图书自动售货机向儿童免费发放书籍

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高中一年级

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自动售货机通常是售卖零食或者饮料，最近美国通过自动售货机免费让孩子们得到他们喜欢的书籍。

A vending(售卖) machine is usually where a person buys snacks and drinks.

自动售货机，一般是供人们买饮料或者小吃之类的。

In Washington, D.C, some vending machines are providing a new snack: free children’s books. The Book Vending Machine program is the first of its kind in the U.S. It is the newest addition to “Soar with Reading”, a program started five years ago by JetBlue Airlines and designed to encourage kids to read more and to get books into the hands of kids that need them most. Dozens of books that appeal to children are within reach, at the push of a button. Stories are about dinosaurs, elephants, knights, robots and lots of other things. And the kids get a lot of encouragement.

最近在华盛顿特区，一些自动售货机提供一种新的“食物”：免费儿童书籍。自动售书项目在美国属首次。五年前JetBlue航空公司创办了“翱翔阅读”的文化项目，这次自动售书是这个项目最新的补充。孩子们只需按一下按钮就能得到几十本诸如：恐龙、大象、武士、机器人等各种吸引他们的书籍，这极大地鼓舞了孩子们的读书兴趣。

The program is a joint(共同的) effort with a children’s book company. The vending machines are located in churches, grocery stores, schools and a branch of the Salvation Army in southeast D.C. There are a lot of books in the machines and children are allowed to take as many as they want.

这个项目是与一家儿童读物出版公司共同努力的结果。自动售书机安放在教堂、杂货店和特区东南的Salvation军营一个分队旁边。每台售书机里装满了书，每个孩子想取多少就取多少。

Icema Gibbs is director of Corporate Social Responsibility for JetBlue Airways. He said, “Making sure that kids develop a life-long love of reading when they are really young is really important to us. We hope it helps us have better future crew members and people who work for us.”

Icema Gibbs是JetBlue航空公司社会责任部负责人，他说：“对我们来说，确保从小培养孩子们的终身学习爱好是十分重要的。我们认为这样能确保我们将来有更好的员工和为我们工作的人。”

Studies have shown that having books at home has a positive effect on children’s test scores in school. It makes kids more likely to read for pleasure.

研究表明，孩子们家中有书读，对他们的在校学习成绩也是有积极的影响。这样孩子们更喜欢以读书为乐趣。

“Our program is trying to get books in the hands of children who don’t have age-appropriate(适龄的) books at home. They can touch and pick a book that was important to them so nobody, no adult was telling them what book they had to take.” Icema Gibbs added.

“我们这个项目是基于这种考虑，即把书送到那些家里没有适合他们的年龄特征的书的孩子手中。他们可以接触到书并挑选书,没有人，没有大人来告诉他们该拿什么书。”