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The United Nations estimates up to 6 million people in Iraq are in dire need of help because of (the) years of violence and economic hardship. It says some 4 million people are unable to buy enough food regularly, have no (excessive) access to safe drinking water and have great difficulty getting the medical care they need.

       The International Red Cross Federation is aiming to help nearly one million (or for the) of what it calls the most socially vulnerable people inside Iraq over the next year.

       Operations coordinator for the Middle East and North Africa, LS tells VOA these are people who have generally been overlooked by social welfare (in) and aid programs. These are people who have (known all) no or very little income and can not make it on their own.

       “They are in their homes. They are not displaced, but they are poor, they may be unemployed don’t have jobs. They may be elderly, they may be handicapped, they (follow) fall into to a lot of (cadigrave) categories but they don’t (sit) fit into some of the other standard (ledigrade) categories that (as) we see (with) in Iraq, such as internally displaced, you know, being (taking) taken to or moving to a different place because of violence or insecurity within the country.”

NEW WORDS:

Dire: a 可怕的

TIPS:

一个categories纠结的我么想法。好词组：access to，fit into，小词：category。

TRANSLATION:

    联合国估计有高达６００万的伊拉克人因连年的战火和经济困难而急需援助。他说，有400万人经常买不起足够的食物，喝上干净的饮用水，很难得到他们需要的医疗照顾。

       国际红十字会正计划在接下来的一年里，对其中１００万被称为“在伊拉克最弱势群体”的人进行援助。

       中东及北非地区行动协调人LS告诉VOA，那些人通常被社会福利和援助项目所忽略。这些人没有或者只有很少的收入，无法养活自己。

       “他们待在家里。他们没有被转移，却非常贫困。他们可能失业，没有工作。他们可能年老。他们可能患有残疾。他们被归到很多类别里，但却不属于我们在伊拉克所看到的别的标准分类，比如内部遣散。他们都是因为国内的战火不安全，才不得以到别的地方去的。”