VOA标准英语2010年-Italian Authorities Clear Out Roma Cam
时间：2018-12-16 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2010年(一月)
Italian authorities have begun to clean out one of Europe's largest camps of Roma. The Roma are commonly known as Gypsies but they trace their origins to South Asia. Officials say living conditions in the Casilino 900 camp in Rome are disgraceful and inhuman 1 and residents must be moved to areas that are better equipped. But questions remain as to why the transfer is being carried out.
Cranes and bulldozers are in action at the Casilino 900 camp in Rome. They have begun to demolish 2 the caravans 3 and makeshift homes of the Roma who are being pressured to leave.
Italian authorities say the more than 600 Roma living here can not stay and must be evacuated 4 by February. Officials say the living conditions are no longer tolerable.
"The camp must close because it is on an illegal area," Gianni Alemanno said. Alemanno is the mayor of Rome. "These camps must be in authorized 5 areas where it is easier to guarantee better life and health conditions and ensure that people can live properly."
The Casilino 900 camp is one of the largest in Europe for Roma. It has existed for 40 years. Many of the Roma here say they are concerned about being moved elsewhere because they don't want to end up with other ethnic 6 groups.
Human rights organizations fear the real reason behind the transfer is to identify and expel them.
An estimated seven to nine million Roma live in Europe.
"This is a minority that has changed significantly over the years. In the past it was a nomadic 7 population that moved frequently. But in time it has stopped traveling," Paolo Ciani said. In Eastern countries it has become part of the population and urbanized the cities."
In Europe, only Hungary and Spain recognize Roma as a national minority.
But in Romania and Slovakia, where they represent 10 percent of the population, they are not recognized and have no rights, human rights activists 8 say. They say Roma must be fully 9 recognized as European citizens.
- We must unite the workers in fighting against inhuman conditions.我们必须使工人们团结起来反对那些难以忍受的工作条件。
- It was inhuman to refuse him permission to see his wife.不容许他去看自己的妻子是太不近人情了。
- They're going to demolish that old building.他们将拆毁那座旧建筑物。
- He was helping to demolish an underground garage when part of the roof collapsed.他当时正在帮忙拆除一个地下汽车库，屋顶的一部份突然倒塌。
- Old-fashioned gypsy caravans are painted wooden vehicles that are pulled by horses. 旧式的吉卜赛大篷车是由马拉的涂了颜色的木质车辆。
- Old-fashioned gypsy caravans are painted wooden vehicles. 旧时的吉普赛大篷车是涂了颜色的木质车辆。
- Police evacuated nearby buildings. 警方已将附近大楼的居民疏散。
- The fireman evacuated the guests from the burning hotel. 消防队员把客人们从燃烧着的旅馆中撤出来。
- An administrative order is valid if authorized by a statute.如果一个行政命令得到一个法规的认可那么这个命令就是有效的。
- This music would sound more ethnic if you played it in steel drums.如果你用钢鼓演奏，这首乐曲将更具民族特色。
- The plan is likely only to aggravate ethnic frictions.这一方案很有可能只会加剧种族冲突。
- This tribe still live a nomadic life.这个民族仍然过着游牧生活。
- The plowing culture and the nomadic culture are two traditional principal cultures in China.农耕文化与游牧文化是我国传统的两大主体文化。