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自然災害,又稱為自然災難、天然災難、天然災害、天災、天禍、天患 ,指自然界中所發生的自然現象,會給周圍的生物和人類社會造成災害。本期就讓我們學習與自然災害相關的一些表達吧!
一、相關詞匯
1. 各種災害的詞匯
earthquake 地震
aftershock 余震
tsunami 海嘯
avalanche 雪崩
mudslide 泥石流
landslide 山體滑坡
drought 干旱
haze 霾
hail 冰雹
flood 洪水
blizzard 暴風雪
hurricane 颶風
tornado 龍卷風
typhoon 臺風
heat wave 熱浪
2. 與地震有關的詞匯
shake 震動;搖晃
tremor 顫動;震動
hit 襲擊,打擊;使遭受
strike 突然發生;打擊
jolt 使顛簸;搖晃
rock 搖動;使振動
roll across 波動;橫搖
rip through 裂開;炸開
damage 損害;損傷
destroy 毀壞,破壞;摧殘
shatter 破壞;搗毀;破滅
devastate 蹂躪,破壞;使荒廢;毀滅
level 推倒;夷平
flatten 夷為平地
seismological 地震學上的
seismology 地震學
seismograph 地震儀
seismographer 地震學家
smaller tremors 小地震
epicenter 震中
magnitude 震級
Richter Scale 里氏震級
at a scale of 7.8 on the Richter calculations 里氏7.8 級地震
earthquake monitoring 地震監控
tragedy 災難
death toll 死亡人數
survivors 幸存者
victims 受災者
international contributions 國際援助
evacuation 撤離
rescue team 救援小組
二、相關句子
1. Villages is cut off by the flood.村子被洪水隔絕。
2. Many houses were carried away by the flood.許多房子被洪水沖走。
3. A violent earthquake occurred there.那里發生了強烈的地震。
4. Did you feel the earthquake?你感到地震了嗎?
5. The wall declined slightly on account of theearthquake.墻壁因地震而傾斜。
6. Most of the houses in the city weredestroyed.城里的大多數房子都毀了。
7. A terrible tsunami followed the earthquake.一場駭人的海嘯跟隨地震而來。
8. Tsunami has killed millions upon millions ofpeople.海嘯造成了數億萬人的死亡。
9. A flood occurs every year.洪水年年發生。
10. The flood water is going down.洪水漸退。
11. Earthquakes occur frequently in Japan.日本時常發生地震。
12. Our experts predicted that an earthquakewas imminent.
專家預言即將發生地震。
13. The volcano is in eruption.火山正在噴發。
14. The volcano is inactive.這座火山已進入休眠狀態。
15. Thousands lose their lives in the disaster.數千人死于這場災禍。
16. We should hold together and overcomedifficulties caused by the natural disaster.我們應該團結一致克服自然災害造成的困難。
17. We have to do something to help the peoplein the stricken area.我們要做些什么來幫助災區人民。
18. The flood made so many people homeless.洪水讓很多人無家可歸。
19. The entire town drowned in the tsunami.整個小鎮都因為海嘯被淹沒了。
20. Heavy rainfalls inundated the crops.大雨淹沒了莊稼。
三、相關對話
(一)
Julia: Terrible. How about people s lives?
茱莉亞:太可怕了。人們的生命怎么樣?
Steven: Fortunately, there is no person died.
史蒂文:幸運的是沒有人死亡。
Julia: That s great. It seems that typhoon is notas bad as earthquake.
茱莉亞:太好了。看上去臺風沒有地震可怕。
Steven: Yeah. Earthquake is one of the mostbadly natural disasters in the world.
史蒂文:是啊,地震是地球上最具毀滅性的自然災害之一。
(二)
Julia: Steven, why are you so depressed?
茱莉亞:史蒂文,為什么這么沮喪???
Steven: I m feeling very bad. I just watchedthe news.
史蒂文:剛剛看了新聞,我覺得很傷心。
Julia: What s the news?
茱莉亞:什么新聞?
Steven: The town was razed by an earthquakeand more than ten thousand people died in theearthquake.
史蒂文:地震把一個城鎮夷為平地,有一萬多人在這次災難中喪生。
Julia: It s horrible.
茱莉亞:太恐怖了。
Steven: Yeah, we have to do something tohelp the people in the stricken area.
史蒂文:是啊,我們應該幫助這些受災的人們。
Julia: How about donating some money?
茱莉亞:我們去捐款,怎么樣?
Steven: It s a good idea.
史蒂文:是個好主意。