VOA常速英语2008年-AIDS Leaves Africa's Children to Face Life as O

By Kari Barber
Dakar
26 February 2008
 

Recent civil wars in the West African nations of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Ivory Coast destabilized neighboring southeast Guinea with a flood of refugees and increased poverty.  Health workers say the movement of displaced people and an increase in sexual assaults have caused the region to have the highest HIV/AIDS rate in the country.  As people die from the virus, many leave behind children to face life as AIDS orphans¹.  Kari Barber has more from the town of N'Zerekore in Guinea.

1 orphans   

孤儿( orphan的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The poor orphans were kept on short commons. 贫苦的孤儿们吃不饱饭。
• Their uncle was declared guardian to the orphans. 这些孤儿的叔父成为他们的监护人。