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導讀
Dr Hawa Abdi
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聽力|精讀|翻譯|詞組
守護村莊
英文部分選自經濟學人20201031期逝者版塊
Obituary: Hawa Abdi
逝者:哈瓦·阿迪
It takes a village
守護村莊
Hawa Abdi, doctor and rescuer of Somalia’s refugees, died on August 5th, aged 73
救護索馬里難民的醫(yī)生哈瓦·阿迪,于8月5日去世,享年73歲。
After her morning prayer and before she had eaten breakfast, the sun barely up, Hawa Abdi liked to walk around the village. First she would go to the communal farm to start the generators and check the crops: sorghum, maize, bananas, beans. Then she would go past the villagers’ dwellings, just stirring. When she had bought this land, in the Lower Shebelle west of Mogadishu, the capital, trees stretched to the horizon. Many remained, but now thousands of people sheltered among them, in a haven that had come to be called Hawa Abdi, after her. “Where are you going?” one dusty, desperate traveller might ask another in the years of Somalia’s civil wars, and the frequent answer was: “To Hawa.”
太陽剛剛露頭,哈瓦·阿迪便已經結束了晨禱。早飯前,她通常會在村里走走。她首先去公社農場打開發(fā)電機,查看莊稼,(地里有)有高粱、玉米、香蕉和豆子。然后,途徑村民的住處,她會把他們叫醒。這片土地位于首都摩加迪沙的下謝貝利州以西,她剛買下時,這里樹木成林,一望無際。很多樹現在仍然保留著,但樹林中已有成千上萬的人安家。這里成為他們的避難所,并以她的名字哈瓦·阿迪命名。在索馬里內戰(zhàn)的歲月里,每當一個滿身塵土、神情絕望的流浪者問起另一個人:“你去哪?”,得到的回應經常是“哈瓦”。
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