时间:2018-12-16 作者:英语课 分类:2014年VOA慢速英语(九)月


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Street Vendor 1 Helps Poor to Learn English and Japanese 越南街头小贩帮助穷苦孩子学习英语和日语


In Vietnam, two members of a family of street vendors 2 -- street sellers -- are finding a way to help the poorest students in Hanoi.  Pham Minh Dap and his brother are providing the students with mostly free English and Japanese lessons at a learning center they created. The men want to help people who would not normally have a chance to learn a foreign language.


Some education experts in Vietnam say such knowledge may help college graduates get jobs. The country’s economy has improved.  But many graduates continue to have a hard time finding employment. Local media report ten percent of university graduates do not have a job.


Earlier this year, 24-year-old Pham Minh Dap and his brother established a school they call Stand By You. Volunteers teach poor students English and Japanese.


Many classes are free. Students with some language knowledge pay 25 to 50 cents per class. 


Mr. Dap pays about $500 to rent the language center space and for other costs. He gives about $150 from his earnings 3 as a street vendor and private language teaching. His brother gives the same amount from money he earns as a secretary. Friends provide the rest.


Mr. Dap says students come to the city from the countryside and must pay for food or rent. He says the students’ parents are farmers. And he said farmers are very poor in Vietnam.


But Pham Minh Dap is also poor. He sells balloons and children’s toys outside Hoa Binh Park in the center of Vietnam’s capital. He works there for a few hours on most afternoons. He earns about five dollars each day. 


Mr. Dap and many of his family members have sold things in the area for five years. They come from a village of rice farmers in Thanh Hoa Province.


Twenty-four-year-old Pham Thi Trang is one of 600 students at the language school. She is finishing her university studies. Her parents work in a market in a village in Ha Nam Province. She says life is hard in the city.


She says she earns about $50 a month from a part-time job, and her parents give her $75. But this is not enough to live on. She has said she has to be very careful with money so she can pay her bills.


Demand for the school is growing. About 1,000 people are on a waiting list to enter. Ten people have offered to teach for free. And Mr. Dap says he is hoping to raise money to pay for a bigger place. He wants to open more classes. 



1 vendor
n.卖主;小贩
  • She looked at the vendor who cheated her the other day with distaste.她厌恶地望着那个前几天曾经欺骗过她的小贩。
  • He must inform the vendor immediately.他必须立即通知卖方。
2 vendors
n.摊贩( vendor的名词复数 );小贩;(房屋等的)卖主;卖方
  • The vendors were gazundered at the last minute. 卖主在最后一刻被要求降低房价。
  • At the same time, interface standards also benefIt'software vendors. 同时,界面标准也有利于软件开发商。 来自About Face 3交互设计精髓
3 earnings
n.工资收人;利润,利益,所得
  • That old man lives on the earnings of his daughter.那个老人靠他女儿的收入维持生活。
  • Last year there was a 20% decrease in his earnings.去年他的收入减少了20%。
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