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VOA慢速英语(翻译+字幕+讲解):教育活动家赞扬乌干达女孩的进步

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Award-winning Ugandan education activist Beatrice Ayuru says thousands of girls have reached her dream of a good education for Ugandan children.
获奖的乌干达教育活动人士比阿特丽斯·阿玉如说，数千名女孩已经实现自己的梦想，也就是让乌干达儿童获得良好的教育。

TED is a nonprofit group that works to share information and ideas by organizing short, public speeches.
TED是一个非盈利组织，致力于通过组织短小的公众演讲来分享信息和理念。

For her TED talk, Ms. Ayuru discussed her long and successful struggle to establish a school in a rural area of northern Uganda.
在她的TED讲话中，阿玉如谈到自己为在乌干达北部农村地区建立学校所做的长期、成功奋斗故事。

At the time, the rebel Lord's Resistance Army was terrorizing the area's population with murder, torture and child kidnappings.
当时，叛军“上帝抵抗军”用谋杀、酷刑和儿童绑架手段对该地区人民实行恐怖主义。

The story of Ms. Ayuru's activism begins in own childhood. She was one of 16 children in a polygamous family.
阿玉如的活动精神始于童年，她是一个一夫多妻制家庭16个孩子中的一员，

But she said the poverty and cultural barriers affecting women in her society worked against her.
但她说，当地社会的贫困和阻碍妇女的文化障碍对自己不利。

"I would say the environment shaped me a lot. Even while I felt I was going through hard moments, but others girls were worse than me.
“可以说环境在很大程度上塑造了我，即使我觉得自己在经历苦难时刻，但也有别的女孩处境更糟，

They were forced into early marriages. They were not given opportunity to be in school. It was a very painful life."
她们被迫早早结婚，没有上学的机会，这是终身的痛苦。”

She graduated from high school to become the first student from her school to gain admission to a national university.
她高中毕业后成为学校第一名被录取到国立大学的学生，

At age 19, Ms. Ayuru had just become the mother of the second of her six children. She had no money.
19岁那年，阿玉如有了第二个孩子，她总共生了6个孩子，

But her father gave her land. She says it was the need to support her children that made her work hard.
她没有钱，但她父亲给了她土地。她说是养活孩子的需要让她努力工作。

"I realized what I had was land. I am already teaching, but I am not earning salary, so I started with planting cassava.
“我意识到自己只有土地，我当时在教书，但没有挣工资，所以我开始种植木薯，

That was all I could afford, using my energy because I could not employ people to do anything."
这是我所能做的，因为我无法雇佣别人来做事，只能靠自己的力气。”

Later, she opened some small businesses. Money from those and the cassava crop helped her build the school in 2000.
后来她开班了些小企业，从中挣的钱和木薯的收益帮助她在2009年开办了学校，

"During the war, we would always run with the children from school to the town to hide them.
“在战争期间，我们总是和孩子们从学校逃到镇上，把孩子们藏起来，

Then, during the day we collected them from town again to come and have lessons."
然后白天我们把他们从镇上接过来回来上课。”

In 2007, the LRA lost its fight for control of northern Uganda and fled the area.
2007年，“上帝抵抗军”在企图控制乌干达北部的战争中失败，

Beatrice Ayuru's school has been doing well ever since. It teaches 1,500 students from nursery through high school.
比阿特丽斯·阿玉如的学校自此开始运转良好，学校接收了从幼儿园到高中的1500名学生，

So the school gives financial help to 100 children who lack money but show promise.
所以学校给100名缺钱但有希望的学生提供资助。

Ms. Ayuru says having both sexes study together is important because it helps boys to respect girls.
阿玉如说男女同校很重要，能让男孩尊重女孩。

In 2009, the school founder took steps toward building a university. Beatrice Ayuru says she is getting closer to reaching her dream. I'm Jeri Watson.
2009年，这位办学者迈出了开办大学的步伐，阿玉如说她正一步步接近自己的梦想。我是杰瑞·沃森。

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1.But she said the poverty and cultural barriers affecting women in her society worked against her.

work against 对…不利；违背

Her testimony works against his chance of success as a politician.
她的证词使他作为一个政治家很难有成功的机会i#Pg0NkP(ee。

Some members of the other party are working against suggested changes in the law.
另一党派中的一些人极力反对修改法律的提议%)X_6wV%y=。

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poverty	['pɔvəti]	想一想再看 n. 贫困，贫乏
corn	[kɔ:n]	想一想再看 n. 谷物，小麦，玉米 v. 形成(颗粒状)，
environment	[in'vaiərənmənt]	想一想再看 n. 环境，外界
control	[kən'trəul]	想一想再看 n. 克制，控制，管制，操作装置 vt. 控制
resistance	[ri'zistəns]	想一想再看 n. 抵抗力，反抗，反抗行动;阻力，电阻;反对	联想记忆 X 单词resistance 联想记忆： re反＋sist站立+ance→反抗；抵抗力
population	[.pɔpju'leiʃən]	想一想再看 n. 人口，(全体)居民，人数	联想记忆 X 单词population 联想记忆： popul人民+ation→人口
spoke	[spəuk]	想一想再看 v. 说，说话，演说
politician	[.pɔli'tiʃən]	想一想再看 n. 政治家，政客	联想记忆 X 单词politician 联想记忆： polit国家，城市+ician人→爱国家之人→政客
testimony	['testiməni]	想一想再看 n. 证明，证据	联想记忆 X 单词testimony 联想记忆： testi＝testify（v 证明；作证），mony－证言
rebel	['rebəl]	想一想再看 n. 叛徒，起义者，反叛者 adj. 造反的，