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胡敏读故事记托福词汇 第226期:A unique undergraduate

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胡敏读故事记托福词汇 第226期:A unique undergraduate

Instead of going directly into undergraduate school, I decided to spend a year in an underdeveloped country.

我决定不直接上大学,而是花一年时间去个不发达国家。

I'm not exactly sure why I decided to undergo this unusual experience.

我不能完全肯定为什么决定去经历这种不同寻常的体验。

I suppose I felt a certain underlying guilt about being from such a developed country and this undertaking was a way for me to undo that guilt.

我认为我当时对自己来自这样一个发达的国家感到某种潜在的内疚,这个任务是我消除内疚的一种方式。

The section of the country in which I worked was racked with unimaginable poverty.

我所工作的地方饱受贫穷之苦,其贫穷之程度令人难以想象。

Part of the reason for this was that just five years before the land had been uninhabited.

部分原因是,五年前,这里还是杳无人迹。

But the real reason was that the central government had failed to undertake any real effort to unify the country.

但真正的原因是,中央政府没有做出任何统一国家的真正努力。

The racial make-up of the country was not uniform.

该国的种族构成并不单一。

Unfortunately, this often resulted in unfair discrimination.

不幸的是,这种情况经常造成不公正的歧视。

Goods and services were unevenly distributed among the population.

人口中商品和服务分配不均。

The corrupt government undoubtedly underscored such practices when it uniformly declared that

腐败的政府无疑使这种情况变得更为严重,它一贯宣布,

anyone attempting to undermine the current regime would be imprisoned.

任何人如果试图破坏现行体制将入狱。

Underlying this proclamation was dirty politics.

支持这一声明出台的是肮脏的政治。

However, the government underestimated the power of the masses.

但是,政府低估了民众的力量。

Many underground activist organizations began to spread far and wide throughout the country.

许多地下激进组织开始遍及全国。

Acting in uniformity with one another,

他们彼此统一行动,

they unearthed evidence of human rights violations and passed the information on to foreign journalists.

寻找破坏人权的证据,把信息传递给外国记者。

As evidence of massacres and corrupt government administration eventually unfolded,

当大屠杀和政府管理腐败的证据最终公开,

the government, under international pressure, began to act in accordance with international standards of law.

政府在国际压力下开始遵循国际的法律标准。

I worked with many of the common poor on fishing boats, helping to catch underwater deep-sea fish.

我和许多贫困的平民在渔船上工作,帮他们捕捞水下的深海鱼类。

I saw some gradual changes take place while I was there,

我当时在那里时看到一些缓慢的变化,

but I am now glad to learn that more sweeping changes have taken place.

而现在我高兴地获悉那里已经出现了更为全面的变化。

I will soon receive my undergraduate degree in social work and I plan to visit the country again.

不久我将获得社会福利工作领域的本科学位,我计划再次访问该国。

 

重点词汇

discrimination[di.skrimi'neiʃən]

n. 歧视,辨别力,识别

acting['æktiŋ]

n. 演戏,行为,假装 adj. 代理的,临时的,供演出

underestimated[,ʌndə'estimeit]

vt. 低估;看轻 n. 低估

corrupt[kə'rʌpt]

adj. 腐败的,堕落的
vt. 使 ...

uniformity[.ju:ni'fɔ:miti]

n. 同样,一致

evidence['evidəns]

n. 根据,证据
v. 证实,证明

social['səuʃəl]

adj. 社会的,社交的
n. 社交聚会

underlying[.ʌndə'laiiŋ]

adj. 在下面的,基本的,隐含的

pressure['preʃə]

n. 压力,压强,压迫
v. 施压

unify['ju:nifai]

vt. 统一

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