时间:2019-02-18 作者:英语课 分类:新西兰英语


英语课

  The New Zealand Urban Search and Rescue (Usar) team which went to Japan, returned home today. They said there was nothing more they could do in Japan. There is no hope of finding any survivors 1 now because of the extreme cold.

This is different from the scene in Christchurch where Usar teams from many different countries worked for more than two weeks trying to rescue people from buildings which had collapsed 2. The weather was still warm and there was still a slight hope of finding survivors. In other earthquakes around the world, sometimes there have been miracles – survivors found after 10 days or more. However, in Christchurch there were no more survivors after the first two days.

The police said they have found 166 bodies. About 140 of those have been identified so far.

It has been difficult to identify some of the bodies. NZ experts and experts from other countries have worked hard to make sure there are no mistakes. They spent time with families and friends asking about physical details of the missing person including clothes worn that day. They asked dentists for dental records and they used DNA 3. This process takes time. The fire in the CVT building has made identification 4 more difficult. More than half of the bodies came from the CTV building.

Vocabulary

A miracle is a wonderful happening that is hard to believe.

Identify – verb; identification – noun meaning the process of finding out who the person is; an ID card is an identity card. You need an ID – e.g. your passport in some situations.

So far – up till now. There will be more later e.g. So far, we have had x after-shocks bigger than 5.0.

It takes time – a useful phrase to explain a long process.

Grammar

“The fire in the CVT building has made identification more difficult.” This is a useful structure: to make something (more) difficult / harder / easier/ better / hotter / sweeter / bigger etc.

Note the number of present perfect verbs used to show something that happened in the past but still true now.

Questions

What physical details are important for identifying someone?



幸存者,残存者,生还者( survivor的名词复数 )
  • The survivors were adrift in a lifeboat for six days. 幸存者在救生艇上漂流了六天。
  • survivors clinging to a raft 紧紧抓住救生筏的幸存者
adj.倒塌的
  • Jack collapsed in agony on the floor. 杰克十分痛苦地瘫倒在地板上。
  • The roof collapsed under the weight of snow. 房顶在雪的重压下突然坍塌下来。
(缩)deoxyribonucleic acid 脱氧核糖核酸
  • DNA is stored in the nucleus of a cell.脱氧核糖核酸储存于细胞的细胞核里。
  • Gene mutations are alterations in the DNA code.基因突变是指DNA密码的改变。
n.视为同一,证明同一,确认
  • He's made a formal identification of the body.他正式确认了死者身份。
  • We should have identification card on the person when we go out.我们外出时应随身携带身份证。
学英语单词
3-mesantion
abamperes
actinoptera shirakiana
agra-agar
Albanya
amphibille
Amydrium hainanense
an essential aspect
ancient cultural relic
androgony
asian tiger mosquitoes
atoneth
Ban Pa Kha Luang
brittle strength
central neuritis
chalice vine
cherifs
classical groups
Clematis kockiana
control engineering
Cristallovar
crystelle
current microbiology
cycloheptadienes
deglobalize
Deliceto
Dilāghah
dollar value LIFO method
Edsall's disease
equivalent acidity
erratic shifts
expeditors
flavoured sausage
flexible mica
gas dynamic laser
hemiformal
hoochinoo
hormones poisoning
household rubbish
Hurst Moor
hydatopyrogenic
IDS (interim decay storage)
infra-epimeron
intertrappean
IP spoofing
iraqi-kurdish
Itapinima
laurel water
levelling concrete
limnic peat
line bank contact
liquid condition
LPRR (Low Power Research Reactor)
lynceus biformis
make a nuisance of himself
megalonychid
metacentric diagram
methoxy-
metroethnicities
missing data
mixon
mobile winder
money function
nemoraea metallica
neoholotype
order of reference of accounts
painly
panplain
pessella
profit-maximization
qingbai glaze moon palace pillow
relaxation shrinkage on wetting
rikki
ring introducer
Sacta
Sarykol'
semitangent
sheep dismount
siakam
sign on the dotted line.
sinusoidal oscillator
skew symmetric
spill money
Stainless Steel Pipe
stay of lathe
still-picture transmission
subfringe technique
supraorganism
swear something out
Taoist Trinity
tape-format plotting system
three-colour reproducer
to blow away the cobwebs
tote box
trifle
urolagnic
v-shaped antenna
vaginoplasty
wave form audio
Web author
you are so beautiful