VOA慢速英语2003年-发展与科学 Oxfam
时间：2018-11-27 作者：英语课 分类：VOA2003（下）-发展与科学
By Jill Moss 1
Broadcast: July 14, 2003
This is Bill White with the VOA Special English Development Report.
From time to time we examine different organizations involved in development and relief work around the world. This week we tell about 1)Oxfam. Oxfam is an independent British organization. The group works in poor communities with local organizations. It says it tries to find 2)permanent answers to poverty and suffering. It says every human being has the right to self-respect and a chance to succeed.
Oxfam was formed in nineteen-forty-two. The organization was part of an effort in Britain to get food and medical supplies to starving people in Greece. At that time, Nazi 2 Germans occupied the country. Allied 3 forces had ordered a 3)naval 4 blockade in the Mediterranean 5. Groups formed in Britain to urge the government to let humanitarian 6 aid get through. One of the groups was called the Oxford 7 Committee for Famine Relief.
After World War Two, Oxfam decided 8 to continue on and extend its aid to more than just war victims. It saw a need for humanitarian relief in all parts of the world.
Today, Oxfam has programs in more than seventy developing countries. It says that in each case, it employs local people who know the issues affecting their communities. Oxfam also carries out education campaigns and policy work. It says it wants to make sure governments and international organizations understand the problems that face the world's poor.
Oxfam depends on money from supporters to operate. A committee governs the organization with the help of a lower-level group. The members of the two committees are not paid. A chief executive 4)supervises the daily operations of Oxfam.
Over the past fifty years, Oxfam has carried out numerous projects. It has helped communities to set up schools. The organization will pay for building classrooms and for equipment and teacher-training programs. Oxfam has helped communities improve their health services and water supplies. And it trains local people to teach others in their villages about 5)cleanliness and healthy foods.
Oxfam says poverty is not a fact of life but instead an injustice 9 that must be overcome. For more than half a century, it has been working alongside other international aid organizations to help make this happen.
This VOA Special English Development Report was written by Jill Moss. This is Bill White.
注释：
1) Oxfam abbr. （英国）牛津饥荒救济委员会
2) permanent [5pE:mEnEnt] adj.永久的, 持久的
3) naval [5neivEl] adj.海军的
4) supervise [5sju:pEvaiz] v.监督, 管理, 指导
5) cleanliness [5klenlinis] n.干净；清洁
- Moss grows on a rock.苔藓生在石头上。
- He was found asleep on a pillow of leaves and moss.有人看见他枕着树叶和苔藓睡着了。
- They declare the Nazi regime overthrown and sue for peace.他们宣布纳粹政权已被推翻，并出面求和。
- Nazi closes those war criminals inside their concentration camp.纳粹把那些战犯关在他们的集中营里。
- Britain was allied with the United States many times in history.历史上英国曾多次与美国结盟。
- Allied forces sustained heavy losses in the first few weeks of the campaign.同盟国在最初几周内遭受了巨大的损失。
- He took part in a great naval battle.他参加了一次大海战。
- The harbour is an important naval base.该港是一个重要的海军基地。
- The houses are Mediterranean in character.这些房子都属地中海风格。
- Gibraltar is the key to the Mediterranean.直布罗陀是地中海的要冲。
- She has many humanitarian interests and contributes a lot to them.她拥有很多慈善事业，并作了很大的贡献。
- The British government has now suspended humanitarian aid to the area.英国政府现已暂停对这一地区的人道主义援助。
- At present he has become a Professor of Chemistry at Oxford.他现在已是牛津大学的化学教授了。
- This is where the road to Oxford joins the road to London.这是去牛津的路与去伦敦的路的汇合处。