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As Sudan enters its 5th week of conflict, thousands cross into neighboring Chad

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Thousands of refugees are crossing Sudan's western border into Chad, fleeing escalating² violence. Aid workers are hastily coordinating³ basic necessities as the rainy season approaches.

A MART?NEZ, HOST:

As Sudan enters its fifth week of conflict, there is no sign to an end to the violence. An agreement to open up a humanitarian⁴ corridor has not held, and the fighting has escalated⁵. Thousands of people have crossed into neighboring Chad. NPR Africa correspondent Emmanuel Akinwotu sent us this postcard.

EMMANUEL AKINWOTU, BYLINE⁶: I'm here in Farchana. That's a remote town near the border with Sudan. And I've been here with U.N. agencies and other aid groups who are rapidly trying to support the fast-growing numbers of refugees who've been crossing over the border into Chad. I've been traveling alongside NGOs and trucks of aid supplies, driving for hours through difficult remote routes to the border, escorted by Chadian soldiers.

EUJIN BYUN: My name is Eujin Byun. I'm a spokesperson for UNHCR, U.N. Refugee Agency. The water is so urgently needed, as well as the shelter. And everyone at the moment that - they are sheltering under tree just to avoid the sun and are hot. But you can imagine they just bring anything they can - the branch, and then just covering themselves with scarf.

AKINWOTU: Aid workers are rapidly trying to monitor and provide support at about 14 camps, which already existed, near the border with Sudan and new ones that are now forming.

BYUN: What worries UNHCR the most - that the raining season is coming. The raining season will cause more difficulty for humanitarian agency to bring aid.

AKINWOTU: About 60,000 Sudanese people have fled here to Chad in the last month. About half of that number have arrived in the last week alone. We heard of cases of children coming by themselves, even.

BYUN: This is, indeed, the children's crisis because you see thousand and thousand in children and also the thousand of thousand of orphan⁷ coming by themself. It's not their first time of displacement⁸.

AKINWOTU: The speed of the refugees crossing this porous⁹ border tells you something about just how intense this conflict has been in Darfur. That's where they fled from, and that's the site of the devastating¹⁰ war 20 years ago, which has shaped that region up until now.

MART?NEZ: That was NPR's Emmanuel Akinwotu reporting from Chad.

1 transcript   

n.抄本，誊本，副本，肄业证书

参考例句：

• A transcript of the tapes was presented as evidence in court.一份录音带的文字本作为证据被呈交法庭。
• They wouldn't let me have a transcript of the interview.他们拒绝给我一份采访的文字整理稿。

2 escalating   

v.（使）逐步升级( escalate的现在分词 )；（使）逐步扩大；（使）更高；（使）更大

参考例句：

• The cost of living is escalating. 生活费用在迅速上涨。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The cost of living is escalating in the country. 这个国家的生活费用在上涨。 来自辞典例句

3 coordinating   

v.使协调，使调和( coordinate的现在分词 )；协调；协同；成为同等

参考例句：

• He abolished the Operations Coordinating Board and the Planning Board. 他废除了行动协调委员会和计划委员会。 来自辞典例句
• He's coordinating the wedding, and then we're not going to invite him? 他是来协调婚礼的，难道我们不去请他？ 来自电影对白

4 humanitarian   

n.人道主义者，博爱者，基督凡人论者

参考例句：

• She has many humanitarian interests and contributes a lot to them.她拥有很多慈善事业，并作了很大的贡献。
• The British government has now suspended humanitarian aid to the area.英国政府现已暂停对这一地区的人道主义援助。

5 escalated   

v.（使）逐步升级( escalate的过去式和过去分词 )；（使）逐步扩大；（使）更高；（使）更大

参考例句：

• The fighting escalated into a full-scale war. 这场交战逐步扩大为全面战争。
• The demonstration escalated into a pitched battle with the police. 示威逐步升级，演变成了一场同警察的混战。

6 byline   

n.署名；v.署名

参考例句：

• His byline was absent as well.他的署名也不见了。
• We wish to thank the author of this article which carries no byline.我们要感谢这篇文章的那位没有署名的作者。

7 orphan   

n.孤儿；adj.无父母的

参考例句：

• He brought up the orphan and passed onto him his knowledge of medicine.他把一个孤儿养大，并且把自己的医术传给了他。
• The orphan had been reared in a convent by some good sisters.这个孤儿在一所修道院里被几个好心的修女带大。

8 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。

9 porous   

adj.可渗透的，多孔的

参考例句：

• He added sand to the soil to make it more porous.他往土里掺沙子以提高渗水性能。
• The shell has to be slightly porous to enable oxygen to pass in.外壳不得不有些细小的孔以便能使氧气通过。

10 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。