尤絲拉‧馬爾迪尼A REFUGEE STORY
為無聲難民勇敢發聲 A voice for the voiceless
什麼足以讓你逃離自己的家園？
對尤絲拉˙馬爾迪尼而言，是一枚投進她游泳隊受訓建築的手榴彈。
他們很幸運，因為手榴彈沒有爆炸，只是沉到了泳池的底部。
那是二○一五年，當時敘利亞爆發戰爭，馬爾迪尼居住的城市大馬士革戰事頻頻。
馬爾迪尼希望能有一所安全的學校和一處良好的受訓地點；不想要一直處於害怕的狀態。
後來，她的家遭到摧毀，從而促使這個十七歲的女孩和她二十歲的姊姊逃往土耳其；在那裡，她們接著和其他大約二十個人登上一艘前往希臘的充氣艇。
這對姊妹怎麼也想不到，船的引擎居然會在愛琴海中央發生故障；因此，馬爾迪尼和其他三人只好跳進海裡。
他們在波濤洶湧的海浪中推拉著小船，游了三個多小時，直到抵達希臘的一座島嶼。
「雖然我是一名游泳選手，但我非常害怕；我很渺小，而且大海和游泳池並不一樣，」馬爾迪尼回憶道。
What would it take to make you flee your home? For Yusra Mardini it took a grenade penetrating the building where her swim team was training. They were fortunate that the grenade never exploded but just sank to the bottom of the pool. That was in 2015, and Syria was in the midst of a war, and there was fighting in her city, Damascus.
Mardini wanted a safe school and a good place to train. She didn't want to be afraid all the time. Later, after her house was destroyed, it was decided that the 17-year-old and her 20-year-old sister should escape to Turkey. There, with about 20 others, they boarded an inflatable boat bound for Greece. Never could the sisters have imagined that in the middle of the Aegean Sea the engine would break down. So Mardini and three others jumped into the sea. Swimming, they pushed and pulled the boat through choppy waves for over three hours to reach a Greek island.
"Even though I'm a swimmer, I was so scared. I was very tiny, and the sea is not the same as the pool," Mardini recalls.
refugee
penetratee（v.）穿透
Isabelle’s windows were so dirty that the sunlight could barely penetrate them.
It was in the late 1400s that explorers began to penetrate the Amazon River Basin. 進入亞馬遜河流域
It’s very difficult for our company to penetrate the market in northern South America.打入市場
midst （n.）
in the midst of 在當中
In the midst of making dinner, Margaret heard the phone ring. 正在做晚餐的時候
The girls listened to the rock concert in the midst of thousands of other fans. 一起聽音樂會
Levi always manages to be calm in the midst of a crisis. 在危機中保持冷靜
bound （adj.）準備前往某地
The refugees are bound for neighboring countries where there is no war. 前往沒有戰爭的鄰國
After the plane took off, Stella realized she was on a flight bound for Paris, not Rome.
bound/ bind（v.）捆；綁起來
Henry bound the newspapers together and put them in the recycling bin.
voiceless 無聲的；無言的；無發言權的
it's not referring to people who cannot speak with their vocal cords
This is referring to people who do not have the power to be able to be heard, by different people in society or around the world. We usually use the word "voiceless" to talk abou anybody who doesn't have the power to be heard.
to flee
you are running away from something; something is forcing you to run
Refuge is a synonym for shelter or a safe place
grenade（n.）手榴彈；滅火彈
explosive
Damascus is the oldest continually inhabited city
大馬士革，在《回回館譯語》中被稱為敵米石。是敘利亞的首都與最大城市，也是黎凡特和阿拉伯世界的重要文化中心，因而被視為伊斯蘭教的第四大聖城。 2019年，該市的人口估計為 2,079,000人。
calm your nerves 冷靜下來
nerves of steel 很有膽量【鋼鐵般的神經】
Peter has nerves of steel when he is on stage. 穩如泰山
break down（ph v.）故障
Matt and Jesssica’s car broke down when they were driving in the country. 拋錨 break down（ph v.）情緒崩潰
Ava felt so much stress about taking her driving test that she finally just broke down and cried.
break down（ph v.）分解
The food you eat breaks down in your stomach and nourishes your body. 滋養你的胃
it was decided…
inflatable boat
kaput = broken down完蛋了的；過時的
it was a good thing that I knew the German word "kaput," which means broke or
it's broken because someone came onto the car we were in and said, "Kaput”
to maneuver
the idea of moving
But I don't want you to think that because you're an intern, you need to buy your
supervisor's coffee.
I just know you've been burning the midnight oil a lot lately. I thought you might need an extra cup of coffee.
You have to pull your own weight.
pull your weight means do your part
You don’t want to be dragging in client meetings!
