时间:2018-12-01 作者:英语课 分类:VOA标准英语听者文摘


英语课

Indonesia Eathquake:


Relief Operations Fully 1 Underway


 


After trickling 2 in for two days, aid to the shattered island began pouring in Thursday, with international aid organizations and the Indonesian military ferrying in water, food and medicine.


 


Scores of people sought refuge in temporary shelters such as this one, on the island’s capital, Gunung Sitoli.


 


As many as 30 percent of the town’s buildings were destroyed when the quake struck late Monday. It came just three months after a magnitude nine quake in the same area sparked a tsunami 3 that killed over 300,000 people across the Indian Ocean region.


 


Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono visited the island Thursday, and promised to take quick action to help residents, including getting the electricity running again.


 


The president says, in this emergency situation, the people of Indonesia must unite to overcome their hardships and rebuild their lives.


 


While Nias bore the brunt of the damage ---- 500 of the 518 reported deaths occurred there, according to a UN survey ---- Simuelue and Sumatra Islands were also affected 4.


 


Brian Williams owns a resort on Simeulue.


 


Brian Williams: I just had a call from the governor of the island who said that the world is not helping 5 Simeulue.  We need help in Simeulue so I’m organizing boats now.


 


There are deaths, destroyed buildings and traumatized survivors 6, including Juan Pedro Garcia.


 


Juan Pedro Garcia: At the moment, I think it’s just too uneasy.  There’s too much damage.  No one knows what’s going on.  It’s all up in the air at the moment.  We just don’t know.


 


The full extent of the damage remains 7 unclear, as rescue efforts continue.


 




1 fully
adv.完全地,全部地,彻底地;充分地
  • The doctor asked me to breathe in,then to breathe out fully.医生让我先吸气,然后全部呼出。
  • They soon became fully integrated into the local community.他们很快就完全融入了当地人的圈子。
2 trickling
n.油画底色含油太多而成泡沫状突起v.滴( trickle的现在分词 );淌;使)慢慢走;缓慢移动
  • Tears were trickling down her cheeks. 眼泪顺着她的面颊流了下来。
  • The engine was trickling oil. 发动机在滴油。 来自《简明英汉词典》
3 tsunami
n.海啸
  • Powerful quake sparks tsunami warning in Japan.大地震触发了日本的海啸预警。
  • Coastlines all around the Indian Ocean inundated by a huge tsunami.大海啸把印度洋沿岸地区都淹没了。
4 affected
adj.不自然的,假装的
  • She showed an affected interest in our subject.她假装对我们的课题感到兴趣。
  • His manners are affected.他的态度不自然。
5 helping
n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的,辅助的
  • The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
  • By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。
6 survivors
幸存者,残存者,生还者( survivor的名词复数 )
  • The survivors were adrift in a lifeboat for six days. 幸存者在救生艇上漂流了六天。
  • survivors clinging to a raft 紧紧抓住救生筏的幸存者
7 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。
学英语单词
acknowIedged
Acrochaetium
adeno-associated
admittance comparator
amplexus
ballium
basilar artery aneurysm
bessas
black saturation
Blandan
bulboatrial crest
bus-cycle tracing
caroticotympanic artery
circumscribes
compensatest
configurators
construction of hydro project
contextualization
crack detector
Dapex process
debased coinage
delivery lag time
depreciation annuity
desacralisation
engravest
epinephelus tukula
erbium-doped single-mode fiber
executrices
far-field seismic signal
female inflorescence
fetus period
flowchart connector
freedom to bear arms
gasp one's life
get one's mind off something
hectolitre
high-resolution ir radiometer (hrir)
if-then statement
individual opinion
indulgentiary
intermittent earth
internal wedge adjustment
intersequence
Kara-Khol', Ozero
keep the weather ga ge of
key-fruits
kind-looking
lane direction control signal
Langhans
machine reel
main-deck
Marcianise
maximum likeihood detection
mesaconitine
metasystox-s
miles exclusive ecomomic zone
millet congee
modem receive-only control
monogramma paradoxa
motor tune-up
movable frog
multiple reel file control
multiwire strand
nonphotosynthetic
Odocoileus
old-soldier
onstad
output current rating
overload point
peared
phenotypic assortative
phrenosinic acid
physiological measure
press ... for
pronepce
radio inspector
Reevesia botingensis
regenerated rock
riffle-box
Saguntum
self-synchronous
slat type conveyer
socket wrench crossbar
solid thin film electrolyte
spider shaft
stigmatises
stop-light
swarmin'
theory of preformation
therapeutic agent
tolmetin sodium
tolytrimonium
tonquin beans
two-gate caisson
unadjusted eye
unrended
Villarroya de los Pinares
Vinchina
WANO (Worldwide Association of Nuclear Operators)
water collecting pipe
wirbels
yelm