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35 边远山区的卫生保健

DATE=6-11-01
TITLE=DEVELOPMENT REPORT - Health Care for Distant Villages
BYLINE= Marilyn Christiano

（Start at 59" ）This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Development Report.
Providing medical care for people who live far from cities is a problem in many areas of the world.  They are too far away to be served by the hospitals, doctors and drugs of modern medicine.  
This is especially true of native people who live in small villages that are difficult to reach.  
In the past, each (1)tribal¹ village had its own medical experts who knew the local plants that had been used as medicines for years.  These medicine men and women knew natural (2)methods of (3)treating diseases² and injuries.  In recent years, however, many of the native (4) healers have died and their knowledge has died with them.  
(5)Efforts are being made in many areas to provide medical services to far away (6) tribal villages.  One way to do this is to send teams of doctors and nurses at different times during the year to provide medical care.  Yet this does not provide any long-term³ health care.
So some (7)organizations are training local people to improve the health of native groups who are far from modern medical centers.  For example, an organization called the Medical (8)Mission⁴ Sisters works⁵ with local people in twenty nations around the world. Anna Dengel began the group seventy-five years ago in Washington⁶, D. C.  Its goal is to provide medical care to the poor, especially women and children.  The Roman (9) Catholic⁷ religious⁸ workers are trained as doctors and nurses.
Sister Isabel Harmon has been a Medical Mission Sister for fifty years.  Many of those years she spent in Africa, mainly in Ghana.  For the past eight years, she has lived in Oaxaca, (10)Mexico.  There she works with the Health Promoters Training Program.  It trains about forty students at a time who come from villages in the mountains that surround the city of Oaxaca.  
The students are men and women who live in the villages.  They are taught ways to (11)prevent sickness caused by poor housing⁹ and a lack of (12)pure water and a balanced (13)diet.  They also are taught (14)traditional healing¹⁰ methods to treat common sicknesses.  Then they go back to their villages to provide health care and to teach others what they have learned¹¹.
Sister Isabel and the nurses and doctors she works with travel often to the villages to continue the training.  Next week we will tell more about this training. 
This VOA Special English Development Report was written by Marilyn Christiano.
This is Steve Ember.

(1)  tribal [ 5traibEl ]adj.部落的, 种族的
(2)  method [5meWEd]n.方法
(3) treat [ tri:t ] vt.治疗
(4) healer [ `hi:l[] n.医治者,
(5) effort [5efEt]n.努力
(6) tribal [ `traibl] adj.部落的, 种族的
(7) organization [ 7C:^Enai5zeiFEn ]n.组织, 机构, 团体
(8) mission [ 5miFEn ]n.代表团
(9) catholic [ `kAW[lik] n.天主教徒 adj.天主教的
(10) Mexico [5meksIkEJ]n.墨西哥(拉丁美洲国家)
(11) prevent [ pri5vent ]v.防止, 预防
(12) pure [ pjuE ]adj.纯净的, 无垢的
(13) diet [ 5daiEt ]n.通常所吃的食物
(14) traditional [trE5dIFEn(E)l]adj.传统的

 

1 tribal   

adj.部族的，种族的

参考例句：

• He became skilled in several tribal lingoes.他精通几种部族的语言。
• The country was torn apart by fierce tribal hostilities.那个国家被部落间的激烈冲突弄得四分五裂。

2 diseases   

n.疾病( disease的名词复数 )；弊端；恶疾；痼疾

参考例句：

• Smoking is a causative factor in several major diseases. 抽烟是引起几种严重疾病的病因。
• The illness frequently coexists with other chronic diseases. 这种病往往与其他慢性病同时存在。

3 long-term   

adj.长远的，长期的

参考例句：

• It isn't a long-term policy.这不是长久之计。
• We must calculate on a long-term basis.我们要作长期打算。

4 mission   

n.使命，任务，天职；代表团，使团

参考例句：

• He was charged with an important mission.他受委托承担一项重要使命。
• I'll leave you to undertake an important mission.我要让你承担一项重要使命。

5 works   

n.作品，著作；工厂，活动部件，机件

参考例句：

• We expect writers to produce more and better works.我们期望作家们写出更多更好的作品。
• The novel is regarded as one of the classic works.这篇小说被公认为是最优秀的作品之一。

6 Washington   

n.华盛顿特区(是美国首都)

参考例句：

• His birthplace is Washington,but he lives in San Francisco.他出生于华盛顿，但住在旧金山。
• They, together with my father,have gone to Washington.他们和我父亲一起去华盛顿了。

7 catholic   

adj.天主教的；n.天主教徒

参考例句：

• The Pope is the supreme leader of the Roman Catholic Church.教皇是罗马天主教的最高领袖。
• She was a devoutly Catholic.她是一个虔诚地天主教徒。

8 religious   

adj.宗教性的，虔诚的，宗教上的；n.修道士，出家人

参考例句：

• She is very religious person who goes to church every Sunday.她十分虔诚，每个星期天都上教堂。
• It is hard for me to reject religious beliefs.要我抛弃自己的宗教信仰是困难的。

9 housing   

n.房屋，住宅；住房建筑；外壳，外罩

参考例句：

• Do you think our housing sales will turn around during this year?你认为今年我们的住宅销路会好转吗？
• The housing sales have been turning down since the summer.入夏以来，房屋的销售量日趋减少。

10 healing   

n.康复，复原adj.有治疗功用的v.（使）愈合( heal的现在分词 )；治愈；（使）结束；较容易忍受

参考例句：

• miraculous powers of healing 神奇的治病能力
• She seems to have a vocation for healing. 看来她具备治病救人的才能。 来自《简明英汉词典》

11 learned   

adj.有学问的，博学的；learn的过去式和过去分词

参考例句：

• He went into a rage when he learned about it.他听到这事后勃然大怒。
• In this little village,he passed for a learned man.在这个小村子里，他被视为有学问的人。