NBC晚间新闻 波多黎各发生6.4级大地震

 Terrified residents ran from stores and homes as a deadly earthquake rocked Puerto Rico. The ground shook at 4:30 this morning. A 6.4 magnitude earthquake. At a local Walmart items flew off the shelves as employees scramble¹ to safety. Terrifying aftershocks followed. The devastation² seen from the skies. Puerto Rican officials calling the quake the most destructive the country seen in a century.

They say it caused at least one fatality³. 73 year-old man was killed at home when a wall fell on him. Churches and schools were leveled. Elderly residents had to be carried from their beds. Omar Vasquez and his infant son one of hundreds displaced. Everybody is in a state of alert. Until this morning this Catholic Church in the small town of Guan iya was pristine⁴. But now bricks in shambles⁵ on the ground, towers rip right off the roof and this is just one of many cultural sites devastated⁶ this evening.

波多黎各发生了致命地震，惊吓的居民从商店和家里跑出来。地震发生在早上四点半。这是一次6.4级的地震。在当地的一家沃尔玛超市，员工们争先恐后地跑到安全的地方，货架上的商品掉落一地。然后发生了令人恐惧的余震。这是从上空看到的破坏情况。波多黎各官员称这次地震是该国一个世纪以来破坏性最大的一次地震。他们称地震至少导致一人死亡。一名73岁的居民在家被一面倒塌的墙砸死。教堂和学校被夷为平地。年龄大的居民不得不躺在床上被抬出来。奥马尔·瓦斯奎兹和他的幼子是数百名流离失所者中的一员。每个人都处于警戒状态。直到今天早上，这个位于小镇官谷的天主教教堂还是崭新的。但现在，地面上的砖块已经破烂不堪，高塔直接从屋顶上脱落下来，这只是今晚被摧毁的众多文化遗址之一。

1 scramble   

v.爬行，攀爬，杂乱蔓延，碎片，片段，废料

参考例句：

• He broke his leg in his scramble down the wall.他爬墙摔断了腿。
• It was a long scramble to the top of the hill.到山顶须要爬登一段长路。

2 devastation   

n.毁坏；荒废；极度震惊或悲伤

参考例句：

• The bomb caused widespread devastation. 炸弹造成大面积破坏。
• There was devastation on every side. 到处都是破坏的创伤。 来自《简明英汉词典》

3 fatality   

n.不幸，灾祸，天命

参考例句：

• She struggle against fatality in vain.她徒然奋斗反抗宿命。
• He began to have a growing sense of fatality.他开始有一种越来越强烈的宿命感。

4 pristine   

adj.原来的，古时的，原始的，纯净的，无垢的

参考例句：

• He wiped his fingers on his pristine handkerchief.他用他那块洁净的手帕擦手指。
• He wasn't about to blemish that pristine record.他本不想去玷污那清白的过去。

5 shambles   

n.混乱之处；废墟

参考例句：

• My room is a shambles.我房间里乱七八糟。
• The fighting reduced the city to a shambles.这场战斗使这座城市成了一片废墟。

6 devastated   

v.彻底破坏( devastate的过去式和过去分词)；摧毁；毁灭；在感情上（精神上、财务上等）压垮adj.毁坏的；极为震惊的

参考例句：

• The bomb devastated much of the old part of the city. 这颗炸弹炸毁了旧城的一大片地方。
• His family is absolutely devastated. 他的一家感到极为震惊。