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环球英语 — 443:Hair in the Eye

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  Voice 1
Welcome to Spotlight1. I’m Joshua Leo
Voice 2
And I’m Liz Waid. Spotlight uses a special English method of broadcasting. It is easier for people to understand no matter where in the world they live.
Voice 1
When she was six years old, Enatnesh had to make a choice. She had to choose to live with her father or mother – because they divorced. Her father had a job. He could support her. But Enatnesh’s mother needed her help. Her mother had trouble seeing and could not work. Enatnesh chose to live with her mother. She chose to care for her mother. Enatnesh is now sixteen years old. She spoke2 about her choice:
Voice 3
“If I had not gone with her she would have died. No one was there to even give her a glass of water.”
Voice 2
Enatnesh’s mother suffers from trachoma. This disease affects a person’s eyes. It is common in Ethiopia where Enatnesh and her mother live. In this area of Ethiopia, trachoma is called “hair in the eye”. Trachoma is caused by bacteria. These bacteria affect the skin on the inside of the eyelid3, the skin covering the eye. The bacteria damage the eyelids4. After time the skin becomes thicker. The eyes hurt and leak tears. If a person becomes infected many times, her eyelids start to turn in, towards the eye. This is what causes the worst damage.
Voice 1
When a person’s eyelids turn in, the eyelash hairs start to touch and damage the person’s eyes. People say that it feels like sharp points being pulled across the eye. Eyes are very sensitive. When they are damaged or cut they do heal, but they are never the same. They become cloudy. Images start to look soft. After many years of being infected, a person can become blind.
Voice 2
But how do people get this disease? Well the bacteria can travel on any surface that touches a person’s eyes. Flying insects, such as flies, can also carry the bacteria. Suppose a fly lands on the face of an infected person. Fluid from that person’s eyes gets onto the fly. The fly then lands on a new person’s face and so spreads the bacteria.
Voice 1
In Ethiopia, children are the most infected. And because women care for the children, women are three times more likely to become infected than men. Babies and small children cannot keep the infected flies away from their eyes. And mothers with infected children often become infected themselves by touching5 their children’s eyes or other infected objects.
Voice 2
Poor people are most at risk of getting trachoma. In poor areas it is difficult to get medicine to treat the disease. It is difficult to get soap for cleaning surfaces. And after a person’s eyelids turn inwards, the only solution is an eyelid operation. This can also be costly6 for the people.
Voice 1
A million Ethiopian people need this eye surgery. But in this country of seventy million people there are only seventy six [76] eye doctors. Most of these doctors live in the country’s capital city, Addis Ababa. People in poor faraway areas cannot reach these doctors. But some groups see this problem and are trying to help.
Voice 2
In 2007, 60,000 people in Ethiopia got the surgery. Aid groups paid for each one of these operations. But these eyelid surgeries were not performed by Ethiopian eye doctors. Aid groups such as the Carter Center, and Christian7 Blind Mission paid for government health workers to learn how to do the surgery. The workers trained from two to four weeks to learn the surgery. They then travelled to villages around the country to perform the treatment.
Voice 1
But these surgeries do not cure the problem. The surgery only stops the eyelashes from damaging a person’s eyes. So the aid groups have a plan to help slow the spread of trachoma. They also try to help people who already have trachoma by making the effects less. The plan is called SAFE. It stands for Surgery, Antibiotics8, Face washing, and Environmental change. Surgery is done by the government health workers and paid for by the aid groups. Antibiotics are medicines. They are often given free by western medicine companies. These medicines help to heal the damage to the eyelids and reduce pain. Face washing is important to stop trachoma from spreading on people’s hands and faces. The aid groups help to provide soap for washing and to teach villagers how best to wash. And finally the aid groups help make changes in the village to slow the spread of trachoma. One of the most important changes is stopping flies.
