VOA标准英语2011--Exhibit Enlists Visitors in Helping Abused Women
时间:2018-12-08 作者:英语课 分类:VOA标准英语2011年(十一月)
Exhibit Enlists 1 Visitors in Helping 2 Abused Women
There is a Chinese saying that “women hold up half the sky,” yet in many societies, the contributions of women are ignored and women are often the victims of sexual violence and abuse.
Husband-and-wife journalists Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn documented some of those women’s stories in the 2009 book Half the Sky.
The exhibition at the Skirball Cultural Center features stories of women who have taken action to change their lives: Saima Muhammad, a Pakistani woman who built an embroidery 3 business with a $65 dollar micro-loan and gained financial independence from her abusive husband and Goretti Nyabenda, a woman in Burundi, who started a business brewing 4 banana beer to provide for her family.
It also shows women who have made a difference on a wider scale, including Edna Adan Ismail, the former first lady of Somalia. She is a former nurse who has campaigned against female genital mutilation and used her life savings 5 to build a maternity 6 hospital in Somaliland.
Their stories are told through photographs, art works, and recorded sights and sounds.
Columnist 7 issues moral challege
Women who have enrolled 8 in international's programs in Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo are shown sewing.
In his columns in the New York Times, journalist Nicholas Kristof has described sex trafficking, denial of education and other abuses of women, and he says the exhibit conveys several important themes to visitors.
“We hope that they will take away an appreciation 9 that one of the central moral challenges for the world today is this oppression that is the daily lot of so many women and girls around the world. Second, that if one wants to bring about positive change in a lot of countries, then using women as a catalyst 10 for change tends to work better than most other approaches," Kristoff adds.
The display features women and girls in Africa, India and Latin America. Kristof knows these people well and has written about them, but says it is emotionally moving to see them as part of this large display.
“It is a very strange and wonderful feeling to walk through this exhibit and see these people, who I’ve known for years, who I've sometimes met when they were just in terrible circumstances," Kristof says. "I look over there and I see a young woman who I saw for the first time in a brothel in Cambodia.”
Tales of oppression
This photograph shows a young Pakistani girl, Javaria, who is now attending school.
A photograph shows two Cambodian teenaged girls who had been lured 11 into prostitution. Kristof paid the brothel owners several hundred dollars to buy their freedom. One went on a new life. The other, addicted 12 to drugs, would later return to the brothel.
There are tragic 13 stories of women who died in childbirth, a serious problem in many developing countries. They include a Ugandan woman surgeon beloved in her town, who is memorialized in a pennant 14.
But there are also glimmers 15 of progress. In one photo from Hyderabad, India, boys and girls are shown praying before eating. They are at an education center dedicated 16 to preventing sex trafficking and rehabilitating 17 survivors 18.
Some narratives 20 have been captured in sound. Recording 21 artist Ben Rubin created audio-visual displays of women held hostage as commercial workers or domestic servants in Los Angeles.
The recordings 22 were made with help from the narrative 19 history group StoryCorps. Rubin says the women are told they cannot leave until they repay their travel costs to come here.
“And you owe us $12,000 for all the expenses that brought you here, so you’ll work for us for 10 years without pay. This kind of a typical story." he says.
Consulting curator Karina White says these are not isolated 23 cases, and that women face serious problems in many parts of the world.
“Women dying in childbirth, violence that’s perpetuated 24 against girls and women is really prevalent and completely debilitating 25 to women, especially in the poorest countries, and human trafficking,” says White.
Visitor Jay Segal, a retired 26 immigration judge who has heard many similar stories during hearings for people requesting political asylum 27, is not surprised by any of the accounts in the exhibit.
“Not at all," he says. "But I’m happy to come, I’m happy to see and listen to what’s going on, and I think we have to do a lot more than we’ve done, although we’ve done a lot. And I hope more things happen.”
Visitors empower abused women
Nicholas Kristof says this is also a story of hope and that change is happening, even here in Los Angeles.
Visitors to the exhibit “Women Hold Up Half the Sky” are each given one dollar to invest in a woman's business somewhere in the world. They can make the investment on a computer at the center, connected to an Internet-based micro-loan site.
