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| This is the VOA Special English Development Report. |
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这里是美国之音慢速英语发展报道 |
| Last week we told you about FAILFaire, an event |
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上周我们讨论了FAILFaire |
| where people talk about international development projects that failed. |
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在这个活动上人们讨论失败的国际发展项目 |
| Many of these projects started as good ideas. |
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这些项目中有很多出发点是不错的 |
| Others had some level of success, but not enough to have |
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一些已经达到了一定程度的成功 |
| a measurable effect on the lives of people in developing countries. |
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但是还不足以对发展中国家人们的生活产生可衡量的影响 |
| A nonprofit group in New York |
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今年早些时候 |
| called MobileActive held the first FAILFaire earlier this year. |
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纽约一个名为MobileActive的非盈利组织举办了第一届FAILFaire |
| MobileActive is made up of people and organizations that use technology |
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MobileActive由一些试图依靠技术 |
| to try to improve the lives of the poor. |
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改变穷人生活的个人和机构组成 |
| Katrin Verclas came up with the idea for FAILFaire as a way |
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凯特琳·韦克莱斯（Katrin Verclas）提出了一个想法 |
| to help nonprofit groups improve by learning from the mistakes of others. |
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把FAILFaire作为学习别人失误的途径来帮助非盈利组织得到提高 |
| Katrin Verclas: "The primary goal is to learn from failure and not to |
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韦克莱斯：“FAILFaire的主要目的是从失败中学习经验 |
| repeat the same mistakes over and over again. |
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不再重蹈覆辙 |
| And for a community of practitioners to benefit from the lessons learned |
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对于从业群体而言 |
| from other people so that we can do better the next time around, |
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是从学习他人中受益，以便下次能做的更好 |
| collectively as a field, and individually as organizations and practitioners." |
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这个从业群体统称为一个领域，包括独立从业机构和个人。” |
| Katrin Verclas says there are many reasons why projects fail, |
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韦克莱斯称项目失败的原因很多 |
| but one reason tops all others. |
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但有一个原因最重要 |
| She says development projects are not "one size fits all," |
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她表示，发展项目并非放之四海皆准 |
| yet many people try to import ideas as if they were. |
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然而很多人却试图简单套用 |
| What they fail to consider, she says, |
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她称，他们在 |
| is the desires of the local people or their cultural, economic and political differences. |
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当地人的需求以及他们文化、经济和政治差异方面欠于考虑 |
| She says the problem for many nongovernmental organizations |
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她表示，很多非政府机构和其他组织的问题 |
| and other groups is simply not knowing their audience. |
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只是不了解他们的目标群体 |
| Katrin Verclas: "Western organizations, or NGOs, or donors in particular |
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韦克莱斯：“西方组织，非政府机构，尤其是捐助者 |
| have particular ideas about what might be alleviating a particular problem in a developing country, |
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只是对能够缓解某个发展中国家的某个特定问题有独特的想法 |
| without a really good understanding of the end users or the beneficiaries." |
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而对终端用户或受益者没有真正的了解。” |
| The creator of FAILFaire says this is true not only with technology but other projects as well. |
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FAILFaire的发起者称不仅技术项目如此，其他项目也是如此 |
| Ms. Verclas hopes nonprofits in other industries and fields |
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韦克莱斯希望其他行业和领域的非盈利组织 |
| will create their own versions of FAILFaire. |
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创建他们自己的FAILFaire |
| A second FAILFaire took place in July in Washington. |
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第二届FAILFaire7月份在华盛顿举行 |
| The World Bank Institute co-sponsored the event. |
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世界银行承办了这次活动 |
| To Katrin Verclas, it was a good sign to have the World Bank support |
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对于韦克莱斯而言，有世界银行支持这种对失败的公开讨论 |
| such open discussions about failure. |
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是个好迹象 |
| Katrin Verclas: "We have a lot riding on this, after all. It's not just products; |
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韦克莱斯：“毕竟这里面有很多因素，我们讨论的不仅仅是产品 |
| it's people's lives and well-being and livelihoods in many developing countries |
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而是发展中国家人们的生活， |
| that we're talking about. |
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利益以及生计问题 |
| So it's incumbent upon us to be very, very honest about what projects aren't performing according to expectations." |
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所以我们对这些不能产生预期效果的项目就有义不容辞的责任。” |
| An award for the best worst failure story went to Michael Trucano |
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最佳”糟糕经历奖颁给了 |
| from the World Bank Institute. |
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来自世界银行研究所的迈克·（Michael Trucano） |
| What he presented was in fact a list. |
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他展示的其实就是一个清单 |
| It was a list of what he considers the worst practices in the use |
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在这个清单上，他列出了 |
| of information and communication technologies in education. |
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他认为信息与与通信技术在教育使用中最差的例子 |
| Mr. Trucano gets to keep the award until the next FAILFaire, |
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抱歉，暂无翻译 |
| which is expected to be held on the West Coast this fall. |
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抱歉，暂无翻译 |
