VOA标准英语2012--Kenyan Organization Focuses on Scourge of Jiggers
时间：2018-12-16 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2012年(六月)
Kenyan Organization Focuses on Scourge 1 of Jiggers
It is dubbed 2 "the silent killer 3" because everyone wants to hide the condition. The feeling of shame at having it is unbearable 4.
Agnes Wayua knows this only too well. Her 10 children were infected with jiggers; one of her children and a grandchild died because of it.
"For that long time of jiggers and poverty, nobody recognized me in the village," she said. "Nobody could visit me or even greet me until they saw some signs of help. They began coming in one by one to join me because of what they are seeing. But some others even up to today gossip about me."
Help came from Ahadi Trust Kenya, an aid group aiming to wipe out jiggers in East Africa, provide support for those who have the condition, and reduce its stigma 5.
Stanley Kamau, Ahadi Trust Kenya's founder 6 and executive director, says he and his group were targets of intense abuse from politicians and community members when they started, five years ago.
"I could not visit my village where I was born," he said. "I could not go to the schools where I went to school. The schools I had for many years contributed in building, they could not welcome me."
The parasites 7 are usually found under the skin of the feet and hands. Children, who account for more than half the cases, are especially impacted. If their feet are badly infected, they cannot walk to school.
Ahadi Trust Kenya was eventually able to open medical camps where the affected 8 come to get treatment and counseling.
Social worker Mourine Wangari Karanja is part of an army of volunteers who do what most people would refuse to do.
"I am doing this out of love," said Karanja. "When I was growing up, there were many people around me with jiggers. I used to watch my mother remove jiggers from these people. Now, I am a mother, I spoke 9 to the health workers who gave me medicine to treat the ones who are infected."
Karanja and her colleagues treat jigger-infested body parts with soap, water, potassium permanganate, and lotion 10. There is no drug to cure jiggers, but a German researcher is developing a drug after working with Ahadi Trust Kenya.
The tide is turning. Where once Ahadi Trust Kenya and their clients were shunned 11, they are now becoming celebrities 12 of sorts.
Miss World 2011, Miss Europe, Miss World Kenya and the grandson of former South African president Nelson Mandela all washed jigger-infested feet at the group's most recent medical clinic, thrilling the crowds with their presence.
- Smallpox was once the scourge of the world.天花曾是世界的大患。
- The new boss was the scourge of the inefficient.新老板来了以后，不称职的人就遭殃了。
- Mathematics was once dubbed the handmaiden of the sciences. 数学曾一度被视为各门科学的基础。
- Is the movie dubbed or does it have subtitles? 这部电影是配音的还是打字幕的？ 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Heart attacks have become Britain's No.1 killer disease.心脏病已成为英国的头号致命疾病。
- The bulk of the evidence points to him as her killer.大量证据证明是他杀死她的。
- It is unbearable to be always on thorns.老是处于焦虑不安的情况中是受不了的。
- The more he thought of it the more unbearable it became.他越想越觉得无法忍受。
- Being an unmarried mother used to carry a social stigma.做未婚母亲在社会上曾是不光彩的事。
- The stigma of losing weighed heavily on the team.失败的耻辱让整个队伍压力沉重。
- He was extolled as the founder of their Florentine school.他被称颂为佛罗伦萨画派的鼻祖。
- According to the old tradition,Romulus was the founder of Rome.按照古老的传说，罗穆卢斯是古罗马的建国者。
- These symptoms may be referable to virus infection rather than parasites. 这些症状也许是由病毒感染引起的，而与寄生虫无关。
- Kangaroos harbor a vast range of parasites. 袋鼠身上有各种各样的寄生虫。
- She showed an affected interest in our subject.她假装对我们的课题感到兴趣。
- His manners are affected.他的态度不自然。
- They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
- The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。
- The lotion should be applied sparingly to the skin.这种洗液应均匀地涂在皮肤上。
- She lubricates her hands with a lotion.她用一种洗剂来滑润她的手。
- She was shunned by her family when she remarried. 她再婚后家里人都躲着她。
- He was a shy man who shunned all publicity. 他是个怕羞的人，总是避开一切引人注目的活动。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- He only invited A-list celebrities to his parties. 他只邀请头等名流参加他的聚会。
- a TV chat show full of B-list celebrities 由众多二流人物参加的电视访谈节目