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From VOA Learning English, this is the Education Report.
Pakistani Malala Yousafzai is the youngest winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. On Sunday July 12, she celebrated her 18th birthday by opening a school in Lebanon. The school serves Syrian refugee girls in the Bekaa Valley.
Ms. Yousafzai has been an education activist for years and at great risk. In 2012, Taliban gunmen shot the 15 year-old school girl in the head. They said they did it because she supported education rights for females.
Ms. Yousafzai survived the attack and continued to fight for education. In 2014, she won the Nobel Peace Prize.
On Sunday, the activist spoke in a schoolroom surrounded by drawings of butterflies. She said people need to pay more attention to refugees from Syria.
"I decided to be in Lebanon because I believe that the voices of the Syrian refugees need to be heard and they have been ignored for so long."
Opening of the Malala Yousafzai girls' school
Ms. Yousafzai also said leaders must buy books instead of bullets.
"Today on my first day as an adult, on behalf of the world's children, I demand of leaders we must invest in books instead of bullets. Books, not bullets, will pave the path towards peace and prosperity."
The Malala Fund is a non-profit organization that supports local education projects. It paid for the school in the Bekaa Valley, close to the Syrian border. Up to 200 girls aged 14 to 18 can attend the school.
There are 1.2 million refugees from Syria's war in Lebanon. In all, four million people have fled to neighboring countries. There are about 500,000 Syrian children in Lebanon. Only about 100,000 of them are attending school.
The sharp increase in the number of refugees in Lebanon has caused economic difficulty. The United Nations High Commission for Refugees says over half of Syrian refugees in Lebanon are under 18. Most of the refugees need humanitarian aid. Twenty percent of the people now in Lebanon are refugees.
Too little money for food aid to Syrian refugees
The U.N. also says the number of Syrian refugees in neighboring countries is growing. And the World Food Program, or WFP, does not have the financial support that governments said they would provide. Last month, the agency reported it had not received seventy-five percent of the money promised by several governments.
On July first, the WFP announced it would cut the amount given to Syrian refugees in Lebanon for food to about half of one dollar per person per day. In Jordan, most refugees live below the poverty line of $3.20 per day.
Ms. Yousafzai said that Jordan and Lebanon are barring some Syrian refugees from entering their countries. She called the situation inhuman and shameful.
The United Nations reports that pressure on host countries continues to grow. Some six million people are displaced in Syria and neighboring countries. It is becoming more difficult for Syrians to find a safe place in the area. So, more are planning even riskier trips. They attempt dangerous travel across the Mediterranean Sea to try to reach Europe. Many Syrians have died on these attempts.
A lifelong mission
Malala Yousafzai's father, Ziauddin Yousafzai, said he was proud that his daughter was continuing her activism as an adult.
"The mission she was carrying with her life when she was hardly an 11 years old in Swat Valley, when Taliban banned girls' education and they bombed many, many schools, she stood for her right. After [the] attack, that small event on a very small local level, it turned into a global campaign for education."
At the Malala Yousafzai All-Girls School, students sang Happy Birthday and gave Ms. Yousafzai a birthday cake. The warm welcome led to tears of joy. Ms. Yousafzai said the girls did not need advice from her.
"They are amazing, I don't think they need any message, I don't think they need any other advice because they know that education is very important for them."
For the VOA Learning English Education Report, I'm Jill Robbins.
词汇解析
1.bullet n. 子弹；只选某党全部候选人的投票；豆子 vi. 射出；迅速行进
The revolver was loaded with only one bullet.
这支左轮手枪仅上了一颗子弹。
2.inhuman adj. 残忍的；野蛮的；无人性的
The detainees are often held in cruel and inhuman conditions.
被拘留者经常被羁押在既残酷又不人道的环境里。
3.displaced adj. 无家可归的；位移的；被取代的 n. 无家可归者 v. 取代（displace的过去分词）；移动…的位置；撤换
More than 600,000 people were displaced by the tsunami.
超过60万人被海啸搞得背井离乡。
4.activism n. 行动主义；激进主义
He believed in political activism to achieve justice.
