[ti:Idris Elba Wants to Help After Recovering from Coronavirus] [by:www.51voa.com] [00:00.00]更多听力请访问51VOA.COM [00:00.04]Idris Elba says he and his wife had their lives "turned around" [00:05.76]after they became infected with the new coronavirus. [00:11.64]The two only had mild symptoms after getting infected. [00:17.52]Yet the British actor called the experience "definitely scary and unsettling and nervous." [00:26.80]"You know, everyone's sort of feeling the way we have been feeling," he told The Associated Press (AP). [00:36.52]But Elba feels that there are life lessons to be learned, and the health crisis [00:43.04]shows that the world does not move on your time. [00:47.84]"I think that the world should take a week of quarantine every year just to remember this time. [00:55.92]Remember each other. I really do," he said. [01:00.28]The actor and his wife, model Sabrina Elba, [01:04.80]spoke last week as they began working with the United Nations on a project. [01:11.72]Its aim is to lessen the effects of COVID-19 – the disease caused by the coronavirus -- on farmers in rural areas. [01:23.36]"People forget that 80 percent of the poor population live in these rural areas." Sabrina Elba said. [01:32.24]"What we are really worried about at the moment, and why we are launching this fund [01:37.88]is that those people are being forgotten." [01:41.24]In their new positions as U.N. Goodwill Ambassadors, Elba and his wife [01:48.20]joined with the Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) to launch the new $40 million fund. [01:58.72]IFAD hopes to raise up to $200 million more from governments around the world. [02:07.08]The actor believes people in rural and poor areas are likely to suffer more during the coronavirus pandemic. [02:17.16]"If you imagine being in a village where no one even knows the name of your village or your population, [02:25.16]and that you live in a slum where there is one room and six of you live in it," he said. [02:32.36]"Social distancing is almost laughable." [02:36.68]Both Elba and his wife have roots in Africa. [02:42.36]His parents are from Sierra Leone and Ghana. [02:47.32]Sabrina Elba's parents are from Somalia. [02:52.00]The Elbas went to Sierra Leone in December to see how IFAD has helped people there. [02:59.80]Idris said he was especially concerned about what the pandemic could do [03:06.12]in African countries already suffering economically. [03:11.04]"We have to think about the forward planning," about what the bad effects may be, he said. [03:18.28]The two have been recovering in the western United States, [03:22.76]where the actor was filming when he got sick. [03:26.12]Elba said he had to miss his 6-year-old son's birthday [03:30.96]because of shelter-in-place orders but he is hoping to see the boy as soon as he can. [03:39.08]He added that he and his wife have been lucky. [03:43.12]"We have been staying in a lovely place that's been very comfortable for the time. [03:49.12]But we're looking forward to going home." [03:53.32]I'm Alice Bryant. 更多听力请访问51VOA.COM