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KristenAshburn_2003-_镜头下的aids_
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| When I first arrived in beautiful Zimbabwe , it was difficult to understand that 35 percent of the population is HIV positive . |
当我第一次到达美丽的津巴布韦时 我很难想象这个国家有35%的人口 感染艾滋病毒。 |
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Zimbabwe:n.津巴布韦(国家名,位于非洲); HIV:n.艾滋病病毒; positive:adj.积极的;[数]正的,[医][化学]阳性的;确定的;n.正数;[摄]正片;
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| It really wasn't until I was invited to the homes of people that I started to understand the human toll of the epidemic . |
直到我受邀到那些患者的家里 我才认识到人类为传染艾滋病所付出的代价 |
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toll:n.伤亡人数; v.(缓慢而有规律地)敲(钟); (尤指)鸣(丧钟); epidemic:n.流行病;蔓延;adj.传染病;流行性的;
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| For instance , this is Herbert with his grandmother. |
举个例子,这是Herbert和他的祖母 |
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instance:n.实例;情况;建议;v.举...为例;
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| When I first met him, he was sitting on his grandmother's lap. |
当我第一次看到他时,他坐在他祖母的大腿上 |
| He has been orphaned , as both of his parents died of AIDS, and his grandmother took care of him until he too died of AIDS. |
他因父母双双死于艾滋而成为孤儿 他的祖母照顾他直到他也同样死于艾滋 |
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orphaned:v.使成为孤儿;(orphan的过去分词和过去式)
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| He liked to sit on her lap because he said that it was painful for him to lay in his own bed. |
他喜欢坐在她的大腿上 因为他说躺在床上会觉得很痛 |
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painful:adj.痛苦的;疼痛的;令人不快的;
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| When she got up to make tea, she placed him in my own lap and I had never felt a child that was that emaciated . |
当祖母起身去泡茶时,他把Herbert放在我的大腿上 我从来没有抱过这么瘦弱的孩子 |
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emaciated:adj.瘦弱的;憔悴的;v.憔悴;消瘦下去(emaciate的过去分词);
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| Before I left, I actually asked him if I could get him something. |
在我走之前, 我问他是否需要些什么 |
| I thought he would ask for a toy, or candy, and he asked me for slippers , because he said that his feet were cold. |
我以为他会想要玩具、糖果什么的 但他想要的是拖鞋 因为他说他的脚会冷 |
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slippers:n.拖鞋(slipper的复数形式);
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| This is Joyce who's -- in this picture -- 21. |
这是Joyce 一个21岁女孩的照片 |
| Single mother, HIV positive. |
一个感染了艾滋的单亲妈妈 |
| I photographed her before and after the birth of her beautiful baby girl, Issa. |
我在她生下宝贝女儿Lssa 的前、后为她拍照 |
| And I was last week walking on Lafayette Street in Manhattan and got a call from a woman who I didn't know, but she called to tell me that Joyce had passed away at the age of 23. |
当我上周走在曼哈顿的拉法叶大街时 接到一个我不认识女人的电话 她跟我说年仅23岁的Joyce 去世了 |
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Lafayette:n.拉斐特(美国印地安纳州西部城市);老佛爷(法国百货公司);三刺光鲳;
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| Joyce's mother is now taking care of her daughter, like so many other Zimbabwean children who've been orphaned by the epidemic. |
现在是Joyce的妈妈在照看她的女儿 像很多因传染艾滋病而变成孤儿 的津巴布韦儿童一样 |
| So a few of the stories. |
这是众多案例中的几个故事 |
| But with every picture, there are individuals who have full lives and stories that deserve to be told. |
但在每张照片中 他们每个人都有值得被传颂的 生命的历程和故事 |
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individuals:n.[经]个人;[生物]个体(individual的复数); deserve:vi.应受,应得;
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| All these pictures are from Zimbabwe. |
所有这些照片都来自津巴布韦 |
| Chris Anderson: Kirsten, will you just take one minute, just to tell your own story of how you got to Africa? |
Chris Anderson:Kirsten,能不能请你用一分钟的时间 简单的告诉我们你为什么想去非洲 |
| Kirsten Ashburn: Mmm, gosh. |
Kirsten Ashburn: Mmm 怎么说呢 |
| CA: Just -- |
CA:简单谈谈就好 |
| KA: Actually, I was working at the time, doing production for a fashion photographer. |
KA:事实上,我那时正为一位时尚摄影师 做制作的工作 |
| And I was constantly reading the New York Times, and stunned by the statistics , the numbers. |
那时我一直都在看纽约时报 对艾滋病相关的统计和数字感到震惊 |
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constantly:adv.不断地;时常地; stunned:adj.震惊的; v.使昏迷; (stun的过去分词和过去式) statistics:n.统计数字;统计资料;统计学;(statistic的复数)
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| It was just frightening . |
那些资料非常吓人 |
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frightening:adj.可怕的;骇人的;引起恐惧的;v.使惊吓;使惊恐(frighten的现在分词)
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| So I quit my job and decided that that's the subject that I wanted to tackle . |
所以我辞掉工作 从事我真正想做的事 |
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quit:v.离开;放弃;停止;使…解除;n.离开;[计]退出;adj.摆脱了…的;已经了结的; tackle:v.处理; n.用具;
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| And I first actually went to Botswana where I spent a month -- this is in December 2000 -- then went to Zimbabwe for a month and a half, and then went back again this March 2002 for another month and a half in Zimbabwe. |
在2000的12月我花了一整个月 呆在博茨瓦那 然后又去津巴布韦待了一个月 接着在2002年的三月我又去了津巴布韦 待了一个月 |
| CA: That's an amazing story, thank you. |
这是个很棒的故事 谢谢 |
| KB: Thanks for letting me show -- |
谢谢你给我机会 |