2010-08-31

notes 4 Sheryl WuDunn: Our century's greatest injustice

個人喜愛度:★★★★★

Half the Sky 《她們,和她們的希望故事》
rice paddies 稻田
exogenous investment 外源的
vicious cycle 惡性循環
virtuous cycle 良性循環
tenet 原則;信條
hyperbole 誇張
Ethiopia 衣索比亞
transformative effect 轉變作用
maternal mortality 因難產死亡的婦女 
obstetric fistula 生殖廔管
obstructed labor 阻礙性分娩(嬰兒頭太大,以致不能通過產道分娩)
incontinent 大小便失禁
hyena 鬣狗(分佈於非洲和亞洲,以動物屍體為食)
Addis Ababa 阿地斯阿貝巴(衣索匹亞首都)
Lahore, Pakistan 拉合爾(巴基斯坦城市)
microlending 小額貸款
embroidery 刺繡
Bill Easterly's book "Dead Aid" 比爾伊斯特《致命援助》
irrigation 灌溉

chicken coop (關雞等的)籠子
to throw the baby out with the bath water 不要把好東西連同壞東西一起拋棄
Darfur 非洲國家蘇丹西部的達佛地區
steadfast 堅定的;不動搖的




When you educate a girl, she tends to get married later on in life, she tends to have kids later on in life, she tends to have fewer kids, and those kids that she does have, she educates them in a more enlightened fashion.

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