VOA标准英语2010年-South Africa Sends Search, Rescue Team
时间：2019-02-02 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2010年(一月)
South Africa is sending a team of search and rescue specialists to Haiti in response to the devastating 1 earthquake on Tuesday. It is the first of several teams being sent by a local civic 2 group.
The head of South Africa's Gift of the Givers Foundation, Emtiaz Sooliman, says his group is sending up to three teams of search and rescue specialists to Haiti to help victims of the earthquake and hopefully save some lives.
"These are people who have worked with building collapses 4, urban search and rescue and some of them have been involved in responding to previous earthquakes so they are highly skilled," he said.
Sooliman says a second team is to depart as soon as he can book a flight for it. Flights to Haiti are difficult to obtain because of its damaged air control facilities and the large number of relief planes heading there.
Sooliman says the teams will also set up camps and see what medical facilities are available.
"Then we will send in specialized 5 medical personnel, trauma 6 specialists, orthopedic surgeons, trauma nurses, advanced life support paramedics, to work with other medical personnel on the ground or work on their own provided medical facilities are available," he said.
He notes that specialists in infectious diseases will also be needed because of the collapse 3 of water and sewage systems in many areas.
Gift of the Givers is also lining 7 up a charter plane to deliver more than 100 metric tons of supplies to the worst-hit areas. But Sooliman warns the international community must move fast or many lives will be needlessly lost.
"There are many men, women and children there who are completely at the mercy of the elements and must be sitting in pain with no food, no medical care, with broken bones. As a common humanity we need to move very fast to respond to the crisis of these people," he said.
Sooliman says his foundation is the largest disaster relief organization of African origin on the continent. With support from private donors 8 and several governments in the region, it has worked in 25 countries including Somalia, Sudan, Mozambique, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan.
- It is the most devastating storm in 20 years.这是20年来破坏性最大的风暴。
- Affairs do have a devastating effect on marriages.婚外情确实会对婚姻造成毁灭性的影响。
- I feel it is my civic duty to vote.我认为投票选举是我作为公民的义务。
- The civic leaders helped to forward the project.市政府领导者协助促进工程的进展。
- The country's economy is on the verge of collapse.国家的经济已到了崩溃的边缘。
- The engineer made a complete diagnosis of the bridge's collapse.工程师对桥的倒塌做了一次彻底的调查分析。
- 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。
- There are many specialized agencies in the United Nations.联合国有许多专门机构。
- These tools are very specialized.这些是专用工具。
- Counselling is helping him work through this trauma.心理辅导正帮助他面对痛苦。
- The phobia may have its root in a childhood trauma.恐惧症可能源于童年时期的创伤。
- The lining of my coat is torn.我的外套衬里破了。
- Moss makes an attractive lining to wire baskets.用苔藓垫在铁丝篮里很漂亮。