Voice 2
Keeping flies out of people’s homes is important, but reducing the number of flies is even more important. One of the main ways the aid groups do this is by creating toilets. Many villages do not have separate toilets. They put human waste out in the open, away from the village. The flies lay most their eggs in this waste. But aid workers found that the flies do not like laying their eggs in waste that is in latrines – in toilets dug into the ground. So the aid groups are helping9 villages to build latrines.
Voice 1
Aid groups are also helping reduce the number of flies by catching10 them. They do this with a very simple trap. The trap is made from two plastic bottles. The bottom of the trap contains animal waste, and the top is empty. The flies enter to bottom of the trap to find the waste. When they have finished feeding, they enter the top of the trap but cannot escape. Before, reducing the number of flies required costly chemicals. But these fly traps can be made by children in schools using waste bottles! The aid groups hope that by reducing the number of flies, they will also reduce the cases of trachoma.
Voice 2
The World Health Organization estimates that over seventy million people around the world need treatment for trachoma. Resources are limited to fight trachoma. But the WHO believes that if governments and aid groups continue to work together, blindness because of trachoma can be stopped by the year 2020.
Voice 1
The Christian Blind Mission is a group working with the WHO. They have been fighting blindness around the world for one hundred years. This Christian group follows the example of Jesus Christ. When Jesus was on earth, he cared for many people who were sick and poor. He even healed the blind. The Christian Blind Mission wants to serve the sick and poor as Jesus did.
 


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1 spotlight 6hBzmk     
n.公众注意的中心,聚光灯,探照灯,视听,注意,醒目
参考例句:
  • This week the spotlight is on the world of fashion.本周引人瞩目的是时装界。
  • The spotlight followed her round the stage.聚光灯的光圈随着她在舞台上转。
2 spoke XryyC     
n.(车轮的)辐条;轮辐;破坏某人的计划;阻挠某人的行动 v.讲,谈(speak的过去式);说;演说;从某种观点来说
参考例句:
  • They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
  • The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。
3 eyelid zlcxj     
n.眼睑,眼皮
参考例句:
  • She lifted one eyelid to see what he was doing.她抬起一只眼皮看看他在做什么。
  • My eyelid has been tumid since yesterday.从昨天起,我的眼皮就肿了。
4 eyelids 86ece0ca18a95664f58bda5de252f4e7     
n.眼睑( eyelid的名词复数 );眼睛也不眨一下;不露声色;面不改色
参考例句:
  • She was so tired, her eyelids were beginning to droop. 她太疲倦了,眼睑开始往下垂。
  • Her eyelids drooped as if she were on the verge of sleep. 她眼睑低垂好像快要睡着的样子。 来自《简明英汉词典》
5 touching sg6zQ9     
adj.动人的,使人感伤的
参考例句:
  • It was a touching sight.这是一幅动人的景象。
  • His letter was touching.他的信很感人。
6 costly 7zXxh     
adj.昂贵的,价值高的,豪华的
参考例句:
  • It must be very costly to keep up a house like this.维修这么一幢房子一定很昂贵。
  • This dictionary is very useful,only it is a bit costly.这本词典很有用,左不过贵了些。
7 Christian KVByl     
adj.基督教徒的;n.基督教徒
参考例句:
  • They always addressed each other by their Christian name.他们总是以教名互相称呼。
  • His mother is a sincere Christian.他母亲是个虔诚的基督教徒。
8 antibiotics LzgzQT     
n.(用作复数)抗生素;(用作单数)抗生物质的研究;抗生素,抗菌素( antibiotic的名词复数 )
参考例句:
  • the discovery of antibiotics in the 20th century 20世纪抗生素的发现
  • The doctor gave me a prescription for antibiotics. 医生给我开了抗生素。
9 helping 2rGzDc     
n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的,辅助的
参考例句:
  • The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
  • By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。
10 catching cwVztY     
adj.易传染的,有魅力的,迷人的,接住
参考例句:
  • There are those who think eczema is catching.有人就是认为湿疹会传染。
  • Enthusiasm is very catching.热情非常富有感染力。
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