VOA标准英语2011--Ivory Coast Refugees Living With Former

Ivory¹ Coast Refugees³ Living With Former Liberian Refugees

Bigger refugee² camps are going up along Liberia's eastern border for more than 150,000 people who fled Ivory Coast's political crisis⁴, earlier this year. Many Ivorian refugees are living in local villages with friends they made during Liberia's civil war.
Nearly 4,000 Ivorian refugees have tripled⁵ the population of the Liberian border village, Janzon. Fleeing political unrest at home, they found old friends in Liberia. Janzon chief James Mowon lived 14 years in Ivory Coast, during Liberia's civil war.
"Before 1990, we ran away and went to Ivory Coast," said Mowon. "Nobody would be in this area. So we stayed there for about 14 years. My very self I didn't go in the camp. I was in the town for those years. So now when they come, I have to hold [help] them and do my best."
Mowon is sharing his home in Janzon with the man who took him in in Ivory Coast, Alphonse Bade.
Bade says Chief Mowon and his family came to live with them during Liberia's civil war. Now they have come to his village along with people from 11 other Ivorian villages. Bade says they are welcome here and have been given land to farm and build houses.
The United Nations refugee agency's Sianie Zaza Kolubah says the reception in Janzon has been remarkable⁶.
"They are so hospitable⁷ to the refugees," said Kolubah. "Even if services are delayed in going to that community, they are already integrated⁸ in the community making their farms on land provided by the local community, and they have got houses built there to shelter them also."
With the Liberian government trying to move more Ivorians into camps, Kolubah says many of the refugees in Janzon intend to stay put.
"During the Liberian war, refugees who left from Liberia to Ivory Coast stopped with people who also fled this Ivorian war," Kolubah added. "So those who were hosted as Liberian refugees in Ivory Coast do not want their host to go to the camp. They want them to stay with them no matter what it is. So, [with] these kind of refugees, it will be hard for them to go to the camp."
Bade says it is not yet safe enough to go home, so Ivorian refugees are settling in to Janzon where he says they are respected like family.
We speak the same language, Bade says. When Liberians were in danger, they came to Ivory Coast. Now that Ivorians are in danger, they have come to Liberia. It is what Bade calls "a fraternal union."
Aid groups are in Janzon to help the refugees and their hosts. The U.N. refugee agency and World Food Program are delivering food. There is free health care at the clinic provided by the British medical group Merlin.
With another 11,000 Ivorian refugees living in areas around Janzon, Chief Mowon says the people of his village are prepared for the long-haul because they know how long they were refugees themselves.
"I am appealing to them not to go yet," said Mowon. "Let them be with me. Whether 10 or 15 years, they will be here."
Many refugees say they would rather stay in villages where they are closer to the border, closer to the crops they have planted and are living with friends and family. For the moment, the government of Liberia says relocation to refugee camps is not mandatory⁹.

1 ivory   

n.象牙，乳白色；adj.象牙制的，乳白色的

参考例句：

• My grandmother has some jewelry made of ivory.我祖母有一些象牙首饰。
• It is carved from ivory.它是用象牙雕成的。

2 refugee   

n.难民，流亡者

参考例句：

• The refugee was condemned to a life of wandering.这个难民注定要过流浪的生活。
• The refugee is suffering for want of food and medical supplies.难民苦于缺少食物和医药用品。

3 refugees   

n.避难者，难民( refugee的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The UN has begun making airdrops of food to refugees. 联合国已开始向难民空投食物。
• They claimed they were political refugees and not economic migrants. 他们宣称自己是政治难民，不是经济移民。

4 crisis   

n.危机，危急关头，决定性时刻，关键阶段

参考例句：

• He had proved that he could be relied on in a crisis.他已表明，在紧要关头他是可以信赖的。
• The topic today centers about the crisis in the Middle East.今天课题的中心是中东危机。

5 tripled   

v.（使）增至三倍( triple的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• The enemy tripled his strength. 敌军把兵力增加到原来的三倍。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• He tripled his income. 他使他的收入增加两倍[增至三倍]。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

6 remarkable   

adj.显著的，异常的，非凡的，值得注意的

参考例句：

• She has made remarkable headway in her writing skills.她在写作技巧方面有了长足进步。
• These cars are remarkable for the quietness of their engines.这些汽车因发动机没有噪音而不同凡响。

7 hospitable   

adj.好客的；宽容的；有利的，适宜的

参考例句：

• The man is very hospitable.He keeps open house for his friends and fellow-workers.那人十分好客，无论是他的朋友还是同事，他都盛情接待。
• The locals are hospitable and welcoming.当地人热情好客。

8 integrated   

a.整合的，完整的

参考例句：

• A fully integrated low phase noise LC voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) is presented.介绍了一种全集成的LC压控振荡器(VCO)的设计。

9 mandatory   

adj.命令的；强制的；义务的；n.受托者

参考例句：

• It's mandatory to pay taxes.缴税是义务性的。
• There is no mandatory paid annual leave in the U.S.美国没有强制带薪年假。