VOA慢速英語：聯(lián)合國會談關(guān)注有害化學(xué)物質(zhì)

Only a small number of the 100,000 chemicals sold worldwide have been safety tested.

銷往世界各地的10萬種化學(xué)品中只有一小部分已經(jīng)進行安全檢測。

An international conference on chemicals has a plan that could prevent more than 1 million people from dying every year from chemical-related issues.

關(guān)于化學(xué)品的國際會議提出一項可靠的方案，它可以防止一百多萬人每年死于與化學(xué)品相關(guān)的問題。

The UN says the infant death rate from chemical causes is 12 times higher in developing countries than in developed countries. Lead causes about 600,000 new cases of mental disabilities in children every year.

聯(lián)合國聲稱，在發(fā)展中國家，由于化學(xué)品原因造成的嬰兒死亡率比發(fā)達(dá)國家高12倍。每年，在兒童中，鉛會導(dǎo)致60萬智力障礙新發(fā)病例。

Toxic gas leaked from a chemical plant in Bhopal, India in 1984, killing 5,200 people and injuring several thousand others. Thirty years later, few of the 100,000 chemicals sold worldwide have been safety tested. Children are particularly vulnerable.

Conference delegates said it is important to gather more information about chemicals and how they can harm us.

與會代表表示，收集有關(guān)化學(xué)品及它們?nèi)绾蝹ξ覀兊母嘈畔?，這一點至關(guān)重要。

More than 800 delegates of the United Nations Environment Program met for a week. They included government officials, members of the chemical industry and leaders of civil society.

聯(lián)合國環(huán)境規(guī)劃署的800多名代表進行了為期一周的會見。他們當(dāng)中包括政府官員、化工行業(yè)成員與民間社會領(lǐng)袖。

They agreed on a plan to reduce the risk of death and injury from chemicals. Because the plan is not fully funded, there is some worry that it will not be carried out.

他們商定出一項方案，旨在減少化學(xué)品所帶來的死亡危險與傷害。該方案由于資金不足，因此對于它是否會被執(zhí)行實在令人有些擔(dān)心。

Olga Speranskaya helps lead an international group of more than 700 organizations. Her group works to fight dangerous chemicals. It also helps people who have beencontaminated by farm pesticides, mercury and other toxic products. Visit the website www.chinavoa.com to get more information!

斯佩蘭斯卡亞（Olga Speranskaya）幫忙領(lǐng)導(dǎo)一個700多個組織的國際組。她的組織致力于對抗危險化學(xué)品。該組織也幫助那些受到農(nóng)業(yè)殺蟲劑、汞和其他有毒產(chǎn)品感染的人們。

She says her group is pleased with the plan that was approved by the conference delegates. She says if the risk reduction activities that the delegates called for are put into place, there will be a "reduction of toxic exposure on human health and the environment."

她說，她的團隊對與會代表所批準(zhǔn)的方案非常滿意。她表示如果與會代表所呼吁的降低感染風(fēng)險活動可以實施，有關(guān)人類健康及環(huán)境所能接觸的有毒物質(zhì)就會減少。

But she is not sure the plan will be put into place by 2020, as the delegates hope. She says the chemicals management program has received funds of only $27 million. She says it needs $100 million to pay for all of the actions the delegates called for.

但她并不確定，到2020年，該方案是否正如與會代表們所希望的那樣，將落實到位。她表示化學(xué)品管理計劃只獲得2700萬的資金。她說，支付與會代表們所呼吁的所有行動需要1億。

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我是吉姆特德。

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Correspondent Lisa Schlein reported this story from Geneva. Christopher Jones-Cruise adapted it for VOA Learning English. Kathleen Struck was the editor.

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Words in This Story

contaminated– adj. dangerous, dirty or impure; having something harmful or undesirable

pesticide– n. a chemical that is used to kill animals or insects that damage plants or crops

mercury – n. a silver metal that is liquid at normal temperatures

toxic– adj. containing poisonous substances

exposure– n. the fact or condition of being affected by something or experiencing something; the condition of being exposed to something