(单词翻译:单击)
听力文本
From VOA Learning English, this is the Environment and Science Report.
Recent studies suggest the African nation of Burundi has the highest levels of hunger and undernourished people worldwide. More than ten years of war, along with poverty and overpopulation have strongly affected the nation's economic and nutritional conditions. Continued rising demands for limited resources create serious problems for Burundi.
Along many of the hillsides in Burundi's northern Ngozi province, workers are digging and planting. They hope to stop fertile soils from sliding away in what is considered the hungriest place on earth.
The United Nations World Food Program is currently paying more than 5,700 local farmers to work other people's lands. The WFP program, Food-for-assets comes after years of local farmers trying and failing to beat hunger by working their own land.
The Burundian civil war ended in 2005 after twelve years of fighting. The conflict left much fertile land unattended. Some also was repossessed. Overpopulation in the country has also increased pressure on food production.
Jean-Dominique Masumbuko is a Agricultural Coordinator for the Christian aid group World Vision. He says the people show no sign of physical strength. He says they appear almost bloodless.
At a nearby clinic, crying babies, older children and underweight mothers fill the room. Some of the children are already in a World Food Program effort that feeds extremely underweight children and breastfeeding mothers.
Pascaline Minani, has a 6-year-old son in the program. She walked five kilometers carrying her baby to get to the center. She is seeking supplements to improve her breast milk. She worries that without supplements her baby might suffer severe hunger.
But WFP workers find that Minani's measurements do not meet the requirement. She is not underweight enough to receive the supplements.
Pascaline Minani says she cannot stop thinking about food. She says her only wish is to feed her children once a day, and if there is more, she will feed herself.
The World Food Program says that recent studies show that feeding and agricultural programs have reduced malnutrition rates nationwide.
And that's the VOA Environment and Science Report.
I'm Marsha James.
词汇解释
1.undernourished adj. 营养不良的，营养不足的 v. 供以不足的营养（undernourish的过去分词形式）
She was undernourished, an observation that prompted yet another unasked question.
她看上去营养不良，这一发现又引出了一个未被问及的问题。
2.unattended adj. 无侍从的；没人照顾的，未被注意的；（会议等）无人出席的；（疾病）未治疗的；无伴的
Never leave young children unattended near any pool or water tank.
千万别把小孩留在水池或水箱旁而无人看管。
3.repossessed adj. 被收回的；被重新占有的；第二手的 v. 收回；使重新占有（repossess的过去分词）
His car was repossessed by the company.
他的汽车被公司收回去了。
4.supplement vt. 增补，补充 n. 增补，补充；补充物；增刊，副刊
I took regular supplements and exercised every day.
我每天都按时吃营养片并坚持锻炼。
内容解析
1.They hope to stop fertile soils from sliding away in what is considered the hungriest place on earth.
slide away 溜掉，偷偷跑掉
We were concerned that the north slope of the volcano might slide away.
我们关心的是,火山北坡将会崩塌。
Shallow brooks murmur most, deep slide away.
浅溪易有声，深溪静静流。
参考译文
这里是美国之音慢速英语环境和科学报道。
最近的研究表明，非洲国家布隆迪拥有全世界最多的饥饿和营养不良人群，10多年的战争、贫困和人口过量严重影响了该国的经济和营养状况。对有限资源需求的继续增加给布隆迪造成了严重的问题。
在布隆迪北部恩戈齐省的很多山坡上，工人们在挖掘和种植，他们希望这个被视为地球上最饥饿地区的肥沃土壤不要流失掉。
联合国世界粮食署最近给5700多名当地农民付薪水，让他们耕种他人的土地。当地农民多年来试图通过耕种自己的土地来战胜饥饿，但却未能成功，为此，世界粮食署就推出了粮食换资产项目。
在经过12年的战斗后，布隆迪内战于2005年结束。这场冲突导致很多肥沃的土地无人耕种，有的被回收了。该国过多的人口也给粮食生产施加了压力。
吉恩多米尼克·马松布科是基督教援助组织世界宣明会的农业协调员，他说人们表现不出有力气的迹象，他说他们看起来面无血色。
附近的诊所里满是哭泣的婴儿、大孩子和体重不足的母亲，一些儿童已经是世界粮食署喂养体重超轻儿童和哺乳母亲的帮助对象。
帕斯卡利娜·米纳尼6岁的儿子也在该项目之中，她带着孩子步行5公里来到这个中心，她希望获得营养品来改善母乳，她担心没有营养品的话她的孩子会严重饥饿。
但世界粮食署的工作人员发现米纳尼的测量结果并不满足要求，她并没有体重偏低到能接受营养品的程度。
帕斯卡利娜·米纳尼说她无时不刻不想着食物，她说她唯一的愿望是每天喂孩子一顿，如果还有多余的，她想养活自己。
世界粮食署称最近研究表明这个喂养和农业项目已经减少了全世界的营养不良比率。
这就是美国之音环境和科学报道。我是玛莎·詹姆斯。
