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自然災(zāi)害,又稱為自然災(zāi)難、天然災(zāi)難、天然災(zāi)害、天災(zāi)、天禍、天患 ,指自然界中所發(fā)生的自然現(xiàn)象,會(huì)給周圍的生物和人類社會(huì)造成災(zāi)害。本期就讓我們學(xué)習(xí)與自然災(zāi)害相關(guān)的一些表達(dá)吧!
一、相關(guān)詞匯
1. 各種災(zāi)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(fēng)雪
hurricane 颶風(fēng)
tornado 龍卷風(fēng)
typhoon 臺(tái)風(fēng)
heat wave 熱浪
2. 與地震有關(guān)的詞匯
shake 震動(dòng);搖晃
tremor 顫動(dòng);震動(dòng)
hit 襲擊,打擊;使遭受
strike 突然發(fā)生;打擊
jolt 使顛簸;搖晃
rock 搖動(dòng);使振動(dòng)
roll across 波動(dòng);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(xué)上的
seismology 地震學(xué)
seismograph 地震儀
seismographer 地震學(xué)家
smaller tremors 小地震
epicenter 震中
magnitude 震級(jí)
Richter Scale 里氏震級(jí)
at a scale of 7.8 on the Richter calculations 里氏7.8 級(jí)地震
earthquake monitoring 地震監(jiān)控
tragedy 災(zāi)難
death toll 死亡人數(shù)
survivors 幸存者
victims 受災(zāi)者
international contributions 國際援助
evacuation 撤離
rescue team 救援小組
二、相關(guān)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(fā)生了強(qiáng)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(shù)房子都?xì)Я恕?/p>
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(shù)億萬人的死亡。
9. A flood occurs every year.洪水年年發(fā)生。
10. The flood water is going down.洪水漸退。
11. Earthquakes occur frequently in Japan.日本時(shí)常發(fā)生地震。
12. Our experts predicted that an earthquakewas imminent.
專家預(yù)言即將發(fā)生地震。
13. The volcano is in eruption.火山正在噴發(fā)。
14. The volcano is inactive.這座火山已進(jìn)入休眠狀態(tài)。
15. Thousands lose their lives in the disaster.數(shù)千人死于這場災(zāi)禍。
16. We should hold together and overcomedifficulties caused by the natural disaster.我們應(yīng)該團(tuán)結(jié)一致克服自然災(zāi)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(zāi)區(qū)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(gè)小鎮(zhèn)都因?yàn)楹[被淹沒了。
20. Heavy rainfalls inundated the crops.大雨淹沒了莊稼。
三、相關(guān)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(yùn)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??瓷先ヅ_(tái)風(fēng)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(zāi)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(gè)城鎮(zhèn)夷為平地,有一萬多人在這次災(zāi)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(yīng)該幫助這些受災(zāi)的人們。
Julia: How about donating some money?
茱莉亞:我們?nèi)ゾ杩?,怎么樣?/p>
Steven: It s a good idea.
史蒂文:是個(gè)好主意。