- This method enlists the orchestration by creating its activation subscription. 此方法通过创建业务流程的激活订阅来登记业务流程。 来自互联网
- Party spirit enlists a man's virtue in the cause of his vice. 党派心使人的美德也为罪恶效劳。 来自互联网
- The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
- By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。
- This exquisite embroidery won people's great admiration.这件精美的绣品,使人惊叹不已。
- This is Jane's first attempt at embroidery.这是简第一次试着绣花。
- I can't afford the vacation,for it would eat up my savings.我度不起假,那样会把我的积蓄用光的。
- By this time he had used up all his savings.到这时,他的存款已全部用完。
- Women workers are entitled to maternity leave with full pay.女工产假期间工资照发。
- Trainee nurses have to work for some weeks in maternity.受训的护士必须在产科病房工作数周。
- The host was interviewing a local columnist.节目主持人正在同一位当地的专栏作家交谈。
- She's a columnist for USA Today.她是《今日美国报》的专栏作家。
- They have been studying hard from the moment they enrolled. 从入学时起,他们就一直努力学习。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- He enrolled with an employment agency for a teaching position. 他在职业介绍所登了记以谋求一个教师的职位。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- I would like to express my appreciation and thanks to you all.我想对你们所有人表达我的感激和谢意。
- I'll be sending them a donation in appreciation of their help.我将送给他们一笔捐款以感谢他们的帮助。
- A catalyst is a substance which speeds up a chemical reaction.催化剂是一种能加速化学反应的物质。
- The workers'demand for better conditions was a catalyst for social change.工人们要求改善工作条件促进了社会变革。
- The child was lured into a car but managed to escape. 那小孩被诱骗上了车,但又设法逃掉了。
- Lured by the lust of gold,the pioneers pushed onward. 开拓者在黄金的诱惑下,继续奋力向前。
- He was addicted to heroin at the age of 17.他17岁的时候对海洛因上了瘾。
- She's become addicted to love stories.她迷上了爱情小说。
- The effect of the pollution on the beaches is absolutely tragic.污染海滩后果可悲。
- Charles was a man doomed to tragic issues.查理是个注定不得善终的人。
- The second car was flying the Ghanaian pennant.第二辆车插着加纳的三角旗。
- The revitalized team came from the cellar to win the pennant.该队重整旗鼓,从最后一名一跃而赢得冠军奖旗。
- A faint lamp glimmers at the end of the passage. 一盏昏暗的灯在走廊尽头发出微弱的光线。 来自互联网
- The first glimmers of an export-led revival are apparent. 拉动出库复苏的第一缕曙光正出现。 来自互联网
- He dedicated his life to the cause of education.他献身于教育事业。
- His whole energies are dedicated to improve the design.他的全部精力都放在改进这项设计上了。
- a unit for rehabilitating drug addicts 帮助吸毒者恢复正常生活的机构
- She was more concerned about protecting the public than rehabilitating the criminal. 她比较关心保护百姓,而不大关心改造罪犯。
- The survivors were adrift in a lifeboat for six days. 幸存者在救生艇上漂流了六天。
- survivors clinging to a raft 紧紧抓住救生筏的幸存者
- He was a writer of great narrative power.他是一位颇有记述能力的作家。
- Neither author was very strong on narrative.两个作者都不是很善于讲故事。
- Marriage, which has been the bourne of so many narratives, is still a great beginning. 结婚一向是许多小说的终点,然而也是一个伟大的开始。
- This is one of the narratives that children are fond of. 这是孩子们喜欢的故事之一。
- How long will the recording of the song take?录下这首歌得花多少时间?
- I want to play you a recording of the rehearsal.我想给你放一下彩排的录像。
- a boxed set of original recordings 一套盒装原声录音带
- old jazz recordings reissued on CD 以激光唱片重新发行的老爵士乐
- His bad behaviour was just an isolated incident. 他的不良行为只是个别事件。
- Patients with the disease should be isolated. 这种病的患者应予以隔离。
- This system perpetuated itself for several centuries. 这一制度维持了几个世纪。
- I never before saw smile caught like that, and perpetuated. 我从来没有看见过谁的笑容陷入这样的窘况,而且持续不变。 来自辞典例句
- The debilitating disease made him too weak to work. 这个令他衰弱的病,使他弱到没有办法工作。
- You may soon leave one debilitating condition or relationship forever. 你即将永远地和这段霉运说拜拜了。