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(单词翻译:双击或拖选)
Monsters, unfortunately, sometimes refuse to stay dead. Diseases once eradicated1 can creep back and strike at the most vulnerable in countries least equipped to deal with them. And slavery itself blights2 many lives today. It's prohibited, of course, under any number of international agreements, but it mutates into different forms, and the end result is the same - human beings being treated merely as exploitable assets.So people who've agreed to be trafficked across continents in the hope of a new beginning find they're trapped in a nightmare of forced labour, brutal3 conditions, and minimal4 reward. Women and children, especially, are kidnapped into prostitution. Whole communities are in subjection as bonded5 labourers, unable to free themselves from often quite small debts incurred6 by previous generations. More than a hundred million children are reckoned to be required to do work which harms them. And on it goes.
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画着根的 | |
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2 blights | |
使凋萎( blight的第三人称单数 ); 使颓丧; 损害; 妨害 | |
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adj.残忍的,野蛮的,不讲理的 | |
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adj.尽可能少的,最小的 | |
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n.有担保的,保税的,粘合的 | |
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6 incurred | |
[医]招致的,遭受的; incur的过去式 | |
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