词汇提示 1.landmines 地雷 2.preoccupations 忧虑 3.chronic 长期 4.surgeons 外科医生 5.overwhelming 压倒性的 6.handicap 残疾 7.prostheses 假肢 原文 Diana, Princess Of Wales: 'A Modern Tragedy And Its Consequences' (1) Ladies and Gentlemen, I must begin by saying how warmly I welcome this conference on landmines convened by the Mines Advisory Group and the Landmines Survivors' Network. It is so welcome because the world is too little aware of the waste of life, limb and land which anti- personnel landmines are causing among some of the poorest people on earth. Indeed,until my journey to Angola early this year - on which I am going to speak this morning I was largely unaware of it too. For the mine is a stealthy killer. Long after conflict is ended, its innocent victims die or are wounded singly, in countries of which we hear little. Their lonely fate is never reported. The world, with its many other preoccupations, remains largely unmoved by a death roll of something like 800 people every month many of them women and children. Those who are not killed outright - and they number another 1,200 a month – suffer terrible injuries and are handicapped for life. I was in Angola in January with the British Red Cross - a country where there are 15 million landmines in a population, Ladies and Gentlemen, of 10 million - with the desire of drawing world attention to this vital, but hitherto largely neglected issue. Some people chose to interpret my visit as a political statement. But it was not. I am not a political figure. As I said at the time, and I'd like to re-iterate now, my interests are humanitarian. That is why I felt drawn to this human tragedy. This is why I wanted to play down my part in working towards a world-wide ban on these weapons. During my days in Angola, I saw at firsthand three aspects of this scourge. In the hospitals of Luanda, the capital, and Huambo, scene of bitter fighting not long ago, I visited some of the mine victims who had survived, and saw their injuries. I am not going to describe them, because in my experience it turns too many people away from the subject. Suffice to say, that when you look at the mangled bodies, some of them children, caught by these mines, you marvel at their survival. What is so cruel about these injuries, is that they are mostly invariably suffered, where medical resources are scarce. I observed for myself some of the obstacles to improving medical care in most of these hospitals. Often there is a chronic shortage of medicine, of pain killers, even of an aesthetics. Surgeons constantly engaged in amputating shattered limbs, never have all the facilities we would expect to see here. So the human pain that has to be borne is often beyond imagining. This emergency medical care, moreover, is only the first step back to a sort of life. For those whose living is the land, loss of an arm or leg, is an overwhelming handicap which lasts for life. I saw the fine work being done by the Red Cross and other agencies to replace lost limbs. But making prostheses is a costly as well as a complicated business. For example; a young child will need several different fittings as it grows older. Sometimes,the severity of the injury makes the fitting of an artificial limb impossible. There are never enough resources to replace all the limbs that are lost. 翻译 威尔士王妃戴安娜:“一场现代悲剧及其后果”(1)女士们、先生们，首先我必须表示我多么热烈地欢迎地雷咨询小组和地雷幸存者网络召开的这次地雷问题会议。它是如此受欢迎，因为世界对杀伤地雷在地球上一些最贫穷的人中间造成的生命、肢体和土地的浪费认识得太少。事实上，直到我今年早些时候前往安哥拉之前- -我今天上午将就此发言- -我基本上也没有意识到这一点。因为地雷是一个隐秘的杀手。在冲突结束很久之后，在我们很少听到消息的国家中，无辜的受害