2006年VOA标准英语-Philippine Landslide Buries Village - Hund
时间：2019-01-13 作者：英语课 分类：2006年VOA标准英语（二月）
By Heda Bayron
Hong Kong
17 February 2006
Mudslides triggered by heavy rains have buried a village in the eastern Philippines. At least 15 bodies have been recovered. The Red Cross says hundreds are missing and the death toll 1 is expected to rise.
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Landslide 2 survivor 3's face is cleaned by rescuers, Friday
Desperate rescuers dug by hand for survivors 4 all day Friday in the mud-swallowed village of Guinsaugon in the eastern Philippine province of Leyte.
One survivor told Manila's GMA television that he felt tremors 5 and then saw huge boulders 6 the size of houses falling down the mountainside.
The man says the entire village has been wiped out.
The Philippine Red Cross is sending relief supplies to the area, including generators 7 and body bags. President Gloria Arroyo 8 promised swift aid to the landslide victims.
Gloria Arroyo (file photo)
"The full resources of the government are being harnessed to bring the biggest possible rescue and relief resources to you the fastest way possible," said Gloria Arroyo.
Rescue efforts are being hampered 9 by rain, blocked roads and washed out bridges.
Philippine Navy and Coast Guard ships are rushing to the area and the United States says it is sending one of its Navy ships to assist in the relief operations. Dozens of U.S. troops are currently in the Philippines for a joint 10 military exercise.
The wall of mud collapsed 11 on the village early Friday morning. Television footage shows a carpet of reddish brown earth where the village once stood, and the scattered 12 wooden debris 13 of destroyed houses and toppled coconut 14 trees.
More than 1,000 people lived in the village.
Like much of the eastern Visayas island group, Leyte has experienced heavy rains for about 10 days. More than 20 people were killed in landslides 15 earlier this week on the island.
President Arroyo this week ordered government agencies to prepare for an early and prolonged rainy season because of the weather phenomenon called "La Nina".
- 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。
- Our candidate is predicated to win by a landslide.我们的候选人被预言将以绝对优势取胜。
- An electoral landslide put the Labour Party into power in 1945.1945年工党以压倒多数的胜利当选执政。
- The sole survivor of the crash was an infant.这次撞车的惟一幸存者是一个婴儿。
- There was only one survivor of the plane crash.这次飞机失事中只有一名幸存者。
- 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
- The story was so terrible that It'sent tremors down my spine. 这故事太可怕，它使我不寒而栗。
- The story was so terrible that it sent tremors down my spine. 这故事太可怕，它使我不寒而栗。
- Seals basked on boulders in a flat calm. 海面风平浪静，海豹在巨石上晒太阳。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The river takes a headlong plunge into a maelstrom of rocks and boulders. 河水急流而下，入一个漂砾的漩涡中。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The factory's emergency generators were used during the power cut. 工厂应急发电机在停电期间用上了。
- Power can be fed from wind generators into the electricity grid system. 电力可以从风力发电机流入输电网。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- She continued along the path until she came to the arroyo.她沿着小路一直走到小河边。
- They had a picnic by the arroyo.他们在干枯的河床边野餐过。
- The search was hampered by appalling weather conditions. 恶劣的天气妨碍了搜寻工作。
- So thought every harassed, hampered, respectable boy in St. Petersburg. 圣彼德堡镇的那些受折磨、受拘束的体面孩子们个个都是这么想的。
- I had a bad fall,which put my shoulder out of joint.我重重地摔了一跤，肩膀脫臼了。
- We wrote a letter in joint names.我们联名写了封信。
- Jack collapsed in agony on the floor. 杰克十分痛苦地瘫倒在地板上。
- The roof collapsed under the weight of snow. 房顶在雪的重压下突然坍塌下来。
- Gathering up his scattered papers,he pushed them into his case.他把散乱的文件收拾起来，塞进文件夹里。
- After the bombing there was a lot of debris everywhere.轰炸之后到处瓦砾成堆。
- Bacteria sticks to food debris in the teeth,causing decay.细菌附着在牙缝中的食物残渣上，导致蛀牙。
- The husk of this coconut is particularly strong.椰子的外壳很明显非常坚固。
- The falling coconut gave him a terrific bang on the head.那只掉下的椰子砰地击中他的脑袋。
- Landslides have cut off many villages in remote areas. 滑坡使边远地区的许多村庄与外界隔绝。
- The storm caused landslides and flooding in Savona. 风暴致使萨沃纳发生塌方和洪灾。