132 阿富汗难民处境日益艰险

 132 阿富汗难民处境日益艰险

Afghan Refugees Face Increasing Hostility
Lisa Schlein
Geneva
10 Jul 2001 16:52 UTC

There are at least four-million 1)refugees from Afghanistan spread out around the world, more than from any other country. Officials at the U.N. refugee agency are concerned about growing 2)hostility to the refugees in many countries.
The U.N. refugee agency says as conditions continue to deteriorate¹ in Afghanistan, many Afghan refugees are being forced to seek 3)asylum² in far away countries because the countries nearer to home are less and less willing to accept them. UNHCR Spokesman Rupert Colville says last year, Afghans applied³ for asylum in at least 68-countries around the world. He says the number of Afghans seeking asylum in Europe has almost doubled in two-years.
Last year, Mr. Colville says 34,000 applied for asylum. But he says not many countries welcome them. "Unfortunately, when they arrive in the richer industrialized countries, Afghans, along with other asylum seekers, face an ever-increasing 4)barricade of exclusionary⁴ measures," he say. They also face an "increasingly hostile environment where all asylum seekers as a group, including ones like Afghans, which contain a large number of refugees, are 5)stigmatized as 6)bogus and as basically a group of unwanted people."
Mr. Colville says the six countries bordering Afghanistan have all closed their borders to the refugees. And he says there are reports of Afghan refugees being 7)deported from both Pakistan and Iran. "In Iran, a strict new law forbidding employers to use foreign labor⁵ has resulted in thousands of Afghans losing their jobs. I would stress that not all of these are necessarily refugees, but some of them certainly would be," he says. "But perhaps even more alarming is that this appears to have 8)unleashed a wave of violence against Afghan refugees in Iran. And UNHCR has received a number of reports of physical attacks against Afghans in various parts of the country."
Despite the terrible conditions in Afghanistan, Mr. Colville says many of the refugees would be willing to return to areas where there is no fighting. But he says international 9)donors are even showing 10)reluctance to fund 11)repatriation programs.

(1) refugee[refjJ:5dVi:; (?@) 5refjJdVi:]n.难民, 流亡者
(2) hostility[hR5stIlItI]n.敌意, 恶意, 不友善, 敌对
(3) asylum[E5saIlEm]n.庇护, 收容所, 救济院
(4) barricade[bArI5keId]v.设路障n.路障
(5) stigmatize[5stI^mEtaIz]vt.打烙印, 诬蔑
(6) bogus[5bEJ^Es]adj.<美>假的, 伪造的
(7) deport[dI5pC:t]vt.举止, 驱逐
(8) unleash[Qn5li:F]v.释放
(9) donor[5dEJnE(r)]n.捐赠人
(10) reluctance[rI5lQktEns]n.不愿, 勉强
(11) repatriation[9ri:pAtrI`eIFEn,-peI-]n.遣送回国, 归国

 

1 deteriorate   

v.变坏；恶化；退化

参考例句：

• Do you think relations between China and Japan will continue to deteriorate?你认为中日关系会继续恶化吗？
• He held that this would only cause the situation to deteriorate further.他认为，这只会使局势更加恶化。

2 asylum   

n.避难所，庇护所，避难

参考例句：

• The people ask for political asylum.人们请求政治避难。
• Having sought asylum in the West for many years,they were eventually granted it.他们最终获得了在西方寻求多年的避难权。

3 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。

4 exclusionary   

adj.排斥（性）的，排除在外的

参考例句：

• Play not finish, uncle fidgeting, cut exclusionary. 戏未演完，叔父坐立不安，仓皇退席。 来自互联网
• Procecutor: I am asking you to recognize the absurdity of the exclusionary rule. 检察官：我是在请求您认识到这个排除规则的荒谬性。 来自互联网

5 labor   

n.劳动，努力，工作，劳工；分娩；vi.劳动，努力，苦干；vt.详细分析；麻烦

参考例句：

• We are never late in satisfying him for his labor.我们从不延误付给他劳动报酬。
• He was completely spent after two weeks of hard labor.艰苦劳动两周后，他已经疲惫不堪了。