Typhoon Kai-Tak kills 3, displaces 100,000 in S China

 NANNING, Aug. 20 (Xinhua) -- Typhoon Kai-Tak has left three people dead, one person missing and forced over 111,500 people to evacuate¹ their homes in southwest China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous² region as of Monday afternoon, local civil affairs authorities said.

As of 4 p.m. Monday, Kai-Tak, the 13th tropical storm of the year, had ravaged³ 36 counties in Guangxi, destroying 1,457 homes. Over 212,150 hectares of crops were affected⁴ and 2,810 hectares of them were completely destroyed, said a statement from the region's civil affairs department.

Direct economic losses are estimated to be 1.65 billion yuan (262 million U.S. dollars), according to the statement.

Kai-Tak, which hit south China on Friday with heavy rains and strong winds, has also forced the evacuation of 342,000 people in neighboring Guangdong province and 82,000 people in the southernmost island province of Hainan, the Ministry⁵ of Civil Affairs and the National Commission for Disaster Reduction said on Sunday.

1 evacuate   

v.遣送；搬空；抽出；排泄；大(小)便

参考例句：

• We must evacuate those soldiers at once!我们必须立即撤出这些士兵！
• They were planning to evacuate the seventy American officials still in the country.他们正计划转移仍滞留在该国的70名美国官员。

2 autonomous   

adj.自治的；独立的

参考例句：

• They proudly declared themselves part of a new autonomous province.他们自豪地宣布成为新自治省的一部分。
• This is a matter that comes within the jurisdiction of the autonomous region.这件事是属于自治区权限以内的事务。

3 ravaged   

毁坏( ravage的过去式和过去分词 )； 蹂躏； 劫掠； 抢劫

参考例句：

• a country ravaged by civil war 遭受内战重创的国家
• The whole area was ravaged by forest fires. 森林火灾使整个地区荒废了。

4 affected   

adj.不自然的，假装的

参考例句：

• 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 ministry   

n.(政府的)部；牧师

参考例句：

• 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。