M6 U4 Project 阅读材料中英文对照版

M6 U4 Project 阅读材料中英文对照版

Changing the world -my commitment 20 October

Arrived here to find everything was in chaos. Have not had time to write my diary for a whole week. The whole island is flooded. Many of the people have fled to the mountains to escape. The hospital is badly damaged and in a mess; it cannot be used at the moment. This is a new experience for me. Usually, I am working in areas that have dry climates, such as Kenya and Sudan. In Sudan, we set up centres to ensure that people got food, and we checked the health of babies to make sure they were putting on weight. We also gave

children shots to stop them dying from diseases. However, that campaign was conducted in villages where there was lots of fighting, far from the city.

Running from one place to another became a way of life. The situation is very different here, as are the problems. Instead of sand blowing everywhere, there is mud and water everywhere, making it difficult to travel from place to place. Yesterday, my colleagues on the medical team and I (two doctors, one nurse-- me--and two assistants) found a vacant health centre on the north side of the town. We are going to set up a temporary clinic there. Medical supplies are now on their way from abroad. We have started to clean the health centre. One of the health problems is that people who need to take medicines regularly

cannot get hold of them in a disaster such as this. Small injuries also need to be taken care of, especially as it is so muddy and damp. The majority of wounds are from walls and roofs that have fallen on people. The water makes it difficult for the cuts and wounds to get better and easy for bacteria to spread.

Meanwhile, in the rest of the city, shelter and access to food and clean water are big problems. The fields and harvest have been destroyed, and so a lack of food will be a problem in the future.

Food has started to arrive, but this is a problem as people have started to worry

that they will not get enough. This morning, there were fights as crowds of people tried to get food. It reminded me of my time in Sudan, where several Doctors without Borders staff were attacked as people tried to get the food.

One good thing here is that many people can speak English or French. This makes it easier to communicate and find out about people's problems. When you can't speak the same language, it is sometimes very difficult to find out what is wrong with someone. However, my acting skills are very good, so I can still communicate with people, even when there is a language barrier and no interpreter around. It seems that many people here just need to talk, so I am finding that my job is not limited to being a nurse. It is also being a person who can listen to and comfort others.

It is quite horrible to imagine losing everything, including some of your family. Our first job here was to try to organize a place to bury the people who were killed. We needed to do this as soon as possible to stop disease spreading. That was a really horrible job and I felt so sorry for their relatives.

When I think back to all the experiences that I have had around the world since joining Doctors without Borders, I feel that I have been very lucky to be able to help others and do something worthwhile. Now I must think about tomorrow. We hope the clinic will be open and then I won't have any time to write my diary. This experience makes me appreciate all the things I have and gives me the chance to see things from another angle. I know ! can't change the whole world, but I'm proud that I can help here and there, and make a difference to people's lives.

改变世界——我的义务 10月20日

到达这里后发现一切都是乱糟糟的。已经整整一周没有时间写日记了。整个岛屿都被淹了，许

多人为躲避洪水逃到了山上。医院严重被毁，已是一片狼籍，目前无法使用了。这一切对我来说是

一种新的体验。通常情况下，我都是在那些气候干燥的地区工作，如肯尼亚和苏丹。在苏丹，我们

设立中心，确保人们能够得到食物；我们还检查婴儿的健康状况，确保婴儿的体重有所增加。我们

还给孩子们打针，不让他们死于疾病。然而，这场救助活动是在远离城市的乡村进行的，这里战乱

频繁。辗转奔波已经成了家常便饭。这里的情形很不一样，存在的问题也不同。这里没有随处飞扬

的沙尘，但到处都是泥浆和水，因此从一个地方转移到另一个地方非常艰难。

昨天，医疗队里我的同事和我(两名是医生，我是护士，还有两名助手)在城镇的北面发现了

一个废弃的医疗中心。我们准备在那里设立一个临时诊所。来自海外的医疗设备正在运输途中，我

们已经开始清理这个医疗中心。有关健康的问题之一是：那些需要定期服药的病人遇到这样的灾难

后无法得到药品。轻微伤口也需要处理，特别是在如此泥泞和潮湿的情况下。大多数病人的伤口是

由于墙壁和屋顶坍塌后落在人身上所致。这里的水使伤口难以愈合，也容易传播细菌。与此同时，

在这座城市的其他地区，住所、食物和干净水的供给都成了大问题。土地和庄稼都毁了，所以将来

食物匮乏会成为一个问题。

食品已开始抵达，但这是一个问题，因为人们开始担心自己是否能够得到足够的食物。

今天上

午由于争抢食品，发生了几次殴斗。这使我想起了在苏丹的那段时间，当时人们哄抢食物，有好几

名“无国界医生组织”的工作人员受到了攻击。 在这里有一个有利因素，就是很多人都会说英语或法语。这让彼此之间的交流变得容易多了，

也易于了解他们的各种问题。当你不能说同一种语言时，有时你就很难弄清对方的问题。不过，我

有很好的表演技巧，所以在甚至没有译员而又存在语言障碍时，我依然能与他们交流。在这里，很

多人似乎就是要和你交谈，所以，我发现我的工作不仅仅是做护士了，我还是一个聆听别人倾诉和

安慰别人的人。

想像一下，失去一切，其中包括你的部分家人，是多么的可怕。我们在这里做的第一件事就是

找块地方掩埋那些死去的人。我们需要尽快做这件事，以阻止疾病的蔓延。这真是一件非常可怕的

工作，我为那些死者的亲属感到非常难过。 回想起我参加“无国界医生组织”以来在全世界范围的所有经历，我觉得自己非常幸运，能够

帮助别人，做一些有价值的事情。现在，我得考虑明天的事了。我们希望诊所明天能开门，到那时

我就没有时间写日记了。这一经历让我珍惜自己所拥有的一切，并给了我从另一个角度看待事物的

机会。我知道我无法改变整个世界，但我挺自豪，因为我能在各处帮忙，改变人们的生活。