时间:2018-12-01 作者:英语课 分类:VOA标准英语听者文摘


英语课

Indonesia Eathquake:


Relief Operations Fully 1 Underway


 


After trickling 2 in for two days, aid to the shattered island began pouring in Thursday, with international aid organizations and the Indonesian military ferrying in water, food and medicine.


 


Scores of people sought refuge in temporary shelters such as this one, on the island’s capital, Gunung Sitoli.


 


As many as 30 percent of the town’s buildings were destroyed when the quake struck late Monday. It came just three months after a magnitude nine quake in the same area sparked a tsunami 3 that killed over 300,000 people across the Indian Ocean region.


 


Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono visited the island Thursday, and promised to take quick action to help residents, including getting the electricity running again.


 


The president says, in this emergency situation, the people of Indonesia must unite to overcome their hardships and rebuild their lives.


 


While Nias bore the brunt of the damage ---- 500 of the 518 reported deaths occurred there, according to a UN survey ---- Simuelue and Sumatra Islands were also affected 4.


 


Brian Williams owns a resort on Simeulue.


 


Brian Williams: I just had a call from the governor of the island who said that the world is not helping 5 Simeulue.  We need help in Simeulue so I’m organizing boats now.


 


There are deaths, destroyed buildings and traumatized survivors 6, including Juan Pedro Garcia.


 


Juan Pedro Garcia: At the moment, I think it’s just too uneasy.  There’s too much damage.  No one knows what’s going on.  It’s all up in the air at the moment.  We just don’t know.


 


The full extent of the damage remains 7 unclear, as rescue efforts continue.


 




1 fully
adv.完全地,全部地,彻底地;充分地
  • The doctor asked me to breathe in,then to breathe out fully.医生让我先吸气,然后全部呼出。
  • They soon became fully integrated into the local community.他们很快就完全融入了当地人的圈子。
2 trickling
n.油画底色含油太多而成泡沫状突起v.滴( trickle的现在分词 );淌;使)慢慢走;缓慢移动
  • Tears were trickling down her cheeks. 眼泪顺着她的面颊流了下来。
  • The engine was trickling oil. 发动机在滴油。 来自《简明英汉词典》
3 tsunami
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。
4 affected
adj.不自然的,假装的
  • She showed an affected interest in our subject.她假装对我们的课题感到兴趣。
  • His manners are affected.他的态度不自然。
5 helping
n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的,辅助的
  • The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
  • By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。
6 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
7 remains
n.剩余物,残留物;遗体,遗迹
  • He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
  • The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。
学英语单词
advection fogs
anhedron
Approval of Value Clause
billet cutting
borofsky
brandisite (clintonite)
brgm
cable lead cover cutter
cadmium pollution
calcination
Carex shanghangensis
chagin
Christiansfeld
clueless
co-existence
coal briquette
copasetic
Coptis
curb stomped
cutback rate
D.F.A.
DC-DC Converter
differential bridge type spectrometer
double bead tyre
driving chain
Dürnkrut
episellowin
fade chart
failure count
family style
faradipuncture
fire-hydrant cabinet
five lens camera
floating conveyer
foreplay
fossa for lacrimal sac
freshwater phytoplankton
gyro-theodolite
harmodotron
Hold the torch
impregnation of insulation
infundibulum pulmonis
jagow
journeymen mechanics
Kewaskum
La Pimienta
leiomyoma of appendix
letter drills
long day plant
Louis Nicolas
malacodermous
marketise
MAZOWSZE
meminductors
mini-town
money order automatic reader
mussitations
necrophores
ninety-nine out of a hundred
offensive breath
one's complementer
paragrph
permanent contact
Pick up Sticks
poor-man
precarious
prepossessions
punch press for popsicle
quartz prism filter
reaction component
regretted
rock head
search condition
setoptus inusitatus
sewage preliminary basin
shagnum medium limpr.
sky type
slessors
slow danced
speed sensing device
square shank bolt
Staintondale
standard of culture
stocking knitter
superheat temperature regulation
swept cantilever
SWG (standard wire gauge)
teja
thin-film gauge
thiourea
ticket price of mini bus
turnover station
twin-pack
unthorny
Ust'-Aldanskiy Rayon
vajayjays
varix of bladder
vineulum
water set trap
weblebrities
witling
xerotess