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英语课

By Kurt Achin
Seoul
14 June 2008


A powerful earthquake in northern Japan has killed at least six people and injured more than 100. Power has been cut to many homes and businesses, but for now, officials say two major nuclear power facilities appear to have avoided damage. VOA's Kurt Achin is monitoring news of the earthquake from Seoul.
 






Rescue workers holding stretchers to carry injured and elderly persons walk towards villages isolated 1 by a landslide 2 after earthquake




At least one Japanese reporter broadcast live images of the earthquake as it struck Saturday morning.

As he points out shaking buildings, the journalist says the time is 8:44 in the morning. He says he can hear shutters 3 rattling 4, and feels a strong shaking.

Scientists say the 7.2 magnitude quake took place underground in Japan's Iwate prefecture, about 400 kilometers north of Tokyo.

Military aircraft are assessing the damage, as residents prepare for possible aftershocks, which could potentially raise the number of casualties.

Senior Japanese officials say they are wasting no time in their response.

Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Nobutaka Machimura says the damage reports are gradually getting bigger with time. He says overnment agencies and police in the field are in close communication to gather information as quickly as possible.

The quake has reportedly cut the power supply to nearly 30,000 Japanese homes and businesses. However, officials say nuclear power plants near the quake zone are in working order and pose no danger.

Japan has temporarily suspended certain train routes that approach the quake zone.

Geologists 5 say Japan is one of the most earthquake-prone countries in the world. Its last major quake 13 years ago in Kobe killed more than 6,000 people.



adj.与世隔绝的
  • His bad behaviour was just an isolated incident. 他的不良行为只是个别事件。
  • Patients with the disease should be isolated. 这种病的患者应予以隔离。
n.(竞选中)压倒多数的选票;一面倒的胜利
  • 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。
百叶窗( shutter的名词复数 ); (照相机的)快门
  • The shop-front is fitted with rolling shutters. 那商店的店门装有卷门。
  • The shutters thumped the wall in the wind. 在风中百叶窗砰砰地碰在墙上。
地质学家,地质学者( geologist的名词复数 )
  • Geologists uncovered the hidden riches. 地质学家发现了地下的宝藏。
  • Geologists study the structure of the rocks. 地质学家研究岩石结构。
学英语单词
abrasion test of lubricant
absolutely additive set function
action-packed
Ad-conductor cathode
asynchronous measurement
atoles
badamsha (batamshinskiy)
best variety to be grown in a given region
biconstituent
boiler water evaporator
branch current vector
braunbeck
Bukit Mertajam
buried aureole
by the quart
carpet runner
cholelithic dyspepsia
chrysolophuss
cololabis saira
conventionists
cooperative buying
corpus amygdaloideum
dapsone tablet
depressionless
desert wind squall
Dick Cheney
donbassite
double worsted
elaunon bipartitus
elegises
Ewenni
Exton's quantitative reagent
ferro-electric transformer
five way mechanical lubricator
fleetly
fnrfuryl trimethylammoniam iodide
fp.
Fragaria chiloensis
genus laminarias
get a good scolding
gump-stumps
high cost
hou ti y?eh
hydraulic braked vehicle
income produced
induction logging
initial property
joltless
Khwarshi
lactogenic hormones
lagenae
lca
letting go
lithium monoborate
lizichev
lndian turnip
magneticcore
make our peace with
merolidine
murali
musculi corrugator glabellae
mynott
myripristis murdjan
nature and flavor
nephila pilipes
on the rolls
papaya whip
Pohle air lift pump
porcelain-clad type current transformer
posterocluspon
pyrone carboxylic acid
Quitman County
rear beam
reverse visual angle
Rhododendron ellipticum
searment
Single Liability System
single mode connector
spiritual experience
statelier
STDT
sub treasury
Synagrops bellus
tail bay wall
Tarims
tashmitums
teaselled
technetium-99m
telish
tin-pan
title entry
town walls
treel
uncertain interpretation
venae metacarpeae dorsales
volatile oil reservoir
Vroomshoop
weak caustic solution
West Wellow
ziega
zigzag intermittent weld
zoma