01介紹
小木是一名英語專業的大一（男）學生
學以致用，和大家分享一些日常積累到的英語
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Some of you may have noticed that my last name is Nutt.And if you did,you are forgiven for wondering how a Nutt managed to end up in a war zone.I actually was offerd,right out of medical school,and accepted a volunteer contract to work with UNICEF in war-torn Somalia,that was worth one dollar.And,you see,I had to be paid this dollar in the event that the UN to issue an evacuation order,so that I would be covered.I was，after all,heading into one of the world's most dangerous places.And by now,some of you may be asking yourselves,and Ijust want to reassure you,that I did get half the money up front.
But you see,yhis is how,with 50 cents in my pocket,I ended up in Baidoa,Somalia.
Jornalists called it the "city of death."
And they called it the city of death because 300,000 people had lost their lives there,300,000 people,mostly as a result of war-related famine and disease.
I was part of a team that was tasked with trying to figure out how best to respond to this humanitarian catastrophe.And it was right on the heels of the Rwandan genocide,and aid money to the region was drying up.
And many aid orgenizations,unfortunately,had been forced to close their doors.And so the question that I was asked to specially help answer,which is one that aid workers ask themselves in war zones the world over,is: What the hell do we do now ?You konw the security envionment in Somalia at that moment in time and nothing has really changed too much.It can best be described as"Mad Max"by way of "A Clock Orange."And I remember very distintly a couple of days after my arrival,I went up to a feeding clinic.
And there were dozens of women who were standing in line,and they were clutching their infrants very close.And about 20 minutes into this conversation I was having with this one young woman,I learned forward and I tried to put py finger in the palm of her baby's hand.And when I did this,I discovered that her baby was already in rigor.She was stiff, and her little,lifeless hand was curled into itself.And she had died hours before of malnutrition.I later learned that as her baby was dying,this young woman had been held for tow days by some teenager boys who were armed with Kalashikov rifles,and they were trying to shake her down for more money,money she very clearly did not have.And this is a scene that I have confronted in war zones the world over;places where kids,some as young as eight,they are this big and those kids,they have never been to school.But they have fought and they have killed with automatic rifles.Is this just the way the world is?Some will tell you that war is unavoidably human.After all,it is as old as existence itself.A nd we say never again,and yet it happens again and again and again.
But I will tell you that Ihave seen the absolute worst of what we as human beings are capable of doing to one another,and yet I still believe a different outcome is possible.Do you want to know why?Because voer 20 years of doing this work,going in and out of war zones around the world,I have come to understand that there are aspects of this problem that we,all of us,as people occupying this shared space,that we can change,not through force or coercion or invasion,but by simply looking at all of the options available to us and choosing the ones that favir peace at the expense of war,instead of war at the expense of peace.
04詞彙積累
Nutt瘋子
Be right out of medical school醫學院畢業
UNICEF聯合國兒童基金會
War-torn飽受戰爭蹂躪的
Evacuation order疏散令
Reassure保證
Somalia 索馬里
War-related famine and disease戰陣引發的饑荒與疾病
Humanitarian catastrophe人道主義災難
Rwandan genocide盧旺達大屠殺
Aid money to the region was drying up地區的救助資金已經捉襟見肘
Distinctly清楚地
A feeding clinic餵養診療所
Stand in line 排隊
Stiff 呆板的，僵硬的，徹底地
Malnutrition營養不良的
Kalashnikov rifles卡拉什尼科夫衝鋒槍
Automotic rifles自動步槍
Unavoidably 不可避免地
Capable有能力的
Coercion強迫，威壓，高壓政治
Invasion侵略
At the expense of 以某某為代價
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