时间:2019-02-06 作者:英语课 分类:英语新闻


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   TEGUCIGALPA, Aug. 29 (Xinhua) -- Six children, five of them brothers and sisters, were killed in northern Honduras Thursday when a landslide 1 buried two homes under a ton of soil.


  The landslide hit the village of El Balin in Santa Cruz de Yojoa just past midnight Wednesday, when the children were sleeping, the Fire Department said in a statement.
  Two sisters survived the landslide and were taken to a public hospital in San Pedro Sula, 240 km north of the capital Tegucigalpa, for treatment of injuries, the department said.
  The landslide was caused by a two-hour downpour in the area, according to the statement.
  Also Thursday, the Honduran Permanent Emergency Committee announced a 48-hour green alert 2 in northern Honduras due to the heavy rains.
  On July 14, two people were killed and five other injured in a landslide in eastern Tegucigalpa.

n.(竞选中)压倒多数的选票;一面倒的胜利
  • Our candidate is predicated to win by a landslide.我们的候选人被预言将以绝对优势取胜。
  • An electoral landslide put the Labour Party into power in 1945.1945年工党以压倒多数的胜利当选执政。
adj.机警的,活泼的,机灵的;vt.使...警觉
  • Drivers must be on the alert for traffic signals.驾驶员必须密切注意交通信号。
  • The rabbIt'seems to be very alert all its life.兔子似乎一生都小心翼翼,十分警觉。
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