Emmanuel Jal was eight when he was given a gun and trained to fight. By the time he was 13, he had been in two wars. Today, the former child soldier is becoming Kenya’s hottest rap singer. (如今,昔日的孩子兵已经成为肯尼亚最炙手可热的rap歌手)His songs mix messages of peace with his personal stories.
When war reached Jal’s small village, the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (苏丹人民解放军)(SPLA) ordered children be sent to UN-run(联合国管辖的) refugee camps (难民营) in Ethiopia.(埃塞俄比亚). The SPLA promised that the children would be fed and educated there. Seven-year-old Jal had little choice but to go to the crowded camps. He stayed in school there for only six months.
“Then we were taken away from the camp to the bush for training,” he says.“The United Nations had no idea what was going on.(意为:联合国并不知道我们被训练去打仗)” The SPLA was looking for new soldiers in the camps. The bigger boys were handed big weapons, but Jal could only manage a small AK-47. They were really excited to learn how to use a gun.
When the SPLA broke up,( 13-year-old Jal and a group of 400 fellow soldiers decided to join the enemy.(敌人) They believed that they would be treated better. The boys carried enough corn and flour(白面) for a month, the time they thought it would take to reach safety.(他们觉得一个月的时间就可以安全抵达) But three months later, they were still marching.(行进) Because of starvation, by the time the boys arrived at their destination, only 12 of them survived.(幸存)
Luckily, Jal was picked out from the group of homeless children by Emma McCune, a young British woman who worked for the Canadian aid group Street Kids International. She secretly carried Jal from Sudan to Nairobi in a suitcase aboard an aid flight.(她偷偷地把雅尔藏进一个医疗箱,搭上了一架救援用飞机,从苏丹来到了肯尼亚首都内罗毕)
Today rap music is popular in Nairobi. Jal turned his interest in African music to hip hop and singing to raise money for children’s homes.
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break up 分解, 分裂
starvation n. 饥饿, 饿死
destination n. 目的地
雅思口语范文:A Shopping Place
雅思口语范文:工作方面的问题
雅思口语范文:A Park or Public Garden
雅思口语范文:周末活动的问题
雅思口语范文:Road or Street
雅思口语范文:Story Character
雅思口语范文:A Place You'd Like to Travel to
雅思口语范文:户外活动的问题
雅思口语天天练:常用词组搭配
雅思口语范文:Sport Event
雅思口语范文:自我介绍相关问题
雅思口语范文:Angry occasion
雅思口语:打电话
雅思口语范文:Childhood Friend
雅思口语范文:介绍一位知名人物
雅思口语范文:Ideal Home
雅思口语范文:介绍一位艺术家
雅思口语之备考方法指导
雅思口语范文:A Student
雅思口语范文:Something Unusual or Interesting
雅思口语范文:最喜欢的科目
打电话对方不在
雅思口语范文:a place where you often walk
雅思口语范文:你擅长的运动
雅思口语范文:工作情况
雅思口语范文:Outdoor Activity
雅思口语:walk
雅思口语范文:Part 1的自我介绍
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