史上最强救援希望能帮助到印度洋地区最后一个生还者

 

Biggest Relief Operation in History Hopes to Reach Last Survivors¹

around Indian Ocean

史上最强救援希望能帮助到印度洋地区最后一个生还者

 

Four days after the massive Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunamis³, rescuers are hoping to finally reach the last remaining pockets of devastation⁴. More than 80,000 people are now known to have died, but that number is still rising as more bodies are pulled from the wreckage⁵ in many of the affected⁶ countries.

 

Last Sunday's earthquake and the tsunamis it caused look to have caused one of the world's worst natural disasters ever, with aid agencies predicting that more than 100,000 people were killed, with millions more affected.

 

Some areas are still proving difficult to reach. Jan Egeland is United Nations disaster relief coordinator⁷.

 

Jan Egeland: We have not yet reached several of the islands -- some of the Maldives islands, some of the islands outside Sumatra, some of the other islands in the ocean, several communities in Sumatra -- we haven't even reached yet.

 

He said that among areas that have been reached, Banda Aceh, the regional capital of Aceh Province on the northern tip of Indonesia's Sumatra Island, suffered worst. Relief workers are still trying to collect bodies of some of the 15,000 estimated to have died there.

 

Aid is coming into the province, but shortages of trucks and fuel and destruction of roads are hampering⁹ its distribution.

 

More than half the dead were on Sumatra, which suffered from the double blow of the massive earthquake, which collapsed¹⁰ many buildings, and then tsunamis that reached as high as 10 meters.

 

Around the Indian Ocean, international and local aid efforts are starting to deliver assistance to the millions who lost everything. The United States, India, Japan and Australia have formed an international coalition¹¹ to coordinate¹² the aid program, and two U.S. carrier groups are steaming towards the worst affected areas to render assistance.

 

So far donor¹³ nations have pledged more than $200 million in aid. But the United Nations has warned that unless supplies can be delivered, the region risks outbreaks of such diseases as cholera¹⁴ and typhoid, which could kill as many people as the initial disaster.

 

In Thailand, almost 2,000 people -- many of them foreign tourists -- have been confirmed dead. But a further 6,000 are missing, and hopes of finding them alive are fading. Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra says the search will continue.

 

Thaksin Shinawatra: We will keep on going because we still have a lot of corpses¹⁵ to be discovered and it will take some time.

 

In India, the government says thousands of dead are being discovered in the low-lying Andaman and Nicobar Islands, an isolated¹⁶ archipelago that lies due north of the quake's epicenter.

 

On Thursday, authorities in Southern India issued a new tsunami² alert for the entire coastal¹⁷ area affected by the original deluge¹⁸, sending residents fleeing from their homes after several tremors¹⁹ in the region raised the water level.

 

In Sri Lanka, predictions of waterborne diseases have begun to become reality. Reports from the south of the country speak of outbreaks of diarrhea, which can be deadly in weakened patients.

 

Tim Johnston, VOA news, Jakarta.

 

注释：

rescuer n. 救助者

devastation [7devEs5teiFEn] n. 毁坏

wreckage [5rekidV] n. 遭难

Sumatra [su5mB:trE] n. 苏门答腊岛（在印尼西部）

hamper⁸ [5hAmpE] v. 妨碍，牵制

render [5rendE] vt. 呈递

cholera [5kClErE] n. [医]霍乱

typhoid [5taifCid] n. [医]伤寒症

Andaman [5AndEmAn] n. 安达曼人

Nicobar Islands 尼科巴群岛

archipelago [7B:ki5peli^Eu] n. 群岛

epicenter [5epIsentE(r)] n. 震中，中心

diarrhea [7daiE5riE] n. 痢疾，腹泻

1 survivors   

幸存者，残存者，生还者( survivor的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The survivors were adrift in a lifeboat for six days. 幸存者在救生艇上漂流了六天。
• survivors clinging to a raft 紧紧抓住救生筏的幸存者

2 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。

3 tsunamis   

n.海啸( tsunami的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Our oceans are alive with earthquakes, volcanoes, and more recently, tsunamis. 海中充满着地震、火山，包括最近发生的海啸。 来自常春藤生活英语杂志-2006年2月号
• Please tell me something more about tsunamis! 请您给我讲讲海啸吧！ 来自辞典例句

