时间:2019-01-13 作者:英语课 分类:VOA标准英语2008年(十二月)


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Forty ambulances raced into the desert in southern Israel, after a bus carrying Russian tourists plunged 1 80 meters into a desert ravine, killing 2 23 people. White body bags were lined up in a row and baggage and wreckage 3 were scattered 4 over the steep slope down from the highway. The wrecked 5 bus lay on its side.
 






Israeli soldiers carry a body past an overturned bus at scene of a crash near southern Israeli resort city of Eilat, 16 Dec. 2008



Police, soldiers and emergency workers sought to evacuate 6 the injured, but rescue efforts were hindered by the rough terrain 7. Six air force helicopters and ambulances ferried the injured to the nearby Red Sea resort of Eilat.

Eilat is a small city and Yosef Tal hospital was overwhelmed.

"Of course, a hospital like Yosef Tal is small, and does not have the same experience of say the major city hospitals that have been dealing 8 with terror attacks," said Israeli trauma 9 doctor Joe Djemal.

Many of the injured are in critical condition.

"In this case you have 36 injured people in your emergency room, and you are talking about a lot of very serious conditions, a lot of blood loss and everything else," Djemal said. "And once they have stabilized 10 the patients, then they are being flown out to other hospitals."

Police have ruled out terrorism. One witness said the bus driver sped by him in a no passing zone, lost control and crashed through a guard rail into the ravine.

The tourists had just arrived on a flight from St. Petersburg.



v.颠簸( plunge的过去式和过去分词 );暴跌;骤降;突降
  • The train derailed and plunged into the river. 火车脱轨栽进了河里。
  • She lost her balance and plunged 100 feet to her death. 她没有站稳,从100英尺的高处跌下摔死了。
n.巨额利润;突然赚大钱,发大财
  • 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。
n.(失事飞机等的)残骸,破坏,毁坏
  • 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。
adj.分散的,稀疏的;散步的;疏疏落落的
  • Gathering up his scattered papers,he pushed them into his case.他把散乱的文件收拾起来,塞进文件夹里。
adj.失事的,遇难的
  • the hulk of a wrecked ship 遇难轮船的残骸
  • the salvage of the wrecked tanker 对失事油轮的打捞
v.遣送;搬空;抽出;排泄;大(小)便
  • 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。
n.地面,地形,地图
  • He had made a detailed study of the terrain.他对地形作了缜密的研究。
  • He knows the terrain of this locality like the back of his hand.他对这一带的地形了如指掌。
n.经商方法,待人态度
  • This store has an excellent reputation for fair dealing.该商店因买卖公道而享有极高的声誉。
  • His fair dealing earned our confidence.他的诚实的行为获得我们的信任。
n.外伤,精神创伤
  • Counselling is helping him work through this trauma.心理辅导正帮助他面对痛苦。
  • The phobia may have its root in a childhood trauma.恐惧症可能源于童年时期的创伤。
v.(使)稳定, (使)稳固( stabilize的过去式和过去分词 )
  • The patient's condition stabilized. 患者的病情稳定下来。
  • His blood pressure has stabilized. 他的血压已经稳定下来了。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
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(musculus rhomboideus dorsalis (dorsi))
acoustic scattering
aidant
anorchus
antenna tilt
artificer's knot
automatic switchover
axis of collimation
believers
biwiring
brewhouses
Bridge Battery
brownbacks
canary wines
cardboard cut - out
Catharinaea
certificate of naturalization
chambresses
chock liner
Citrullus colocynthis Schrad.
clubbism
corroded mutant
criss cross method
crossbracing
cyclic pump
dental precentive treatment
diagonal splicing
different quality
digue
Dnieper R.
dual feasible condition
duin
dwarf chestnuts
edge chromatic number
El Salto
electrooptical modulation transfer functions
endocarditic
exceptionary
first-in-first-out queue (fifo)
genus Micropogonias
gerties
give sb a leg-up
going hungry
high-pressure admission
Hope R.
Huanghe deposit
hydrological cycle
hyperimmuned
hyphodontia crustosa
ichang limestone
Jarnages
Jeffrey,Francis
jig-mill
justifiable nitrogen
katuns
lazy eights
lettres sur la danse et les ballets
Livojoki
magnet-bearing
male aristocrats
metagenomes
mizunoes
net markdown
normal hydrocarbon
nubiler
observed value
occipitonasal
Oklo phenomena
palaikastroes
phoneyness
physically unclonable function
pneumatolytic stage
preoral gut
propeller drive shaft
property page
raclementum
radial flow reaction turbine
rhotacism
routing algorithm
row-crop tractor
sawbuck table
senecifolinine
serpulorbis xenophorus
seventh nerve
shining ore
Sierolomorphidae
silver graphite brush
six-leggedness
sophistically
spike discharge
stomach clamp
suction fan gas freeing
three arm mooring
thromme
time compressed multiplex
triggering edge
true corpus luteum
undecree
union-hose connector
Valleyspeak
what-you-may-call-it
wild host