令人惊骇的恐怖袭击
时间：2018-12-12 作者：英语课 分类：VOA2001-国际风云（5）
令人惊骇的恐怖袭击
The Horror of New York City's Attacks
Jim Malone
Newark, New Jersey 1
12 Sep 2001 00:41 UTC
The twin attacks on the twin towers came without warning and just minutes 1)apart.
As a local television anchor interviewed an 2)eyewitness 2 to the first crash, a second 3)hijacked 4)jetliner 5)roared into the south tower of the 110-story structure, sending a fireball and clouds of smoke in the sky over New York. "Six or seven floors were taken out and hold on," says one eyewitness. "The building has exploded! You've got people running up the street, let me find out what is going on. Okay, the whole building just exploded, the whole top part. The building is still intact. People are running up the street. Am I still connected?"
Later, both World Trade Towers collapsed 3, sending 6)untold numbers of people to their deaths. Fire and rescue crews rushed into lower Manhattan to aid the 7)victims as a thick plume 4 of dark gray smoke 8)drifted south of the city, a 9)plume that could be seen from many kilometers away in neighboring New Jersey.
Later in the day, a 47-story building also part of the World Trade Center also collapsed in the 10)aftermath of the terrorist attack.
Hospitals in New York stood by for casualties and an immediate 5 appeal for blood donations was quickly answered by thousands of New Yorkers who lined up to donate, eager to do something in the midst of the 11)carnage.
Pedestrians 6 in New York City flee as first World Trade Center tower collapses 7 Manhattan was closed off to incoming traffic and New Yorkers trying to flee the city used any means they could find, including walking over some of the city's famous bridges to try to reach home.
This is not the first time the World Trade Center was the target of a terrorist attack. A truck bomb rocked the complex in 1993, killing 8 six people and wounding hundreds. Six Islamic militants 9 convicted of that attack are now serving life terms in prison.
(1) apart[E5pB:t]adv.分离, 分成零件,分离着adj.分开的
(2) eyewitness[5aIwItnIs]n.目击者, 见证人
(3) hijack[5haIdVAk]vt.抢劫, 劫持, 劫机, 揩油
(4) jetliner[ `dVet9laInE(r)]n.喷气客机
(5) roar[rC:(r)]n.吼叫, 怒号vi.吼叫, 怒号v.滚动, 咆哮
(6) untold[5Qn5tEJld]adj.未说过的,未透露的,数不清的
(7) victim[5vIktIm]n.受害人, 牺牲者, 牺牲品
(8) drift[drIft]n.冲洗, 漂流物, 观望, 漂流v.(使)漂流
(9) plume[plu:m]n.羽毛
(10) aftermath[5B:ftEmAW]n.结果, 后果
(11) carnage[5kB:nIdV]n.(尤指在战场上的)残杀, 大屠杀, 流血
- He wears a cotton jersey when he plays football.他穿运动衫踢足球。
- They were dressed alike in blue jersey and knickers.他们穿着一致，都是蓝色的运动衫和灯笼短裤。
- The police questioned several eyewitness to the murder.警察询问了谋杀案的几位目击者。
- He was the only eyewitness of the robbery.他是那起抢劫案的唯一目击者。
- 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。
- Her hat was adorned with a plume.她帽子上饰着羽毛。
- He does not plume himself on these achievements.他并不因这些成就而自夸。
- His immediate neighbours felt it their duty to call.他的近邻认为他们有责任去拜访。
- We declared ourselves for the immediate convocation of the meeting.我们主张立即召开这个会议。
- Several pedestrians had come to grief on the icy pavement. 几个行人在结冰的人行道上滑倒了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Pedestrians keep to the sidewalk [footpath]! 行人走便道。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
- 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。