VOA常速英语2007年-Red Cross Says More Than One Million People in
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New Delhi
24 December 2007
Five weeks after a killer 1 cyclone 2 hit Bangladesh, more than one million people live without adequate shelter. As Anjana Pasricha reports from New Delhi, the cyclone devastated 3 coastal 4 villages and killed more than 3,000 people.
The International Federation 5 of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies says hundreds of thousands of families in Bangladesh need basic shelter to protect them from the approaching winter.
The federation says this "alarming" assessment 6 has been made by more than 30 agencies that are helping 7 the survivors 8 of last month's cyclone rebuild their homes.
Sanjay Mukherjee in Dhaka represents these agencies. He says most of the people who lost their homes are living in shelters built with material reclaimed 9 from fallen houses.
"Out of the debris 10 they have constructed some shelters, broken wood pieces, bamboos, some plastic sheets, thatch 11, tin, whatever they grabbed," he said. "This is not adequate. They want protection from the climate, they want some warm clothes, they want some security, privacy."
The storm hit the country's southwest coast on November 15 and flattened 12 dozens of villages. The country escaped the massive loss of life it has suffered in previous such disasters, but millions of people lost livelihoods 13 and homes.
The government estimates that more than one and a half million homes were damaged or destroyed.
It has appealed for $2 billion to rebuild the ravaged 14 coast. Overseas donors 15 and aid agencies have pledged less than one quarter of that amount - $470 million so far.
Aid agencies say much of this money has been pledged for long-term rehabilitation 16 of the survivors, and are calling for more funds to address immediate 17 needs.
Sanjay Mukherjee says housing needs immediate attention.
"Housing should be one of the top priorities, because it is in the center," he said. "It relates to lot of other things. Unless and until they have secure housing, they cannot think of anything else."
Bangladesh is a low-lying country prone 18 to storms and cyclones 19. The November 15 cyclone killed more than 3,000 people, and was the deadliest to hit the country since 1991, when a massive cyclone killed more than 140,000.
- Heart attacks have become Britain's No.1 killer disease.心脏病已成为英国的头号致命疾病。
- The bulk of the evidence points to him as her killer.大量证据证明是他杀死她的。
- An exceptionally violent cyclone hit the town last night.昨晚异常猛烈的旋风吹袭了那个小镇。
- The cyclone brought misery to thousands of people.旋风给成千上万的人带来苦难。
- The bomb devastated much of the old part of the city. 这颗炸弹炸毁了旧城的一大片地方。
- His family is absolutely devastated. 他的一家感到极为震惊。
- The ocean waves are slowly eating away the coastal rocks.大海的波浪慢慢地侵蚀着岸边的岩石。
- This country will fortify the coastal areas.该国将加强沿海地区的防御。
- It is a federation of 10 regional unions.它是由十个地方工会结合成的联合会。
- Mr.Putin was inaugurated as the President of the Russian Federation.普京正式就任俄罗斯联邦总统。
- This is a very perceptive assessment of the situation.这是一个对该情况的极富洞察力的评价。
- What is your assessment of the situation?你对时局的看法如何？
- The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
- By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。
- The survivors were adrift in a lifeboat for six days. 幸存者在救生艇上漂流了六天。
- survivors clinging to a raft 紧紧抓住救生筏的幸存者
- Many sufferers have been reclaimed from a dependence on alcohol. 许多嗜酒成癖的受害者已经被挽救过来。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- They reclaimed him from his evil ways. 他们把他从邪恶中挽救出来。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
- After the bombing there was a lot of debris everywhere.轰炸之后到处瓦砾成堆。
- Bacteria sticks to food debris in the teeth,causing decay.细菌附着在牙缝中的食物残渣上，导致蛀牙。
- They lit a torch and set fire to the chapel's thatch.他们点着一支火把，放火烧了小教堂的茅草屋顶。
- They topped off the hut with a straw thatch. 他们给小屋盖上茅草屋顶。
- She flattened her nose and lips against the window. 她把鼻子和嘴唇紧贴着窗户。
- I flattened myself against the wall to let them pass. 我身体紧靠着墙让他们通过。
- First came the earliest individualistic pioneers who depended on hunting and fishing for their livelihoods. 走在最前面的是早期的个人主义先驱者，他们靠狩猎捕鱼为生。 来自英汉非文学 - 政府文件
- With little influence over policies, their traditional livelihoods are threatened. 因为马赛族人对政策的影响力太小，他们的传统生计受到了威胁。
- a country ravaged by civil war 遭受内战重创的国家
- The whole area was ravaged by forest fires. 森林火灾使整个地区荒废了。
- Please email us to be removed from our active list of blood donors. 假如你想把自己的名字从献血联系人名单中删去，请给我们发电子邮件。
- About half this amount comes from individual donors and bequests. 这笔钱大约有一半来自个人捐赠及遗赠。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- He's booked himself into a rehabilitation clinic.他自己联系了一家康复诊所。
- No one can really make me rehabilitation of injuries.已经没有人可以真正令我的伤康复了。
- His immediate neighbours felt it their duty to call.他的近邻认为他们有责任去拜访。
- We declared ourselves for the immediate convocation of the meeting.我们主张立即召开这个会议。
- Some people are prone to jump to hasty conclusions.有些人往往作出轻率的结论。
- He is prone to lose his temper when people disagree with him.人家一不同意他的意见,他就发脾气。