国家地理 保护着海岸和生命的消失的森林(1)

It was when the body of a long-dead friend surfaced near her front door that Bulu Haldar knew her house was as good as gone.

直到一位死去多时的朋友的尸体飘到她的屋门前，布鲁·哈尔达才意识到自己的房子已经不在了。

For weeks, the embankment shielding East Dhangmari, in the Khulna district of southwestern Bangladesh, had been threatening to sink into the Pusur River. First, a ferocious¹ storm had ripped into the outer layer of concrete. Then, at the end of 2017, the river had begun eating into the porous² earthen wall itself. Locals rushed in sandbags, but that bought only a few days' respite³. When the river finally surged into the cemetery⁴ across from Haldar's garden, disinterring skeletons and contaminating the village's drinking pools, it filled her one-room hut waist-deep in muddy brown water.

数周以来，人们一直收到预警消息，说孟加拉国南部库尔纳市一直保护着东当马里的大堤很快将要沉入帕莎河。一场巨大的风暴曾把这座水泥大堤的外层撕裂。在2017年底，河水又开始渗透混凝土。当地人背来了沙袋好挡住水流，但这也只解了一时之困。河水穿过哈尔达的花园 冲进了墓地，骸骨被掘起。村里人的饮用水也受到了污染。她只有一个房间的小屋被浸在齐腰深的泥水中。

"There was nothing else I could do to protect my house," she said. "We were powerless, like children."

她说：“我什么也做不了，我保护不了我的房子。我们像孩子一样无能为力。”

1 ferocious   

adj.凶猛的，残暴的，极度的，十分强烈的

参考例句：

• The ferocious winds seemed about to tear the ship to pieces.狂风仿佛要把船撕成碎片似的。
• The ferocious panther is chasing a rabbit.那只凶猛的豹子正追赶一只兔子。

2 porous   

adj.可渗透的，多孔的

参考例句：

• He added sand to the soil to make it more porous.他往土里掺沙子以提高渗水性能。
• The shell has to be slightly porous to enable oxygen to pass in.外壳不得不有些细小的孔以便能使氧气通过。

3 respite   

n.休息，中止，暂缓

参考例句：

• She was interrogated without respite for twenty-four hours.她被不间断地审问了二十四小时。
• Devaluation would only give the economy a brief respite.贬值只能让经济得到暂时的缓解。

4 cemetery   

n.坟墓，墓地，坟场

参考例句：

• He was buried in the cemetery.他被葬在公墓。
• His remains were interred in the cemetery.他的遗体葬在墓地。