British PM and Pop Singer Shakira Lead Education Effort (1/2)

【标准VOA】2008-04-24
British PM and Pop Singer Shakira Lead Education Effort (1/2)



 大意
Singer and Prime Minister work together to improve education for children.


 听写
The glamorous Colombian singer and the quiet British leader are working together to persuade developed countries to help finance aning effort to provide a basic education for every child in the world. Shakira is the honorary chairman of a week of events to publicize the cause of an advocacy group called the global campaign for education. She says one of the group’s goals is to get more help from world leaders and in paying for primary education for 72 million children ages 6 to 12 who cannot attend school because of poverty. “From 1999, and there were 96 million children around the world who weren’t involved enrolled in any kind of education, and the number has decreased to 72 million, so yeah, it is working but we still have to do so much more.” The group also wants to help some 226 million older children who missed out on school. British Prime Minister Brown joined with Shakira in a telephone conference on Monday to push for the effort. “I want to see as us become the first generation history to ensure that every child goes to school, and that we develop the potential of not just some of the world’s children but all the world’s children.”


 生词
glamorous 富有魔力的，迷人的


 翻译
迷人的哥伦比亚歌手和沉默的英国首相共同努力说服发达国家提供资金为每个孩子提供基本的教育。S是一周事务的主席，她公布了倡议组织“全球教育运动”的工作。她说组织第一个目标就是得到更多国家领导人的支持，为720万6到12岁因贫困而辍学的儿童支付小学教育的学费。“1999年全球有960万儿童没有学上，现在这个数字减少到了720万，是的，我们的工作有效果，但是还有更多的事情要做。”该组织还想要帮助2260万年龄更大的辍学儿童。英国首相布朗在星期一与S共同参加了一个电话会议以推进工作进行。“希望我们是保证每个孩子都上学的先行者，我们不仅要发掘某些孩子的潜力，而是要发现世界上所有孩子的潜力。”


 总结
Sharika讲话原来是这样的，和唱歌的声音差好多~
posted @ 2008-04-24 06:45 vivianliv86 阅读(23) 评论(0)  编辑  收藏 所属分类: 每日VOA 网摘收藏

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