VOA标准英语2012--Karaoke and Counseling: Japan’s Tsunami Survivors Try to Rebuild
时间：2019-01-14 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2012年(二月)
Karaoke and Counseling: Japan’s Tsunami 1 Survivors 2 Try to Rebuild
Karaoke is helping 3 to heal the wounds of last year’s tsunami. Traditional folk songs are favorite among the residents of Ofunato’s temporary housing, like Kazue Hashiguchi.
She says it is good fun and heals the heart. She says gathering 4 together in a group and singing and talking to each other is great.
This musical get-together 5 is taking place on board a purpose-built truck currently touring Japan’s tsunami-hit coast, bringing counseling and karaoke to the bereaved 6 communities.
Yoshinobu Konno is from the charity ‘Friends of the United Nations,’ which came up with the idea.
He says people who live in these small prefabricated houses lost their families and their homes and are often depressed 7. He says they are often alone, they do not want to make contact with other people, they become introspective. He says his group is concerned that people could die here alone in their houses. He says his charity is intervening to try to prevent mental illnesses from taking hold.
Dozens of housing blocks have been erected 8 in Japan in the months following the tsunami. Visiting salesmen bring life’s essentials - and even the odd luxury like locally caught cod 9 roe 10.
In a small cove 11 below Ofunato, there is nothing left of the residents’ original homes. Demolition 12 teams have flattened 13 the few structures that the tsunami left behind.
Ofunato was one of the worst hit towns when the tsunami roared ashore 14 nearly a year ago.
Further south, a freighter still looms 15 over Kesennuma town, carried several kilometers inland by the tsunami.
It is impossible to forget the horrors of a year ago, but the town is trying to move on.
A mini-village has sprung up to re-house businesses washed away. Chefs and shopkeepers offer a taste of Kesennuma’s once-famed seafood 16.
Among them, Masayoshi Hatakeyama. His traditional Japanese inn was entirely 17 destroyed. His new workplace may be cramped 18, but he says it is a first step on a very long road.
He says the tsunami destroyed a huge area so it will take a long time and hard work to get back to how it was before. He says it will not be like it was before - they will have to create a new town.
Under the direction of a newly-formed Ministry 19 of Reconstruction 20, this wrecked 21 coastline is being transformed with astonishing speed.
Back in Ofunato, survivors say it will take much longer to rebuild their communities; many question whether anyone will want to live here at all.
- 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。
- 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 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。
- He called on Mr. White to speak at the gathering.他请怀特先生在集会上讲话。
- He is on the wing gathering material for his novels.他正忙于为他的小说收集资料。
- Well,Miss Huang,we are planning to have a casual get-together.嗯，黄小姐，我们打算大家小聚一番。
- Will you help me prepare for the get- together of the old classmates?你能否帮我为这次老同学聚会做好准备工作？
- The ceremony was an ordeal for those who had been recently bereaved. 这个仪式对于那些新近丧失亲友的人来说是一种折磨。
- an organization offering counselling for the bereaved 为死者亲友提供辅导的组织
- When he was depressed,he felt utterly divorced from reality.他心情沮丧时就感到完全脱离了现实。
- His mother was depressed by the sad news.这个坏消息使他的母亲意志消沉。
- They salt down cod for winter use.他们腌鳕鱼留着冬天吃。
- Cod are found in the North Atlantic and the North Sea.北大西洋和北海有鳕鱼。
- We will serve smoked cod's roe at the dinner.宴会上我们将上一道熏鳕鱼子。
- I'll scramble some eggs with roe?我用鱼籽炒几个鸡蛋好吗？
- The shore line is wooded,olive-green,a pristine cove.岸边一带林木蓊郁，嫩绿一片，好一个山外的小海湾。
- I saw two children were playing in a cove.我看到两个小孩正在一个小海湾里玩耍。
- The church has been threatened with demolition for years. 这座教堂多年来一直面临拆毀的威胁。
- The project required the total demolition of the old bridge. 该项目要求将老桥完全拆毁。
- She flattened her nose and lips against the window. 她把鼻子和嘴唇紧贴着窗户。
- I flattened myself against the wall to let them pass. 我身体紧靠着墙让他们通过。
- 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。
- All were busily engaged,men at their ploughs,women at their looms. 大家都很忙，男的耕田，女的织布。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The factory has twenty-five looms. 那家工厂有25台织布机。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- There's an excellent seafood restaurant near here.离这儿不远有家非常不错的海鲜馆。
- Shrimps are a popular type of seafood.小虾是比较普遍的一种海味。
- The fire was entirely caused by their neglect of duty. 那场火灾完全是由于他们失职而引起的。
- His life was entirely given up to the educational work. 他的一生统统献给了教育工作。
- 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
- They sent a deputation to the ministry to complain.他们派了一个代表团到部里投诉。
- We probed the Air Ministry statements.我们调查了空军部的记录。
- The country faces a huge task of national reconstruction following the war.战后，该国面临着重建家园的艰巨任务。
- In the period of reconstruction,technique decides everything.在重建时期，技术决定一切。