NPR 2011-05-22
时间：2018-12-17 作者：英语课 分类：2011年NPR美国国家公共电台5月
The swollen 1 Mississippi River is giving residents of at least one Louisiana town something ever reprieved 2. Evacuations that were supposed to become mandatory 3 in Butte La Rose today had been put on hold. Most have already left, but officials there now say the Mississippi River might not get as high as feared; they put evacuations off for a couple of days. Other towns are bracing 4 for flooding. Carl Kraemer, the emergency management director of Morgan City, is hopping 5 for the best.
"The amount of work that we have done in this—the last two weeks is almost unheard of, but we got the crews—our city crews in here. We got National Guard crews in here, and we really did a lot of work to bring..."
- Her legs had got swollen from standing up all day.因为整天站着，她的双腿已经肿了。
- A mosquito had bitten her and her arm had swollen up.蚊子叮了她，她的手臂肿起来了。
- 70 jobs have been reprieved until next April. 有70个职位暂时保留到明年四月份。
- We were reprieved from the danger for a time. 我们暂免危险。 来自辞典例句