史上最强救援希望能帮助到印度洋地区最后一个生还者
时间：2006-04-16 16:00:00
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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
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