托福阅读机经背景：在刚果行医的女医生Lyn Lusi.docxVIP

智课网TOEFL备考资料托福阅读机经背景：在刚果行医的女医生Lyn Lusi DARKNESS was a word Lyn Lusi was used to. Western journalists instinctively reached for it when they came to her hospital in Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo, in Joseph Conrads heart of darkness. 黑暗，林恩.露丝(Lyn Lusi)早已习惯了这个词;来到她的医院时，西方记者也本能地四下搜寻它的踪影。 Goma itself was a black and grey place, a town built on volcanic basalt tough as broken glass through which green shoots struggled to grow. She knew; she gardened in it. 这所医院位于戈马，隶属刚果民主共和国，约瑟夫.康拉德(Joseph Conrad)笔下的《黑暗中心》。戈马灰黑一片，建在碎玻璃般坚硬而支支棱棱的火山玄武岩上，绿色的嫩芽只能挣扎着钻出地面。这些露丝都明白;在这里播种耕耘的人正是她。 But the real heart of darkness, Mrs Lusi would say quietly, was mans heart. 若在泉下有知，她或许会静静说：真正的黑暗中心，即为人心。 The proof lay all about her. Congo was a rich country, but its minerals were swapped by local strongmen for weapons, or stripped away by corporations who left the people in poverty. 在露丝的身边，证据俯拾皆是。刚果富裕过，但是强壮的当地人用她的矿藏交换武器，各大公司也不遗余力地刮着地皮，老百姓只落得个穷困潦倒。 It was ostensibly at peace, after years of warfare in which millions had died. But remnants of militias still haunted the forests, preying on the villages. So much evil. So much selfishness. 连绵数年的战火夺去了数百万人的生命;时至今日，刚果表面上像是消停了，但是在丛林里，残余的军队依旧阴魂不散，到处洗劫村镇。这里究竟忍受着几多邪恶，肆虐着几多自私啊! In this vast, damaged, neglected place her husband Jo, a Congolese and, like her, an ardent Baptist, was the only orthopaedic surgeon for 8m people. 在这片伤痕累累，被世人遗忘的广袤土地上，露丝的丈夫乔是800万百姓唯一的整形外科医生。 He alone had the skill to mend the crushed arms, the crooked feet. Irrepressible as he was, bubbling over with plans, he often used the image of a little bucket bailing out an ocean. 他是刚果人，和露西一样是浸信会教友，只有他能治好折断的手臂和扭曲的脚掌。他谈起计划来，就会兴高采烈，但也常形容自己是想要舀干大海的小桶。 She preferred the words of Isaiah 61:1: The Lord hath sent me…to bind up the brokenhearted. 露丝则更喜欢引用《以赛亚书》中的话(61:1)：“(主)呼召我……差遣我去绑扎心里破碎的。” Their hospital at Goma had been set up in 2000 to train young Congolese doctors. 2000年，夫妻两在戈马修建了一所医院，培训年轻的刚果医生。 Two years later the building was destro