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听力文本
From VOA Learning English, this is the Education Report.
A United Nations representative wants international support for programs aimed at helping 28 million boys and girls return to school. The children are unable to continue their education because of wars and crises around the world.
Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is the UN's Special Envoy for Global Education. Mr. Brown says schools were once safe places for children. Now, he says, they are increasingly becoming instruments of war. In the past five years, there were more than 10,000 attacks on schools.
Mr. Brown told the United Nations recently that the international community should spend money to make schools safer. He proposed creation of an international humanitarian fund for education in emergencies.
"It is our moral duty to make sure that every single child in the world can enjoy the basic right to education - free of terror, free of fear, and with the support of the international community."
Mr. Brown is thinking about new uses of technology to improve school safety. A pilot program has been launched in Pakistan. Three months ago, the Pakistani Taliban killed 140 children at a school in the city of Peshawar.
Pakistani officials are now working with Predictify.Me, a technology company based in the United States. Under the "Pakistan Safe Schools" program, schools will use new computer software to test their safety plans. The results of the testing will help school officials prepare better for emergencies.
Mr. Brown said it is a major step forward in a country where more than five million children do not go to school. More than 1,000 schools have been destroyed in the past five years in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, which includes Peshawar.
The technology will make it possible to learn what schools and governments are doing to prevent attacks on schools.
The UN representative also called for the release of the more than 200 girls kidnapped by Boko Haram militants. The girls were taken one year ago from a school in the northern Nigerian town of Chibok. He said more than 10 million children are out of school in Nigeria. Nigeria has the highest number of children who cannot attend school of any country.
The UN's Safe Schools initiative has collected $30 million for protecting Nigerian schools. One way it helps young people get back to learning is by sending students to different schools. Students who attend schools in the areas where Boko Haram is active are moved to schools in safer areas.
The Syrian conflict has kept three million children out of school, many for several years. Five hundred thousand of them are refugees in Lebanon.
Gordon Brown is working with the Lebanese government on what has been called a "double shift" plan. Under the plan, Lebanese children would attend public schools in the morning and Syrian children would attend the same schools in the afternoon.
Mr. Brown said it is time for the international community to wake up and deal with the problems facing children. He said the world should protect their rights and stop turning its back on these young victims of war.
And that's Education Report. I'm Jill Robbins.
词汇学习
1.increasingly adv. 越来越多地，不断增加地
The baron became increasingly heated over the hypocrisy of it all.
男爵对整件事的虚伪感到越来越生气。
2.propose vt.提议，建议
And where do you propose building such a huge thing?
那么你打算在哪里建这么一个庞然大物呢？
3.launch vt.发动；开展
The police have launched an investigation into the incident...
警方已对该事件展开调查。
4.destroy vt. 破坏，摧毁
They can't destroy truth without destroying each and every one of us.
除非他们将我们赶尽杀绝，否则真理不灭。
5.attend vi. 出席，参加
Syria will attend only if the negotiations deal with issues of substance.
只有在谈判涉及重大问题时叙利亚才会参加。
内容解析
1.It is our moral duty to make sure that every single child in the world can enjoy the basic right to education.
make sure设法确保出现某事物
They want to make sure the newcomers don't get a look-in.
他们不想让新人有露脸的机会。
2.The UN representative also called for the release of the more than 200 girls kidnapped by Boko Haram militants.
call for需要；要求
They angrily called for Robinson's resignation...
他们愤怒地要求鲁宾逊辞职。
3.Mr. Brown said it is time for the international community to wake up and deal with the problems facing children.
wake up醒来；活跃起来；引起注意；（使）认识到
A cool shower wakes up the body and boosts circulation.
冷水澡可以刺激身体，促进血液循环。
参考翻译
这里是美国之音慢速学英语节目教育报道。
一位联合国代表希望国际社会支持旨在帮助2800万儿童重回校园的项目。由于世界各地的战争和危机，这些孩子无法继续上学。
英国前首相布朗是联合国全球教育特使。他表示，学校曾经是孩子们安全的天堂。而现在它们却日益成为战争工具。过去五年，学校发生了一万多起袭击。
布朗先生最近对联合国表示，国际社会应该投入资金确保学校更加安全。他提议建立“国际人道主义紧急教育基金”。
“确保世界上每个孩子都能享受基本的教育权，远离恐怖和害怕，这是我们的道德义务，国际社会应该支持。”
布朗正考虑让科技发挥新的作用，用于提升学校安全。一项试点方案已经在巴基斯坦启动。三个月前，巴基斯坦塔利班组织在白沙瓦的一所学校杀害了140名儿童。
巴基斯坦官员目前正和位于美国的科技公司Predictify.Me合作。根据“巴基斯坦安全学校”项目，各个学校将使用新的电脑软件测试他们的安全计划。测试结果有助于学校官员更好地应对紧急情况。
布朗先生表示，在巴基斯坦这样一个500多万儿童无法上学的国家，这是重大的进步。过去五年巴基斯坦的开伯尔-普赫图赫瓦省有1000多所学校被摧毁，包括白沙瓦市在内。
这项技术将有助于了解学校和政府采取了何种措施来预防学校袭击。
这位联合国代表还呼吁释放被博科圣地激进分子绑架的200多名女孩。这些女孩于一年前在尼日利亚北部城镇奇博克一所学校被绑走。他说，尼日利亚有1000多万儿童失学。尼日利亚的儿童失学率高于其它国家。
联合国的安全学校项目已为保护尼日利亚学校筹集了3千万美元资金。该计划帮助年轻人重新学习的途径之一是将学生送到不同的学校。博科圣地组织活跃地区学校的学生被转移到更安全地区的学校。
叙利亚冲突已经导致300万儿童失学，许多儿童已经失学多年。其中50万儿童成为在黎巴嫩的难民。
布朗正和黎巴嫩政府就所谓的两班倒计划进行合作。根据该计划，黎巴嫩儿童将在上午就读公立学校，而叙利亚儿童将在下午就读同一所学校。
布朗说，国际社会是时候觉醒并处理儿童面临的问题了。他说，全世界应该保护他们的权利，不要对这些年轻的战争受害者置之不理。
以上就是本期教育报道的全部内容。我是Jill Robbins。
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