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Overseas experts boost fire effort 外国专家赴美救火

Fires rage on despite cooler weekend temperatures

周末气温下降，火势依然凶猛

Seventy specialist firefighters from Australia and New Zealand have arrived in the western United States to join the battle against huge forest fires.

The crews are expected to be sent to Montana, the worst affected¹ state where 13,000 firefighters, marines and national guardsmen are fighting huge fires in tinder-dry conditions.

Fifty homes have already been razed² to the ground and 2,000 more are in the path of the inferno³.

Overall, 69 fires are now believed to have destroyed 923,000 acres of forest in 11 states.

70名来自澳大利亚和新西兰的灭火专家已抵达美国西部，参加这场超规模的灭火大战。

这批专家将被派往火势最严重的蒙特纳州，在那里，13,000名消防队员、水兵和预备役队员在极其干燥的环境下与大火搏斗。

已有50间房屋被夷为平地，另有2,000间房屋危在旦夕。

据信现在共有69处大火，已烧毁11个州的923,000英亩森林
 

1 affected   

adj.不自然的，假装的

参考例句：

• She showed an affected interest in our subject.她假装对我们的课题感到兴趣。
• His manners are affected.他的态度不自然。

2 razed   

v.彻底摧毁，将…夷为平地( raze的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• The village was razed to the ground . 这座村庄被夷为平地。
• Many villages were razed to the ground. 许多村子被夷为平地。 来自《简明英汉词典》

3 inferno   

n.火海；地狱般的场所

参考例句：

• Rescue workers fought to get to victims inside the inferno.救援人员奋力营救大火中的受害者。
• The burning building became an inferno.燃烧着的大楼成了地狱般的地方。