哥伦比亚山体滑坡造成四人死亡

 　　哥伦比亚山体滑坡造成四人死亡

        BOGOTA, July 18 (Xinhua) -- A landslide¹ on a highway in southwest Colombia on Thursday left four people dead, another 12 injured, and 12 people missing, as several vehicles were buried under mounds² of dirt, local officials said.

　　Among the vehicles trapped by the landslide were two buses, an ambulance and a tanker³ truck.

　　"So far, four people have been confirmed dead, one of them a bus driver, and surely that number will rise a little due to the situation that is taking place," the director general of the Red Cross National Rescue office, Cesar Urena, told local media.

　　Eyewitnesses⁴ said the landslide occurred at around 6 a.m. local time (11:00 GMT) as several vehicles were backed up, waiting for the highway to be cleared after a smaller landslide had blocked traffic.

　　"Some young people arrived to clear away that landslide, but almost an hour later a gigantic landslide occurred, and people were shouting, and from that point I knew nothing more about my partner and my passengers, not a thing," a driver said.

　　Some 25,000 cubic meters of dirt and rubble⁵ buried several vehicles at km 38 of the highway linking the town of Suaza, in Huila department (state), with Florencia, in Caqueta department.

　　The injured were taken to several nearby hospitals, according to German Andres Miranda, a member of the local firefighting brigade.

　　Miranda said "the roadway is totally closed due to the accident, " and added members of the Civil Defense⁶, Highway Police and National Army were aiding the rescue efforts.

　　So far only one of the victims has been identified, Cesar Arias⁷, a driver of one of the vehicles.

1 landslide   

n.(竞选中)压倒多数的选票；一面倒的胜利

参考例句：

• Our candidate is predicated to win by a landslide.我们的候选人被预言将以绝对优势取胜。
• An electoral landslide put the Labour Party into power in 1945.1945年工党以压倒多数的胜利当选执政。

2 mounds   

土堆，土丘( mound的名词复数 )； 一大堆

参考例句：

• We had mounds of tasteless rice. 我们有成堆成堆的淡而无味的米饭。
• Ah! and there's the cemetery' - cemetery, he must have meant. 'You see the mounds? 啊，这就是同墓，”——我想他要说的一定是公墓，“看到那些土墩了吗？

3 tanker   

n.油轮

参考例句：

• The tanker took on 200,000 barrels of crude oil.油轮装载了二十万桶原油。
• Heavy seas had pounded the tanker into three parts.汹涌的巨浪把油轮撞成三载。

4 eyewitnesses   

目击者( eyewitness的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The examination of all the eyewitnesses took a week. 对所有证人的质询用了一周的时间。
• Several eyewitnesses testified that they saw the officers hit Miller in the face. 几位目击证人证明他们看见那几个警官打了米勒的脸。

5 rubble   

n.（一堆）碎石，瓦砾

参考例句：

• After the earthquake,it took months to clean up the rubble.地震后，花了数月才清理完瓦砾。
• After the war many cities were full of rubble.战后许多城市到处可见颓垣残壁。

6 defense   

n.防御，保卫；[pl.]防务工事；辩护，答辩

参考例句：

• The accused has the right to defense.被告人有权获得辩护。
• The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers.战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。

7 arias   

n.咏叹调( aria的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Can you pick out the operatic arias quoted in this orchestral passage? 你能听出这段管弦乐曲里有歌剧式的咏叹调吗？ 来自辞典例句
• The actions are large and colour, there are arias and recitatives. 动作夸张而华美，有唱段也有宣叙部。 来自辞典例句