美国有线新闻 CNN 墨西哥发生8.1级地震 美国各地举行9·11纪念活动
时间：2018-12-20 作者：英语课 分类：CNN美国有线新闻2017年9月
AZUZ: Moving to another coast now. Rescuers are scouring 1 homes in southern Mexico. They're looking for survivors 2 after a tremendous earthquake struck about 74 miles offshore 3 on Thursday night. With a magnitude of 8.1, the tremor 4 was capable of destroying entire towns.
On average, the world only sees about one quake this powerful every year. Mexico hasn't had a tremor like this for a century. It struck an impoverished 5 area. There were multiple aftershocks. And government officials say it killed dozens of people. Many in the region were asleep when the quake struck near midnight.
It was felt hundreds of miles away, in places like Mexico City, in Guatemala City, and it generated a tsunami 6, a massive ocean wave that measured almost six feet in one area. Mexico's military and police are helping 7 the search for survivors and distribution of medical supplies.
Memorial ceremonies are being held across America today, 16 years after the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history. Americans are honoring the thousands who were killed and the police, firefighters and other rescuers who died trying to save them.
The assault was carried out by the al Qaeda terrorist group, a radical 8 Islamic organization based in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Nineteen al Qaeda members hijacked 9 four U.S. passenger planes on September 11, 2001. They crashed two of the planes into the Twin Towers, the skyscraper 10 that formed the World Trade Center in New York City, both of the massive buildings collapse 11 soon afterward 12.
A third plane was crashed in Washington, D.C. It hit the Pentagon. The headquarters of the U.S. Defense 13 Department and a fourth flight crashed into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, reportedly after its passengers and crew tried to take back control of the plane.
Two thousand nine hundred and seventy-seven people were killed in the September 11th attacks, and just over a week later, U.S. President George W. Bush declared a war on terror.
The southeast Asian country of Afghanistan was giving al Qaeda a place to live and train at that time. And on October 7, 2001, after Afghanistan's Taliban rulers refused to turn over al Qaeda's leader to the United States, America led attacks against targets in Afghanistan. The conflict there continues today.
- The police are scouring the countryside for the escaped prisoners. 警察正在搜索整个乡村以捉拿逃犯。
- This is called the scouring train in wool processing. 这被称为羊毛加工中的洗涤系列。
- 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
- A big program of oil exploration has begun offshore.一个大规模的石油勘探计划正在近海展开。
- A gentle current carried them slowly offshore.和缓的潮流慢慢地把他们带离了海岸。
- There was a slight tremor in his voice.他的声音有点颤抖。
- A slight earth tremor was felt in California.加利福尼亚发生了轻微的地震。
- the impoverished areas of the city 这个城市的贫民区
- They were impoverished by a prolonged spell of unemployment. 他们因长期失业而一贫如洗。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- 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 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。
- The patient got a radical cure in the hospital.病人在医院得到了根治。
- She is radical in her demands.她的要求十分偏激。
- The plane was hijacked by two armed men on a flight from London to Rome. 飞机在从伦敦飞往罗马途中遭到两名持械男子劫持。
- The plane was hijacked soon after it took off. 那架飞机起飞后不久被劫持了。
- The skyscraper towers into the clouds.那幢摩天大楼高耸入云。
- The skyscraper was wrapped in fog.摩天楼为雾所笼罩。
- The country's economy is on the verge of collapse.国家的经济已到了崩溃的边缘。
- The engineer made a complete diagnosis of the bridge's collapse.工程师对桥的倒塌做了一次彻底的调查分析。