夏说英语新闻晨读 第449期:印尼海啸

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Friday's catastrophic tsunami¹ event on Sulawesi Island is a puzzle. As the emergency response gathers pace, scientists are scratching their heads to understand why it generated such big waves. The quake was what geophysicists call a strike-slip event, where the ground breaks horizontally. Strike-slip quakes can cause tsunami events but the 6m-tall waves that crashed ashore² at Palu city surprised everyone.

catastrophic: adj. 灾难的；悲惨的
disastrous³: adj. 灾难性的
tsunami: n. 海啸
Sulawesi Island: 苏拉威西岛
gather pace: 加速进行；加快步伐
pick up the pace: 加快步伐
scratch: vt. 挠；抓
wave: n. 海浪 vt. 向……挥手
geophysicist: n. 地球物理学家
geophysics: n. 地球物理学
geology: n. 地质学
geography: n. 地理学
horizontally: adv. 水平地
ashore: adv. 在岸上

1 tsunami   

n.海啸

参考例句：

• Powerful quake sparks tsunami warning in Japan.大地震触发了日本的海啸预警。
• Coastlines all around the Indian Ocean inundated by a huge tsunami.大海啸把印度洋沿岸地区都淹没了。

2 ashore   

adv.在(向)岸上，上岸

参考例句：

• The children got ashore before the tide came in.涨潮前，孩子们就上岸了。
• He laid hold of the rope and pulled the boat ashore.他抓住绳子拉船靠岸。

3 disastrous   

adj.灾难性的，造成灾害的；极坏的，很糟的

参考例句：

• The heavy rainstorm caused a disastrous flood.暴雨成灾。
• Her investment had disastrous consequences.She lost everything she owned.她的投资结果很惨，血本无归。