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A massive search-and-rescue operation is underway in Northern India. On Sunday, a landslide¹ barreled down out of the Himalayan mountains. At least two dozen people have been killed. More than 150 are missing. NPR's Lauren Frayer reports from Mumbai.

印度北部正在进行大规模搜救行动。周日，一场山体滑坡从喜马拉雅山滚滚而下。导致至少30余人死亡。另有150多人失踪。NPR新闻的劳伦·弗莱尔将从孟买带来报道。

LAUREN FRAYER, BYLINE²: One local resident said it happened so fast there was no time to alert anyone.

劳伦·弗莱尔连线：一名当地居民表示，事情发生得太快了，没有时间提醒任何人。

(SOUNDBITE OF LANDSLIDE)

（滑坡声）

FRAYER: Video shows a torrent³ of rocks, water and debris⁴ surging down a ravine below the Nanda Devi glacier⁵. A hydroelectric dam snaps in half and washes away. Many of those missing are construction workers trapped in a tunnel underground.

弗莱尔：视频显示，大量的岩石、水和碎片从南达德维冰川下方的峡谷中涌出。一座水电站大坝裂成两半，并被冲走。许多失踪者是困在地下隧道中的建筑工人。

(SOUNDBITE OF MACHINERY⁶ RUNNING)

（机械运转声）

FRAYER: Soldiers and police are spending a second night trying to dig them out. This man was one of the lucky ones pulled out alive.

弗莱尔：救援工作进入第二晚，士兵和警察仍在试图救出被困者。下面这个人是是活着获救的幸运儿之一。

UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: (Non-English language spoken).

身份不明者：（用非英语语言讲话）。

FRAYER: "We'd lost all hope. We thought we would die," he says, describing how he clung to the tunnel's roof as water gushed⁷ in. This is an area of India's Uttarakhand state, where mighty⁸ rivers pour down from the Himalayas. But environmental experts have long warned against building dams and power plants there because it's ecologically fragile and so prone⁹ to floods and landslides¹⁰. In 2013, about 6,000 people died in flooding there.

弗莱尔：他说，“我们失去了所有的希望。“我们以为自己会死”，他描述称，因为水涌进隧道，自己必须紧紧抓着隧道的屋顶。这起事件发生在印度北阿坎德邦的一个地区，那里浩瀚的河流从喜马拉雅山倾泻而下。但环境专家长期以来一直警告不要在该地修建水坝和发电厂，因为那里生态脆弱，容易发生洪水和山体滑坡。2013年，有约6000人死于洪水。

DAN SHUGAR: We're starting to see, you know, some of the impacts of climate change — increased numbers of landslides, really large landslides in the high mountains.

丹·舒格：我们开始看到气候变化的一些影响——越来越多的山体滑坡，高山上真正的大滑坡。

FRAYER: Geoscientist Dan Shugar is on the other side of the world at the University of Calgary poring over satellite images of this disaster.

弗莱尔：地球科学家丹·舒格在位于世界另一边的卡尔加里大学研究这场灾难的卫星图像。

SHUGAR: What's a little odd about this one is, you know, it happened in February when, you know, the ground ought to be frozen.

舒格：这有点奇怪，山体滑坡发生在二月，而这个时候地面应该已经结冰。

FRAYER: Indian authorities have described this as a glacial break, part of the Nanda Devi glacier cleaving¹¹ off. But Shugar says it looks to him more like a landslide. He says it'll take weeks or months to investigate.

弗莱尔：印度有关部门称这是冰川断裂，南达德维冰川的一部分发生了断裂。但舒格表示，在他看来，这更像是一场山体滑坡。他说调查需要几个星期或几个月的时间。

(SOUNDBITE OF HELICOPTER WHIRRING)

（直升机呼啸声）

FRAYER: Meanwhile, the Indian military is airlifting in more equipment. The people trapped underground may have only hours.

弗莱尔：与此同时，印度军方正在空运更多的装备。被困地下者的生存时间可能只剩几个小时了。

Lauren Frayer, NPR News, Mumbai.

NPR新闻，劳伦·弗莱尔孟买报道。

1 landslide   

n.(竞选中)压倒多数的选票；一面倒的胜利

参考例句：

• 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。

2 byline   

n.署名；v.署名

参考例句：

• His byline was absent as well.他的署名也不见了。
• We wish to thank the author of this article which carries no byline.我们要感谢这篇文章的那位没有署名的作者。

3 torrent   

n.激流，洪流；爆发，(话语等的)连发

参考例句：

• The torrent scoured a channel down the hillside. 急流沿着山坡冲出了一条沟。
• Her pent-up anger was released in a torrent of words.她压抑的愤怒以滔滔不绝的话爆发了出来。

4 debris   

n.瓦砾堆，废墟，碎片

参考例句：

• 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。

5 glacier   

n.冰川，冰河

参考例句：

• The glacier calved a large iceberg.冰河崩解而形成一个大冰山。
• The upper surface of glacier is riven by crevasses.冰川的上表面已裂成冰隙。

6 machinery   

n.(总称)机械，机器；机构

参考例句：

• Has the machinery been put up ready for the broadcast?广播器材安装完毕了吗？
• Machinery ought to be well maintained all the time.机器应该随时注意维护。

7 gushed   

v.喷，涌( gush的过去式和过去分词 )；滔滔不绝地说话

参考例句：

• Oil gushed from the well. 石油从井口喷了出来。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
• Clear water gushed into the irrigational channel. 清澈的水涌进了灌溉渠道。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

8 mighty   

adj.强有力的；巨大的

参考例句：

• A mighty force was about to break loose.一股巨大的力量即将迸发而出。
• The mighty iceberg came into view.巨大的冰山出现在眼前。

9 prone   

adj.(to)易于…的，很可能…的；俯卧的

参考例句：

• Some people are prone to jump to hasty conclusions.有些人往往作出轻率的结论。
• He is prone to lose his temper when people disagree with him.人家一不同意他的意见,他就发脾气。

10 landslides   

山崩( landslide的名词复数 )； （山坡、悬崖等的）崩塌； 滑坡； （竞选中）一方选票占压倒性多数

参考例句：

• 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。

11 cleaving   

v.劈开，剁开，割开( cleave的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• The freighter carrying pig iron is cleaving through the water. 装着生铁的货船正在破浪前进。 来自辞典例句
• IL-10-cDNA fragment was obtained through cleaving pUC-T-IL-10cDNA by reconstriction enzymes. 结果：pcDNA3.1-IL-10酶切鉴定的电泳结果显示，pcDNA3.1-IL-10质粒有一个560bp左右的插入片断，大小和IL-10cDNA大致符合。 来自互联网