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英语课
By Brian Wagner
Miami
17 August 2007

Peru's government has appealed for calm as relief workers try to deliver aid to survivors 1 of a massive earthquake that killed at least 500 people. In Miami, VOA's Brian Wagner reports that immigrant groups in the United States are gathering 2 donations and other supplies to send to the region.






Peru's President Alan Garcia (file photo)


Alan Garcia (file photo)



Peru's President Alan Garcia promised residents that relief aid is coming to towns along the nation's central coast that were hit by Wednesday's quake. The Peruvian leader began a tour of the disaster zone Thursday, where the 8.0 magnitude quake toppled buildings and mud-brick homes.


Some survivors have complained that relief supplies have been slow in arriving. Damage to highways, roads and power systems has impeded 3 their delivery.


Rescue efforts have also been hampered 4 by a series of strong aftershocks in the region, including a 5.9 magnitude quake early Friday. Officials said they were continuing to search for survivors in the rubble 5, but that time was running out to find people alive.


In Miami, Latin American community groups began appealing for donations of canned food, medicine, warm clothing and blankets for survivors. Carlos Pereira, head of the Immigration Orientation 6 Center, which provides assistance to immigrants, said his group plans to send supplies on a chartered flight to central Peru on Tuesday. He added that Peruvian immigrants in Miami have been calling his group asking for information about family members in Peru.


Pereira says it is important to remain calm and patient in this situation and find ways to help.


In Washington, the United States has released $150,000 for emergency supplies, and is providing two medical teams. The Pentagon said one of the teams was on the ground in Peru when the disaster occurred and has begun working with Peruvian officials to assist survivors.




幸存者,残存者,生还者( survivor的名词复数 )
  • The survivors were adrift in a lifeboat for six days. 幸存者在救生艇上漂流了六天。
  • survivors clinging to a raft 紧紧抓住救生筏的幸存者
n.集会,聚会,聚集
  • He called on Mr. White to speak at the gathering.他请怀特先生在集会上讲话。
  • He is on the wing gathering material for his novels.他正忙于为他的小说收集资料。
阻碍,妨碍,阻止( impede的过去式和过去分词 )
  • Work on the building was impeded by severe weather. 楼房的施工因天气恶劣而停了下来。
  • He was impeded in his work. 他的工作受阻。
妨碍,束缚,限制( hamper的过去式和过去分词 )
  • The search was hampered by appalling weather conditions. 恶劣的天气妨碍了搜寻工作。
  • So thought every harassed, hampered, respectable boy in St. Petersburg. 圣彼德堡镇的那些受折磨、受拘束的体面孩子们个个都是这么想的。
n.(一堆)碎石,瓦砾
  • After the earthquake,it took months to clean up the rubble.地震后,花了数月才清理完瓦砾。
  • After the war many cities were full of rubble.战后许多城市到处可见颓垣残壁。
n.方向,目标;熟悉,适应,情况介绍
  • Children need some orientation when they go to school.小孩子上学时需要适应。
  • The traveller found his orientation with the aid of a good map.旅行者借助一幅好地图得知自己的方向。
学英语单词
AACRAO
acceptance of materials report
airdrying
angle beam ultrasonic examination
arthrodia
automatic water quality monitor
balancing layer
Ban Huai Pong
Banbān, 'Irq
brand marketing
buyout repo
cantilever hood
carbohydrate recognition domain
cauterisations
ceramic fiber felt
complex value
constringence
correctly
counter-clockwise rotation
crystal fiber laser
cuneiform bones
dielectric membrane
doctuss
drynursed
duckish
effective distortion
epic film
fashion element
flat sliding
fund warrant
gauge glass cutter
geologic-topographic map
get an egg on the head
go flatting
gollania varians (mitt) broth
grand pas de basque
herringboning
high pressure arc discharge
histabutyzine
horizontal filter
hot isostatic bonding
hypotyposes
Iatrobdella
induction field
infective stricture of ureter
Intermarket spread swaps
isentropic procedure
Kharabali
kinetic energy in rotation
Krivorozh'ye
lea management
magnetic instrumentation tape
magnetic original
Max Perutz
methoxylvalue
Monggo
motor gliders
MVCF
nasus cartilagineus
negative ignore gate
nepro
not care for
osteogeny
paccha
parjure
pass-port
perforated wall
perore
Philodemus
pooling
pretype
proteinomimetic
regular closed subset
remede
repairable system
restricted publication
ride the bench
robbinss
root/shoot ratio
rozinski
runner-up finish
Santa Irene
secant conic chart
second law of motions
Shetland sheep dog
shunt coil
slave pedestal
soil water belt
spindle drive
super-duty fire clay
superheater external covering
ticketsnow
trival
tunkhannock
Ucar
weak topology
weighted squared error loss function
wet crepe
whip-fish
white clover
Zamboanguita
zdpr