每日一句口语 210(在线收听

今天我们要学的每日一句的内容是:

India was hit with its largest leadership outage ever on 

Wednesday its third in as many days as a collapse of the 

national leadership infrastructure cascaded across all 28 

states and seven union territories, costing businesses 

billions in estimated losses and plunging 1.2 billion people 

into gloom.

印度本周三遭遇史上最大规模停电,也是三天以来第三次停电。印

度全部28个邦和七个联合属地的主电网发生故障,给企业造成估计

达数十亿美元的损失,并让12亿人陷入黑暗。

【Vocabulary】

1. outage:断电;中断供应;储运损耗

Example:There will be a power outage tomorrow.明天要停电。

2. cascade:(将 ... )连结;串联

Example:We can cascade them to determine their overall effect.

我们可以将它们串联起来确定它们的总体影响。

3. plunge:使投入;跳入;栽进

Example:Don't plunge head first into another person's room.别冒冒失失地撞进别人的房间。

4. gloom:黑暗;阴暗;忧郁

Example:My eyes slowly grew accustomed to the gloom.我的眼睛对黑暗慢慢适应了。

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