布鲁塞尔恐袭首位遇难者身

 A mother from Peru was the first victim of last Tuesday's terror attacks in Brussels to be identified.

一名来自秘鲁的母亲成为在上周二布鲁塞尔恐怖袭击中第一位身份得以确认的遇难者。

The South American country's Foreign Ministry¹ gave the woman's name as Adelma Tapia Ruiz, 37, who was killed in the two suicide blasts at the Belgian capital's airport.

这个南美洲国家的外交部日前确认了该名女子的身份，此人名为阿德玛·塔皮亚·鲁伊斯，今年37岁，于比利时首都机场连环爆炸案中不幸丧生。

Fernando Tapia, the woman's brother, told Peruvian radio station RPP that his sister was at the airport with her Belgian husband, Christophe Delcambe, and their twin 4-year-old daughters Maureen and Alondra, who also have Belgian nationality.

鲁伊斯的哥哥费尔南多·塔皮亚接受秘鲁电台RPP采访时表示，自己的妹妹是和丈夫克里斯多夫·德尔坎博一同前往机场送别亲戚，与其同行的还有他们4岁的一对双胞胎女儿莫林和阿朗德拉，目前两个孩子都已拥有比利时国籍。

布鲁塞尔恐袭首位遇难者身份得以确认

Tapia said his sister planned to catch a flight to New York, where she would meet her sisters. Her husband and daughters were unhurt because they had left the area where the explosions occurred just before the blasts.

塔皮亚表示自己的妹妹本来是要乘飞机去纽约看望姐妹的，却不幸在机场遇难。由于她的丈夫和女儿在此之前离开了爆炸地点，所以都安然无恙。

At least 34 people were killed in the rush hour attacks at the airport and a central Brussels subway station. Belgium's Health Minister said that 250 others had been wounded in the explosions.

这场连环爆炸恐怖袭击案目前已经造成至少34人死亡，涉及范围包括机场以及布鲁塞尔地铁站。比利时卫生部长声称，另有250多人在这起爆炸中受伤。

Nine Americans are confirmed to be among the wounded, including a U.S. serviceman and five members of his family and three Mormon missionaries² from Utah. The missionaries have been identified as 19-year-old Mason Wells, Joseph Empey, 20, and 66-year-old Richard Norby.

此外，有九名美国人在这起事故中受伤，包括一位美国士兵，其五位家属以及其他三位来自犹他州的摩门教传教士。这三位传教士的身份也得以确认，他们分别是19岁的梅森·威尔士，20岁的约瑟夫·恩皮以及66岁的理查德·诺比。

1 ministry   

n.(政府的)部；牧师

参考例句：

• They sent a deputation to the ministry to complain.他们派了一个代表团到部里投诉。
• We probed the Air Ministry statements.我们调查了空军部的记录。

2 missionaries   

n.传教士( missionary的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Some missionaries came from England in the Qing Dynasty. 清朝时，从英国来了一些传教士。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The missionaries rebuked the natives for worshipping images. 传教士指责当地人崇拜偶像。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》