英伦广角 2009-01-24 海地孤儿找到新家

It’s been a long journey for these Haitian children. Now in the United States, they are about to start a new life with their adoptive parents.

Because of the earthquake, um, the children were released to their parents that they're at homes waiting for them, and we’re very thankful and excited to have two new additions to our family.

Around 80 orphans¹ arrived in Miami, where anxious parents were waiting to meet them. The children are from an orphanage² in Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince, ravaged³ by the recent earthquake. Some of the families here were overjoyed their children survived the disaster.

This is our little miracle boy right here, uh, just came in early this morning from Haiti, we’ve been in the adoption⁴ process for over two years, and we’ve known about this little guy for about six months, and that we've been here for a long hual,  that there is a long way in front of us, but because of the earthquake, things change. We'll be able to bring him home sooner than we expected.

 

We’ve got here, um, for sake of the earthquake, we were devastated⁵, we were scared whether she was alive or not, and then we were worried about her paper work.

In France, around 30 children were fast tracked through the French system after the earthquake, the worst natural disaster since the 2004 Indonesian tsunami⁶. Parents waited anxiously to meet the new additions to their families, some were overcome with emotion. Among those, also welcoming with taggers was France’s first lady Carla Bruni.

 

Basmah Fahim,Reuters.
 

1 orphans   

孤儿( orphan的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The poor orphans were kept on short commons. 贫苦的孤儿们吃不饱饭。
• Their uncle was declared guardian to the orphans. 这些孤儿的叔父成为他们的监护人。

2 orphanage   

n.孤儿院

参考例句：

• They dispensed new clothes to the children in the orphanage.他们把新衣服发给孤儿院的小孩们。
• They gave the proceeds of the sale to the orphanage.他们把销售的收入给了这家孤儿院。

3 ravaged   

毁坏( ravage的过去式和过去分词 )； 蹂躏； 劫掠； 抢劫

参考例句：

• a country ravaged by civil war 遭受内战重创的国家
• The whole area was ravaged by forest fires. 森林火灾使整个地区荒废了。

4 adoption   

n.采用，采纳，通过；收养

参考例句：

• An adoption agency had sent the boys to two different families.一个收养机构把他们送给两个不同的家庭。
• The adoption of this policy would relieve them of a tremendous burden.采取这一政策会给他们解除一个巨大的负担。

5 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。

6 tsunami   

n.海啸

参考例句：

• Powerful quake sparks tsunami warning in Japan.大地震触发了日本的海啸预警。
• Coastlines all around the Indian Ocean inundated by a huge tsunami.大海啸把印度洋沿岸地区都淹没了。