时间:2018-12-20 作者:英语课 分类:CNN美国有线新闻2017年9月


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What remains 1 of Hurricane Irma has moved inland. Last night, the storm had howled through Georgia, toward Alabama and Tennessee, and was expected to clip several other southern states. But its greatest toll 2 on the U.S. was in Florida, where it made landfall.


飓风“厄玛”的残余势力已向内陆移动。昨晚,暴风雨袭击了乔治亚州,阿拉巴马州和田纳西州,预计还将会影响南方其他几个州。然而,飓风“厄玛”对美国影响最大的是佛罗里达州——也就是“厄玛”登陆的地方。


Last night, an estimated 65 percent of the state was without power and the White House said some places wouldn't get it back for weeks. The Keys and island chain off Florida's southern tip took a direct hit and official there said there was no cell service, no electricity, no running water.


昨晚,佛罗里达州大约有65%的地区断电。白宫表示,一些地区可能数周都无法恢复电力。佛罗里达州的Keys地区及其南部岛屿遭到直接袭击。当地官员表示,该地目前没有手机信号、没有电、没有自来水。


Satellite phones and landlines were being used to communicate.


目前当地用卫星电话和陆上通讯线与外界联系。


Some streets in Miami were underwater. The city's airport closed because of water damage.


迈阿密一些街道被水淹没。该市机场也因水灾被迫关闭。


And while the Gulf 3 Coast city of Tampa was not damaged as badly as many expected, and there wasn't much storm surge, the Atlantic coast city of Jacksonville saw a record storm surge, the rise in sea levels blown ashore 4. There was immense flooding there that officials expected to get worse.


虽然墨西哥湾沿岸城市坦帕受损情况并没有预期的那样严重,也没有多少风暴潮,但大西洋沿岸城市杰克逊维尔市的风暴潮却创造了记录,并导致海平面上升。当地发生巨大洪灾,官方估计情况可能会进一步恶化。


Storm surge warnings remain in Florida, Georgia and South Carolina, and as the U.S. gets its first look at Irma's effects, parts of Cuba are grappling with severe damage. Irma killed 10people there and at least 36 total throughout the Caribbean. Cuba and some other islands weather Irma as a category five storm.


佛罗里达州、乔治亚州和南卡罗来纳州等地区的风暴警报仍在持续。随着美国首次见识到飓风“厄玛”的影响,古巴部分地区也在努力应对其带来的严重损失。“厄玛”导致古巴10人丧生,并至少造成加勒比海地区36人遇难。飓风“厄玛”给古巴和其他岛屿带来的灾害相当于5级风暴。



1 remains
n.剩余物,残留物;遗体,遗迹
  • He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
  • The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。
2 toll
n.过路(桥)费;损失,伤亡人数;v.敲(钟)
  • The hailstone took a heavy toll of the crops in our village last night.昨晚那场冰雹损坏了我们村的庄稼。
  • The war took a heavy toll of human life.这次战争夺去了许多人的生命。
3 gulf
n.海湾;深渊,鸿沟;分歧,隔阂
  • The gulf between the two leaders cannot be bridged.两位领导人之间的鸿沟难以跨越。
  • There is a gulf between the two cities.这两座城市间有个海湾。
4 ashore
adv.在(向)岸上,上岸
  • 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。
学英语单词
Abaco Is.
algebraic precision
alphabetic notation
anemia achylica
animal tracking
barkum
Barnmeen
belt loop
biased gun
bimetallic thermocouple
bituminous glass fabric felt
blower production line
capillate
carbonic acid test
cell-like conditions
chinphobous
clam-fest
cns (college of nuclear science)
cohesion of module
computer-directed communication
corken
coupon policy
Crohn's disease of colon
Dermoseptazine
design agreement
diode comparator
direct-detecting mode
distribution of powers
Dome-cort
dominant species
Dubrivka
enactors
epoxy-
erythrina indicas
Erythrocebus patas
erythrocyte rosette formation test
genus Melissa
geocomposites
go out of someone's mind
good and sure
guy span
heh
histiocytosarcoma
HLA (high level alarm)
home-sick
incomings and outgoings
instant random access
Jianpur
Kartun
Kf.
kraw-kraw
lattice resolution
lencophenga (lencophenga) sordida
linear fractional programming
logic functions
manderleys
matt dip
matuta planipes
microwave bombs
Mokrzesz
multiple-address space partition
national dress
nonrecordable
occluding ligature
order myxobacteraless
out-of-phase diagram
paragraph assembly
picopascal
pin-tucking
piys
porte-acid
pressure operated switch
principal act
rectifier efficiency
sales campaign
scrapss
semitalented
seriate
series arrangement
servingspreparation
set of rules
short-term investment fund
sinuitid
soft curd milk
soil self purification
somersaults
square-center
streetfights
tabai
table-leg
Tarmina
tourneyer
trailing ground cover
triangular monopoly games
unridden
vagin? tendinum digitales pedis
vastus muscle
vertical recording
vocal technique
yearbook unit
ypthima conjuncta yamanakai
zero-order component