PBS高端访谈:饱受厄玛摧残的安圭拉人称需要更多英国的援助

 　　Now to the Northern Caribbean, where island dwellers¹ have spent a week amid smashed ruins, with no power and reports of fighting over food.

　　The president of France visited St. Barts today, after spending the night on a cot on St. Martin.

　　British foreign secretary Boris Johnson was on Anguilla, and so was Alex Thomson, of Independent Television News.

　　A lot of criticism, Foreign Secretary, that the British have been tardy² in their response, compared to the French just over there in St. Martin. What do you say?

　　Well, I don't obviously agree with that, because I think if you look at the facts, we have had RAF on the spot, on time.

　　But a week gone by and still no substantial aid has come into this place.

　　I can tell you that you have got, on the streets of Anguilla, of the British Virgin³ Islands,

　　and the Turks and Caicos Islands, you have U.K. armed services personnel. You have got British police officers.

　　But they want food, Foreign Secretary. They want water, and they're not getting it.

　　That very plane I have just arrived on is laden⁴ with aid.

　　Except that very plane wasn't laden with food or water aid. We checked. It was laden with British military personnel,

　　their necessary rations⁶ and water, aid, of course, in the wide sense, but not the specifics we put to the foreign secretary.

　　Anguillans say they need fuel, water, electricity, food. And it's true the Red Cross has been distributing food parcels for some days.

　　The Anguillan Red Cross has been handing out food to islanders here since the day after the hurricane, and that's impressive.

　　But the fact is, as fast as the food goes in, they're giving it out.

　　And for these people behind me, these islanders, they're waiting from the early morning when this place opens for distribution, several hours later, at noon.

　　The Anguilla Red Cross, we lost our roof for the offices. We lost our roof for the -- for our relief supplies, government relief supplies.

　　The building was torn apart. So in terms of regrouping and getting things together and getting things organized, it was a huge effort.

　　You get one ration⁵ a day, and everyone we spoke⁷ to said it's not nearly enough.

　　I came back, and this is what they gave me for a family of five? Now I can just go home and we eat this in no time.

　　And then I'm hearing that we have help, everything is done, everything is OK.

　　So, in my -- I cannot see where everything is OK.

　　The island needs help. We need help from Britain. If Britain says that they are responsible for Anguilla and Anguillans, they need to stand up to their word.

　　It's the Anguillans who so far have done an extraordinary job in terms of clear-up, and will continue to shoulder the burden.

　　British marines are making a difference though, lifting and shifting rubble⁸ at the hospital this morning, royal engineers royally engineering a new roof,

　　part of what is now Britain's biggest overseas military deployment⁹ since Libya seven years ago.

　　But the criticism of too little, too late is persistent¹⁰ here, from the street up to the political establishment. undefined

1 dwellers   

n.居民，居住者( dweller的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• City dwellers think country folk have provincial attitudes. 城里人以为乡下人思想迂腐。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• They have transformed themselves into permanent city dwellers. 他们已成为永久的城市居民。 来自《简明英汉词典》

2 tardy   

adj.缓慢的，迟缓的

参考例句：

• It's impolite to make a tardy appearance.晚到是不礼貌的。
• The boss is unsatisfied with the tardy tempo.老板不满于这种缓慢的进度。

3 virgin   

n.处女，未婚女子；adj.未经使用的；未经开发的

参考例句：

• Have you ever been to a virgin forest?你去过原始森林吗？
• There are vast expanses of virgin land in the remote regions.在边远地区有大片大片未开垦的土地。

4 laden   

adj.装满了的；充满了的；负了重担的；苦恼的

参考例句：

• He is laden with heavy responsibility.他肩负重任。
• Dragging the fully laden boat across the sand dunes was no mean feat.将满载货物的船拖过沙丘是一件了不起的事。

5 ration   

n.定量(pl.)给养，口粮；vt.定量供应

参考例句：

• The country cut the bread ration last year.那个国家去年削减面包配给量。
• We have to ration the water.我们必须限量用水。

6 rations   

定量( ration的名词复数 )； 配给量； 正常量； 合理的量

参考例句：

• They are provisioned with seven days' rations. 他们得到了7天的给养。
• The soldiers complained that they were getting short rations. 士兵们抱怨他们得到的配给不够数。

7 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。

8 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。

9 deployment   

n. 部署,展开

参考例句：

• He has inquired out the deployment of the enemy troops. 他已查出敌军的兵力部署情况。
• Quality function deployment (QFD) is a widely used customer-driven quality, design and manufacturing management tool. 质量功能展开(quality function deployment,QFD)是一个广泛应用的顾客需求驱动的设计、制造和质量管理工具。

10 persistent   

adj.坚持不懈的，执意的；持续的

参考例句：

• Albert had a persistent headache that lasted for three days.艾伯特连续头痛了三天。
• She felt embarrassed by his persistent attentions.他不时地向她大献殷勤，使她很难为情。