2007年VOA标准英语-20 Million Affected by Floods in South Asia
时间：2019-02-02 作者：英语课 分类：2007年VOA标准英语（八月）
New Delhi
03 August 2007
Relief workers are struggling to help at least 20 million people affected 1 by floods in South Asia. More than 200 people have died so far in this year's annual monsoon 2 rains. Anjana Pasricha in VOA's New Delhi bureau has more on the situation.
A woman wades through a flooded street to collect food in Sirajgonj, about 104 kilometers (65 miles) north of Bangladesh's capital Dhaka, 03 Aug 2007
As heavy monsoon rains continue to sweep India, Bangladesh and Nepal, government and relief agencies are battling to help the victims.
Devendra Tak, with the regional Federation 4 of Red Cross and Red Crescent Society, paints a grim picture.
"There have been lives lost across the region due to drowning, due to snake bite, due to house collapses 5, casualties are rising and…there is always a danger of diseases that always follow floods," said Tak.
In India, the states of Assam, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh have been the worst hit by weeks of constant rainfall. Rivers have burst banks. Flood waters have inundated 6 vast tracts 7 of valuable crops and washed out roads, bridges and railways. The Army has been deployed 8 to evacuate 9 hundreds of cut-off villages.
Neighboring Bangladesh is criss-crossed by rivers and half the country is under water. And in mountainous Nepal, landslides 10 and floods triggered by the rains have displaced tens of thousands of people.
Government and aid agencies have established hundreds of relief camps but say the top priority is to provide clean drinking water and food to the victims wherever they are.
Tak says the massive relief operation is making progress but not enough.
"Relief has been slow in coming I would say overall…. and they would need to do a lot of quick work to provide relief to victims who really require it urgently," Tak added.
The floods will leave a long-term impact on the region as they wash away standing 11 crops, and prevent farmers from planting seeds for the next season. And many poor laborers 12 will be left without work - deepening poverty among already impoverished 13 flood victims.
Floods are an annual occurrence in South Asia during the July to September monsoon season. But authorities say the flooding this year has been more severe than usual.
- She showed an affected interest in our subject.她假装对我们的课题感到兴趣。
- His manners are affected.他的态度不自然。
- The monsoon rains started early this year.今年季雨降雨开始得早。
- The main climate type in that region is monsoon.那个地区主要以季风气候为主要气候类型。
- A lumi wields a golden morningstar with trained ease as it wades into melee. 光民熟练地挥舞钉头锤加入战团。
- 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 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。
- We have been inundated with offers of help. 主动援助多得使我们应接不暇。
- We have been inundated with every bit of information imaginable. 凡是想得到的各种各样的信息潮水般地向我们涌来。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- vast tracts of forest 大片大片的森林
- There are tracts of desert in Australia. 澳大利亚有大片沙漠。
- Tanks have been deployed all along the front line. 沿整个前线已部署了坦克。
- The artillery was deployed to bear on the fort. 火炮是对着那个碉堡部署的。
- We must evacuate those soldiers at once!我们必须立即撤出这些士兵！
- They were planning to evacuate the seventy American officials still in the country.他们正计划转移仍滞留在该国的70名美国官员。
- Landslides have cut off many villages in remote areas. 滑坡使边远地区的许多村庄与外界隔绝。
- The storm caused landslides and flooding in Savona. 风暴致使萨沃纳发生塌方和洪灾。
- After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震过后只有几幢房屋还立着。
- They're standing out against any change in the law.他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改。
- Laborers were trained to handle 50-ton compactors and giant cranes. 工人们接受操作五十吨压土机和巨型起重机的训练。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
- Wage-labour rests exclusively on competition between the laborers. 雇佣劳动完全是建立在工人的自相竞争之上的。 来自英汉非文学 - 共产党宣言
- the impoverished areas of the city 这个城市的贫民区
- They were impoverished by a prolonged spell of unemployment. 他们因长期失业而一贫如洗。 来自《简明英汉词典》