TONY TALK 托尼嘉宾室

 

Handicap¹ Helper

 

Tony: Hello and welcome to Tony Talk! And today we have a special guest with us, Fernando, who is a social worker who works² with handicapped³ people. Welcome, Fernando! How are you?

Fernando: Fine, thank you.

Tony: I just wanted to ask you, where are you from and how did you end up coming to China?

Fernando: I am coming from Italy nearby Venice, a beautiful city. And my life was all the time very lucky and very happy. And one day, I thought maybe I have to go in some other wonderful place like China and try to do something good. So in ’89, I went in Hong Kong and I start to learn Chinese, Cantonese actually. And then I came here in Canton, in Guangzhou, and I start to work with people with mental handicap.

Tony: Mental handicap.

Fernando: Yeah, I am actually a computer expert, and I am specializing⁴ in special training. And I use the computer to build up games and programs, special programs that make funny to learn things. At that time, I tried to teach him to use his brain to remember not only numbers, casually⁵ numbers, but remember the input⁶ method number, the Chinese input method number, so he could start to write, use the computer to write, to write what he thought actually. And I remember that his mother was so happy the first time that she could saw that his child was able to write, write almost in a normal way as we are...

Tony: He would write in Chinese?

Fernando: Yeah, in Chinese, yes. You know this kind of man, he always talk very low voice numbers and nobody know what he think really or what he feel. Nobody was able to talk deeply with this person. For the first time after more than 30 years, the mother and the father could see a piece of paper in which this child started to tell, “I love you. I am very happy that my mother and my father gave me the opportunity to study, to learn to come in this service and to do some works...” and so on.

Tony: Now there are a lot of people who live in communities where there are handicapped people. What are some of the best ways other people can help special needs people in their community? Can you give any suggestions or...

Fernando: Yes. The first thing is to be positive, to have a positive behavior. I mean when you saw people with disabilities, to accept them.

Tony: Right.

Fernando: For instance⁷, a lot of people doesn’t have time or money because they are not so rich, to help disables⁸. But maybe when a disabled going to take a bus, we can give the place to them or smile, and don’t escape, don’t be afraid, you know? So I feel normal people should have a better, a positive way to, how to say, to stay with disabled people. No?

Tony: Hmm.

Fernando: The second step is to try to think if we have time to offer for these people, so do some voluntary work. I always say, we have to build up a bank of time.

Tony: A bank of time.

Fernando: That means like in my bank, I put up the time of the people. Maybe there is a volunteer that can come on Saturday. Another volunteer maybe can come in the afternoon or Wednesday afternoon. So I try to build up in my computer a file in which I have the time of the people that can offer to us to do some work.

Tony: Well, it’s good to know that there’s definite things that people can do to help out and to reach out to disabled people, because they are a part of our society, too. So we’re very thankful for the work that you do and thank you also for your time to talk to us about this. Very good!

Fernando: Thanks to you and to everybody!

Tony: Thank you again! And again this is another edition of Tony Talk, and we look forward to seeing you next time. Bye bye! CE

 

1 handicap   

n.障碍（身体或智力方面的），缺陷；vt.妨碍

参考例句：

• Losing our best player was a handicap to the team.失去最棒的运动员对我队不利。
• His physical handicap prevented him from standing.因为他身体残废，无法站立。

2 works   

n.作品，著作；工厂，活动部件，机件

参考例句：

• We expect writers to produce more and better works.我们期望作家们写出更多更好的作品。
• The novel is regarded as one of the classic works.这篇小说被公认为是最优秀的作品之一。

3 handicapped   

a.残疾的，有智力缺陷的

参考例句：

• a visually handicapped child 弱视儿童
• mentally and physically handicapped 身心俱残

4 specializing   

v.专门从事，专攻( specialize的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• I'm specializing in differential and integral calculus. 我正专攻微分学和积分学。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Thus, specializing in pain made no more sense than specializing in fever. 因此，专门研究疼痛与专门研究发烧的意义差不多。 来自时文部分

5 casually   

adv.漠不关心地，无动于衷地，不负责任地

参考例句：

• She remarked casually that she was changing her job.她当时漫不经心地说要换工作。
• I casually mentioned that I might be interested in working abroad.我不经意地提到我可能会对出国工作感兴趣。

6 input   

n.输入(物)；投入；vt.把(数据等)输入计算机

参考例句：

• I will forever be grateful for his considerable input.我将永远感激他的大量投入。
• All this information had to be input onto the computer.所有这些信息都必须输入计算机。

7 instance   

n.例，例证，实例

参考例句：

• Can you quote me a recent instance?你能给我举一个最近的例子吗？
• He's a greedy boy,yesterday,for instance,he ate all our biscuits!他是个贪吃的孩子――比如，他昨天把我们的饼干都吃了！

8 disables   

使无能力( disable的第三人称单数 )； 使残废； 使伤残； 使无效

参考例句：

• Replay events using multiple threads. This option optimizes performance and disables debugging. 使用多线程重播事件。此选项优化性能并禁用调试。
• Disabling tooltips now disables all tooltips including shortcut bar and examination tooltips. 禁止提示将禁止所有的提示包括快捷栏提示和详情提示。