必克BBC新闻：希腊残疾人群身陷囹圄

In Greece, people with disabilities are often heavily stigmatized. The BBC has gained access to one state-run care home where some disabled children are spending their lives behind bars. In a dayroom around fifteen adults and children with learning disabilities, most of whom have been abandoned just sit around rocking and staring at the walls. There is no one to engage with them. The only member of staff sits in the doorway looking bored, more of a guard than a carer.

So we are on the top floor of the care home and in all the rooms are cages. The director of the center asked the nurse to unlock one of the cage doors. One of the girls who looks far younger than her nine years jumps out. I’m told she’s been living in this cage since she was two. If you have more staff, would you need to keep the patients in these kinds of caged beds?

It is beyond discussion that we shouldn’t have these kinds of bed. If we have more dedicated staff focus on the care of individual children, we could offer far more to these children. There are just two members of the staff on each floor housing around 25 children.

This is one of the best institutions in Greece. We have very challenging cases. And I believe it functionsextremely well and a proof of this is that many patients have outlived their average life expectancy.

The government promised change but four years on the only change I can see is a lick of paint on the wooden bars to make the cages look more cheerful.

The only time anything is likely to change for these children is when they die. That’s a harsh thing to say but is the truth.

I feel rage, indignation and fear when I see children in cages. As a parent of a child with down syndrome,I have no idea what might become of my son when I’m no longer around.

No, I don’t want to visit that place again. I don’t want to go there.

All care for disabled people in Greece has recently been transferred from the Ministry of Health to the Ministry of Laboring and Social Welfare. I asked the general secretary for welfare when these children wouldbe given proper care.

I can’t give you an exact time for when those children will be transferred out of that institution. But we are in the process of discussing the subject at the Ministry. As for the lack of staffing, this country is going through the worst economic crisis since the Second World War.

词汇解析

province

难度：4星核心词汇，属常用3000词

英汉解释

n.省

参考例句

用作名词 (n.)

British Columbia is a province of Canada.

不列颠哥伦比亚是加拿大的一个剩

Hangzhou is the capital city of Zhejiang Province.

杭州是浙江的省会城市。

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consistent

难度：4星核心词汇，属常用3000词

英汉解释

adj.始终如一的；持续的；一致的

参考例句

用作形容词 (adj.)

She is a consistent girl in her feeling.

在感情方面她是个始终如一的女孩。

Your conduct is not consistent with what you say.

你的言行不一致。

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oppose

难度：4星核心词汇，属常用3000词

英汉解释

v.反对；对抗；使对立

参考例句

用作动词 (v.)

It was courageous of him to oppose his chief.

他敢反对他的上司，真是勇敢。

We're firmly opposed to the practice of powerpolitics between nations.

我们强烈反对在国与国之间实行强权政治。

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expand

难度：4星核心词汇，属常用3000词

英汉解释

v.使 ... 膨胀；详述；扩张；增加；张开

参考例句

用作动词 (v.)

Metals expand when they are heated.

金属遇热则膨胀。

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access

难度：5星基本词汇，属常用1000词

英汉解释

n.入口；通道

n.接近(的机会)；使用之权

vt.进入；(电脑)存取

参考例句

用作名词 (n.)

The avalanche cut off the access to the mountain village.

雪崩切断了进入山村的通道。

用作及物动词 (vt.)

She access three different files to find the correct information.

她存取了三个文件以找寻所要的信息。

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violence

难度：4星核心词汇，属常用3000词

英汉解释

n.猛烈；暴力；暴行；强暴

参考例句

用作名词 (n.)

The young man was charged with robbery with violence.

这个年轻人被控暴力抢劫。

The act of violence made people boil with anger.

这种强暴的行为令人发指。

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desperate

难度：4星核心词汇，属常用3000词

英汉解释

adj.绝望的；不顾一切的；极其想要的

参考例句

用作形容词 (adj.)

The man lost in the desert was desperate for water.

在沙漠中迷失方向的人极度渴望得到水。

He is desperate to get a job.

他非常渴求得一职。

 

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