美国有线新闻 CNN 2015-04-30

 First subject in today's commercial-free show takes us to Nepal. Rescue workers, supplies and funding are arriving there from around the world and journalists are sending in pictures and video that show just how bad the destruction is. 

 

Homes, businesses, temples have been destroyed. It's all because of a major 7.8 magnitude earthquake that violently shook the Southeast Asian country on Saturday. Nepal's landscape is rugged¹, it's mountainous. There are villages near the quake's epicenter that are hard to get to, with roads blocked and unreliable communications. Some areas are reportedly wiped out, either flattened² by the quake or buried in mud slides. The Nepalese government says it's sending helicopters to try to reach people in remote places.

 

On Mount Everest, the climber at base camp got video of an approaching avalanche³ shortly after the quake hit. You can see the snow rolling over him in a dense⁴ cloud. This climber did survive. At least 18 others didn't. Dozens of people there were injured. Across Nepal last night, the death toll⁵ was approach 4,000. At least 72 people died in neighboring India. China reported 20 deaths.

 

Power blackouts in the Nepalese capital of Kathmandu weren't helping⁶. It's hard to say how many people were injured. Officials said they numbered more than 7,000. Hospitals short on supplies are literally⁷ overflowing⁸ with patients. That's part of the reason why CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta, who traveled to Nepal, was asked to operate.

 

We're in the sort of drive area of, of a building that's not, it wasn't actually functioning as a hospital. This has become a hospital because there's been there has been such tremendous demand. You can see people who are, who were lined up. There've been ambulances the time have come in from time to time, taxicabs. There was an 8-year-old girl who needed an operation. There was just such demand. There was 40 to 50 neurosurgical patients in this particular area, many of them outside.

 

I want to show you, I don't know if you can see this, because they gave permission to show this scan here. But just take a quick look, you know, this is a CT scan. You're, they're able to do CT scans here now, which is a big plus. And over here, just this may be more than you can see, but that white area over there, that's the blood collection. It's called an epidural hematoma. It's basically bleeding on top of the brain. If it's not treated, that can lead to someone dying or certainly having significant neurological problems. So that was why the operation was performed, the operation that we were doing to try and remove that blood collection.

 

But again, you know, they asked for me to help. They're asking anybody to sort of roll up their sleeves and help because of the tremendous demand right now.

1 rugged   

adj.高低不平的，粗糙的，粗壮的，强健的

参考例句：

• Football players must be rugged.足球运动员必须健壮。
• The Rocky Mountains have rugged mountains and roads.落基山脉有崇山峻岭和崎岖不平的道路。

2 flattened   

[医]（水）平扁的，弄平的

参考例句：

• She flattened her nose and lips against the window. 她把鼻子和嘴唇紧贴着窗户。
• I flattened myself against the wall to let them pass. 我身体紧靠着墙让他们通过。

3 avalanche   

n.雪崩，大量涌来

参考例句：

• They were killed by an avalanche in the Swiss Alps.他们在瑞士阿尔卑斯山的一次雪崩中罹难。
• Higher still the snow was ready to avalanche.在更高处积雪随时都会崩塌。

4 dense   

a.密集的，稠密的，浓密的；密度大的

参考例句：

• The general ambushed his troops in the dense woods. 将军把部队埋伏在浓密的树林里。
• The path was completely covered by the dense foliage. 小路被树叶厚厚地盖了一层。

5 toll   

n.过路(桥)费；损失，伤亡人数；v.敲(钟)

参考例句：

• The hailstone took a heavy toll of the crops in our village last night.昨晚那场冰雹损坏了我们村的庄稼。
• The war took a heavy toll of human life.这次战争夺去了许多人的生命。

6 helping   

n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的，辅助的

参考例句：

• The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
• By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。

7 literally   

adv.照字面意义，逐字地；确实

参考例句：

• He translated the passage literally.他逐字逐句地翻译这段文字。
• Sometimes she would not sit down till she was literally faint.有时候，她不走到真正要昏厥了，决不肯坐下来。

8 overflowing   

n. 溢出物,溢流 adj. 充沛的，充满的 动词overflow的现在分词形式

参考例句：

• The stands were overflowing with farm and sideline products. 集市上农副产品非常丰富。
• The milk is overflowing. 牛奶溢出来了。