14 United Nations Report Urges“Putting Education to Work” 联合国报告敦促“教育应适应工作”

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A new United Nations report says over two hundred million young people in developing countries have not completed primary school.The UN says almost one hundred thirty million are in school.But they cannot read or write—skills they need to escape from poverty.The report urges donors and governments to support ways for young people to get the skills they need for success.

一份新的联合国报告称，超过2亿的发展中国家青年没有完成小学教育。联合国称近1.3亿人在上学，但他们并不具备摆脱贫困所需的读写技能。该报告督促捐助方和政府为青年提供支持，帮助他们获得想要成功所需的技能。

听力破解：本段中出现了较多否定词，如not和can't，都是播音员重读词汇，注意其否定语义。

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The findings are from the“Education for All Global Monitoring Report”by UNESCO—the UN Educational，Scientific and Cultural Organization.

这项研究结果来自联合国教科文组织的《全民教育全球监测报告》。

听力破解：UNESCO后面有明显停顿，表示后面是解释该缩略语。Educational，Scientific都用了声调，表示并列短语未结束，and Cultural Organization用降调，表示并列关系结束和句终。

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Educators say young people need at least a primary school education and some secondary school to get secure，good-paying jobs.But the report says that is not happening in most developing countries，including ones south of the Sahara Desert.It says about thirty three percent of young people in sub-Saharan Africa fail to complete the first few years of schooling.Millions more do not even go to secondary school.

教育工作者表示，青年至少需要完成小学教育和一些中学教育，以获得一份稳定的、待遇优厚的工作。但该报告称，这在许多发展中国家，包括撒哈拉沙漠以南国家都没有实现。撒哈拉以南非洲国家大约33%的青年未能完成最初几年的学校教育。还有数百万人甚至没上过中学。

听力破解：first few years出现了吞音，first以辅音[t]结尾，遇到以辅音[f]开头的few，[t]不发声。

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Pauline Rose is the director of the “Education for All Global Monitoring Report”.She says some schools are failing to provide a bridge between school and work.She says this means that one in eight young people are unemployed.And one in four people earns very low wages.

《全民教育全球监测报告》的负责人保琳·罗丝说，一些学校不能提供学校和工作之间的联系，这意味着1/8的青年找不到工作，还有1/4的青年工资不高。

词汇宝典：one in eight和one in four都是表示分数的词组，英语中分数可用“基数词+序数词”来表示，其中基数词表示分子，序数词表示分母。如：The centimeter is one-tenth of the decimeter or one-hundredth of the meter.厘米是分米的十分之一，或者说是米的百分之一。

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Ms.Rose says young people need strong skills in numeracy and the ability to read and write.She says knowing how to solve problems is more important than learning by rote，a process of establishing something in memory by repeating it.

罗丝女士说年轻人需要很强的计算和读写的能力，知道如何解决问题远比死记硬背更重要。死记硬背是一种不断重复从而建立记忆的过程。

听力破解：more important than被重读，主要用于强调solve problems的重要性。

词汇宝典：numeracy是名词，表示“识数，计算能力”。如：Regarding quantitative skills，banks clearly require some level of numeracy.说到数量技能，各银行显然要求具备一定程度的计算能力。

rote 做名词，表示“死记硬背，生搬硬套”，如：Education in Asia is still too stifling，rote and high-pressured.亚洲的教育还是很沉闷，靠死记硬背，而且负担重。

学着说一说

1.need to需要

▶need 的常用结构是：人+need+to do；物+need+doing，如：

I need to talk to you.我需要和你谈谈。

My car needs repairing.我的汽车需要修理。

▶Am I needed？的意思是“需要我帮忙吗？”，这种表达方式在英语口

语中经常被用到，如：

You do not look well.Am I needed？

你脸色看起来不怎么好。需要我帮忙吗？

2.escape from逃避

▶新闻中用到的短语是escape from poverty，表面是“逃避贫穷”，可以引申翻译为“脱贫”。

▶相似的结构还有：stop...from；keep...from，表示“阻止做……”，

如：

You can't escape from your mistake.你不能逃避你的错误。

3.abil ity to ……的能力

▶have the ability to do sth.表示“有能力做……”，如：

She has the ability to keep calm in an emergency.她有处变不惊的能力。

▶意思相似的短语还有：be capable of doing sth.；be able to do sth.，

如：

The older child should be able to prepare a simple meal.

那个年纪稍大的孩子应当会做一顿简单的饭菜。