Take Away English-Britain Doubles Aid to China 英国加倍对华援助
时间：2019-01-02 作者：英语课 分类：Take Away English
Badly-needed tents have been flown to China's earthquake disaster zone in the latest delivery of aid from Britain.
The first of three jumbo jetloads of 5,000 tents arrived at Chengdu airport and will give shelter to 30,000 people made homeless by the devastation 1.
They were immediately sent by road to be distributed in areas of need in Sichuan Province. An earlier consignment 2 of 3,000 tents bought in-country arrived in the area on May 20 by rail.
The Chinese ambassador Fu Ying said that she was very grateful for the quick response of Britain in its relief effort:
"We are very grateful to the help offered by the British government. The Prime Minister Gordon Brown came to the embassy. He expressed his condolences and he said Britain is committed with $4m US dollars, half in cash and half in kind".
As well as the government, the British business community, charities and people from all walks of life have showed their support in one way or another.
The Chinese embassy has received £700,000 (RMB 10m) donated by the British public while British companies are making more sizeable donations which have so far amounted to some £5.4m (RMB 81m). Additionally, contributions in kind are also being made by British firms, for example, a fleet of six excavators and supplies of pharmaceuticals 3.
Madam Fu Ying said that Britain has assembled a team of doctors experienced in dealing 4 with earthquakes:
"And there is also a British medical team which has arrived and the embassy is really bombarded by letters of condolences, sympathy, donation. We received altogether £700,000. The Queen also sent a letter of condolences".
GLOSSARY 词汇表
badly-needed
急需的
delivery
递送
devastation
毁坏
consignment
发送
is committed
承诺
half in kind
一半物品
donate
捐献
contributions
贡献
pharmaceuticals
药品
bombarded
频频不断地（收到）
disaster zone
灾区
shelter
掩体；遮盖物
be distributed
分发
condolences
哀悼
half in cash
一半现金
all walks of life
各行各业
amount to
达到
excavators
挖掘机
assemble
组成
sympathy
同情
- The bomb caused widespread devastation. 炸弹造成大面积破坏。
- There was devastation on every side. 到处都是破坏的创伤。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- This last consignment of hosiery is quite up to standard.这批新到的针织品完全符合规格。
- We have to ask you to dispatch the consignment immediately.我们得要求你立即发送该批货物。
- the development of new pharmaceuticals 新药的开发
- The companies are pouring trillions of yen into biotechnology research,especially for pharmaceuticals and new seeds. 这些公司将大量资金投入生物工艺学研究，尤其是药品和新种子方面。 来自《简明英汉词典》