9岁小天使！她喂饱了所有流浪汉 为他们造房

 　　Hailey Ford¹, a 9-year-old girl from Bremerton, Washington, is hard at work building 11 small homes for the homeless.

　　来自华盛顿洲布雷默顿的9岁小女孩海丽 ·福特努力劳作，为无家可归的流浪汉们造了11间小房子。

　　She has been putting in weeks of work on the shelters, drilling down bases, installing² windows and cutting insulation³."It just doesn't seem right that there are homeless people," Hailey told KING 5 News. "I think everyone should have a place to live."

　　一连好几个礼拜她都一直在建造着这些庇护所，打地基，安窗户，裁隔板。"现在还有无家可归的人，这说不过去啊，"海丽告诉KING 5 News，"我认为每一个人都应该有住的地方。"

　　Hailey has received a grant⁴ for the homes, which will be put in the town's permanent Tent City and be open to the homeless later this year.

　　海丽日前已经收到了一笔用于建造这些房子的款项，这些房子将会建在镇上永久的帐篷城，预计今年晚些时候就可以对流浪汉开放。

　　9岁小天使！她喂饱了所有流浪汉 为他们造房

　　She got the idea after meeting a homeless man named Edward on the street while out shopping for groceries with her mother.They gave the man a sandwich, but Hailey got to thinking about how she could do more and continue providing food to the needy⁵, so she set up Hailey's Harvest, a garden with its own Facebook page, to grow vegetables.

　　海丽有一天跟妈妈一起出去采购时看到一个名叫爱德华的流浪汉在街上游荡，此后她便有了这个想法。他们给这个流浪汉一个三明治吃，但海丽想的是她要怎样才能为有需要的人做得更多，怎样才能一直给他们吃的，于是她便创立了"海丽的丰收园"，并在这个菜园里种植蔬菜。这个菜园还有自己的脸书页面。

　　"I said sure, thinking it would last a week. It’s been four years and she still delivers veggies to the homeless every week," her mom, Miranda, told noNPRofit Together Rising.

　　海丽的母亲米兰达告诉非营利性机构Together Rising："我当时很肯定地说，她的这个事业不会超过一个礼拜。可是现在已经四年了，海丽还是每个礼拜都会送蔬菜给无家可归的人。"

　　Hailey soon branched out into building, and has been providing updates on her progress with the shelters, along with photos of herself hard at work.

　　海丽很快将其事业扩展到房屋领域，并且在脸书上一直更新其庇护所建设过程中的照片，附带自己努力工作的照片。

1 Ford   

n.浅滩，水浅可涉处；v.涉水，涉过

参考例句：

• They were guarding the bridge,so we forded the river.他们驻守在那座桥上，所以我们只能涉水过河。
• If you decide to ford a stream,be extremely careful.如果已决定要涉过小溪，必须极度小心。

2 installing   

安装( install的现在分词 )； 安顿； 安置； 使…正式就职

参考例句：

• The work consisted of throwing up embankments and installing water turbine pumps. 这项工作包括快速建起堤坝和安装涡轮水泵。
• Recently, one brilliant company started installing karaoke machines in cars. 最近，有一家聪明的公司开始在车子里装设卡拉OK机。 来自常春藤生活英语杂志-2006年5月号

3 insulation   

n.隔离；绝缘；隔热

参考例句：

• Please examine the insulation of the electric wires in my house.请检查一下我屋子里电线的绝缘情况。
• It is always difficult to assure good insulation between the electric leads.要保证两个电触头之间有良好的绝缘总是很困难的。

4 grant   

vt.同意给予，授予，承认；n.拨款；补助款

参考例句：

• If you grant my request, you will earn my thanks.如果你答应我的要求，就会得到我的感谢。
• He requested that the premier grant him an internview.他要求那位总理接见他一次。

5 needy   

adj.贫穷的，贫困的，生活艰苦的

参考例句：

• Although he was poor,he was quite generous to his needy friends.他虽穷，但对贫苦的朋友很慷慨。
• They awarded scholarships to needy students.他们给贫苦学生颁发奖学金。