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听力文本
From VOA Learning English, this is the Agriculture Report.
The International Committee of the Red Cross is giving seeds and farm equipment to people in the Central African Republic (C.A.R.). The ICRC says families who fled rebel clashes in the area need the aid. Without the aid they may not survive. Other families have returned to their homes, but the clashes have destroyed their farms and grain storage buildings.
The clashes began in March 2013, when the mostly Muslim Seleka rebel group overthrew the president. The mostly Christian anti-Balaka group then attacked the Seleka group. Since then, the ongoing clashes have displaced more than one million people in the country. Tens of thousands of others have fled the area.
FILE - Women come back from the fields to sell vegetables at a market near the internally displacement camp close to the airport in Bangui.
The ICRC aid program targets more than 30 villages in the western part of country. It will give supplies to more than 13,000 people.
Jean-Francois Sangsue leads the ICRC office in the C.A.R. He says the ICRC is working with the Central African Red Cross to give agricultural aid to people who have been victims of attacks by armed groups since the end of last year. He says their fields were burned, and the rebels took everything from their homes, so the ICRC decided to help them plant new crops.
The ICRC says each family will get bags of bean, sesame and corn seeds, as well as farm tools. More than 2.5 million residents already need immediate humanitarian aid. The clashes caused poor harvests in 2013 and the country has little food.
The Food and Agricultural Organization reports about 95 percent of the country's communities say they will not have enough seeds for this year's planting season. Mr Sangsue says the low seeds supply could increase the number of people facing hunger.
He says people must be helped to return to their homes and begin growing crops. He says he hopes that in four or five months, people will be able to harvest their crops.
Mr Sangsue says as families wait for the crops to grow, the ICRC will work with its partners to give food aid. The organizations will help both those who have returned to their homes and those who remain in the country but can't go back to their farms.
And that's the Agriculture Report from VOA Learning English. I'm Christopher Cruise.
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词汇解释
1.displace v. 取代；置换；转移；把…免职；排水；移置，移开，迁移，转移，(尤指)迫使(某人)离开家园(或祖国)，使离乡背井；使搬迁：
Those resources can displace nuclear power.
那些能源能取代核能。
2.sesame n. 芝麻
A sesame stalk puts forth blossoms notch by notch, higher and higher.
芝麻开花节节高。
3.grain n. 粮食；颗粒；[作物] 谷物；纹理 vi. 成谷粒 vt. 使成谷粒
Corn is America's most important grain.
玉米是美国最重要的谷物。
参考译文
这里是美国之音慢速英语农业报道。
国际红十字会(ICRC)正在向中非共和国人民提供种子和农业用具，ICRC称该地区逃避叛乱冲突的家庭需要这些援助，没有援助他们可能无法活下去。其他的家庭已经回到家园，但他们的农场和谷物储存间都已被毁。
这场冲突开始于2013年3月，当时主要是穆斯林的塞雷卡叛军组织推翻了总统，于是主要是基督徒的反塞雷卡组织袭击了塞雷卡组织。自那时起，持续不断的冲突使得100多万人流离失所，还有成千上万人已离开该地区。
ICRC援助组织帮助该国西部30多个村庄，将向1.3万多人提供设备。
让-弗朗西斯·桑苏是中非共和国ICRC办公室负责人，他说ICRC正和中非红十字合作，给自去年年底以来遭受武装组织袭击的人提供农业帮助。他说他们的农田已被烧，叛军洗劫了他们家里的一切，因此ICRC决定帮助他们种植新的作物。
ICRC说每个家庭都将得到一袋袋的大豆、芝麻和玉米种子，以及农具。250多万居民迫切需要人道主义援助，冲突使得2013年歉收，整个国家缺少食物。
粮农组织报道称该国95%以上的社区称今年的播种季没有足够的种子，桑苏说种子供应不足将使更多人面临饥饿。
他说必须帮助人们回到家园并播种作物，他说希望在五、六个月内人们将能够收获作物。
桑苏说就在这些家庭等待作物成长的时候，ICRC将与合作伙伴一起分发食物援助。该组织将同时帮助那些已回到家园和仍留在本国但无法回到农场的人。
这就是美国之音慢速英语农业报道，我是克里斯多夫·克里斯。
