美国有线新闻 CNN 2013-11-25

 I'm Carl, thank you for spending part of your day with CNN student news. The past week or so we reported on two natural disasters, one is the Philippines, the other in the mid-western United States.In both situations, survivors¹ face a long road of recovery and rebuilding. In the Philippines, the numbers tell part of the story, nearly 4,000 people were killed, more then 18,000 were injured and as far as the missing goes, 1600 people still missing.

When you are able to get a look from above like CP did for the next report, you started to get a sense of for the enormity of the physical damage caused by typhoon Haiyan.

They told me if you take a video camera into the air, that you can began to get a handle on the true dimension of this disaster. Look around you and imagine how it must felt standing² here while Haiyan is straight, as it tearing wall of water, raced in from the ocean. But take a look, the pictures speak clearly for themselves. Wherever you look, international organizations and government rescue teams are hard at work, pouring away de?,still looking for the body of the dead, trying to bring relief to the survivors. But seeing the scale here, you begin to understand how daunting³ a task that will be, it's a task that could take mouths, maybe year to rebuild.

When severe weather hit the American mid-west on Sunday, an included reports of 76 tornadoes⁵. The town of Washington Illinois took a direct hit. As many as 400 homes in Washington were destroyed or severely⁶ damaged. The mayor summed up simply, devastation⁷, sadness, people that lost everything. Now those people have to find a way to move forward.

I hit by some debrief⁸ or something cut my eye in three places. His wife and children survived two, but this is what happened to their house-gone, even they can barely⁹ recognize it.

This is my bedroom, right here, i was sleeping on the that side of the bed, then ?at me. I jumped up, there's you know my pants on and I went through the house. I actually went to check the kid over here, so i went through this way, it was my kitchen. 

Incredibly, the place of the kitchen / remain completely intact¹⁰, the rest of the kitchen destroyed. The home was ML's dream house.

After you came out of the basement and saw what this tornado⁴ did to your house, were you incre/ that you survived? Yes, i don't know how, anybody made through this. Mandy did not want her husband to shoot the video, it was transfixed.

That water tower over there, just / as where i started see it coming across.

It wasn't until after the tornado hit the C's family in the basement, the day after, they look for keepsakes.

The video of my wedding. And they try to figure it out what happens next. I don't know where to go, I don't know what to do.

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 standing   

n.持续，地位；adj.永久的，不动的，直立的，不流动的

参考例句：

• After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震过后只有几幢房屋还立着。
• They're standing out against any change in the law.他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改。

3 daunting   

adj.使人畏缩的

参考例句：

• They were faced with the daunting task of restoring the house.他们面临着修复房子的艰巨任务。
• Starting a new job can be a daunting prospect.开始一项新工作有时会让人望而却步。

4 tornado   

n.飓风，龙卷风

参考例句：

• A tornado whirled into the town last week.龙卷风上周袭击了这座城市。
• The approaching tornado struck awe in our hearts.正在逼近的龙卷风使我们惊恐万分。

5 tornadoes   

n.龙卷风，旋风( tornado的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Tornadoes, severe earthquakes, and plagues create wide spread havoc. 龙卷风、大地震和瘟疫成普遍的毁坏。 来自互联网
• Meteorologists are at odds over the working of tornadoes. 气象学者对龙卷风的运动方式看法不一。 来自互联网

6 severely   

adv.严格地；严厉地；非常恶劣地

参考例句：

• He was severely criticized and removed from his post.他受到了严厉的批评并且被撤了职。
• He is severely put down for his careless work.他因工作上的粗心大意而受到了严厉的批评。

7 devastation   

n.毁坏；荒废；极度震惊或悲伤

参考例句：

• The bomb caused widespread devastation. 炸弹造成大面积破坏。
• There was devastation on every side. 到处都是破坏的创伤。 来自《简明英汉词典》

8 debrief   

v.向…询问情况，听取汇报

参考例句：

• The men have been debriefed by British and Saudi officials.英国和沙特阿拉伯的官员听取了他们的情况汇报。
• He went to Rio after the CIA had debriefed him.他向中央情报局汇报完任务执行情况后就去了里约热内卢。

9 barely   

adv.仅仅，几乎没有，几乎不

参考例句：

• The male bird is barely distinguishable from the female.雄鸟和雌鸟几乎无法辨别。
• He took barely enough money to keep the children in bread.他赚很少的钱仅够孩子们勉强糊口。

10 intact   

adj.完整无缺的，未经触动的，未受损伤的

参考例句：

• The glasses remained intact after being dropped.眼镜坠地后依然完好无损。
• He can scarcely survive this scandal with his reputation intact.他经此丑闻名誉很难不受损。