福克斯新闻 新的报告指出烟草农场童工的健康问题

Kids working U.S. tobacco fields are getting maimed by farm equipment and poisoned by pesticides¹ and nicotine², says Human Rights Watch. But nobody's done anything wrong.

Wurth: "Most of what we documented for this report was perfectly³ legal under U.S. law."

Margaret Wurth co-authored the study, saying kids working all sorts of farms have no protection– not physical nor legal.

Wurth: "At the age of 12, a child can work unlimited⁴ hours on a farm of any size with their parents permission. And, for most other jobs, kids have to be 16."

She says both the industry and government need to make changes.

Eben Brown, FOX News Radio

1 pesticides   

n.杀虫剂( pesticide的名词复数 )；除害药物

参考例句：

• vegetables grown without the use of pesticides 未用杀虫剂种植的蔬菜
• There is a lot of concern over the amount of herbicides and pesticides used in farming. 人们对农业上灭草剂和杀虫剂的用量非常担忧。 来自《简明英汉词典》

2 nicotine   

n.(化)尼古丁，烟碱

参考例句：

• Many smokers who are chemically addicted to nicotine cannot cut down easily.许多有尼古丁瘾的抽烟人不容易把烟戒掉。
• Many smokers who are chemically addicted to nicotine cannot cut down easily.许多有尼古丁瘾的抽烟人不容易把烟戒掉。

3 perfectly   

adv.完美地，无可非议地，彻底地

参考例句：

• The witnesses were each perfectly certain of what they said.证人们个个对自己所说的话十分肯定。
• Everything that we're doing is all perfectly above board.我们做的每件事情都是光明正大的。

4 unlimited   

adj.无限的，不受控制的，无条件的

参考例句：

• They flew over the unlimited reaches of the Arctic.他们飞过了茫茫无边的北极上空。
• There is no safety in unlimited technological hubris.在技术方面自以为是会很危险。