VOA常速英语2020--气候变化导致索马里妇女遭遇严重暴力

Climate Change Drives Gender¹-Based Violence in Somaliland-Oxfam

Thirty-five-year-old Fatima who for privacy did not want to use her family name

35岁的法蒂玛，为了隐私，不想用她的姓氏 

says their family lost all their livestock² to drought.

他们的家人因为干旱而失去了所有的牲畜。 

After moving with her husband and children closer to town to find work,

在丈夫和孩子搬到城里找工作后， 

Fatimas husband abandoned her and filed for divorce, but not before assaulting her.

法蒂玛的丈夫抛弃了她并提出离婚，但在家暴没有发生前。 

He did harm me physically³ three times.

后来家暴了我三次。 

He hit me a few times and one time he told me that he would hang me and he threatened me with a rope.

他打了我几次，有一次他告诉我他要绞死我，用绳子威胁我。 

Fatima now lives in a camp for displaced people on the outskirts⁴ of Hargeisa, the capital of Somaliland.

法蒂玛现在住在哈尔格萨郊区的一个流离失所者营地，在索马里兰的首都。 

She supports her children through a small tea shop earning about $40 per month barely enough to feed themselves.

她靠一家小茶馆养活她的孩子，每月收入约40美元，不足以养活自己。 

Oxfam gender protection coordinator⁵ in Somaliland Abdul Rashid Yusef says

救济会索马里兰性别保护协调员阿卜杜勒·拉希德·尤塞夫说， 

women displaced by climate change like Fatima

像法蒂玛这样因气候变化而流离失所的妇女 

are at high risk for sexual and gender-based violence as GBV.

遭遇性暴力和男性攻击暴力的风险很高。 

The risks include that women were independent in the workforce⁶ place when GBV comes.

风险包括女性在工作场所独立一人时，遭遇性别暴力。 

The risks include they are more exposed on that GBV like great sexual exploitation zone,

还包括他们更多暴露得在性别剥削高发地区。 

on that they are more explicit⁷ about that they had limited knowledge about to cope the situation.

由于教育匮乏，她们不知道该如何处理这种情况。 

On the outskirts of the town of Oak, Ibado Muhammad Abdullah is working to prevent violence against displaced women.

在奥克伊巴多镇郊区，穆罕默德阿卜杜拉正在努力防止针对流离失所妇女的暴力行为。 

She oversees⁸ three displacement⁹ camps.

她负责管理三个流离失所者营地。 

To improve womens safety in the camp, Abdullah created womens associations,

为了提高妇女在营地的安全，阿卜杜拉创建了妇女协会， 

provides counseling for those assaulted and takes criminal cases to the authorities

为那些被袭击的人提供咨询，并将刑事案件提交给当局 

If a girl who was raped¹⁰ would come to me, I would take her to the hospital. After she is treated, I would then immediately take her to the nearest police station to arrest the perpetrator of this crime.

如果一个被强奸的女孩来找我，我会带她去医院。在她接受治疗后，然后我会立即带她去最近的警察局逮捕这一罪行的肇事者。

Women in the camps take precautions.

难民营中的妇女采取预防措施。 

They travel in groups to collect firewood and water and make sure one woman keeps watch while the others sleep.

他们成群结队地收集木柴和水，并确保一名妇女在其他妇女睡觉时保持警惕。 

But as climate change intensifies¹¹ in the region,

但随着该地区气候变化的加剧， 

the number of displaced women at risk of violence will only get worse.

面临暴力风险的流离失所妇女人数只会变得更多。 

Neha Wadekar for VOA news Sool region Somaliland

Neha Wadekar为美国之音新闻索马里兰Sool地区报道 

1 gender   

n.（生理上的）性，（名词、代词等的）性

参考例句：

• French differs from English in having gender for all nouns.法语不同于英语，所有的名词都有性。
• Women are sometimes denied opportunities solely because of their gender.妇女有时仅仅因为性别而无法获得种种机会。

2 livestock   

n.家畜，牲畜

参考例句：

• Both men and livestock are flourishing.人畜两旺。
• The heavy rains and flooding killed scores of livestock.暴雨和大水淹死了许多牲口。

3 physically   

adj.物质上，体格上，身体上，按自然规律

参考例句：

• He was out of sorts physically,as well as disordered mentally.他浑身不舒服，心绪也很乱。
• Every time I think about it I feel physically sick.一想起那件事我就感到极恶心。

4 outskirts   

n.郊外，郊区

参考例句：

• Our car broke down on the outskirts of the city.我们的汽车在市郊出了故障。
• They mostly live on the outskirts of a town.他们大多住在近郊。

5 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？

6 workforce   

n.劳动大军，劳动力

参考例句：

• A large part of the workforce is employed in agriculture.劳动人口中一大部分受雇于农业。
• A quarter of the local workforce is unemployed.本地劳动力中有四分之一失业。

7 explicit   

adj.详述的，明确的；坦率的；显然的

参考例句：

• She was quite explicit about why she left.她对自己离去的原因直言不讳。
• He avoids the explicit answer to us.他避免给我们明确的回答。

8 oversees   

v.监督，监视( oversee的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

• She oversees both the research and the manufacturing departments. 她既监督研究部门又监督生产部门。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The Department of Education oversees the federal programs dealing with education. 教育部监管处理教育的联邦程序。 来自互联网

9 displacement   

n.移置，取代，位移，排水量

参考例句：

• They said that time is the feeling of spatial displacement.他们说时间是空间位移的感觉。
• The displacement of all my energy into caring for the baby.我所有精力都放在了照顾宝宝上。

10 raped   

v.以暴力夺取，强夺( rape的过去式和过去分词 )；强奸

参考例句：

• A young woman was brutally raped in her own home. 一名年轻女子在自己家中惨遭强暴。 来自辞典例句
• We got stick together, or we will be having our women raped. 我们得团结一致，不然我们的妻女就会遭到蹂躏。 来自辞典例句

11 intensifies   

n.（使）增强， （使）加剧( intensify的名词复数 )v.（使）增强， （使）加剧( intensify的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

• A clear atmosphere intensifies the blue of the sky. 纯净的空气使天空变得更蓝。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Blowing on fire intensifies the heat. 吹火使热度加强。 来自《简明英汉词典》