美国有线新闻 CNN 2012-11-05

I’m Anderson Cooper. Welcome to the podcast. Stories of survival, lost and people, the latest in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. Let’s get started. 

 

We are here in Hoboken, New Jersey¹, just across the river from lower Manhattan. So is the National Guard. They arrived late last night. They’ve been busy. The crisis is far from over. All across the area police and rescuers are still hard at work, so are power company crews, transit² workers, nurses and doctors and e-mass workers. So many people doing heroic work tonight, so many more just trying to do simply things like getting from point A to point B. For example, across the Hudson River to work, or across the East River. All day today with subways out, rush hour was more like a pilgrimage. Thousands of people one step at a time. That should improve a little bit by tomorrow. There is news tonight on bridges, airports and power problems, and almost every minute new pictures of the destruction keep coming in. This is a marina full of boats washed ashore³ in New York’s Staten Island. These pictures are one thing and people another. Fourteen people died on Staten Island, we know that now. Three more are missing right now. Again this is not over yet. We’re going to cover all the angels tonight, starting with President Obama and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. 

 

With the election near but the disaster now, two political rivals joined hands and got to work. They saw a shoreline battered⁴ beyond recognition. Almost beyond belief. Mile after mile of destruction. Home after home. Life after life. On the ground, at a local shelter, no political complications. Just simple need and promises from each man to meet it. 

 

“Governor Christie, throughout this process, has been responsive. He’s been aggressive in making sure that the state got out in front of this incredible storm. And I think the people of New Jersey recognize that the has put his heart and soul into making sure that the people of New Jersey bounce back even stronger than before. So I just

 

want to thank him for his extraordinary leadership. “

 

“I cannot thank the president enough for his personal concern and compassion⁵ for out state and for the people of our state.”

 

“I’m going to ask you to back up, please.”

 

In Hoboken, New Jersey, that meant the National Guard. Nowhere to be seen until late last night, was out in force today. Rescuing people who were stranded⁶ and getting hungry. 

 

“We couldn’t have survived one more night without, you know, food, water.”

 

In New York’s fifth borough⁷, Staten Island, police choppers did rooftop rescues. At sea, the Navy is moving three warships⁸ into the New York-New Jersey area, capable of serving as offshore⁹ helicopter bases. This is still a fast moving emergency. Proof this afternoon evacuation at another major New York hospital, Bellevue. 700 patients on the move. Elsewhere in the city, though, it seemed like no one moving. 

 

“I think anybody that try to drive around New York City today realized there were a lot of cars on the road, traffic is very heavy. “

 

New York’s mayor, Michael Bloomberg, announcing bridges into Manhattan are open but limiting most incoming cars to three occupants or more. As for subways, limited service tomorrow but a lot of work ahead.

 

Kennedy Airport up and running. LaGuardia still closed. That crane now they say it’s tied down and secure. But elsewhere no progress. Only a clearer view of the loss. Here on New York City’s Breezy Point, more homes destroyed than first thought. And on the Jersey Shores a simple fact comes home to the mayor of Seaside Heights. 

 

“We’re at ground zero. We’re taking baby steps right now then we’ll sort it out at the end. But right now just trying to , you know, just kind of get some kind of semblance¹⁰ of what was.”

1 jersey   

n.运动衫

参考例句：

• He wears a cotton jersey when he plays football.他穿运动衫踢足球。
• They were dressed alike in blue jersey and knickers.他们穿着一致，都是蓝色的运动衫和灯笼短裤。

2 transit   

n.经过，运输；vt.穿越，旋转；vi.越过

参考例句：

• His luggage was lost in transit.他的行李在运送中丢失。
• The canal can transit a total of 50 ships daily.这条运河每天能通过50条船。

3 ashore   

adv.在(向)岸上，上岸

参考例句：

• The children got ashore before the tide came in.涨潮前，孩子们就上岸了。
• He laid hold of the rope and pulled the boat ashore.他抓住绳子拉船靠岸。

4 battered   

adj.磨损的；v.连续猛击；磨损

参考例句：

• He drove up in a battered old car.他开着一辆又老又破的旧车。
• The world was brutally battered but it survived.这个世界遭受了惨重的创伤,但它还是生存下来了。

5 compassion   

n.同情，怜悯

参考例句：

• He could not help having compassion for the poor creature.他情不自禁地怜悯起那个可怜的人来。
• Her heart was filled with compassion for the motherless children.她对于没有母亲的孩子们充满了怜悯心。

6 stranded   

a.搁浅的，进退两难的

参考例句：

• He was stranded in a strange city without money. 他流落在一个陌生的城市里， 身无分文，一筹莫展。
• I was stranded in the strange town without money or friends. 我困在那陌生的城市，既没有钱，又没有朋友。

7 borough   

n.享有自治权的市镇；(英)自治市镇

参考例句：

• He was slated for borough president.他被提名做自治区主席。
• That's what happened to Harry Barritt of London's Bromley borough.住在伦敦的布罗姆利自治市的哈里.巴里特就经历了此事。

8 warships   

军舰，战舰( warship的名词复数 )； 舰只

参考例句：

• The enemy warships were disengaged from the battle after suffering heavy casualties. 在遭受惨重伤亡后，敌舰退出了海战。
• The government fitted out warships and sailors for them. 政府给他们配备了战舰和水手。

9 offshore   

adj.海面的，吹向海面的；adv.向海面

参考例句：

• A big program of oil exploration has begun offshore.一个大规模的石油勘探计划正在近海展开。
• A gentle current carried them slowly offshore.和缓的潮流慢慢地把他们带离了海岸。

10 semblance   

n.外貌，外表

参考例句：

• Her semblance of anger frightened the children.她生气的样子使孩子们感到害怕。
• Those clouds have the semblance of a large head.那些云的形状像一个巨大的人头。