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英语课
By Delia Robertson
Johannesburg
25 February 2008


Cyclone 1 Ivan, the worst to hit Madagascar in several years, has claimed at least 44 lives, and left 145,000 people homeless. VOA's Delia Robertson reports from our southern Africa bureau in Johannesburg.


The National Office for Natural Disasters Preparedness (BNGRC) and humanitarian 2 organizations in the cyclone-prone country say that the full extent of the damage caused by high winds and flooding is being revealed now that the torrential rains which followed Cyclone Ivan in Madagascar have lifted.


In addition to the cost in human lives and damage to private homes, the cyclone and flooding have damaged roads, communications and other infrastructure 3, and caused contamination to water supplies. UNICEF Emergency Specialist Edouard Libeau, says the major concern right now is prevention of water-borne and other diseases such as malaria 4.


"Urgent action is crucial to prevent outbreak of diseases actually... outbreak of diseases is of great concern at the onset 5 of such a crisis - especially among the children," he said.


Libeau says that emergency packs that include water purification tablets, soap and medications to combat diarrhea are being distributed across the country. Where there is no access by road, helicopters and boats are being used.


Relief agencies say the damage to the rice crop has been severe and will result in food shortages in the coming months. In addition, says UNICEF'S Libeau, seeds will be needed next month to ensure the next harvest.


"And then you have to think about distributing seeds and this should be before the the end of March, because otherwise you miss the next planting season," he said. "And you are going to start to have a food insecurity lasting 6 and lasting without having any capacity for the population to recover."


Libeau notes that in recent years the government of Madagascar has built cyclone response into its development plans and that this year the country was well prepared having pre-positioned short-term emergency and relief supplies.


But he notes that in the long term, Madagascar will need to look at building and other technologies that will much more significantly cushion the population against cyclone damage.




n.旋风,龙卷风
  • 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。
n.人道主义者,博爱者,基督凡人论者
  • She has many humanitarian interests and contributes a lot to them.她拥有很多慈善事业,并作了很大的贡献。
  • The British government has now suspended humanitarian aid to the area.英国政府现已暂停对这一地区的人道主义援助。
n.下部构造,下部组织,基础结构,基础设施
  • We should step up the development of infrastructure for research.加强科学基础设施建设。
  • We should strengthen cultural infrastructure and boost various types of popular culture.加强文化基础设施建设,发展各类群众文化。
n.疟疾
  • He had frequent attacks of malaria.他常患疟疾。
  • Malaria is a kind of serious malady.疟疾是一种严重的疾病。
n.进攻,袭击,开始,突然开始
  • The drug must be taken from the onset of the infection.这种药必须在感染的最初期就开始服用。
  • Our troops withstood the onset of the enemy.我们的部队抵挡住了敌人的进攻。
adj.永久的,永恒的;vbl.持续,维持
  • The lasting war debased the value of the dollar.持久的战争使美元贬值。
  • We hope for a lasting settlement of all these troubles.我们希望这些纠纷能获得永久的解决。
学英语单词
.mv
alignment hole
alkylferrocene
all-weld bridge
antipress
atrex
autonomous function
bordure
budell
chastizement
colores
colour television mask
compact disk-interactive
cribrous
cross-river buoy
crossed roller chains
dangerous pile
dannys
deep search
deoppilated
differential liberation
diffusion-reflection
divisionalizations
dumasia cordifolia benth et. backer
effective gas-oil ratio
eggs benedicts
erosional basin
fabii
falls off the wagon
felting resistance
fenbutatin oxide
fuel tolerance
fur goods
genus Prosopis
glenlyon
hash brownie
heavyheartedly
high-altitudes
high-frequency test bay
hyperemia cardiac failure
increasing nutrient concentration
incremental frequence shift
interpols
jail-bird
jyllands-posten
kasts
Kenacort
less-polluting
line clinometer
linguistic semiotics
load-balancing
Luxemburgish
magnetomechanical ratio
manual slot
marginal cost and revenue
mean blade width
mixed banking system
moderately fine texture
motlanthe
multiple sequence operation
Niekerkshoop
nominal terms
noncowboy
order cycadaless
overshoulder
overspecific
packing cloth
pain in the rear
pardoning the bad is injuring the good
personal selling
pointwise finite
poke and pry
pouring reel
preclavus
profits by
protestant church music
put under one's belt
rainmaker remover nozzle
reachability graph
reflex receiver
Resykin
river-marine vessel
root crops
scalene right triangle
scheduling resource
sima rock
simultaneousequation model
square-wave pulse of light
superfine grain developer
synangium
Tabakerz
taxing power
Ticonal
totally enclosed type motor
Trailliaedoxa
true yeasts
trypots
unscroll
USMA
water proofing material
xanthan
yang jin