海啸幸存者试着在家乡开始新生活

Tsunami¹ Survivors² Try to Start a Life in Home Town

海啸幸存者试着在家乡开始新生活

 

This is Nancy-Amelia Collins and I am in Lhungna along the west coast, the devastated³ west coast of Aceh, that 20 kilometers outside Banda Aceh. There are about 20 people standing⁴ around me and they have told me they have just come down from the mountains. It is the first time they have actually come down since the tsunami struck.

 

Right in front of them is where their village used to be, but there is absolutely nothing left standing. You can see a few foundations, but basically there is just debris⁵ everywhere. And these people have been searching through what were once their homes, and just looking for anything, anything at all, that they can salvage⁶ from this.

 

They are not finding anything except occasionally bodies or just bits and pieces of junk.

 

And they are telling me that even though the situation is like this, and it is as bad as it is, it is as bad as it is, they still wanna come back here. They still wanna rebuild. And they understand that may take a long time. They understand that it is going to be very hard for them to make a living.

 

But they all wanna come back and they feel this is there home and this is where they belong. And they all say to me that even if another tsunami came, they are not going to worry about it because this is where they were born and this is where they want to die.

 

Nancy-Amelia Collins, VOA news, Aceh, Indonesia.

 

注释：

foundation [faun5deiFEn] n. 地基

debris [5debri:] n. 碎片，残骸

salvage [5sAlvidV] vt. 海上救助，抢救，打捞，营救

junk [dVQNk] n. 垃圾

make a living谋生

1 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。

2 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

3 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。

4 standing   

n.持续，地位；adj.永久的，不动的，直立的，不流动的

参考例句：

• After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震过后只有几幢房屋还立着。
• They're standing out against any change in the law.他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改。

5 debris   

n.瓦砾堆，废墟，碎片

参考例句：

• After the bombing there was a lot of debris everywhere.轰炸之后到处瓦砾成堆。
• Bacteria sticks to food debris in the teeth,causing decay.细菌附着在牙缝中的食物残渣上，导致蛀牙。

6 salvage   

v.救助，营救，援救；n.救助，营救

参考例句：

• All attempts to salvage the wrecked ship failed.抢救失事船只的一切努力都失败了。
• The salvage was piled upon the pier.抢救出的财产被堆放在码头上。