VOA标准英语2010年-Haiti's 'Forgotten City' Lost in the R
时间：2019-01-13 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2010年(一月)
The historic earthquake that hit Haiti on January 12, changed it's capital city Port-au-Prince forever. And while the American military has secured it's damaged port and streets, international aid organizations supply medical and food supplies and cargo 1 planes fly in around the clock, one place really hasn't changed, either before or after the earthquake and that is the forgotten city, Cite Soleil.
"Cite Soleil is the last place to get anything, if anything. There are places that are impassable because of collapses 2, but normally people just ignore Cite Soleil," says Pastor 3 Mark Dreibelbis, who has run a clinic and orphanage 4 here since 2006.
And, while the number of patients he treats has increased, he's not over run like other hospitals in Port-au-Prince.
"By and large in Cite Soleil there weren't a whole lot of fatalities 5. One because there are a lot of tin shacks 6 and they flexed 7 and two, the buildings aren't real tall," he says.
But there is one change that nobody welcomed: an increase in crime. When the earthquake hit it collapsed 8 the main prison downtown and some 3,000 prisoners escaped, many of them former gang members, who looted the armory 9 of guns and rifles before they scattered 10, some home to Cite Soleil.
"I saw one yesterday. Generally they stay underground and come out at night," says Dreibelbis.
And when they come out they prey 11 on the poorest of the poor.
Josette Pierre has a small business selling sodas 12 and pots. She has eight children and is a vicitim. She says, "when we ran out during the quake we left everything. By the time we got back everything was gone, all my money and all my possesions. Now we are living in the streets."
It's the forgotten city. And while there is a U.S. hospital ship in the harbour and mobile clinics being deployed, in Cite Soleil the Mission Ranch 13 Medical Clinic was here before and will be here after.
"Cite Soleil is a slum of about 200,000 people and it's almost impossible to care for them," says Dreibelbis.
The unchanged injuries from an unchanged... and forgotten city, Cite Soleil.
- The ship has a cargo of about 200 ton.这条船大约有200吨的货物。
- A lot of people discharged the cargo from a ship.许多人从船上卸下货物。
- This bridge table collapses. 这张桥牌桌子能折叠。
- Once Russia collapses, the last chance to stop Hitler will be gone. 一旦俄国垮台，抑止希特勒的最后机会就没有了。
- He was the son of a poor pastor.他是一个穷牧师的儿子。
- We have no pastor at present:the church is run by five deacons.我们目前没有牧师：教会的事是由五位执事管理的。
- They dispensed new clothes to the children in the orphanage.他们把新衣服发给孤儿院的小孩们。
- They gave the proceeds of the sale to the orphanage.他们把销售的收入给了这家孤儿院。
- Several people were injured, but there were no fatalities. 有几个人受伤，但没有人死亡。
- The accident resulted in fatalities. 那宗意外道致多人死亡。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- They live in shacks which they made out of wood. 他们住在用木头搭成的简陋的小屋里。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Most people in Port au-Prince live in tin shacks. 太子港的大多数居民居住在铁皮棚里。 来自互联网
- He stretched and flexed his knees to relax himself. 他伸屈膝关节使自己放松一下。 来自辞典例句
- He flexed his long stringy muscles manfully. 他孔武有力地弯起膀子，显露出细长条的肌肉。 来自辞典例句
- 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。
- Nuclear weapons will play a less prominent part in NATO's armory in the future.核武器将来在北约的军械中会起较次要的作用。
- Every March the Armory Show sets up shop in New York.每年三月，军械博览会都会在纽约设置展场。
- 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。
- Stronger animals prey on weaker ones.弱肉强食。
- The lion was hunting for its prey.狮子在寻找猎物。
- There are plenty of sodas in the refrigerator. 冰箱里有很多碳酸饮料。 来自辞典例句
- Two whisky and sodas, please. 请来两杯威士忌苏打。 来自辞典例句