VOA标准英语2012--Aleppo Hospital Struggles With Rising Number of Civilian Casualties
时间：2019-01-14 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2012年(十月)
Aleppo Hospital Struggles With Rising Number of Civilian 1 Casualties
Dar al-Shifa Hospital in Aleppo. Staff treat soldiers of the rebel Free Syria Army wounded in various battles this morning. They are also treating civilians 2. This boy was hit by a bullet. It went through his shoulder and lodged 3 in his chest.
One family arrives in panic and in grief. A mortar 4 shell hit their home. Two babies are among the wounded. A teenager arrives with a shattered leg. He will survive but as an amputee.
The father lies on the sidewalk. He died before reaching the hospital, hit by shrapnel in the head.
Dr. Osman --he gives only his first name -- says his staff of eight doctors and 10 nurses treats some 140 people a day, (assisted by volunteers, medical students and veterinarians).
“We need staff. We need specialists in neurosurgery, vascular 5 surgery, cardiac surgery, chest surgery. We need intensive care specialists.” he pleaded.
This used to be a fully 6 functioning hospital. But bomb attacks destroyed its top two floors. It now provides only emergency first aid.
After treatment the wounded are sent home or, if they need surgery, to Turkey, two hours away.
Osman says the wounds of the civilians usually are different from those of the fighters.
“The civilian is targeted normally by bombing -- aerial bombing or mortar bombing. For that there is amputation 7. There is severe injury in the head, in the abdomen 8, in the chest. On the other side, the Free Syrian Army injury is by sniper, by gunshot,” he explained.
More wounded arrive, the latest victims of a conflict that shows no signs of ending.
- There is no reliable information about civilian casualties.关于平民的伤亡还没有确凿的信息。
- He resigned his commission to take up a civilian job.他辞去军职而从事平民工作。
- the bloody massacre of innocent civilians 对无辜平民的血腥屠杀
- At least 300 civilians are unaccounted for after the bombing raids. 遭轰炸袭击之后，至少有300名平民下落不明。
- The certificate will have to be lodged at the registry. 证书必须存放在登记处。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Our neighbours lodged a complaint against us with the police. 我们的邻居向警方控告我们。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The mason flushed the joint with mortar.泥工用灰浆把接缝处嵌平。
- The sound of mortar fire seemed to be closing in.迫击炮的吼声似乎正在逼近。
- The mechanism of this anomalous vascular response is unknown.此种不规则的血管反应的机制尚不清楚。
- The vascular changes interfere with diffusion of nutrients from plasma into adjacent perivascular tissue and cells.这些血管变化干扰了营养物质从血浆中向血管周围邻接的组织和细胞扩散。
- The doctor asked me to breathe in,then to breathe out fully.医生让我先吸气，然后全部呼出。
- They soon became fully integrated into the local community.他们很快就完全融入了当地人的圈子。
- In ancient India,adultery was punished by amputation of the nose.在古代印度，通奸要受到剖鼻的处罚。
- He lived only hours after the amputation.截肢后，他只活了几个小时。