C
mathematical software
Microcyprini
migdalia
mild type
military band music
neuro-calorimete
neurosonography
nigrosines
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output primary
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photochemical theory
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poolesville
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propelling worm
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SCIPP
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trustee de son tort
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unneeded
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V-Y plasty
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Villeneuve-Loubet
Viverridae
weft combing wool
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