VOA慢速英语2017 联合国外交官探望在尼日利亚流离失所的难民

Representatives of United Nations Security Council member countries visited a target of Boko Haram militants² on Sunday.

联合国安全理事会成员国的代表于周日访问了博科圣地组织武装分子袭击的地方。

The diplomats³ traveled to Maiduguri, the capital of Nigeria’s Borno State.They met there with women at a camp for displaced persons.

数位外交官前往尼日利亚博尔诺州的省会迈杜古里。他们在那儿会见了难民营中的妇女。

The diplomats have been on a four-day-long trip to the Lake Chad Basin.They went to Cameroon, Chad and Nigeria before going to Niger on Monday.

目前外交官们正在乍得湖盆地进行为期四天的访问。周一将前往尼日尔，在此之前，他们先去了喀麦隆，乍得和尼日利亚。

On Sunday, the ambassadors arrived in Maiduguri under heavy security.Two days earlier, three bombers⁴ died in a suicide attack near a fuel station.No civilians⁵ were hurt in the explosions.

周日，大使在严密安保下到达了迈杜古里。两天前，三名袭击者在加油站附近的自杀式爆炸中死亡。此次爆炸中，没有平民受伤。

The diplomats met with the women in a camp where about 7,000 people live.They heard the women tell about their husbands being killed.The women also said they had been abused by Boko Haram.The militant¹ group has been fighting against the Nigerian government and its forces since 2009.

外交官在一个约有7000人居住的难民营会见了当地妇女。这些妇女告诉他们，她们的丈夫已经被杀。同时还受到博科圣地组织的虐待。自2009年以来，这一武装组织一直在与尼日利亚政府及其军队作战。

Deputy United States Ambassador Michelle Sisson was the only woman in the U.N. group.She has expressed support for women and girls in the Lake Chad Basin.

美国副大使米歇尔·西松是联合国这一组织中的唯一女性。她表示支持乍得湖盆地的妇女和女孩。

“…I’m hearing stories not only of these families, and these women who have been victimized, their children victimized, by Boko Haram,but then the protection needs especially of women and girls, not only inside the camp,but also if they have to go outside, either for firewood or to seek some sort of income-generating activity.”

“......我听到的不只是关于这些家庭，这些受到博科圣地组织伤害的妇女和她们孩子们的故事，还有妇女和女孩需要保护，不只在难民营内，还有如果她们为了捡拾木柴或者挣钱不得不去外面的时候。

U.N. officials say aid workers have yet to reach about 700,000 people in eight local government areas.

联合国官员说，八个地方政府区域内的救援工作者目前还没有达到70万人。

Officials say more than five million people in northeastern Nigeria are in need of food.At the camp for displaced persons, many people said they are not given enough aid to feed their large families.

官员说，尼日利亚东北部有五百多万人需要食物。难民营中的许多人说没有足够的救助来养活自己的大家庭。

“We are suffering from food, we are suffering from hunger.Our children are dying from that.Sometimes at the end of the month, sometimes I don’t have food, I will manage to go and beg small (amounts).”

“我们缺乏食物，我们正在遭受饥饿。我们的孩子们正在死去。月底的时候，没有食物的时候，我会尽量去乞讨少量的食物。

The United Nations has warned that about two million people in parts of the northeast could face famine conditions if donors⁶ do not intervene.Peter Lundberg is the U.N. Deputy Humanitarian⁷ Coordinator⁸ for northeast Nigeria.

联合国警告说，东北部分地区将大约有200万人如果没有捐助者进行捐助，他们将面临饥荒。彼得·伦德伯格是联合国尼日利亚东北部人道主义副协调员。

“There is no famine right now in the northeast, but we are really, really playing with a fire unless we continue to ensure that these people are getting steady assistance on a regular basis, and it is a struggle.Right now the food operations here cost $1 million per day.”

“现在东北部并没有饥荒，但这里的情况真的很危险，除非我们能继续确保这里的人们可以定期获得稳定的救助，这是一场斗争。现在这里每天的食品运作成本为100万美元。

Lundberg added that countries must keep the promises they made at a humanitarian conference in Norway last month.Delegates there promised more than $450 million in aid to help people in the Lake Chad Basin this year.

伦德伯格补充说，各国必须履行上个月在挪威举行的人道主义会议上各自的承诺。各国代表曾承诺今年将给予4.5亿多美元的援助，来帮助乍得湖盆地的人们。

1 militant   

adj.激进的，好斗的；n.激进分子，斗士

参考例句：

• Some militant leaders want to merge with white radicals.一些好斗的领导人要和白人中的激进派联合。
• He is a militant in the movement.他在那次运动中是个激进人物。

2 militants   

激进分子，好斗分子( militant的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The militants have been sporadically fighting the government for years. 几年来，反叛分子一直对政府实施零星的战斗。
• Despite the onslaught, Palestinian militants managed to fire off rockets. 尽管如此，巴勒斯坦的激进分子仍然发射导弹。

3 diplomats   

n.外交官( diplomat的名词复数 )；有手腕的人，善于交际的人

参考例句：

• These events led to the expulsion of senior diplomats from the country. 这些事件导致一些高级外交官被驱逐出境。
• The court has no jurisdiction over foreign diplomats living in this country. 法院对驻本国的外交官无裁判权。 来自《简明英汉词典》

4 bombers   

n.轰炸机( bomber的名词复数 )；投弹手；安非他明胶囊；大麻叶香烟

参考例句：

• Enemy bombers carried out a blitz on the city. 敌军轰炸机对这座城市进行了突袭。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The Royal Airforce sill remained dangerously short of bombers. 英国皇家空军仍未脱离极为缺乏轰炸机的危境。 来自《简明英汉词典》

5 civilians   

平民，百姓( civilian的名词复数 )； 老百姓

参考例句：

• the bloody massacre of innocent civilians 对无辜平民的血腥屠杀
• At least 300 civilians are unaccounted for after the bombing raids. 遭轰炸袭击之后，至少有300名平民下落不明。

6 donors   

n.捐赠者( donor的名词复数 )；献血者；捐血者；器官捐献者

参考例句：

• Please email us to be removed from our active list of blood donors. 假如你想把自己的名字从献血联系人名单中删去，请给我们发电子邮件。
• About half this amount comes from individual donors and bequests. 这笔钱大约有一半来自个人捐赠及遗赠。 来自《简明英汉词典》

7 humanitarian   

n.人道主义者，博爱者，基督凡人论者

参考例句：

• 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。

8 coordinator   

n.协调人

参考例句：

• The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, headed by the Emergency Relief Coordinator, coordinates all UN emergency relief. 联合国人道主义事务协调厅在紧急救济协调员领导下，负责协调联合国的所有紧急救济工作。
• How am I supposed to find the client-relations coordinator? 我怎么才能找到客户关系协调员的办公室？