干旱威胁肯尼亚图尔卡纳的生活

短语讲解：

1. Pastoralists tend their animals in a region that was already dry and hot even before the severe drought took hold.

take hold扎根; 夺取
例句：The music took hold of her slowly.
这音乐慢慢吸引了她。

2. That’s the story of an indigenous people group that has managed to resist dominance from the Brits and now from the Kenyans and to maintain their pastoral, nomadic, sort of, individualistic way of life.

manage to达成,设法
例句：She managed to make herself understood in English.
她设法用英语表达自己的意思。

3. He said it takes something drastic for the Turkana people to give up their pastoralist ways and move into settled communities.

give up放弃
例句：She will give up this journey.
她将放弃这次旅行。

4. When their animals are dying and then their people start dying, and they see that one of the major aid agencies or the World Food Program is handing out food somewhere, they can give up - give up their whole way of life and basically just become beggars in these little IDP [internally displaced people] camps.

hand out分发, 发给, 散发
例句：Please hand out the reading materials to the students.
请把这些阅读材料分发给学生。

5. Golden said while emergency aid is needed now, action should be taken to find long-term solutions.

take action采取行动, 行动起来
例句：The police had to take firm action to deal with the riots.
警方不得不采取果断行动来对付骚乱。

6. Solutions that would allow the Turkana to better cope with drought.

cope with对付;处理
例句：I was amazed at her ability to cope with the difficult situation.
她对付困境的能力使我惊讶。

7. Or will you have involved the local community in that process?

involve in使参与〔陷入, 牵扯到〕
例句：The vast masses there have become involved in the health campaign.
那里的广大群众都参加了卫生运动。

8. It’s also a matter of being sensitive to the culture of the Turkana.

be sensitive to过敏,灵敏
例句：An artist is sensitive to beauty.
艺术家对于美的感觉很灵敏。

9. If you just think people need water and you dig a borehole and you end up creating in effect thousands of people gathering and waiting to be fed, then you’ve got another disaster.

end up (以…)结束; 最终成为〔变得〕
例句：He ended up as head of the firm.
他最后成了公司的负责人。