VOA标准英语2010年-New Earthquake Jolts Haiti

The U.S. Geological Survey says the new quake, which shook Haiti just after sunrise Wednesday, was centered about 35 miles northwest of the capital Port au Prince. It was the largest of more than 40 significant aftershocks following the January 12th quake. There have been no reports of injuries from the new quake. Meantime, relief efforts continue in the aftermath of last week's earthquake, which killed an estimated 200,000 people. VOA's Laurel Bowman has this report.   

The reality was perhaps too hard to bear.  Just eight days after a massive earthquake crushed Haiti, another one hit, instilling¹ fresh fears among Haitians still reeling from the first.  This man was incredulous.  "I heard like a big ringing around but I didn't understand whether it was for real, understand?  And afterwards people were trying to tell me that it happened again," he said.

Pictures from just after Wednesday's quake show distressed  but mostly calm, survivors² in shelters in the capital Port au Prince. 

Nearby, tent cities have mushroomed. Those made homeless by last week's quake wait, with few necessities.

Gangs of teens prowl the camp, where up to 50,000 survivors have gathered.  Some are tired of waiting. "I have got to get out of Haiti, can't stay in Haiti. If I want to protect my daughter I have to get out," one person said.

Elsewhere, doctors are struggling to treat thousands of injured with limited resources.  And others are doing what they can to help, including radio broadcasters.

FM radio helps keep some Haitians up to date on how to get what they need to survive.

"Information can save lives, information is most important to provide people water, sanitation³, education.  At times of crisis when everything is collapsed⁴ you know, there is no, people don't know where to go," said one man

Despite some criticism of the huge U.S. presence, these troops were focused on securing Port au Prince hospitals and delivering humanitarian⁵ relief. 

"Right now we have a little over two-thousand troops on the ground, another nine-thousand in the area on the ships supporting us," said Lt. Gen. Ken⁷ Keen, US Joint⁸ Task Force, Haiti

On Tuesday an important recovery by Mexican rescue workers:  the body of the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Haiti, Monsignor Joseph Serge Miot, found sitting at his desk in the Catholic compound. 

OSCAR OLIVA, MEXICAN RESCUE TEAM  (In Spanish, English voiced over)
"Someone said that he had made a cellphone call following the quake but the monsignor was holding a pair of glasses in his right hand.  He was sitting at his desk so it was very hard to get him out with all the rubble⁹ and wood around him," said Oscar Oliva, of a Mexican rescue team.

But these same rescuers scored a  victory earlier Tuesday, when they rescued a 69-year-old woman from the ruins of the same compound.  She had a broken leg and a dislocated hip⁶, but later told rescuers she was fine.

1 instilling   

v.逐渐使某人获得（某种可取的品质），逐步灌输( instil的现在分词 )；逐渐使某人获得（某种可取的品质），逐步灌输( instill的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• Make sure your subordinates understand your sense of urgency and work toward instilling this in allsubordinates. 确保你的下属同样具备判断紧急事件的意识，在工作中潜移默化地灌输给他们。 来自互联网

2 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

3 sanitation   

n.公共卫生，环境卫生，卫生设备

参考例句：

• The location is exceptionally poor,viewed from the sanitation point.从卫生角度来看，这个地段非常糟糕。
• Many illnesses are the result,f inadequate sanitation.许多疾病都来源于不健全的卫生设施。

4 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。

5 humanitarian   

n.人道主义者，博爱者，基督凡人论者

参考例句：

• She has many humanitarian interests and contributes a lot to them.她拥有很多慈善事业，并作了很大的贡献。
• The British government has now suspended humanitarian aid to the area.英国政府现已暂停对这一地区的人道主义援助。

6 hip   

n.臀部，髋；屋脊

参考例句：

• The thigh bone is connected to the hip bone.股骨连着髋骨。
• The new coats blouse gracefully above the hip line.新外套在臀围线上优美地打着褶皱。

7 ken   

n.视野，知识领域

参考例句：

• Such things are beyond my ken.我可不懂这些事。
• Abstract words are beyond the ken of children.抽象的言辞超出小孩所理解的范围.

8 joint   

adj.联合的，共同的；n.关节，接合处；v.连接，贴合

参考例句：

• I had a bad fall,which put my shoulder out of joint.我重重地摔了一跤，肩膀脫臼了。
• We wrote a letter in joint names.我们联名写了封信。

9 rubble   

n.（一堆）碎石，瓦砾

参考例句：

• After the earthquake,it took months to clean up the rubble.地震后，花了数月才清理完瓦砾。
• After the war many cities were full of rubble.战后许多城市到处可见颓垣残壁。