Hurricane-hit Cuba receives aid from China

 Hurricane-hit Cuba receives aid from China

HAVANA, Nov. 12 (Xinhua) -- China has made a donation to Cuba to help the Caribbean country recover from the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, officials said Monday.

In an exchange of missives, Chinese Ambassador to Cuba Zhang Tuo made the donation to Cuban Deputy Minister of Foreign Trade and Investment Ileana Nunez, saying the aid was meant to express China's solidarity¹ with Cuba whose eastern region was battered² by the category 2 hurricane.

Nunez thanked China for the kind offer and said the donation, along with donations from China's Red Cross and other aid from across the world, would go to the hurricane victims.

The late-season storm landed in eastern Cuba on Oct. 25, lashing³ the region with heavy rains and strong wind that flooded towns, destroyed hundreds of thousands of homes, ruined acres of crops and claimed 11 lives.

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1 solidarity   

n.团结；休戚相关

参考例句：

• They must preserve their solidarity.他们必须维护他们的团结。
• The solidarity among China's various nationalities is as firm as a rock.中国各族人民之间的团结坚如磐石。

2 battered   

adj.磨损的；v.连续猛击；磨损

参考例句：

• He drove up in a battered old car.他开着一辆又老又破的旧车。
• The world was brutally battered but it survived.这个世界遭受了惨重的创伤,但它还是生存下来了。

3 lashing   

n.鞭打；痛斥；大量；许多v.鞭打( lash的现在分词 )；煽动；紧系；怒斥

参考例句：

• The speaker was lashing the crowd. 演讲人正在煽动人群。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The rain was lashing the windows. 雨急打着窗子。 来自《简明英汉词典》