VOA慢速英语--肯尼亚废墟中发现又一幸存婴儿

AS IT IS 2016-05-04 Another Baby Found Alive in Building Ruins in Kenya 肯尼亚废墟中发现又一幸存婴儿

Rescue crews in Nairobi have pulled a live baby from the wreckage¹ of an apartment building that collapsed³ last Friday.

Kenyan officials say the baby girl was found on Tuesday. She has no injuries, but needs food and water. Doctors are treating her for dehydration⁴. 

The girl was identified as Dealeryn Saisi Wasike. She is almost six months old.

On Monday, a 1-year-old girl was found in the collapsed building. She was also unharmed, but dehydrated.

Rescuers are still searching for other survivors⁵. Officials say 23 people died in the apartment building collapse²; 93 others were reported missing.

The building collapsed in Huruma, a crowded but poor neighborhood in Kenya’s capital. The building fell down after heavy rains caused flooding and landslides⁶ in the area.

Officials had already declared the building unsafe. It was unclear why apartment residents had not left it.

Policed detained the two owners of the building, as well as several government officials, after it collapsed.

Last year, eight buildings in Kenya collapsed. The Architectural Society of Kenya estimates that half the buildings in the country do not meet rules for building safety.

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apartment – adj. of or involving a room or several rooms that are part of a building and used as a place to live

dehydration – n. the loss or lack of too much water

1 wreckage   

n.（失事飞机等的）残骸，破坏，毁坏

参考例句：

• They hauled him clear of the wreckage.他们把他从形骸中拖出来。
• New states were born out of the wreckage of old colonial empires.新生国家从老殖民帝国的废墟中诞生。

2 collapse   

vi.累倒；昏倒；倒塌；塌陷

参考例句：

• The country's economy is on the verge of collapse.国家的经济已到了崩溃的边缘。
• The engineer made a complete diagnosis of the bridge's collapse.工程师对桥的倒塌做了一次彻底的调查分析。

3 collapsed   

adj.倒塌的

参考例句：

• Jack collapsed in agony on the floor. 杰克十分痛苦地瘫倒在地板上。
• The roof collapsed under the weight of snow. 房顶在雪的重压下突然坍塌下来。

4 dehydration   

n.脱水，干燥

参考例句：

• He died from severe dehydration.他死于严重脱水。
• The eyes are often retracted from dehydration.眼睛常因脱水而凹陷。

5 survivors   

幸存者，残存者，生还者( survivor的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The survivors were adrift in a lifeboat for six days. 幸存者在救生艇上漂流了六天。
• survivors clinging to a raft 紧紧抓住救生筏的幸存者

6 landslides   

山崩( landslide的名词复数 )； （山坡、悬崖等的）崩塌； 滑坡； （竞选中）一方选票占压倒性多数

参考例句：

• Landslides have cut off many villages in remote areas. 滑坡使边远地区的许多村庄与外界隔绝。
• The storm caused landslides and flooding in Savona. 风暴致使萨沃纳发生塌方和洪灾。