台风摧毁菲律宾中部-英语课

时间：2019-02-02 作者：英语课 分类：英语新闻

英语课

　　台风摧毁菲律宾中部

One of the fiercest typhoons ever recorded has devastated 1 the central Philippines, leaving entire cities and towns in ruins and as many as 10,000 people dead. After gashing 2 six provinces, Typhoon Haiyan veered 3 to the northwest into the South China Sea, and weakened to a tropical storm near the border of Vietnam and southern China.

　　The fast-moving storm slammed into Leyte Island from the east on Friday. By Sunday, as the scale of the destruction became clear, Philippine authorities said it is near certain the death toll 4 will rise substantially.
　　President Benigno Aquino declared a region-wide state of calamity 5. Offers of help came from as far away as the White House.
　　In a statement Sunday, President Barack Obama expressed America's sorrow and pledged "significant" humanitarian 6 assistance. U.S. military assets were deployed 8 Saturday to assist in the search for survivors 9.
　　By early Monday, the storm began losing strength as it came ashore 10 in Vietnam's northern Quang Ninh province. Forecasters expect it to weaken to a low depression later in the day in southern China.
　　In hard-hit Tacloban city Sunday, a Philippine community of 220,000 residents, reporters saw scores of flattened 11 buildings and corpses 12 hanging from trees and scattered 13 along roadways flooded by a 4-meter storm surge. Looters in the wrecked 14 city foraged 15 Sunday for food, water and fuel, as the government began relief efforts and international aid began to materialize.
　　Most other communities along the storm's path remained without communications.
　　The international aid group Doctors Without Borders prepared Sunday to deploy 7 dozens of medical personnel and logistic experts to neighboring Cebu Island in the coming days, along with 200 tons of medical and relief items.
　　But the group's relief organizers, along with those from United Nations offices in Manila, said they expect access to the hardest-hit areas to be limited for days because of wrecked infrastructure 16 and communications links.
　　At the Vatican Sunday, Pope Francis urged the faithful to pray in silence for the typhoon's victims. He said he feels close to the Philippines, and he urged church followers 17 and others to offer generous assistance to those impacted by the huge storm.

1 devastated

v.彻底破坏( devastate的过去式和过去分词)；摧毁；毁灭；在感情上（精神上、财务上等）压垮adj.毁坏的；极为震惊的

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。

2 gashing

v.划伤，割破( gash的现在分词 )

3 veered

v.（尤指交通工具）改变方向或路线( veer的过去式和过去分词 )；（指谈话内容、人的行为或观点）突然改变；（指风）（在北半球按顺时针方向、在南半球按逆时针方向）逐渐转向；风向顺时针转