时间:2018-12-26 作者:英语课 分类:美国英语听力80篇


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[00:04.31]Flooding is continuing for a third week in southern African countries.

[00:11.31]:Strong rain and wind have destroyed houses, bridges and roads in South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe and Mozambique.

[00:23.54]Crops have been destroyed, and thousands of cattle have been lost.

[00:30.07]It is saidto be the worst flooding in the area in fifty years.

[00:36.34]The flooding is worst in Mozambique.

[00:40.83]Hundreds of people have died in the floodingin the central and southern parts of the country.

[00:49.11]As many as 1,000,000 people have lost their homes.

[00:53.32]A huge flood wave moved down the country's northern Limpopo River on Sunday.

[01:00.94]The waters flooded the small town of Chokwe.

[01:05.31]Many people trapped by the rising floodwater climbed to the tops of trees or houses in hopes of being rescued.

[01:14.58]South African military helicopters have rescued about 8,000 people in the area.

[01:21.87]But South African officials say thousands of people could not be rescued because of a lack of helicopters.

[01:30.85]The number of dead is said to be increasing in Mozambique.

[01:35.92]International aid agencies 1 say more helicopters and humanitarian 2 aid are needed in Mozambique.

[01:43.99]They say without more aid, hundreds of thousands of people may die.

[01:50.65]The World Food Program says the risk of starvation and disease 3 is growing.

[01:58.10]The United Nations says governments have promised more than 13,000,000 dollars in aid for Mozambique.

[02:08.42]And, the World Food Program says it has begun a 7,000,000,dollar emergency aid operation.

[02:17.22]The United States and other countries are sending food and emergency supplies to Mozambique.

[02:26.29]PreSident Joaquim Chissano visited the flooded areas earlier this week and appealed for more international aid.

[02:36.53]The flooding ended years of development work and economic recovery 4 in-southern African countries.

[02:44.73]Mozambique says it will take more than 16,000,000 dollars to rebuild.

[02:52.04]More flooding is expected in the central and southern parts of the country in the next few days.

[02:59.30]Environmental experts say much of the flooding is caused by the destruction 5 of wetlands in southern Africa.

[03:08.81]They say wetlands are like huge sponges 6 that can take in large amounts of water.



1 agencies
n.代理( agency的名词复数 );服务机构;(政府的)专门机构;代理(或经销)业务(或关系)
  • There are many specialized agencies in the United Nations. 联合国有许多专门机构。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The project is funded by the World Bank and other multilateral agencies. 这项计划由世界银行和其他多国机构资助。 来自《简明英汉词典》
2 humanitarian
n.人道主义者,博爱者,基督凡人论者
  • She has many humanitarian interests and contributes a lot to them.她拥有很多慈善事业,并作了很大的贡献。
  • The British government has now suspended humanitarian aid to the area.英国政府现已暂停对这一地区的人道主义援助。
3 disease
n.疾病,弊端
  • The doctors are trying to stamp out the disease.医生正在尽力消灭这种疾病。
  • He fought against the disease for a long time.他同疾病做了长时间的斗争。
4 recovery
n.恢复,痊愈;追回,寻回,收复
  • The doctors said that his recovery was a miracle. 医生们说他的复原是件奇事。
  • The quick recovery was truly in response to medication.这次迅速康复确实是对药物治疗的反应。
5 destruction
n.破坏,毁灭,消灭
  • The enemy bombs caused widespread destruction.敌人的炸弹造成大面积的破坏。
  • Overconfidence was his destruction.自负是他垮台的原因。
6 sponges
n.海绵( sponge的名词复数 );海绵动物
  • Sponges absorb water. 海绵吸水。 来自辞典例句
  • Ice bags and alcohol sponges help to reduce fever, especially in children. 用冰袋和洒精擦浴有助于降体温,尤其是对儿童。 来自辞典例句
学英语单词
-paced
-tony
acceptance and checkout
acceptance receivable
aelius
alloxin
amplitude discrimination circuit
aquite
at sb.'s beck and call
Bajamar
bake-out
Batu Bora, Bukit
be filled with fury
blumm
bodytights
brazza
bromo-cinnamic acid
Burgundy trefoil
cage control
combed
country of the recipient
credit manage
cybersexuality
detrited
dishy
dynamometamorphism (kinetic metamorphism)
eclecticist
electropositive atom
executive directors
expansive pressure
external agent
extraction mechanism
family Scombridae
Gauteriaceae
gold powder
grampian mts.
heat-eliminating medium
imaging modality
inductive read/write head
iraklion
Kerinci, Gunung
Kleinschmidt spread
Lake Zurich
London plane tree
magnetic disk storage
magneto-gas dynamics
majordomo
Matas' operation
mayhill
meillasouxes
Messei
Milang
missouri gourds
Mudrane
multiply transitive group
neoplankton
net flow area
no moon
nonpolynomials
overdrafts on current account unsecured
parakeratotic
parapodium (pl.parapodia)
Penicillus-mycosis
pentabromoacetone
philaterie
photon activation analysis(PAA)
piliferum
played no part in
polar coordinate method
polygeosyncline
prenatal mortality
proton microscope
pto-driven finger-wheel rake
pulsation dampener
pyramidal tetrahedron
read routine
regroover
rock rose
rotor with salient poles
scyphula
seamstress's cramp
semi-pegmatitic texture
shift the blame to other shoulders
shower-heads
Sixmilecross
sleeper fastening
stationary generator of ruled surface
substitution drill
swordbill
temperature-sum rule
Terapon
three parameter model
to entertain offer
total highway transport production output value
transubstantiationism
trustee's account
tube closure
two-handled
unipolar flux
verser
wage price policy
zappa