NPR边听边练171：美龙卷风损失超过20亿美元

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　　1、完整听一遍，掌握大意。

　　2、继续听，特别注意关键信息。遇到相似的词，写下来。

　　3、复述新闻。

　　President Obama will travel to more Oklahoma Sunday and tour the site of this week's destructive tornado¹. The death toll² stands at 24 according to the state medical examiners office. 23 of the _1_ have been positively³ identified. NPR's David Schaper reports from Moore that searching recovery efforts continue. Authority say there are still six adults who have not been accounted for since Monday's monstrous⁴ twister hit.

　　奥巴马总统周日将前往俄克拉荷马州的更多地方，视察本周破坏性龙卷风的受灾区。据俄克拉荷马州法医办公室证实，目前死亡人数为24人。其中23人的身份已经确定。据NPR新闻的大卫·斯哈珀从穆尔市带来的报道，搜寻工作仍在继续进行。有关部门表示，周一可怕的龙卷风袭来后，目前仍有6名成人未被计算在伤亡名单内。

　　While some crew still digs through the rubble⁵ and hopes a _2_ those still missing, most herein more shifting their efforts to clean up debris⁶, _3_ what if anything like be salvageable⁷. Homeland security secretary Janet Napolitano toured the area annihilated⁸ by the twister _4_ residents the federal government will do everything in its power to help the recovery.

　　一些工作人员仍在废墟中搜寻，希望找到那些失踪的人，大部分救援人员则开始清理废墟，寻找可能找到的物品。美国国土安全部部长珍妮特·纳波利塔诺前往龙卷风受灾区，对那里的居民表示，联邦政府会尽一切努力帮助他们重建家园。

　　"On behalf of president Obama, on behalf of female, we will be here to stay until these recoveries complete. So you have our commitment on that."

　　“我代表奥巴马总统，代表所有女性，我们会一直在这里直到所有救援工作全部完成。我们向你们大家承诺。”

　　A preliminary estimate from Oklahoma's insurance department puts the cost of the tornado at more than two billion dollars with as many as 13,000 homes and businesses _5_ or destroyed. David Schaper NPR News, Moore, Oklahoma.

　　俄克拉荷马州保险部门的初步估计表明，龙卷风造成的损失超过20亿美元，13,000座房屋和大楼被毁。NPR新闻，大卫·斯哈珀俄克拉荷马州穆尔市报道。

　　词汇解析：

　　1、annihilated adj. 废止的（同近义词revocative, rescissory）

　　eg:The Dutch annihilated the Olympic champions 5-0.

　　荷兰队以5-0彻底打败了奥运会冠军队。

　　eg:There are lots of ways of annihilating⁹ the planet.

　　有很多毁灭那个星球的方式。

　　2、preliminary estimate 初步估计

　　参考答案：

　　1、victims 2、finding 3、recovering

　　4、telling 5、damaged

1 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。

2 toll   

n.过路(桥)费；损失，伤亡人数；v.敲(钟)

参考例句：

• The hailstone took a heavy toll of the crops in our village last night.昨晚那场冰雹损坏了我们村的庄稼。
• The war took a heavy toll of human life.这次战争夺去了许多人的生命。

3 positively   

adv.明确地，断然，坚决地；实在，确实

参考例句：

• She was positively glowing with happiness.她满脸幸福。
• The weather was positively poisonous.这天气着实讨厌。

4 monstrous   

adj.巨大的；恐怖的；可耻的，丢脸的

参考例句：

• The smoke began to whirl and grew into a monstrous column.浓烟开始盘旋上升，形成了一个巨大的烟柱。
• Your behaviour in class is monstrous!你在课堂上的行为真是丢人！

5 rubble   

n.（一堆）碎石，瓦砾

参考例句：

• After the earthquake,it took months to clean up the rubble.地震后，花了数月才清理完瓦砾。
• After the war many cities were full of rubble.战后许多城市到处可见颓垣残壁。

6 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。

7 salvageable   

adj. 可抢救的(可打捞的)

参考例句：

• Tank wrecks found on maps are no longer salvageable. 地图上自带的坦克残骸将不能被轴心国工兵回收。
• Their marriage was not salvageable. 他们的婚姻已不可挽回。

8 annihilated   

v.（彻底）消灭( annihilate的过去式和过去分词 )；使无效；废止；彻底击溃

参考例句：

• Our soldiers annihilated a force of three hundred enemy troops. 我军战士消灭了300名敌军。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
• We annihilated the enemy. 我们歼灭了敌人。 来自《简明英汉词典》

9 annihilating   

v.（彻底）消灭( annihilate的现在分词 )；使无效；废止；彻底击溃

参考例句：

• There are lots of ways of annihilating the planet. 毁灭地球有很多方法。 来自辞典例句
• We possess-each of us-nuclear arsenals capable of annihilating humanity. 我们两国都拥有能够毁灭全人类的核武库。 来自辞典例句