历史上的今天-Today in History 2014-09-01
时间：2019-02-14 作者：英语课 分类：历史上的今天-2014年
英语课
August 29th, 2005.
America suffers its most destructive natural disaster. Hurricane Katrina, a Category 3 storm blows ashore 1 in Southeast Louisiana, forcing hundreds of thousands to evacuate 2. Katrina kills eighteen hundred people across the Gulf 3 Coast, destroying or severely 4 damaging homes from Alabama and Mississippi to New Orleans. 80% of the Big Easy is swamped when the city’s levees break after the storm strikes. Hundreds of thousands of residents and about a million others in surrounding areas are forced to flee. But Katrina’s howling winds also drive thousands to Superdome and to the New Orleans Convention Center for shelter, most of them, the poorest of the poor, unwilling 5 or unable to heed 6 the evacuation orders. Looting and violence later break out in the city where the initial sluggish 7 response to Katrina only adds to the misery 8.
“We could go and help in tsunami 9, but we can’t help our own people, we’ve been sleeping in the streets for five days and nights.”
Government officials, federal state and local all face sharp criticism for their handling of the catastrophe 10, from President Bush and Federal Emergency Management Agency Chief Michael Brown to Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco and New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin. Despite some progress and rebuilding after Katrina, recovery for New Orleans and the Gulf Coast remains 11 a long hard road, while debate over the disaster goes on. Today in History, August 29th. Ross Simpson, the Associated Press.
adv.在(向)岸上，上岸
- The children got ashore before the tide came in.涨潮前，孩子们就上岸了。
- He laid hold of the rope and pulled the boat ashore.他抓住绳子拉船靠岸。
v.遣送；搬空；抽出；排泄；大(小)便
- We must evacuate those soldiers at once!我们必须立即撤出这些士兵！
- They were planning to evacuate the seventy American officials still in the country.他们正计划转移仍滞留在该国的70名美国官员。
n.海湾；深渊，鸿沟；分歧，隔阂
- The gulf between the two leaders cannot be bridged.两位领导人之间的鸿沟难以跨越。
- There is a gulf between the two cities.这两座城市间有个海湾。
adv.严格地；严厉地；非常恶劣地
- He was severely criticized and removed from his post.他受到了严厉的批评并且被撤了职。
- He is severely put down for his careless work.他因工作上的粗心大意而受到了严厉的批评。
adj.不情愿的
- The natives were unwilling to be bent by colonial power.土著居民不愿受殖民势力的摆布。
- His tightfisted employer was unwilling to give him a raise.他那吝啬的雇主不肯给他加薪。
v.注意，留意；n.注意，留心
- You must take heed of what he has told.你要注意他所告诉的事。
- For the first time he had to pay heed to his appearance.这是他第一次非得注意自己的外表不可了。
adj.懒惰的，迟钝的，无精打采的
- This humid heat makes you feel rather sluggish.这种湿热的天气使人感到懒洋洋的。
- Circulation is much more sluggish in the feet than in the hands.脚部的循环比手部的循环缓慢得多。
n.痛苦，苦恼，苦难；悲惨的境遇，贫苦
- Business depression usually causes misery among the working class.商业不景气常使工薪阶层受苦。
- He has rescued me from the mire of misery.他把我从苦海里救了出来。
n.海啸
- Powerful quake sparks tsunami warning in Japan.大地震触发了日本的海啸预警。
- Coastlines all around the Indian Ocean inundated by a huge tsunami.大海啸把印度洋沿岸地区都淹没了。
n.大灾难，大祸
- I owe it to you that I survived the catastrophe.亏得你我才大难不死。
- This is a catastrophe beyond human control.这是一场人类无法控制的灾难。