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联合国警告:流离失所的阿富汗人呈现不断恶化的局势

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UN Warns of Worsening Situation for Displaced1 Afghans 联合国警告:流离失所的阿富汗人呈现不断恶化的局势

Hundreds of thousands of Afghans have been displaced from their homes because of continuing violence in the country.

They face severe hardship as the country’s harsh2 winter approaches.

The United Nations calls these people “internally-displaced persons.” They include both those who fled their homes and those forced to return to Afghanistan from neighboring countries. The UN says more than one million people will be in this situation by the end of the year.

VOA spoke3 with some of the refugees4. VOA learned that many of them are helped for just one month. Those who have been displaced for longer than that struggle to find help. Noor Mohammed is one of them.

"I've been here from Sangin for seven or eight years because there is war there. We have no facilities here. Look, these kids are playing in the dirt. They don't go to school - there are no health facilities. Winter is coming and we have nothing to deal with it."

Most of those at risk are women and children. International aid groups believe they are vulnerable5 to harm, including women like Najeeba.

“The government is not helping6 us at all. They’ve just left us in these tents without any facilities.”

The U.N. has warned that the number of Afghans displaced from their homes because of war may increase by the end of the year. But the amount of help is growing smaller as the number of refugees rises.

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facility – n. something (such as a building or large piece of equipment) that is built for a specific purpose

vulnerable – adj. open to attack or harm


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1 displaced 80a237e34fd2de4119d9d640b29506b6     
移动( displace的过去式和过去分词 ); 替换; 移走; 撤职
参考例句:
  • Gradually factory workers have been displaced by machines. 工厂的工人已逐渐被机器取代。
  • He was displaced by another young man. 他已被另一个年轻人顶替。
2 harsh XdDzu     
adj.严厉(酷)的,刺耳的,刺目的,毛糙的
参考例句:
  • The sunlight is very harsh.太阳光很刺眼。
  • Although his words are harsh,there is positiveness in them.虽然他的话很苛刻,但有建设性。
3 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。
4 refugees ddb3b28098e40c0f584eafcd38f1fbd4     
n.避难者,难民( refugee的名词复数 )
参考例句:
  • The UN has begun making airdrops of food to refugees. 联合国已开始向难民空投食物。
  • They claimed they were political refugees and not economic migrants. 他们宣称自己是政治难民,不是经济移民。
5 vulnerable 4hAwN     
adj.易受伤的,脆弱的,易受攻击的
参考例句:
  • He volunteered to protect her as she looked so vulnerable.她看上去很脆弱,他就主动去保护她。
  • The company is in an economically vulnerable position.该公司目前经济状况不稳定。
6 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。

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