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 　　金融英语

　　The hospital I worked in during my stay in Swaziland sits atop the beautiful and very steep¹ Lebombo Mountains.   In this part of the world

　　people often have to walk 40 kilometers or more in order to see a doctor.

　　As you can imagine there are many people in the community who are simply too sick or too poor to get to a hospital.  This is where home-based care comes in.   The home-based care team consists of several nurses who jump into a small truck every morning and travel out to the community to tend to the health needs of the truly destitute2.

　　Before I went out with the team I used to buy potatoes and carrots and apples to give to the people we met -- because health care in Africa is often just as much about the provision5 of food as it is about medicine.  I would always make sure I also bought a bag of sweets to give to the beautiful children we would meet out in the community.  I have learned² that sweets are one of the great unifiers4 in the human

　　world-- we might look different and speak different languages -- but most of us -- especially the young ones-- love sweets!

　　在我逗留非洲的斯威士兰期间，我所工作的医院就坐落在美丽而陡峭异常的莱邦博山脉之巅。那里的人们为了看医生，常常得徒步走40多公里的山路。

　　你可以想象得到，那个地区的很多人由于病情太重或者过于穷困，没法去医院治疗。于是就有了上门医疗服务。上门医疗服务队一般由几名护士组成，她们每天一早就搭上小敞篷车，到那一带给那些生活确实贫困的人们提供医疗服务。

　　在非洲，医疗服务不单单是提供药品，向他们供应食品也同样重要。所以每次随医疗队出发之前，我经常会买一些土豆、胡萝卜和苹果，准备送给沿途要碰见的人们。

　　同样，我每次都要买一袋糖果，送给社区里可爱的孩子们。我知道糖果是最能拉近人们之间距离的一种东西了。也许我们长相不同、言语迥异，但我们当中的大多数人——特别是小孩——都喜欢糖果!

1 steep   

adj.陡峭的，险峻的，急剧升降的，不合理的；n.悬崖，峭壁，浸渍，浸渍液；v.浸，泡，沉浸

参考例句：

• The slope is too steep for us to climb.这斜坡太陡，我们爬不上去。
• There was a steep climb on the road out of town.市外公路上有一处很陡的上坡路。

2 learned   

adj.有学问的，博学的；learn的过去式和过去分词

参考例句：

• He went into a rage when he learned about it.他听到这事后勃然大怒。
• In this little village,he passed for a learned man.在这个小村子里，他被视为有学问的人。