访谈录 2010-01-21&2010-01-23 美国，海地孤儿的新家？
时间：2018-12-11 作者：英语课 分类：访谈录2010
We're back and of all the tragic 1 stories coming out of Haiti, one of the most wrenching 2 is the thousands of children who were orphaned 3 in an instant when that earthquake hit. We've been reporting on efforts by Americans to adopt some of them. Now our own Mark Potter reports on an idea that has worked before and somehow could work here again.
At the House of God’s Children Orphanage 4 in Port-au-Prince, staffers are struggling to help more than 100 children. In dire 5 conditions, many children must now live outdoors after the earthquake, awaiting the slow adoption 6 process into the US and other countries.
"There is no future for the children there. If they're orphans 7, there is no family; there is no one to care for them."
To speed up the care of Haitian orphans, whose numbers have swelled 8 into hundreds of thousands now, the Catholic Archdiocese in Miami is proposing to temporarily house large groups of Haitian children in the US. It would be patterned after Operation Pedro Pan from the 1960s, when 14,000 children from Cuba were flown to the US to escape the revolution there.
Operation Pedro Pan obviously was named after the fairy tale hero Peter Pan. Some say the plan to bring in children from Creole and French speaking Haiti should be called Operation Pierre Pan.
Miami mayor Tomas Regalado was a Pedro Pan child in 1962. He now fully 9 supports a similar plan for Haitians as long as it's well coordinated 10 with US and international relief agencies.
I think it would give hope to the people of Haiti to see some of their children to have a better life.
Although the plan still lacks US government’s approval, it is being considered.
"We feel their pain. As a church, we feel it's the moral and humane 11 thing to do. We must provide a future for these children."
And the church says it's been flooded with inquiries 12 from American families offering to open their doors and their hearts.
Mark Potter, NBC news, Miami.
- 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。
- China has been through a wrenching series of changes and experiments. 中国经历了一系列艰苦的变革和试验。 来自辞典例句
- A cold gust swept across her exposed breast, wrenching her back to reality. 一股寒气打击她的敞开的胸膛，把她从梦幻的境地中带了回来。 来自汉英文学 - 家（1-26） - 家（1-26）
- Orphaned children were consigned to institutions. 孤儿都打发到了福利院。
- He was orphaned at an early age. 他幼年时便成了孤儿。
- They dispensed new clothes to the children in the orphanage.他们把新衣服发给孤儿院的小孩们。
- They gave the proceeds of the sale to the orphanage.他们把销售的收入给了这家孤儿院。
- There were dire warnings about the dangers of watching too much TV.曾经有人就看电视太多的危害性提出严重警告。
- We were indeed in dire straits.But we pulled through.那时我们的困难真是大极了，但是我们渡过了困难。
- An adoption agency had sent the boys to two different families.一个收养机构把他们送给两个不同的家庭。
- The adoption of this policy would relieve them of a tremendous burden.采取这一政策会给他们解除一个巨大的负担。
- The poor orphans were kept on short commons. 贫苦的孤儿们吃不饱饭。
- Their uncle was declared guardian to the orphans. 这些孤儿的叔父成为他们的监护人。
- The infection swelled his hand. 由于感染，他的手肿了起来。
- After the heavy rain the river swelled. 大雨过后，河水猛涨。
- 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。
- The sound has to be coordinated with the picture. 声音必须和画面协调一致。
- The numerous existing statutes are complicated and poorly coordinated. 目前繁多的法令既十分复杂又缺乏快调。 来自英汉非文学 - 环境法 - 环境法