CNN 2010-08-12

Emergency crews in the northwest of China are still searching for survivors¹ after a landslide² over the weekend swept away houses, bridges and cars. A wall of mud flattened³ three villages in Zhouqu County. At one point more than 2,000 residents were believed to be missing, but slowly survivors are being pulled from the sludge. In parts, the mud is two meters deep according to state media, making it impossible for vehicles and heavy machinery⁴ to get in. So the government has ordered in thousands of troops using shovels⁵ and their bare hands to search for the missing.

 

This morning, at 6:20 this morning, Tracy Allen Province was arrested by U.S. Marshals in the Meeteetse, Wyoming.

 

“I would like to make a plea or give some good advice to Mr. McCluskey that, if he is hearing my words and sees us to turn himself in, because no good is going to be coming out of this at the very end. And let's put an end to this and let's move on.”

 

I just, you know, I just must never give in, never never never must I give in to anything that traumas⁶ me. The people with the head strokes, I see them, and some of them, they are weeping all the time. But you got to be strong, you really have to be. I'll give them a little bit of sounds of weep but then you got to be strong, you got to make a comeback.

 

Actress Patricia Neal has died, she was 84. Neal won the Academy Award for her performance in the movie Hud.

 

This was a big win for the country, not just for New Orleans, because 5 years ago, this team played its entire season on the road.  It didn't have a home field.  The Superdome had been ruined by Hurricane Katrina. Back then, people didn't even know if the team was coming back. People didn't know if the city was coming back. Not only did the team come back, it took its city’s hands and helped its city back on its feet. Now this team took the hopes and the dreams of a shattered city and placed them squarely on its shoulders.
 

1 survivors   

幸存者，残存者，生还者( survivor的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• 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

2 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。

3 flattened   

[医]（水）平扁的，弄平的

参考例句：

• 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。

4 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。

5 shovels   

n.铲子( shovel的名词复数 )；锹；推土机、挖土机等的)铲；铲形部份v.铲子( shovel的第三人称单数 )；锹；推土机、挖土机等的)铲；铲形部份

参考例句：

• workmen with picks and shovels 手拿镐铲的工人
• In the spring, we plunge shovels into the garden plot, turn under the dark compost. 春天，我们用铁锨翻开园子里黑油油的沃土。 来自辞典例句

6 traumas   

n.心灵创伤( trauma的名词复数 )；损伤；痛苦经历；挫折

参考例句：

• She felt exhausted after the traumas of recent weeks. 她经受了最近几个星期的痛苦之后感到精疲力竭。
• Conclusion: Safety lens of spectacles can protect the occurrence of ocular traumas. 结论：安全镜片可以预防眼镜碎片所致的眼外伤。 来自互联网