万花筒 2011-12-12&12-14 美私立中学拒收艾滋生

 The Private Milton Hershey School, which is in the headlines tonight because it refused to admit a young honor student because he has the virus that causes Aids. Is this legal? Is it right? Here is ABC's Ron Claiborne. 

 

The Milton Hershey School was founded more than a hundred years ago to help underprivileged students, all bankrolled by the great Hershey chocolate empire. And when a 13-year-old boy was HIV applied¹, the school said he would not be admitted. The teenager, who does not want his identity revealed, spoke² to a local TV station in Philadelphia. 

 

I feel that no other teenager should go through this being denied just because they have HIV.

 

Tonight he told us in an email that his life has turned into fear, anger, confusion and tears. 

 

HIV is transmitted primarily through blood transfusion³ and sexual contact, never through casual everyday contact. The school says he was rejected because of the possibility that he might have unprotected sex. 

 

The disease that this child has poses a direct threat to the students.

 

Hershey is a private school, but is this legal? 

 

This kind of issue has been litigated over and over again for the last 30 years. And the defendants⁴, in this case, would be the Hershey school, never win. 

 

Legal analysts⁵ say a person can not be rejected even from a private school, simply because they are HIV positive. 

 

I think that this little boy is putting the entire campus at risk, what did they base that on? 

 

The boy's family is suing, demanding the school admitting him. Tonight the boy told us, he can never get the outcome he wants which he says it's not to feel the way people have made him fear. 

 

Ron Claiborne, ABC news, New York.

1 applied   

adj.应用的；v.应用，适用

参考例句：

• She plans to take a course in applied linguistics.她打算学习应用语言学课程。
• This cream is best applied to the face at night.这种乳霜最好晚上擦脸用。

2 spoke   

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 transfusion   

n.输血，输液

参考例句：

• She soon came to her senses after a blood transfusion.输血后不久她就苏醒了。
• The doctor kept him alive by a blood transfusion.医生靠输血使他仍然活着。

4 defendants   

被告( defendant的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The courts heard that the six defendants had been coerced into making a confession. 法官审判时发现6位被告人曾被迫承认罪行。
• As in courts, the defendants are represented by legal counsel. 与法院相同，被告有辩护律师作为代表。 来自英汉非文学 - 政府文件

5 analysts   

分析家，化验员( analyst的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• City analysts forecast huge profits this year. 伦敦金融分析家预测今年的利润非常丰厚。
• I was impressed by the high calibre of the researchers and analysts. 研究人员和分析人员的高素质给我留下了深刻印象。