CNN 2010-02-19
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And nearly half a million homeless people are still living in those makeshift settlements in Haiti today. Only a tinny tiny percentage have made it to organize tent cities. The rest are making do with whatever building materials they can find hidden in that rubble 1.
CNN's John Vause has their story.
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JOHN VAUSE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): With a hammer and machete, Charles Jonas is building a new home.
"The corrugated 2 iron came from my old house," he says. "The wood I got from around here."
He doesn't know how long he'll live like this with his wife, but with a shortage of tents he says he had to do something.
Across Port-au-Prince, it seems, there are hundreds of thousands of people just like Charles.
Sprawling 3 shanty 4 towns seem to grow larger and more permanent every day. This one is just across from the presidential palace. Street vendors 5 have set up shop, and the women with the buckets, are walking pharmacies 6.
(On camera): So the people here are building these homes with whatever they can find. Sheets of corrugated iron, pieces of wood, this is actually what's left over from an outdoor billboard 7.
We asked this lady if we could go inside, have a look at the house, she said yes, so come on in. So inside here, this is all she has left. There's a bed, another bed, a mirror, some pots and pans. And inside this dark, hot, cramped 8 house, she lives with her husband, her sister, and her four children.
(Voice-over): On the streets garbage is piling up and a pungent 9 smell is a sharp reminder 10 there's no sanitation 11. Ideal conditions for the spread of disease, say health workers.
(On camera): You got to get these people out of these conditions? And soon?
ISAAC BOYD, CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES: As quickly as possible.
VAUSE (voice-over): Isaac Boyd from Catholic Relief services is planning to move up to 200,000 Haitians into semi-permanent camps over the next two months. That will be home for up to five years.
BOYD: I haven't seen anything like this, really, before. And that's saying a lot. I work in the different -- a lot of different context.
VAUSE: Thousands of tents are being given out, but that's just a fraction of what's needed. Médecins sans Frontières or Doctors without Borders say these are strong enough to weather a hurricane. Welcome news for Frank (INAUDIBLE).
(On camera): He's been sleeping out in the open for almost a month now.
(Voice-over): So when he walked inside for the first time, he took off his shoes.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Thank you.
VAUSE: John Vause, CNN, Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
- 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。
- a corrugated iron roof 波纹铁屋顶
- His brow corrugated with the effort of thinking. 他皱着眉头用心地思考。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- He was sprawling in an armchair in front of the TV. 他伸开手脚坐在电视机前的一张扶手椅上。
- a modern sprawling town 一座杂乱无序拓展的现代城镇
- His childhood was spent in a shanty.他的童年是在一个简陋小屋里度过的。
- I want to quit this shanty.我想离开这烂房子。
- The vendors were gazundered at the last minute. 卖主在最后一刻被要求降低房价。
- At the same time, interface standards also benefIt'software vendors. 同时，界面标准也有利于软件开发商。 来自About Face 3交互设计精髓
- Still, 32 percent of the pharmacies filled the prescriptions. 但仍然有32%的药剂师配发了这两张药方。 来自互联网
- Chinese herbal pharmacies, and traditional massage therapists in the Vancouver telephone book. 中药店，和传统的按摩师在温哥华的电话簿里。 来自互联网
- He ploughed his energies into his father's billboard business.他把精力投入到父亲的广告牌业务中。
- Billboard spreads will be simpler and more eye-catching.广告牌广告会比较简单且更引人注目。
- The house was terribly small and cramped, but the agent described it as a bijou residence. 房子十分狭小拥挤，但经纪人却把它说成是小巧别致的住宅。
- working in cramped conditions 在拥挤的环境里工作
- The article is written in a pungent style.文章写得泼辣。
- Its pungent smell can choke terrorists and force them out of their hideouts.它的刺激性气味会令恐怖分子窒息，迫使他们从藏身地点逃脱出来。
- I have had another reminder from the library.我又收到图书馆的催还单。
- It always took a final reminder to get her to pay her share of the rent.总是得发给她一份最后催缴通知，她才付应该交的房租。
- The location is exceptionally poor,viewed from the sanitation point.从卫生角度来看，这个地段非常糟糕。
- Many illnesses are the result,f inadequate sanitation.许多疾病都来源于不健全的卫生设施。