时间:2019-01-07 作者:英语课 分类:2006年VOA标准英语(十月)


英语课

By Gilbert da Costa
Abuja
29 October 2006


The United Nations, in collaboration 1 with the Nigerian government, has launched an ambitious girls' education program to boost gender 2 parity 3 in primary schools.  The program is focusing on the northern region, where girls' enrollment 5 is very low.


 






Girls stand outside their home in Todo village, near Ilorin, Nigeria


Girls stand outside their home in Todo village, near Ilorin, Nigeria



Millions of girls are expected to benefit from the initiative that supports key projects and activities, such as classroom construction and rehabilitation 6, procurement 7 of books, and educational campaigns to track and enroll 4 young girls.


 


Girls' education in northern Nigeria lags behind boys in basic literacy, perpetuating 8 a cycle of inequality and poverty that impedes 9 developing societies from achieving their full potential.


 


The program seeks to create a girl-friendly environment in school as the first step, as Mohammed Jallo of UNICEF explains.


 


"We found out that, one of the reasons parents do not want to send their girls to school is that they believed conditions in the schools are not girl-friendly," said Jallo. "For example, most of the schools do not have toilet facilities, separate ones for boys and girls. So, we go to the schools, and we help provide toilet facilities, separate ones for boys and girls. We provide bore holes, so that the children can have access to water during the time they are in school. We also help in the provision of books. We assist in the training of teachers to improve their skills and competencies. We also support in the supervision 10 of teachers, and we also help in some logistics. We advocate with governors and chairmen to provide additional support, in terms of posting of teachers to the schools, especially female teachers."


 


The initiative is addressing deep-seated cultural and religious challenges, such as forced marriages.


 


Most states in Muslim-dominated northern Nigeria have adopted strict Islamic sharia law, which many analysts 11 see as an additional gender barrier to education.


 


UNICEF recruits local community support to overcome barriers and reverse long-held misconceptions about girls' education. Jallo says religious and political leaders are included.


 


"We have been able to support the formation of what we call school-based management committees, getting parents and community members involved in doing the mobilization at the community level," he added. "So, they are the ones now going to the individual households, identify children who are out of schools, and educating and sensitizing the parents and encouraging them to send their children to school. And we are seeing enrollment increasing. And with the recent campaigns, because the governors and chairmen and religious leaders, the emirs going out and talking to parents, and even doing the registration 12 themselves, and that adds another level of motivation."


 


UNICEF is providing $47 million for the first phase of the project, with additional funding from the Nigerian and British governments.



n.合作,协作;勾结
  • The two companies are working in close collaboration each other.这两家公司密切合作。
  • He was shot for collaboration with the enemy.他因通敌而被枪毙了。
n.(生理上的)性,(名词、代词等的)性
  • French differs from English in having gender for all nouns.法语不同于英语,所有的名词都有性。
  • Women are sometimes denied opportunities solely because of their gender.妇女有时仅仅因为性别而无法获得种种机会。
n.平价,等价,比价,对等
  • The two currencies have now reached parity.这两种货币现已达到同等价值。
  • Women have yet to achieve wage or occupational parity in many fields.女性在很多领域还没能争取到薪金、职位方面的平等。
v.招收;登记;入学;参军;成为会员(英)enrol
  • I should like to enroll all my children in the swimming class.我愿意让我的孩子们都参加游泳班。
  • They enroll him as a member of the club.他们吸收他为俱乐部会员。
n.注册或登记的人数;登记
  • You will be given a reading list at enrollment.注册时你会收到一份阅读书目。
  • I just got the enrollment notice from Fudan University.我刚刚接到复旦大学的入学通知书。
n.康复,悔过自新,修复,复兴,复职,复位
  • He's booked himself into a rehabilitation clinic.他自己联系了一家康复诊所。
  • No one can really make me rehabilitation of injuries.已经没有人可以真正令我的伤康复了。
n.采购;获得
  • He is in charge of the procurement of materials.他负责物资的采购。
  • More and more,human food procurement came to have a dominant effect on their evolution.人类获取食物愈来愈显著地影响到人类的进化。
perpetuate的现在进行式
  • Revenge leads to a self-perpetuating cycle of violence. 怨怨相报会导致永不休止的暴力。
  • It'set out to eradicate heresy, and ended by perpetuating it. 它的目的只是要根除异端邪说,结果却巩固了异端邪说。 来自英汉文学
阻碍,妨碍,阻止( impede的第三人称单数 )
  • High packing density greatly impedes the cooling of the array. 高存贮密度很不利于阵列的散热。
  • The inflexibility of the country's labor market seriously impedes its economic recovery. 该国劳工市场缺乏灵活性,这严重阻碍了它的经济恢复。
n.监督,管理
  • The work was done under my supervision.这项工作是在我的监督之下完成的。
  • The old man's will was executed under the personal supervision of the lawyer.老人的遗嘱是在律师的亲自监督下执行的。
分析家,化验员( analyst的名词复数 )
  • 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。
n.登记,注册,挂号
  • Marriage without registration is not recognized by law.法律不承认未登记的婚姻。
  • What's your registration number?你挂的是几号?
学英语单词
a living document
abettor
across-the-board rule
adverbializing
aethrioscope
air-to-air missiles
an endangered species
animates
anti-creasing finish
axe stone
balance of payments
barrel printer
beam approach
Boaco, Dep.de
Bosanques law
brighton system
Cangzhou
care killed a cat
conical beam
contact panel
continuous casting
crossbelts
customer database
damage to machinery
dipped joint
Driselase
ebullated bed reactor
extradimensional
feldspathide (feldspathoid)
fixed tread type
Fort Gardel
gas steel pipe
get the pink slip
gin berry
glue off
gram atoms
granmas
gravitational method
guide lip
heat rashes
heterosynaptic
Higher bid
hygrostat
hyperinstantons
industrial and commercial surtax
instrument repair
international development associations
lesene
Little Rhody
maple cream
Martynovo
MDR (memory data register)
mendax
minimax estimation
moppet
natural-gas liquid
nemoura formosana
nonresolvable
oleosity
over-shot buffer
passivated surface
percent husked rice in paddy returns to sheller
Periyakulam
photoerythema
Phyllosticta
polycrystallite
Polygonatum kingianum
preganglionic
priming oil
procyclidene hydrochloride
pseudocoelomate
pycnogenoltm
red tapes
rob
rope joint
Schistopody
sehem
sensitive color plate
shifting plank
SMSA
sodium vapour
spermaster
square-shouldered
stalk extractor
taxidermists
telarche
tender of issue
tetranortriterpenoids
the shakers
thermoelectric crystal
Thourotte
total costing
trade-off relation
transfer of portfolio
triangular bone of tarsus
trigonal class
Twp.
Union Vale
valeriana amurensis p.smirn.
valve (hydraulic)
wind water-lifting set
wpn