他相信通过政治激进主义可以赢得正义。
内容解析
1.Ms. Yousafzai said that Jordan and Lebanon are barring some Syrian refugees from entering their countries.
bar from 禁止(某人)做(某事)；阻止；关闭；拒绝：
He has been barred from practicing medicine.
他已被禁止行医。
The public are barred from access to the city library on the weekends.
市图书馆周末不开放。
2.she stood for her right. After [the] attack, that small event on a very small local level, it turned into a global campaign for education.
stand for 代表；支持；象征；担任…的候选人
He hates us and everything we stand for.
他仇恨我们以及我们的任何主张。
The party is trying to give the impression that it alone stands for democracy.
该党正企图让人觉得只有它才代表民主。
参考译文
这里是美国之音慢速英语教育报道。
巴基斯坦人马拉拉·尤萨法扎伊是最年轻的诺贝尔和平奖得主，7月12日(星期天)她通过为黎巴嫩一所学校开幕庆祝了自己18岁的生日，这所学校为贝卡谷地的叙利亚难民女孩提供教育。
马拉拉多年来一直都是教育活动者，还冒着巨大的危险。2012年，塔利班开枪击中这种15岁学生的头部，他们称这是因为马拉拉支持女性教育权利。
马拉拉在那次袭击中活了下来，继续为教育而战，2014年她获得诺贝尔和平奖。
周日，这位活动家在被蝴蝶图画包围的教室里发表讲话，她说人们需要更多地关注叙利亚的难民。
“我决定到黎巴嫩来，是因为我认为人们需要听到叙利亚难民的声音，他们已经被忽视太久了。”
马拉拉还说，领导人们必须购买书本，而不是子弹。
“今天是我作为成年人的第一天，我代表全世界的儿童请求领导人们投资于书本而不是子弹，书本能铺平通往和平、繁荣之路，而不是子弹。”
马拉拉基金会是一家支持当地教育项目的非盈利组织，为接近叙利亚边境的贝卡谷地的学校提供资金，多达200名年龄在14到18岁的女孩在这里上学。
黎巴嫩有120万因叙利亚战争而逃离的难民，共有400万人逃到邻国，黎巴嫩约有50万叙利亚儿童，其中只有10万儿童在上学。
黎巴嫩境内难民数量的骤增造成了经济困难，联合国难民署称在黎巴嫩的叙利亚难民中有一半以上年龄在18岁以下，大多数难民需要人道主义援助，黎巴嫩人中有20%的人是难民。
联合国也表示，在邻国的叙利亚难民数量在增加，而世界粮食署没有得到各国政府承诺提供的财政支持。上月，该机构报告称几个国家未能提供所承诺的资金的75%。
7月1日，世界粮食署宣布将用于黎巴嫩叙利亚难民的粮食资金削减到每人每天0.5美元，在约旦，大多数难民每天生活在3.2美元的贫困线以下。
马拉拉说，约旦和黎巴嫩禁止一些叙利亚难民进入本国，她称这一现状不人道且可耻。
联合国报告称东道国面临的压力在增加，大约600万人流散在叙利亚和邻国，叙利亚人越来越难以在这些地区找到安全的住所。因此，很多人在策划更危险的旅程，他们试图危险地穿越地中海抵达欧洲，很多叙利亚人因此而丧生。
马拉拉的父亲齐亚乌丁说，他很骄傲自己的女儿能在成年后继续其活动。
“她肩负着一生的使命，当她还是斯瓦特山谷11岁的女孩时，塔利班禁止女孩接受教育，他们轰炸了很多学校，她就站出来伸张权利。在遇袭后，这件小地方的小事件也成了教育上的全球运动。”
在马拉拉.尤萨法扎伊女子学校，学生们为她唱生日歌，还送给她一个生日蛋糕，这种温暖让马拉拉留下喜悦的泪水，她说女孩们已经不需要她的建议。
“她们很棒，我认为她们不需要任何建议，因为她们知道教育对自己来说很重要。”
这里是美国之音慢速英语教育报道，我是吉尔·鲁宾斯。
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