2006年VOA标准英语-Owners of Collapsed Building in Nigeria to Face
时间：2019-01-08 作者：英语课 分类：2006年VOA标准英语（七月）
Abuja
20 July 2006
The governor of Nigeria's Lagos state says owners of a four-story apartment building, which collapsed 1 Tuesday, killing 2 at least 20 people, will be prosecuted 3. Rescue efforts continue nearly 48 hours after the incident, though at a much slower pace.
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People look through the rubble 4 of a four-story apartment building that collapsed overnight in Lagos, Nigeria, Wednesday July 19, 2006
Rescue workers battled Thursday to reach those still trapped in the wreckage 5 of the collapsed four-story building in Lagos. The leader of the Red Cross team, Umar Maigira, told VOA that rescue efforts have been severely 6 hampered 7 by the withdrawal 8 of equipment belonging to a local construction company.
"Julius Berger withdrew its earth-moving equipment yesterday," Maigira said. "So they are using crude tools as usual. Work is going on but using crude tools; sledge 9 hammers, shovels 10 and diggers, which is what our volunteers and the community have been doing since last night. But they have not succeeded in fishing out anybody from yesterday up till this morning. But they worked throughout the night."
The Red Cross official was certain that there were still survivors 11 trapped underneath 12 the rubble, nearly 48 hours after the building came crashing down.
"We are still expecting people, even those that may be alive under the rubble, so that is why the community and the Red Cross are still trying," Maigira said. "I do not know what the government is going to do today. If they are returning the equipment that will be good for everybody. Because those that are dead have started smelling. So it will be good if we can have the crane to see if we can evacuate 13 the dead."
Experts say many buildings in Nigeria are constructed with substandard materials and regulation is weak. Dozens of people have died in collapsed buildings in Africa's most populous 14 country in the past few years. Bayo Adeola is a structural 15 engineer in Lagos.
"Behind all this is provision of housing. If each person still needs to struggle to build his own house with inadequate 16 money, he hardly can pay for good quality," Adeola said. "If the industry is not well regulated and all sorts of charlatans 17 can be contractors 18 just because you have access to people who are in a position to give you contracts, then we are going to keep on having this issue of collapsed houses."
Red Cross officials say 20 bodies have been pulled out of the wrecked 19 block of apartments and shops where about 100 people lived. At least 50 survivors have been rescued.
- Jack collapsed in agony on the floor. 杰克十分痛苦地瘫倒在地板上。
- The roof collapsed under the weight of snow. 房顶在雪的重压下突然坍塌下来。
- Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
- Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
- The editors are being prosecuted for obscenity. 编辑因刊载污秽文字而被起诉。
- The company was prosecuted for breaching the Health and Safety Act. 这家公司被控违反《卫生安全条例》。
- 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。
- They hauled him clear of the wreckage.他们把他从形骸中拖出来。
- New states were born out of the wreckage of old colonial empires.新生国家从老殖民帝国的废墟中诞生。
- 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。
- 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。
- The police were forced to make a tactical withdrawal.警方被迫进行战术撤退。
- They insisted upon a withdrawal of the statement and a public apology.他们坚持要收回那些话并公开道歉。
- The sledge gained momentum as it ran down the hill.雪橇从山上下冲时的动力越来越大。
- The sledge slid across the snow as lightly as a boat on the water.雪橇在雪原上轻巧地滑行，就象船在水上行驶一样。
- workmen with picks and shovels 手拿镐铲的工人
- In the spring, we plunge shovels into the garden plot, turn under the dark compost. 春天，我们用铁锨翻开园子里黑油油的沃土。 来自辞典例句
- 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
- Working underneath the car is always a messy job.在汽车底下工作是件脏活。
- She wore a coat with a dress underneath.她穿着一件大衣，里面套着一条连衣裙。
- 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。
- London is the most populous area of Britain.伦敦是英国人口最稠密的地区。
- China is the most populous developing country in the world.中国是世界上人口最多的发展中国家。
- The storm caused no structural damage.风暴没有造成建筑结构方面的破坏。
- The North American continent is made up of three great structural entities.北美大陆是由三个构造单元组成的。
- The supply is inadequate to meet the demand.供不应求。
- She was inadequate to the demands that were made on her.她还无力满足对她提出的各项要求。
- There are lots of phonies and charlatans in the financial newsletter business. 干金融通讯这一行的人中间不乏骗子和吹牛大王。 来自辞典例句
- But wicked people and charlatans will go from bad to worse, deceivers and deceived. 但是恶人和行诈术的人却越来越坏，他们迷惑人，也必受人迷惑。 来自互联网
- We got estimates from three different contractors before accepting the lowest. 我们得到3个承包商的报价后，接受了最低的报价。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Contractors winning construction jobs had to kick back 2 per cent of the contract price to the mafia. 赢得建筑工作的承包商得抽出合同价格的百分之二的回扣给黑手党。 来自《简明英汉词典》