地道美語向前沖：印度清潔工的悲慘生活
作者：伊新學(xué)堂
2012-08-27 20:11
本期內(nèi)容介紹：
在印度，每年大概有70%的清潔工在工作時(shí)死亡，他們每天拿著不到2美元的薪水，清理著印度大大小小的下水道，辛苦自是不言而喻啊~~
According to Harnam Singh, the chairman of the Delhi Safai Karamchari Commision, (Delhi cleaners commission) almost 70 per cent of the manual scavengers die on the job. An estimated 61 sewer divers have died in last six months alone.
Even though India banned the practice in 1993, government agencies still use thousands of manual scavengers to clean drains through out India.
According to 2010 data from the United Nations Development Programme, an estimated 37.2 per cent of Indians live below the national poverty line with 68.7 per cent surviving on less than $2 a day.
Poverty line = 貧困線
On the job = 在工作上
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