VOA标准英语2008年-Aid Agencies Warn of Threat of Disease, Epidemi
时间:2019-02-11 作者:英语课 分类:VOA标准英语2008年(九月)
Aid agencies are warning of the threat of disease in India's Bihar State, which has been hit by devastating 1 floods. Anjana Pasricha reports from New Delhi the floods have displaced an estimated three million people and killed at least 90 people.
Villagers wade 2 through floodwaters towards safer areas near Saharsa, about 280 kilometers (175 miles) northeast of Patna, India, 02 Sep 2008
After being evacuated 4 from flooded villages spread across the state, nearly a quarter of a million people have been housed in makeshift relief camps in Bihar State. Thousands more are pouring into the shelters, every day, as authorities step up the rescue operation.
Aid workers say the camps are cramped 5 and overcrowded. The United Nations has warned that the heat, combined with limited supplies of safe drinking water and poor hygiene 6, pose a great risk of water and airborne diseases.
The coordinator 7 for emergency operations in Bihar for the United Nations Children's Fund, Mukesh Puri, says facilities in relief camps must improve, to ward 3 off the threat of epidemics 8.
"The doctors are there, but we do notice that there is an increase in cases of diarrhea, in particular," he said. "Apart from providing food and other basic amenities 9, proper hygienic conditions have to be maintained and clean drinking water has to be provided. Particularly vulnerable groups like small children and pregnant women, their needs have to be taken care of, which is a challenge in such trying conditions."
The floods started two weeks ago when the Kosi River breached 10 a dam in Nepal. The river then shifted course, and flood waters spread across parts of Nepal and Bihar, including areas never threatened by floods before. Many people are still waiting to be rescued.
Bihar's chief minister says the humanitarian 11 crisis is likely to be extremely serious for several weeks, because the waters are not likely to recede 12 anytime soon. Bihar is one of India's poorest and least developed states.
UNICEF's Puri says the aid effort will have to be sustained for a long time and among communities not used to coping with flooding.
"The challenging part is these camps will stay there for three months or up to six months. This is a different kind of flood," he said. "Generally water goes away after 15-20 days. This time the people who have been hit, they have never had floods in the last 30 years, so they are not quite prepared in any sense for this kind of a devastation 13."
Nepal is coping with the aftermath of the flooding. Aid workers there have reported outbreaks of fever, pneumonia 14 and diarrhea among the flood victims.
Floods usually sweep across South Asia during the monsoon 15 season, from June to September, making millions of people homeless, killing 16 hundreds, and destroying farmland.
- 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。
- We had to wade through the river to the opposite bank.我们只好涉水过河到对岸。
- We cannot but wade across the river.我们只好趟水过去。
- The hospital has a medical ward and a surgical ward.这家医院有内科病房和外科病房。
- During the evening picnic,I'll carry a torch to ward off the bugs.傍晚野餐时,我要点根火把,抵挡蚊虫。
- Police evacuated nearby buildings. 警方已将附近大楼的居民疏散。
- The fireman evacuated the guests from the burning hotel. 消防队员把客人们从燃烧着的旅馆中撤出来。
- The house was terribly small and cramped, but the agent described it as a bijou residence. 房子十分狭小拥挤,但经纪人却把它说成是小巧别致的住宅。
- working in cramped conditions 在拥挤的环境里工作
- Their course of study includes elementary hygiene and medical theory.他们的课程包括基础卫生学和医疗知识。
- He's going to give us a lecture on public hygiene.他要给我们作关于公共卫生方面的报告。
- The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, headed by the Emergency Relief Coordinator, coordinates all UN emergency relief. 联合国人道主义事务协调厅在紧急救济协调员领导下,负责协调联合国的所有紧急救济工作。
- How am I supposed to find the client-relations coordinator? 我怎么才能找到客户关系协调员的办公室?
- Reliance upon natural epidemics may be both time-consuming and misleading. 依靠天然的流行既浪费时间,又会引入歧途。
- The antibiotic epidemics usually start stop when the summer rainy season begins. 传染病通常会在夏天的雨季停止传播。
- The campsite is close to all local amenities. 营地紧靠当地所有的便利设施。
- Parks and a theatre are just some of the town's local amenities. 公园和戏院只是市镇娱乐设施的一部分。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- These commitments have already been breached. 这些承诺已遭背弃。
- Our tanks have breached the enemy defences. 我方坦克车突破了敌人的防线。
- 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。
- The colleges would recede in importance.大学的重要性会降低。
- He saw that the dirty water had begun to recede.他发现那污浊的水开始往下退了。
- The bomb caused widespread devastation. 炸弹造成大面积破坏。
- There was devastation on every side. 到处都是破坏的创伤。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Cage was struck with pneumonia in her youth.凯奇年轻时得过肺炎。
- Pneumonia carried him off last week.肺炎上星期夺去了他的生命。
- 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。