美国有线新闻 CNN 印尼强震及海啸已致至少832人死亡 救援工作仍在继续
时间：2018-12-08 作者：英语课 分类：CNN美国有线新闻2018年10月
Our week and month start off in an island nation that's located between the Indian and Pacific Oceans. Indonesia has been struck by yet another natural disaster. It began on Friday when the island of Sulawesi was hit by a magnitude 7.5 earthquake. That's considered a major quake. One capable of significant damage and it generated a tsunami 1 which brought ocean waves estimated to be almost 10 feet high. They rushed ashore 2 on parts of Sulawesi and caused a level of destruction the government officials aren't able to estimate yet.
They say at least 832 people were killed in the disaster but that number could increase a great deal because thousands are still missing. I?n total, authorities estimate that more than 2 million people have been affected 3. Flood waters and heaps of debris 4 are piled up in several parts of the island. And some areas are hard to get to because the roads have been damaged or blocked by landslides 5. According to the British Broadcasting Corporation, rescuers in one city are digging through the rubble 6 by? hand searching for survivors 7. There's not enough heavy machinery 8 available to help.
The ground beneath them has been unstable 9 since the quake struck. Aftershocks continue to rattle 10 Sulawesi throughout the weekend. And with electricity and communications knocked out, authorities and residents are struggling to share information. The damage is making it hard for international aid workers to get supplies to those who need it.
This century there have been multiple earthquakes and tsunamis 11 generated around Indonesia. They've killed hundreds of thousands of people in the region. Scientists say the earth below this section of the "Ring of Fire" is constantly changing and moving making earthquakes so common that it's not a matter of if another one will strike, but when.
- Powerful quake sparks tsunami warning in Japan.大地震触发了日本的海啸预警。
- Coastlines all around the Indian Ocean inundated by a huge tsunami.大海啸把印度洋沿岸地区都淹没了。
- The children got ashore before the tide came in.涨潮前，孩子们就上岸了。
- He laid hold of the rope and pulled the boat ashore.他抓住绳子拉船靠岸。
- 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。
- After the bombing there was a lot of debris everywhere.轰炸之后到处瓦砾成堆。
- Bacteria sticks to food debris in the teeth,causing decay.细菌附着在牙缝中的食物残渣上，导致蛀牙。
- 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,it took months to clean up the rubble.地震后，花了数月才清理完瓦砾。
- After the war many cities were full of rubble.战后许多城市到处可见颓垣残壁。
- 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
- Has the machinery been put up ready for the broadcast?广播器材安装完毕了吗？
- Machinery ought to be well maintained all the time.机器应该随时注意维护。
- This bookcase is too unstable to hold so many books.这书橱很不结实，装不了这么多书。
- The patient's condition was unstable.那患者的病情不稳定。