AS IT IS 2015-10-21 Typhoon Koppu Leaves 17 Dead in Philippines
时间：2019-01-12 作者：英语课 分类：2015年VOA慢速英语(十)月
AS IT IS 2015-10-21 Typhoon Koppu Leaves 17 Dead in Philippines
Typhoon Koppu was downgraded Monday to a tropical storm, but killed at least 17 people and submerged entire towns in northwestern Philippines.
Luzon, the country’s largest island, received 15 days of rain in one day.
A 650-kilometer-wide storm cloud blanketed the region and produced 150-kilometer per hour winds.
Floodwaters from the Pampanga River in central Luzon's Nueva Ecija province reached rooftops. Rice fields are completely submerged. Some crops and farmland may be 100-percent damaged.
Floodwaters are receding 1 from some towns but in Cabiao, the water is still rising.
Some areas are starting to see better weather, but at least 100 roads and bridges were damaged by landslides 3, flooding or fallen trees.
Over 70-thousand people are staying in shelters and close to 300-thousand people are affected 4 by the storm.
On Monday, 16 flights were grounded and more than 5,000 ferry passengers were stranded 5 at piers 6.
Five provinces are without power.
Better weather is coming, but the Philippines must begin recovering from the huge storm.
The government is trying to send aid to several towns cut off by landslides.
Koppu is the 12th storm this year to strike the Philippines. That country gets an average of 20 storms and typhoons each year.
In 2013, Typhoon Haiyan, one of the most ferocious 7 storms on record to reach land, leveled entire towns. More than 7,300 people died or were missing.
Words in This Story
typhoon – n. an extremely large, powerful, and destructive storm that occurs especially in the region of the Philippines or the China Sea
blanket – v. to cover (something)
submerge – v. to make (someone or something) go under the surface of water or some other liquid : to cover (someone or something) with a liquid
landslide 2 – n. a large mass of rocks and earth that suddenly and quickly moves down the side of a mountain or hill
ferry – n. a boat that is used to carry people and things for a short distance between two places
- Desperately he struck out after the receding lights of the yacht. 游艇的灯光渐去渐远，他拼命划水追赶。 来自辞典例句
- Sounds produced by vehicles receding from us seem lower-pitched than usual. 渐渐远离我们的运载工具发出的声似乎比平常的音调低。 来自辞典例句
- Our candidate is predicated to win by a landslide.我们的候选人被预言将以绝对优势取胜。
- An electoral landslide put the Labour Party into power in 1945.1945年工党以压倒多数的胜利当选执政。
- Landslides have cut off many villages in remote areas. 滑坡使边远地区的许多村庄与外界隔绝。
- The storm caused landslides and flooding in Savona. 风暴致使萨沃纳发生塌方和洪灾。
- 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。
- He was stranded in a strange city without money. 他流落在一个陌生的城市里， 身无分文，一筹莫展。
- I was stranded in the strange town without money or friends. 我困在那陌生的城市，既没有钱，又没有朋友。
- Most road bridges have piers rising out of the vally. 很多公路桥的桥墩是从河谷里建造起来的。 来自辞典例句
- At these piers coasters and landing-craft would be able to discharge at all states of tide. 沿岸航行的海船和登陆艇，不论潮汐如何涨落，都能在这种码头上卸载。 来自辞典例句