各国船只，飞机向海啸灾民提供援助
时间：2019-01-03 作者：英语课 分类：VOA2005（上）--海啸灾难纪实
Ships, Planes from Several Nations Deliver Aid to Tsunami 1 Victims
各国船只，飞机向海啸灾民提供援助
Naval 2 ships from the United States, Australia, India, and Singapore are steaming to Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and Thailand. They are carrying supplies, personnel, and construction equipment to areas devastated 3 by the earthquake and killer 4 waves five-days ago.
A member of the U.S. senior military command, General James Conway, says a disaster relief team has been sent to each of these three countries.
James Conwa: Their task, of course, will be to make immediate 5 assessment 6 as to the nature and the scope of the impact of the disaster.
A U.S. aircraft carrier group of four ships is deploying 7 off the coast of northern Indonesia's Aceh province. Six ships will steam to Sri Lanka. And since Thursday, about two dozen cargo 8 and search-and-rescue planes have been flying missions from a base in Thailand.
Thailand has been designated the hub of the U.S. effort. The head of the Joint 9 U.S. Military Assistance Group, Colonel Jack 10 Dibrell, says the U.S. planes have doubled the capacity of the Thai royal air force. They are airlifting relief supplies to the west coast, where thousands of people have been killed or injured.
Colonel Jack Dibrell: Phase one is primarily to give them [the Thai's] that lift capability 11 and phase two may be, more and more, forces coming in to help them in the rebuilding and assessing where we can best apply the military assets that we have.
Australia Friday sent a navy ship carrying helicopters, construction equipment, and army engineers to Aceh to help reconstruction 12 and relief efforts in devastated communities that have been cut off by damaged roads.
Commander Steve Woodhall aboard the Kanimbla says the crew is ready for its task.
Steve Woodhall: I think it is going to be difficult, but I have got a great team. They are well-trained and our military skills can be applied 13 to these sort of disaster relief efforts and I am sure once we get these people ashore 14, we can make a difference.
Singapore is also sending a navy ship to Aceh with food, medical supplies, and bulldozers. Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong says 700 Singaporeans are being deployed 15 and called it unprecedented 16 effort for the nation of five million people.
Lee Hsien Loong: We have never done anything on this scale before. So we are pushing the limits of what we have done.
Relief experts say military fleets, with their large transport capacity, provide valuable support in moving large amounts of aid to devastated regions, and then distributing the aid to isolated 17 populations. The U.S. ships can also produce tens of thousands of liters of badly needed clean water.
Scott Bobb, VOA news, Bangkok.
注释：
assessment [E5sesmEnt] n. 被评估的金额
royal [5rCiEl] adj. 王室的
helicopter [5helikCptE] n. 直升飞机
navy [5neivi] n. 海军
capacity [kE5pAsiti] n. 能力
isolated [5aisEleitid] adj. 孤立的
- 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。
- He took part in a great naval battle.他参加了一次大海战。
- The harbour is an important naval base.该港是一个重要的海军基地。
- The bomb devastated much of the old part of the city. 这颗炸弹炸毁了旧城的一大片地方。
- His family is absolutely devastated. 他的一家感到极为震惊。
- Heart attacks have become Britain's No.1 killer disease.心脏病已成为英国的头号致命疾病。
- The bulk of the evidence points to him as her killer.大量证据证明是他杀死她的。
- His immediate neighbours felt it their duty to call.他的近邻认为他们有责任去拜访。
- We declared ourselves for the immediate convocation of the meeting.我们主张立即召开这个会议。
- This is a very perceptive assessment of the situation.这是一个对该情况的极富洞察力的评价。
- What is your assessment of the situation?你对时局的看法如何？
- Provides support for developing and deploying distributed, component-based applications. 为开发和部署基于组件的分布式应用程序提供支持。
- Advertisement, publishing, repair, and install-on-demand are all available when deploying your application. 在部署应用程序时提供公布、发布、修复和即需即装功能。
- The ship has a cargo of about 200 ton.这条船大约有200吨的货物。
- A lot of people discharged the cargo from a ship.许多人从船上卸下货物。
- I had a bad fall,which put my shoulder out of joint.我重重地摔了一跤，肩膀脫臼了。
- We wrote a letter in joint names.我们联名写了封信。
- I am looking for the headphone jack.我正在找寻头戴式耳机插孔。
- He lifted the car with a jack to change the flat tyre.他用千斤顶把车顶起来换下瘪轮胎。
- She has the capability to become a very fine actress.她有潜力成为杰出演员。
- Organizing a whole department is beyond his capability.组织整个部门是他能力以外的事。
- The country faces a huge task of national reconstruction following the war.战后，该国面临着重建家园的艰巨任务。
- In the period of reconstruction,technique decides everything.在重建时期，技术决定一切。
- She plans to take a course in applied linguistics.她打算学习应用语言学课程。
- This cream is best applied to the face at night.这种乳霜最好晚上擦脸用。
- 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。
- Tanks have been deployed all along the front line. 沿整个前线已部署了坦克。
- The artillery was deployed to bear on the fort. 火炮是对着那个碉堡部署的。
- The air crash caused an unprecedented number of deaths.这次空难的死亡人数是空前的。
- A flood of this sort is really unprecedented.这样大的洪水真是十年九不遇。