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1、B B1 1- -U Un ni it t- -1 12 2- -T Te ex xt t- -1 1- -英英汉汉对对照照( (未未找找到到中中文文翻翻译译) )-CAL-FENGHAI.-(YICAI)-Company One1Text OneText OneOn the Wrong Side of the Global DivideOn the Wrong Side of the Global Divide Grace has a little place in the suburbs. Its notmuch, perhaps - the whitewash is coming off
2、 thewalls, the red-baked ground is stoney and thepersistently cheerful rhythms thumping from thebar round the corner look set to go on all night -but its impossible to be lonely in her one-roomhouse in a block of four, surrounded by friendsand their children, and its a short walk to workacross the f
3、ields. She says shes happy. Shes just 30, shes singleand she has a good job selling luxury shoes from ashuttered wooden kiosk in the Central Market,the exuberant commercial hub of Lilongwe. All herlife should be spreading out before her, but aglance into the future shows death staring back,just a fe
4、w years on. Like every fourth young man or woman inMalawis towns and every sixth in the villages,Grace Matnanga has the HIV virus running like aslow and silent poison in her veins. You cant tellwho most of them are. They teach children, theypolice the streets, they work in hotel receptionsand bring
5、up children. They laugh and smile likeevery other Malawian. For months or years, theyappear well. Then the downward spiral begins.Maybe next year, maybe in five years time,depending on how well she eats and how healthyshe keeps herself, Grace will begin to lose weight.She will get an infection - it
6、might be just a minorone - but after that she will get another, moreserious. It could be pneumonia, it could be TB or it课文一课文一2could be meningitis. There are drugs in Malawishospitals to treat all three successfully, but eachtime she recovers, her immune system will be thatlittle bit more battered,
7、her weight lower and herchances of surviving diminished. The curves ofhealthy flesh will disappear. She will begin to lookwasted and everybody she knows will understandwhy. Eventually her body will give up the fight, thepain and fever will engulf her and Grace willbecome just another Aids statistic.
8、 She doesnt think about it, she says, with a smileand a slight shrug, as she looks out of her kiosk atthe vitality and the colour of the market, wherebrightly dressed women sit among their sacks ofmint leaves, tomatoes and red aduki beans, tailorspeddle sewing machines and heat flat irons onopen fir
9、es to repair old clothes and everythingfrom door handles to dried fish to pineapples isfor sale. But she knows too well what is in store.Her freedom and independence were wished onher like a curse. Once she had a husband. Onceshe had a child. Both are dead. I was married for eight years, she says. M
10、yhusband passed away in 1998. He collapsed andwas taken to the Central Hospital and put onoxygen. Like most of the young people who die,he had not been tested for HIV, but theres littledoubt that Aids killed him.He survived longer than their little daughter.Tiyajanewasbornin1993,thelonged-forfulfilm
11、ent of marrriage in Malawian society,where almost every young woman has a babystrapped to her back. Tiyajane appeared to behealthy at first, but then the weight gain slowed.She stopped thriving. She began to get sick. Shepicked up infections. When she died, aged three,she was a pitiful, wasted scrap, the ulcers in herthroat and mouth making the pain of swallowingmore vicious than the pangs of hunger.4
