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六月份 第 17 課

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  • Chinese Lawmakers: Brick Kilns Used 53,000 Illegal Workers
  • 中國人大代表:磚窯使用 5 萬 3 千非法民工
  •   Chinese state media say brick kilns and mines found to be using slave labor illegally used more than 53-thousand migrant workers.
  • 中國國家媒體說,被發現非法使用奴工的磚窯和礦井非法使用了 5 萬 3 千多名來自外地民工。

  •   The Xinhua news agency says Fan Duixiang, Vice Chariman of the Standing Committee of the Shanxi provincial congress, reported the number to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress Sunday.
  • 新華社說,山西省人大常委會副主任范堆相星期天向全國人大常委會報告了這個數字。

  •   Fan says an investigation into kilns and mines in Shanxi province found that of 3347 brick kilns, more than two thousand were not licensed to operate.
  • 范堆相說,對山西省磚窯和礦井進行的調查發現,在 3347 個磚窯中,有 2000 多個沒有營業執照。

  •   Xinhua says lawmakers attending Sunday's legislative session pressed for a change in the country's labor contract law to better protect the employees' rights.
  • 新華社說,出席星期天人大會議的代表要求更改國家勞工合同法規,以更好地保護員工權利。

  •   Tens of thousands of Chinese police raided thousands of brick kilns in Shanxi and Henan provinces in May, after hundreds of parents posted a notice on the Internet saying their children had been abducted, likely for use as slave laborers.
  • 數萬中國警察 5 月突襲檢查了山西省和河南省的數千座磚窯.此前有數百名家長在互聯網上張貼文章說,他們的孩子被拐騙,很可能被用做奴工。

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  • Americans Set Record in Charitable Giving
  • 美國人慈善捐款創記錄
  •   A report on charitable giving shows that Americans gave over 295 billion dollars to charity in 2006, a one-percent increase from the previous year.
  • 一個有關慈善捐款的報告顯示,美國人在 2006 年的慈善捐款超過了 2950 億美元,比前一年增加了 1 %。

  •   A report by Giving USA Foundation says individual Americans gave two percent of their income, which amounted to nearly 76 percent of the total.
  • 美國施惠基金會 (Giving USA Foundation) 的一份報告說,美國個人把收入的 2 % 捐贈出來,總計占慈善捐款總額的 76 %。

  •   The report shows that 65 percent of households with incomes less than 100 thousand dollars give to charity.
  • 報告顯示,有 65 % 家庭收入不足 10 萬美元的家庭做了慈善捐贈。

  •   So-called mega-gifts of over a billion dollars given by philanthropists, such as Warren Buffet and Bill Gates, comprised just one-and-a-third percent of the total.
  • 沃倫.巴菲特以及比爾.蓋茨等捐出 10 億美元以上的所謂超級捐贈慈善家的捐款加起來僅佔捐款總額的 1.33 %。

  •   A New York University professor says Americans give twice as much as the next most charitable country - Britain.
  • 一位紐約大學的教授說,美國人的慈善捐款是排名第二的英國人捐款的兩倍。

  •   Some social observers say the U.S. tradition of giving is rooted in religious belief, and in the hardships that early settlers faced.
  • 一些社會觀察人士說,美國人樂善好施的傳統基於宗教信仰以及早期殖民地定居者所面臨的艱辛。

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