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听力文本
From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Report.
The United Nations Children's Fund is praising Ethiopia for reaching one of the Millennium Development Goals on child survival. UNICEF officials say Ethiopia has reduced its number of child death by more than two-thirds.
Between 1990 and 2012, the country reported a 67 percent drop in the number of children dying before the age of five.
Ethiopia's Minister of Health Kesetebirhan Admasu welcomed the good news, but he admitted that even with the improvement Ethiopia is considered a high-mortality country.
"If you look at the absolute number of children dying in Ethiopia, it is still huge. We have committed to end all preventive child deaths in a generation by 2035. And we have developed a roadmap to reach that ambitious target."
Diarrhea, pneumonia and malaria are the leading causes of death among young children in Ethiopia. In 1990, the country's death rate for children under five was one of the highest in the world, it was 204 death for every 1,000 births.
The rate is now at 68 per 1,000, this means that hundreds of thousands of Ethiopian children who might have died in earlier years now reach their fifth birthday.
Ethiopia is one of four African countries to have reached a Millennium Development Goal, the other three are Liberia, Malawi and Tanzania.
One of the reasons for Ethiopia's success is its Health Extension Program, because of it, 38,000 people were employed to bring health care services to a large part of the rural population.
Peter Salama is UNICEF representative to Ethiopia. He says Ethiopia's plan of action can serve as an example for other countries:
"Several other African countries have come to do study tours, including delegations from Togo, Guinea, Namibia - all came to study the health extension program and see how they can replicate this critical lesson of bringing health care to the doorstep of the rural population."
The United Nations first announced the Millennium Development Goals 13 years ago, the goals remain to help countries pay more attention to issues such as fighting extreme poverty.
Progress on the Millennium Development Goal of reducing child death is slow in most countries, only 13 of 61 countries are in a position to meet the goal.
And that's the Health Report from VOA Learning English. You can watch our captioned videos at the VOA Learning English channel on YouTube. You can also visit our website atlearningenglish@voanews.comto find transcripts and audio of our shows. I'm Faith Lapidus.
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词汇解释
1.mortality n. 死亡数,死亡率;必死性,必死的命运
After her mother's death, she became acutely aware of her own mortality.
她母亲去世后,她开始强烈意识到自己的生命是有限的 。
2.diarrhea n. 腹泻,痢疾
Excessive diarrhea or liquid stools contribute to skin breakdown.
大量腹泻及稀便会使皮肤破损 。
3.pneumonia n. 肺炎
Penicillin cured him of pneumonia.
青霉素治好了他的肺炎 。
4.replicate vt. 复制;折叠
Nothing has the capacity to replicate itself except DNA.
除DNA外,什么东西也没有自我复制的能力 。
内容解析
1.Peter Salama is UNICEF representative to Ethiopia. He says Ethiopia's plan of action can serve as an example for other countries:
serve as 担任…,充当…;起…的作用
He was served as a general.
他被任命为将军 。
Newspaper serves me as a curtain.
我用报纸权充窗帘 。
2.Progress on the Millennium Development Goal of reducing child death is slow in most countries, only 13 of 61 countries are in a position to meet the goal.
in a position to 能够,可以
We're now in a position to dictate our own demands.
现在,我们有资格提出我们的要求 。
He wasn't in a position to help me.
他不能帮我的忙 。
参考译文
这里是美国之音慢速英语健康报道
。联合国儿童基金会赞扬埃塞俄比亚实现“千年发展目标中”关于儿童存活的目标,UNICEF称埃塞俄比亚的儿童死亡人数减少了三分之二以上
。在1990年到2012年间,据悉该国年龄在5岁以下儿童的死亡数量降低了67%
。埃塞俄比亚卫生部长Kesetebirhan Admasu对这个消息表示欢迎,但他承认尽管有了改善,埃塞俄比亚仍被视为高死亡国家
。“看下埃塞俄比亚儿童死亡的绝对人数,仍然很大
。我们承诺在2035年之前杜绝任何可预防的儿童死亡,我们已经制定了路线图来实现这个宏伟目标 。”腹泻、肺炎和疟疾是导致埃塞俄比亚儿童死亡的主要元凶
。1990年,该国5岁以下儿童死亡率是全世界最高的,每1000个孩子中就有204个死亡 。这个比率现在是每1000人中68个死亡,这意味着那些原本可能夭折的成千上万孩子现在已经五岁了
。埃塞俄比亚是实现千年发展目标的四个非洲国家之一,另外三个是利比里亚、马拉维和坦桑尼亚
。埃塞俄比亚成功的一个原因是其“卫生推广项目”,多亏了这个项目,目前有3.8万人被雇用来给大量农村人口带去医疗服务
。彼得·萨拉马是联合国儿童基金会驻埃塞俄比亚代表,他说埃塞俄比亚的行动计划可以给其他国家做榜样
。“其他几个非洲国家前来学习我们的经验,包括来自多哥、几内亚和纳米比亚的代表团,他们是来学习卫生推广项目的,看看如何将这个给农村人口带去医疗服务的重要经验复制回来
。”联合国最早是在13年前宣布“千年发展目标”的,该目标现在仍致力于帮助各国关注诸如解决极端贫困等问题
。在大多数国家,千年发展目标在降低儿童死亡方面取得的进展缓慢,61个国家中只有13个能够实现这一目标
。这里是美国之音慢速英语健康报道,你可登陆网站learningenglish@voanews.com下载所有节目的文本、音频,还可在YouTube上找到慢速英语的视频,我是Faith Lapidus 。