(单词翻译:单击)
听力文本
From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Report.
Even though Malaria can be both prevented and treated, the disease is the third biggest killer of children in the world. Malaria is caused by bites from insects called mosquitoes. People who sleep in beds covered by special nets are less likely to be infected. When the nets are used correctly, they prevent the flying insects from biting people as they sleep.
Primary school students learned about malaria during this year's universal bed net distribution.
Susan Eckhart is a Peace Corps volunteer in the Western African country of Burkina Faso. Malaria is responsible for about 9,000 deaths there every year.
"Malaria is everywhere. People live with it just as we live with a common cold. They blame everything on Malaria. They are not aware of how it is transmitted. They have become reliant on treatment better than prevention."
As soon as someone reports a high body temperature, they are given medicine to treat Malaria. Ms Eckhart says Malaria medicine is used at the first sign of sickness because it costs less than the test to identify the disease. There is a lot of misunderstanding about Malaria and a lack of good information.
"They do get a lot of information about illnesses that confuse them all, so they are not sure if they are talking about Cholera or Malaria or AIDS."
In 2011, the Peace Corps launched Stomp Out Malaria in Africa. Peace Corps volunteers are trained so they can be directly involved in education to prevent Malaria. Ms Eckhart is one of the volunteers who presents lessons in fun ways that will help the children remember.
"The one with most fun was a tag game where two kids play the roles of mosquitoes and if they tagged someone, that person became infected and had to sit down."
Susan Eckhart teaches students from first grade through fifth grade. Older children who had attended a leadership camp came to help with the games. The older children also translated the Malaria information into the local Dagaare language.
"One of our volunteers wrote a very good song to the tone of 'We will, We will rock you', as the hint came out is - we can stop malaria with stomping and clapping. And the kids just love it."
Children also acted in short plays and wrote and sang songs about malaria.
"We are living in the villages with the villagers, and we can introduce these subjects, you know, in a casual conversation of a calabash of the local beer."
It is too soon to tell how much of the important information in the songs and games it shared with families. But Susan Eckhart says using Peace Corps volunteers to spread the word on preventing Malaria is a good idea. Being part of the community means sharing knowledge, she adds, especially about something as important as Malaria.
And that's the Health Report. You can find more information atwww.stompoutmalaria.org. This is Learning English from the Voice of America in Washington. I'm Jim Tedder.
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词汇解释
1.mosquito n. 蚊子
Are your mosquito bites still itching?
你被蚊子咬的地方还痒吗?
2.transmit vt. 传输；传播；发射；传达；遗传 vi. 传输；发射信号
This is currently the most efficient way to transmit certain types of data like electronic mail.
这是目前传输电子邮件等某类数据最有效的方法。
3.tag game 追拍游戏
内容解析
1. They blame everything on Malaria. They are not aware of how it is transmitted.
blame on 把责任推给…；怪到…头上
The police blame the accident on the driver who was attempting to pass.
警方把事故的责任归咎于当时极力驶过去的司机。
She'll put the blame on us if it turns out badly.
如果这件事结果不好，她会怪我们的。
参考译文
这里是美国之音慢速英语健康报道。
尽管疟疾即可预防，又能治愈，但却是全世界儿童的第三大杀手。疟疾由蚊子叮咬引发，睡在有特殊蚊帐的床上就不那么容易感染疟疾，正确地使用蚊帐就能防止蚊子在人睡着时叮咬。
苏珊·艾克哈特是和平工作团在西非国家布基纳法索的志愿者，该国每年有约9000人因疟疾死亡。
“疟疾无处不在，人们看待疟疾就像我们看待普通感冒一样，他们把什么都归咎到疟疾上。没有意识到疟疾是如何传播的，他们更依赖于治疗，而不是预防。”
只要有人显示高烧，就会给人们治疗疟疾的药。艾克哈特女士说，人们一有生病迹象就用疟疾药，因为这样可以以最低的成本来确诊疟疾。关于疟疾有很多误解，也缺少正确的信息。
“人们获得了大量让他们混淆的疾病的信息，所以他们不知道自己谈的究竟是霍乱、疟疾还是艾滋。”
2011年，和平工作团在非洲发起了“消除疟疾”项目，和平工作团的志愿者们接受培训，这样就能直接参与到预防疟疾的教育中去。艾克哈特女士就是志愿者之一，她采用有趣的讲课方式来让孩子们记住。
“最有趣的的一个就是两个孩子扮演蚊子的角色，如果拍到了谁，这人就感染了，就必须坐下来。”
苏珊·艾克哈特教一到五年级的学生，参加过领袖训练营的大孩子们来帮助组织游戏，大孩子们还将疟疾信息翻译为当地的Dagaare语。
“我们的一位志愿者写了一首很好的歌曲‘'We will, We will rock you’，意思是我们可以通过跺脚和拍手的方式来消灭疟疾，孩子们很喜欢它。”
孩子们还表演短剧，创作和歌唱有关疟疾的歌曲。
“我们和村民们一起在村子里生活，我们能在随意喝当地啤酒的谈话中引入这些话题。”
现在要说这些歌曲和游戏给当地人带去多少重要信息还为时过早，但苏珊·艾克哈特说利用和平工作团的志愿者来传播预防疟疾的知识是个好主意。成为社区的一员意味着分享知识，尤其是像疟疾这么重要的知识。
这就是健康报道，你可登陆www.stompoutmalaria.org获得更多信息，这里是美国之音慢速英语节目，我是吉姆·特德。点击此处下载本期VOA慢速新闻讲解PDF与音频字幕
