CCTV9英语新闻：长江沉船事故现场救援:已有12人获救生还 5具遗体被找到

Twelve people have been rescued and five bodies have been recovered as rescue efforts continue after a passenger ship sank late Monday night on a section of the Yangtze River in central China's Hubei province.

Rescuers work near the ship sinking site in the Jianli section of the Yangtze River in central China's Hubei Province June 2, 2015. A passenger ship carrying 458 people sunk Monday night in the Yangtze River, China's longest. Ten people have been rescued. Photo taken with a mobile phone. (Xinhua)

The captain of the ship and the chief engineer are among those rescued. But both have been detained by the police. According to a statement from the local administration released this morning, a category 9.2 cyclone¹ hit that part of the river, which the ship was traveling through between 9 p.m. and 10 p.m. Monday.

Both the captain and the chief engineer said that the ship apparently² sank very quickly, in just one or two minutes, after being caught in the cyclone. Meanwhile, a salvage³ ship has been deployed⁴ at the site.

Rescuers are planning to cut through the hull⁵ to bring trapped passengers out, after divers⁶ reported hearing banging coming from inside.

The ship, named Eastern Star, sank at around 9:28 p.m. Monday in the Jianli section of the Yangtze River. It is upside down in 15 meters of water, with a part of its hull visible. The ship was heading from Nanjing, capital city of east China's Jiangsu province, to southwest China's Chongqing municipality.

There were altogether 458 people on board, including 406 passengers, 5 travel agency workers and 47 crew members. One local newspaper says most passengers on board were between the ages of 50 and 80.

1 cyclone   

n.旋风，龙卷风

参考例句：

• An exceptionally violent cyclone hit the town last night.昨晚异常猛烈的旋风吹袭了那个小镇。
• The cyclone brought misery to thousands of people.旋风给成千上万的人带来苦难。

2 apparently   

adv.显然地；表面上，似乎

参考例句：

• An apparently blind alley leads suddenly into an open space.山穷水尽，豁然开朗。
• He was apparently much surprised at the news.他对那个消息显然感到十分惊异。

3 salvage   

v.救助，营救，援救；n.救助，营救

参考例句：

• All attempts to salvage the wrecked ship failed.抢救失事船只的一切努力都失败了。
• The salvage was piled upon the pier.抢救出的财产被堆放在码头上。

4 deployed   

（尤指军事行动）使展开( deploy的过去式和过去分词 )； 施展； 部署； 有效地利用

参考例句：

• Tanks have been deployed all along the front line. 沿整个前线已部署了坦克。
• The artillery was deployed to bear on the fort. 火炮是对着那个碉堡部署的。

5 hull   

n.船身；(果、实等的)外壳；vt.去(谷物等)壳

参考例句：

• The outer surface of ship's hull is very hard.船体的外表面非常坚硬。
• The boat's hull has been staved in by the tremendous seas.小船壳让巨浪打穿了。

6 divers   

adj.不同的；种种的

参考例句：

• He chose divers of them,who were asked to accompany him.他选择他们当中的几个人，要他们和他作伴。
• Two divers work together while a standby diver remains on the surface.两名潜水员协同工作，同时有一名候补潜水员留在水面上。