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台风摧毁菲律宾中部
One of the fiercest typhoons ever recorded has devastated1 the central Philippines, leaving entire cities and towns in ruins and as many as 10,000 people dead. After gashing2 six provinces, Typhoon Haiyan veered3 to the northwest into the South China Sea, and weakened to a tropical storm near the border of Vietnam and southern China.
The fast-moving storm slammed into Leyte Island from the east on Friday. By Sunday, as the scale of the destruction became clear, Philippine authorities said it is near certain the death toll4 will rise substantially.
President Benigno Aquino declared a region-wide state of calamity5. Offers of help came from as far away as the White House.
In a statement Sunday, President Barack Obama expressed America's sorrow and pledged "significant" humanitarian6 assistance. U.S. military assets were deployed8 Saturday to assist in the search for survivors9.
By early Monday, the storm began losing strength as it came ashore10 in Vietnam's northern Quang Ninh province. Forecasters expect it to weaken to a low depression later in the day in southern China.
In hard-hit Tacloban city Sunday, a Philippine community of 220,000 residents, reporters saw scores of flattened11 buildings and corpses12 hanging from trees and scattered13 along roadways flooded by a 4-meter storm surge. Looters in the wrecked14 city foraged15 Sunday for food, water and fuel, as the government began relief efforts and international aid began to materialize.
Most other communities along the storm's path remained without communications.
The international aid group Doctors Without Borders prepared Sunday to deploy7 dozens of medical personnel and logistic experts to neighboring Cebu Island in the coming days, along with 200 tons of medical and relief items.
But the group's relief organizers, along with those from United Nations offices in Manila, said they expect access to the hardest-hit areas to be limited for days because of wrecked infrastructure16 and communications links.
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1 devastated | |
v.彻底破坏( devastate的过去式和过去分词);摧毁;毁灭;在感情上(精神上、财务上等)压垮adj.毁坏的;极为震惊的 | |
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2 gashing | |
v.划伤,割破( gash的现在分词 ) | |
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3 veered | |
v.(尤指交通工具)改变方向或路线( veer的过去式和过去分词 );(指谈话内容、人的行为或观点)突然改变;(指风) (在北半球按顺时针方向、在南半球按逆时针方向)逐渐转向;风向顺时针转 | |
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4 toll | |
n.过路(桥)费;损失,伤亡人数;v.敲(钟) | |
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5 calamity | |
n.灾害,祸患,不幸事件 | |
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6 humanitarian | |
n.人道主义者,博爱者,基督凡人论者 | |
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7 deploy | |
v.(军)散开成战斗队形,布置,展开 | |
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8 deployed | |
(尤指军事行动)使展开( deploy的过去式和过去分词 ); 施展; 部署; 有效地利用 | |
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9 survivors | |
幸存者,残存者,生还者( survivor的名词复数 ) | |
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10 ashore | |
adv.在(向)岸上,上岸 | |
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11 flattened | |
[医](水)平扁的,弄平的 | |
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12 corpses | |
n.死尸,尸体( corpse的名词复数 ) | |
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13 scattered | |
adj.分散的,稀疏的;散步的;疏疏落落的 | |
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14 wrecked | |
adj.失事的,遇难的 | |
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15 foraged | |
v.搜寻(食物),尤指动物觅(食)( forage的过去式和过去分词 );(尤指用手)搜寻(东西) | |
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16 infrastructure | |
n.下部构造,下部组织,基础结构,基础设施 | |
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17 followers | |
追随者( follower的名词复数 ); 用户; 契据的附面; 从动件 | |
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