4 devastation   

n.毁坏；荒废；极度震惊或悲伤

参考例句：

• The bomb caused widespread devastation. 炸弹造成大面积破坏。
• There was devastation on every side. 到处都是破坏的创伤。 来自《简明英汉词典》

5 wreckage   

n.（失事飞机等的）残骸，破坏，毁坏

参考例句：

• They hauled him clear of the wreckage.他们把他从形骸中拖出来。
• New states were born out of the wreckage of old colonial empires.新生国家从老殖民帝国的废墟中诞生。

6 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。

7 coordinator   

n.协调人

参考例句：

• The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, headed by the Emergency Relief Coordinator, coordinates all UN emergency relief. 联合国人道主义事务协调厅在紧急救济协调员领导下，负责协调联合国的所有紧急救济工作。
• How am I supposed to find the client-relations coordinator? 我怎么才能找到客户关系协调员的办公室？

8 hamper   

vt.妨碍，束缚，限制；n.(有盖的)大篮子

参考例句：

• There are some apples in a picnic hamper.在野餐用的大篮子里有许多苹果。
• The emergence of such problems seriously hamper the development of enterprises.这些问题的出现严重阻碍了企业的发展。

9 hampering   

妨碍，束缚，限制( hamper的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• So fraud on cows and development aid is seriously hampering growth. 因此在牛问题上和发展补助上的诈骗严重阻碍了发展。
• Short-termism, carbon-trading, disputing the science-are hampering the implementation of direct economically-led objectives. 短效主义，出售二氧化碳，进行科学辩论，这些都不利于实现以经济为主导的直接目标。

10 collapsed   

adj.倒塌的

参考例句：

• Jack collapsed in agony on the floor. 杰克十分痛苦地瘫倒在地板上。
• The roof collapsed under the weight of snow. 房顶在雪的重压下突然坍塌下来。

11 coalition   

n.结合体，同盟，结合，联合

参考例句：

• The several parties formed a coalition.这几个政党组成了政治联盟。
• Coalition forces take great care to avoid civilian casualties.联盟军队竭尽全力避免造成平民伤亡。

12 coordinate   

adj.同等的，协调的；n.同等者；vt.协作，协调

参考例句：

• You must coordinate what you said with what you did.你必须使你的言行一致。
• Maybe we can coordinate the relation of them.或许我们可以调和他们之间的关系。

13 donor   

n.捐献者；赠送人；(组织、器官等的)供体

参考例句：

• In these cases,the recipient usually takes care of the donor afterwards.在这类情况下，接受捐献者以后通常会照顾捐赠者。
• The Doctor transplanted the donor's heart to Mike's chest cavity.医生将捐赠者的心脏移植进麦克的胸腔。

14 cholera   

n.霍乱

参考例句：

• The cholera outbreak has been contained.霍乱的发生已被控制住了。
• Cholera spread like wildfire through the camps.霍乱在营地里迅速传播。

15 corpses   

n.死尸，尸体( corpse的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The living soldiers put corpses together and burned them. 活着的战士把尸体放在一起烧了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Overhead, grayish-white clouds covered the sky, piling up heavily like decaying corpses. 天上罩满了灰白的薄云，同腐烂的尸体似的沉沉的盖在那里。 来自汉英文学 - 中国现代小说

16 isolated   

adj.与世隔绝的

参考例句：

• His bad behaviour was just an isolated incident. 他的不良行为只是个别事件。
• Patients with the disease should be isolated. 这种病的患者应予以隔离。

17 coastal   

adj.海岸的，沿海的，沿岸的

参考例句：

• The ocean waves are slowly eating away the coastal rocks.大海的波浪慢慢地侵蚀着岸边的岩石。
• This country will fortify the coastal areas.该国将加强沿海地区的防御。

18 deluge   

n./vt.洪水，暴雨，使泛滥

参考例句：

• This little stream can become a deluge when it rains heavily.雨大的时候，这条小溪能变作洪流。
• I got caught in the deluge on the way home.我在回家的路上遇到倾盆大雨。

19 tremors   

震颤( tremor的名词复数 )； 战栗； 震颤声； 大地的轻微震动

参考例句：

• The story was so terrible that It'sent tremors down my spine. 这故事太可怕，它使我不寒而栗。
• The story was so terrible that it sent tremors down my spine. 这故事太可怕，它使我不寒而栗。