导读：印尼一位六十九岁老农萨迪曼（Sadiman）在当地村民的不解和嘲笑声中，经过二十四年不懈努力，种植至少一万一千棵树，将一片干旱贫瘠的山丘变成了富饶的绿洲，还使当地村民重新用上了山泉水，现在他被各国媒体誉为“生态战士”。

• dedicate /ˈdedɪkeɪt / v. 奉献；致力于
  例句：He dedicated his life to helping the poor. 他毕生致力于帮助穷人。
• dire /ˈdaɪə(r)/ adj. 极其严重的
  例句：We’re in dire need of your help. 我们急需你的帮助。
• ridicule /ˈridikjuːl/ v. 嘲笑
  例句：In fact, her ideas were ridiculed at that time. 其实，她的观点当时受到了嘲笑。
• backlash / ˈbæklæʃ/ n. 强烈反对；集体抵制
  例句：They feared a backlash against the new laws. 他们害怕人们会强烈抵制新法律。
• at stake /steɪk / 处于危险境地；处于成败关头
  例句：Thousands of lives will be at stake if emergency aid does not arrive in the city soon. 如果紧急救援物资不能很快运到城中，数千人的生命就会有危险。
• barren /ˈbærən/ adj. 贫瘠的
  例句：No crops can be grown on this barren land. 这片贫瘠的土地无法种植庄稼。
• He predicted decades in advance the dire need his community would someday have for fresh water and ripe harvests, so he got to work planting new trees across the region.
  他提前几十年预测，他的社区有一天会急需淡水和成熟的收成，所以他开始在整个地区种植新的树木。in advance意为 “提前，事先”；his community would someday have 是省略关系代词的定语从句，修饰先行词the dire need。for fresh water and ripe harvests是介词短语做后置定语，修饰the dire need。
• Yet despite the backlash and criticism, Sadiman pushed forward, reminding himself of all that was at stake if he were to give up.
  尽管遭到强烈的反对和批评，但萨迪曼还是向前推进，提醒自己：如果他放弃了，那一切都会处于危险境地。push forward意为“推进”；reminding现在分词作伴随状语；if引导虚拟条件句。

 

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A 69-year-old man affectionately known as “mbah,” or “grandpa,” around his community in Central Java, Indonesia, has dedicated the past 24 years of his life to preparing for the future of his neighbors. After big fires were lit throughout the land to clear it for planting, many of their nearby water sources dried up in the process. So “mbah” Sadiman decided to do something about it!

He predicted decades in advance the dire need his community would someday have for fresh water and ripe harvests, so he got to work planting new trees across the region. Unsurprisingly, not everyone caught his same vision. “People ridiculed me for bringing banyan tree(榕树) seeds to the village, because they felt uneasy as they believed there are spirits in these trees,” Sadiman said.

Yet despite the backlash and criticism, Sadiman pushed forward, reminding himself of all that was at stake if he were to give up. “In my experience, banyan trees and ficus trees(云杉树) can store a lot of water,” he explained. “I thought to myself, if I don’t plant banyan trees, this area would become dry.” And that’s exactly what he did! Over the past two decades, Sadiman has planted at least 11,000 banyan and other ficus trees across upwards of 617 acres.

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