Utor Disrupts Transportation in Macao and HK

　　Super Typhoon Utor has made landfall in southeastern China. The powerful storm has also disrupted transportation in Macao and Hong Kong.

 

　　CRI's Zhang Ru has more.

 

　　Hong Kong has closed offices, schools and transportation services as Utor passed by the Asian financial centre.

 

　　The Hong Kong Stock Exchange was also shut down.

 

　　The storm has brought with it gale-force winds, rough seas and heavy showers.

 

　　One person in Hong Kong has reportedly been injured.

 

　　Some 94 flights arriving at or leaving from the city's airport have been cancelled.

 

　　Another 107 flights were delayed.

 

　　A number of passengers were left stranded¹ at the airport's express train station.

 

　　"I think so, because the flights to Seoul, two of them are delayed and one of them cancelled. So, yes, I really worried."

 

　　"Now we are still making calls. The earliest flight we can get may be one tomorrow night or evening."

 

　　Utor has also disrupted transportation in Macao and on Hainan, stranding² almost 2-thousand passengers in Sanya.

 

　　The storm is forecast to track in a northwesterly direction through Guangdong and into Guangxi tonight.

 

　　While losing power as it moves inland, the storm is still expected to maintain its Typhoon status through at least tomorrow morning, with winds of well over 100-kilometers per hour.

 

　　Mainland authorities in Guangdong and Guangxi are also on full-alert in advance of the storm.

 

　　More than 158,000 people have been relocated in Guangdong and Hainan.

 

　　Utor is this year's strongest typhoon.

 

　　It crossed over the northern Philippines over the weekend, leaving at least six dead and thousands of others displaced.

 

　　For CRI, this is Zhang Ru.

1 stranded   

a.搁浅的，进退两难的

参考例句：

• He was stranded in a strange city without money. 他流落在一个陌生的城市里， 身无分文，一筹莫展。
• I was stranded in the strange town without money or friends. 我困在那陌生的城市，既没有钱，又没有朋友。

2 stranding   

n.（船只）搁浅v.使滞留，使搁浅( strand的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• The airport had to be closed, stranding tourists. 机场被迫关闭，造成游客滞留。 来自辞典例句
• The stream of history had changed course away from him, stranding him in failure. 历史潮流已经改变方向，与他背道而驰，使他陷于失败之中。 来自辞典例句