联合国撤出在阿富汗的工作人员

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联合国撤出在阿富汗的工作人员

UN Withdrawing Workers from Afghanistan
Lisa Schlein
Geneva
12 Sep 2001 15:17 UTC

The United Nations is pulling its foreign aid workers out of Afghanistan in the wake of the terrorist attacks in the United States. A senior U.N. aid official in Geneva says the United Nations is 1)temporarily 2)relocating its international staff to neighboring Pakistan.
The United Nations calls the move a 3)precautionary measure.
U.N. assistant emergency relief coordinator¹ Ross Mountain says the United Nations decided² to 4)withdraw its international staff because of the 5)current tense situation. He says media reports indicate Afghanistan may be accused of harboring those responsible for the terrorist attack, and U.N. officials decided it would be wise to remove aid workers from a possible source of danger. "We expect some 80 staff will be moved from six duty stations and that will be completed by tomorrow," he says. "This does not mean by any matter that the United Nations is withdrawing from Afghanistan. We still have national staff. But I do want to emphasize the precautionary and temporary nature of this exercise."
The aid workers are being moved to the Pakistani capital, Islamabad. Mr. Mountain says he does not know how long they will remain outside Afghanistan. But he says he hopes it will be very short because the country needs help. "The condition inside Afghanistan, for the population of Afghanistan, is dire³," he says. "It remains⁴ dire. It is not just the civil war that is going on. But, as you are aware, a devastating⁵ drought has caused millions to leave and millions to be 6)displaced. And the relief operations are 7)vital for the life and death of 8)literally hundreds of thousands."
Afghanistan is the biggest U.N. relief operation. All the major U.N. agencies, such as UNICEF, the World Food Program and the World Health Organization, operate a range of programs in the country. These include food distribution to millions of 9)victims of war and 10)drought, as well as health, water, and 11)sanitation schemes.
Mr. Mountain says these programs will continue to be run by local staff. But he says the programs will suffer if the U.N. international staff remains out of the country for a long period of time.

(1) temporarily adv.临时
(2) relocate[ri:lEJ5keIt; (?@) ri:lEJkeIt]v.重新部署
(3) precautionary[prI`kR:FEnErI]adj.预防的
(4) withdraw[wIT5drC:]vt.收回, 撤消vi.缩回, 退出v.撤退
(5) current[5kQrEnt]adj.当前的, 通用的n.涌流, 趋势
(6) displace[dIs5pleIs]vt.移置, 转移, 取代, 置换v.转移
(7) vital[5vaIt(E)l]adj.生死攸关的, 重大的,至关重要的, 所必需的
(8) literally[5lItErElI]adv.照字面意义, 逐字地
(9) victim[5vIktIm]n.受害人, 牺牲者, 牺牲品
(10) drought[draJt]n.干旱, 缺乏
(11) sanitation[sAnI5teIF(E)n]n.卫生, 卫生设施

 

1 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？

2 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。

3 dire   

adj.可怕的，悲惨的，阴惨的，极端的

参考例句：

• There were dire warnings about the dangers of watching too much TV.曾经有人就看电视太多的危害性提出严重警告。
• We were indeed in dire straits.But we pulled through.那时我们的困难真是大极了，但是我们渡过了困难。

4 remains   

n.剩余物，残留物；遗体，遗迹

参考例句：

• He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
• The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。

5 devastating   

adj.毁灭性的，令人震惊的，强有力的

参考例句：

• It is the most devastating storm in 20 years.这是20年来破坏性最大的风暴。
• Affairs do have a devastating effect on marriages.婚外情确实会对婚姻造成毁灭性的影响。