Haikui affects 6 mln people, destroys thousands of houses

 BEIJING, Aug. 9 (Xinhua) -- More than 6 million people had been affected¹ by Typhoon Haikui in four provinces as of 8 a.m. Thursday, the country's flood control authority said.

Typhoon Haikui, which made landfall early Wednesday morning in east China's Zhejiang province, has destroyed 7,561 houses and 388,180 hectares of cropland in Zhejiang, Jiangsu and Anhui provinces, and Shanghai, according to a statement on the website of the State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters.

At 8 a.m., the water level on Taihu Lake, China's second-biggest freshwater lake, stood at 3.59 meters, 0.09 meter over the alert level, while many rivers in Zhejiang were also flowing above the danger mark, according to the statement.

The typhoon, which had been downgraded to a severe tropical storm as of 4 p.m. Wednesday, was located in the city of Chizhou in Anhui province at noon, the National Meteorological Center said.

Water levels in some rivers in Anhui will continue to rise as Haikui is forecast to hover² over the southern parts of the province over the next two days.

1 affected   

adj.不自然的，假装的

参考例句：

• She showed an affected interest in our subject.她假装对我们的课题感到兴趣。
• His manners are affected.他的态度不自然。

2 hover   

vi.翱翔，盘旋；徘徊；彷徨，犹豫

参考例句：

• You don't hover round the table.你不要围着桌子走来走去。
• A plane is hover on our house.有一架飞机在我们的房子上盘旋。