台风侵袭中国

The most powerful typhoon to hit China in five decades has smashed into the country's southeastern coast, destroying homes and capsizing boats along the way. Dozens of deaths are reported and it's feared that number will grow. The typhoon is packing winds of up to 135 miles per hour and is bringing heavy rains that are making umbrellas all but useless. Before making landfall Thursday, the storm churned waves that capsized two ships. Chinese officials evacuated¹ some 1.5 million people beforehand and built up earthen barricades² along some cities. While the wind is doing massive damage,there are fears that the storm will produce torrential rains over the next few days that could trigger deadly landslides³. This is the 8th major storm to hit China this year. Forecasters there are blaming warmer-than-normal Pacific Ocean currents that they say are fueling the typhoons and drawing them farther inland. Even as the storm pummels the country, forecasters are already keeping a watch on another potentially deadly typhoon,that is now swirling⁴ about 110 miles off the country's coastline.

Ross Simpson, the Associated Press

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smash into:to hit something very hard while moving fast, causing injury or damage 沿途毁坏
churn:to move something such as a liquid around violently, or to move in this way 剧烈搅动
torrential:奔流的
pummel:to cause a lot of damage to a place 造成破坏
swirl :to move quickly in circles, or make something move in this way 旋涡状前行

1 evacuated   

撤退者的

参考例句：

• Police evacuated nearby buildings. 警方已将附近大楼的居民疏散。
• The fireman evacuated the guests from the burning hotel. 消防队员把客人们从燃烧着的旅馆中撤出来。

2 barricades   

路障，障碍物( barricade的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The police stormed the barricades the demonstrators had put up. 警察冲破了示威者筑起的街垒。
• Others died young, in prison or on the barricades. 另一些人年轻时就死在监牢里或街垒旁。

3 landslides   

山崩( landslide的名词复数 )； （山坡、悬崖等的）崩塌； 滑坡； （竞选中）一方选票占压倒性多数

参考例句：

• Landslides have cut off many villages in remote areas. 滑坡使边远地区的许多村庄与外界隔绝。
• The storm caused landslides and flooding in Savona. 风暴致使萨沃纳发生塌方和洪灾。

4 swirling   

v.旋转，打旋( swirl的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• Snowflakes were swirling in the air. 天空飘洒着雪花。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
• She smiled, swirling the wine in her glass. 她微笑着，旋动着杯子里的葡萄酒。 来自辞典例句