媒體英語(yǔ)會(huì)帶大家一起學(xué)習(xí) BBC 撰稿人在報(bào)道世界大事時(shí)常用到的單詞和短語(yǔ)。

印度總理倫德拉·莫迪加入了本周四的一次全國(guó)性的大清掃運(yùn)動(dòng)，與成千上萬(wàn)的兒童、群眾和政府要員一起打掃了公園，政府大樓和街道。這項(xiàng)由莫迪發(fā)起的"清潔印度"運(yùn)動(dòng)，要求國(guó)家公務(wù)員需要貢獻(xiàn)出一天公休假日來(lái)為人民服務(wù)。請(qǐng)聽(tīng) BBC 記者 Andrew North 發(fā)回的報(bào)道。

A former Indian environment minister once said that if there was a Nobel Prize for dirt and filth, India would win. The new Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, has made a big thing about changing that and has chosen one of the most important dates in the national calendar to launch his clean-up campaign: the birthday of India’s independence leader Mahatma Gandhi.

Having been scolded by Mr Modi already for their timekeeping, most civil servants were expected to give up what is a public holiday to clean up their own offices, even though it’s supposedly voluntary. Hygiene-related diseases remain one of the biggest killers of young children and a serious drag on India’s development.

While many experts have welcomed Mr Modi’s clean-up campaign, they say there’s still a long way to go.