PBS高端访谈:厄玛飓风肆虐维京群岛

 　　Meanwhile, across the Caribbean, at least three dozen people are dead in Irma's wake.

　　Officials are struggling to get aid to the region's islands devastated¹ by what was then a Category 5 storm.

　　In the British Virgin² Islands, thousands have no electricity or shelter.

　　That's where Penny Marshall of Independent Television News picks up our coverage³.

　　These paradise islands now look like an alien landscape. Nature has been scorched⁴, every tree on the island stripped of its leaves.

　　And the infrastructure's been destroyed, every building on the island blown apart.

　　Most every people have their part of their home destroyed.

　　Felicitor Moses survived by hiding in a cupboard. His house didn't.

　　So, what were you doing when you were in the cupboard?

　　Praying to almighty⁵ God for this one piece to stay around to shelter, to save us.

　　But now all hope is with the British, whose help has just arrived.

　　Royal Marines are spreading out across the islands to reestablish order. Extra police have also been flown in from other parts of the Caribbean.

　　And if there was a delay getting help in here, there is now a clear urgency about trying to get it out to those who need it most.

　　But those who can't wait are desperate to fly out to safety.

　　Families are sheltering at the airport, waiting for places on planes that so far haven't come.

　　Heather Robinson and her baby son Luke are waiting. They have lost everything.

　　I mean, our house literally⁷ got swept away from around us.

　　You have nothing left? Everything you own is gone? Everything. This is all that's left of your home?

　　Their entire worldly possessions have been reduced to one black bin⁶ bag. They nearly died. Luke survived strapped⁸ to his mother.

　　You must be desperate to get out?

　　Yes. I mean, I'm really scared. Like, we went through our rubble⁹ and found some

　　like, a thing of peanut butter and some crackers¹⁰ and biscuits and stuff, but we -- it's not going to keep us much longer.

　　This pregnant island restaurant owner is also desperate to get to the safety of Britain.

　　I'm not able to help right now, so I may as well get out and don't become a problem.

　　Like, if I go into early labor¹¹, and then someone has to look after me, and that's not fair.

　　Those who had little here now have nothing. And those with more are worried about how long the recovery is going to take and how much help they're going to get from the British.

　　With most of the island's tourist marinas also obliterated¹², this place has lost its main source of income too.

　　The pace of the aid operation is picking up. But the planes need to come back again and again if this British protectorate is to get the help it needs to recover.

　　That was Penny Marshall reporting for Independent Television News. undefined

1 devastated   

v.彻底破坏( devastate的过去式和过去分词)；摧毁；毁灭；在感情上（精神上、财务上等）压垮adj.毁坏的；极为震惊的

参考例句：

• The bomb devastated much of the old part of the city. 这颗炸弹炸毁了旧城的一大片地方。
• His family is absolutely devastated. 他的一家感到极为震惊。

2 virgin   

n.处女，未婚女子；adj.未经使用的；未经开发的

参考例句：

• Have you ever been to a virgin forest?你去过原始森林吗？
• There are vast expanses of virgin land in the remote regions.在边远地区有大片大片未开垦的土地。

3 coverage   

n.报导，保险范围，保险额，范围，覆盖

参考例句：

• There's little coverage of foreign news in the newspaper.报纸上几乎没有国外新闻报道。
• This is an insurance policy with extensive coverage.这是一项承保范围广泛的保险。

4 scorched   

烧焦，烤焦( scorch的过去式和过去分词 )； 使（植物）枯萎，把…晒枯； 高速行驶； 枯焦

参考例句：

• I scorched my dress when I was ironing it. 我把自己的连衣裙熨焦了。
• The hot iron scorched the tablecloth. 热熨斗把桌布烫焦了。

5 almighty   

adj.全能的，万能的；很大的，很强的

参考例句：

• Those rebels did not really challenge Gods almighty power.这些叛徒没有对上帝的全能力量表示怀疑。
• It's almighty cold outside.外面冷得要命。

6 bin   

n.箱柜；vt.放入箱内；[计算机] DOS文件名:二进制目标文件

参考例句：

• He emptied several bags of rice into a bin.他把几袋米倒进大箱里。
• He threw the empty bottles in the bin.他把空瓶子扔进垃圾箱。

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 strapped   

adj.用皮带捆住的，用皮带装饰的；身无分文的；缺钱；手头紧v.用皮带捆扎(strap的过去式和过去分词)；用皮带抽打；包扎；给…打绷带

参考例句：

• Make sure that the child is strapped tightly into the buggy. 一定要把孩子牢牢地拴在婴儿车上。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The soldiers' great coats were strapped on their packs. 战士们的厚大衣扎捆在背包上。 来自《简明英汉词典》

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。

10 crackers   

adj.精神错乱的，癫狂的n.爆竹( cracker的名词复数 )；薄脆饼干；（认为）十分愉快的事；迷人的姑娘

参考例句：

• That noise is driving me crackers. 那噪声闹得我简直要疯了。
• We served some crackers and cheese as an appetiser. 我们上了些饼干和奶酪作为开胃品。 来自《简明英汉词典》

11 labor   

n.劳动，努力，工作，劳工；分娩；vi.劳动，努力，苦干；vt.详细分析；麻烦

参考例句：

• We are never late in satisfying him for his labor.我们从不延误付给他劳动报酬。
• He was completely spent after two weeks of hard labor.艰苦劳动两周后，他已经疲惫不堪了。

12 obliterated   

v.除去( obliterate的过去式和过去分词 )；涂去；擦掉；彻底破坏或毁灭

参考例句：

• The building was completely obliterated by the bomb. 炸弹把那座建筑物彻底摧毁了。
• He began to drink, drank himself to intoxication, till he slept obliterated. 他一直喝，喝到他快要迷糊地睡着了。 来自《简明英汉词典》