英伦广角 2014-01-11 特大风暴持续肆虐英国 全国戒备

 After the storm, the rain hitting the parts of the UK that really don't need it. C shore is perhaps best known for its floods, yet again parts of the town are swamp, a victim of its own geography. Where rivers converge¹, it's a familiar but frustrating² view.

Personal opinion based on sort of twenty-five years of living here, I believe they don't dredge these rivers at all. So of course you get all the silt³ which comes down from the hill and everywhere else, it finds its way to the bottom, so you've got literally⁴ twenty yard feet of silt just built up and it leaves nowhere for the water to go.

In Daven, the search continues for missing teenager Henry Martin. He was out photgraphing the storm on Thursday and hasn't been seen since. And a 47-year old man died in Oxford⁵ after driving his mobility⁶ skooter along a submerged pathway. For the teams working flat out to try to manage these floods, they are dealing⁷ with the familiar scenario⁸.

In winter the ground just doesn't dry out. You know, you don't get evaporation⁹. The temperature isn't warm enough to allow the soil to dry out. So as soon as we go into the next waxbell, although there will be a bit capacity in the rivers that will soon, very soon to be taken up. So we could be back to square one. So I think certainly right to the end of this winter, we are going to need to be watching things very carefully.

It all comes from here, the swells¹¹ of color that they analyse so closely at the meteor office. 

To be honest, I put it in because they are up to the exception, those waves.

The chief forecaster on duty Eddie has worked through three decades of weather. To see wave after wave of storms, he is unusual.

This feature here is really whipping out some big waves way out the Atlantic at the moment and they are gonna travel east towards the UK for tomorrow. It's quite a large swell¹⁰ and that's going to add to the wind waves and generate some large waves and surges. 

In K part of this beach site, cafe will have to be dismantled¹² when the storms have passed.

This rain has just lashed¹³ the west country all afternoon. This is F beach near U, Britain's surfer's paradise, while today it isn't. 

So by morning, western Britain and island will again be pummeled by even bigger waves. For those on the front line, fixing the mess and drying out are still distant prospects¹⁴.

1 converge   

vi.会合；聚集，集中；(思想、观点等)趋近

参考例句：

• The results converge towards this truth.其结果趋近于这个真理。
• Parallel lines converge at infinity.平行线永不相交。

2 frustrating   

adj.产生挫折的，使人沮丧的，令人泄气的v.使不成功( frustrate的现在分词 )；挫败；使受挫折；令人沮丧

参考例句：

• It's frustrating to have to wait so long. 要等这么长时间，真令人懊恼。
• It was a demeaning and ultimately frustrating experience. 那是一次有失颜面并且令人沮丧至极的经历。 来自《简明英汉词典》

3 silt   

n.淤泥，淤沙，粉砂层，泥沙层；vt.使淤塞；vi.被淤塞

参考例句：

• The lake was almost solid with silt and vegetation.湖里几乎快被淤泥和植物填满了。
• During the annual floods the river deposits its silt on the fields.每年河水泛滥时都会在田野上沉积一层淤泥。

4 literally   

adv.照字面意义，逐字地；确实

参考例句：

• He translated the passage literally.他逐字逐句地翻译这段文字。
• Sometimes she would not sit down till she was literally faint.有时候，她不走到真正要昏厥了，决不肯坐下来。

5 Oxford   

n.牛津（英国城市）

参考例句：

• At present he has become a Professor of Chemistry at Oxford.他现在已是牛津大学的化学教授了。
• This is where the road to Oxford joins the road to London.这是去牛津的路与去伦敦的路的汇合处。

6 mobility   

n.可动性，变动性，情感不定

参考例句：

• The difference in regional house prices acts as an obstacle to mobility of labour.不同地区房价的差异阻碍了劳动力的流动。
• Mobility is very important in guerrilla warfare.机动性在游击战中至关重要。

7 dealing   

n.经商方法，待人态度

参考例句：

• This store has an excellent reputation for fair dealing.该商店因买卖公道而享有极高的声誉。
• His fair dealing earned our confidence.他的诚实的行为获得我们的信任。

8 scenario   

n.剧本，脚本；概要

参考例句：

• But the birth scenario is not completely accurate.然而分娩脚本并非完全准确的。
• This is a totally different scenario.这是完全不同的剧本。

9 evaporation   

n.蒸发，消失

参考例句：

• Be careful not to lose too much liquid by evaporation.小心不要因蒸发失去太多水分。
• Our bodies can sweat,thereby losing heat by evaporation.我们的身体能出汗，由此可以蒸发散热。

10 swell   

vi.膨胀，肿胀；增长，增强

参考例句：

• The waves had taken on a deep swell.海浪汹涌。
• His injured wrist began to swell.他那受伤的手腕开始肿了。

11 swells   

增强( swell的第三人称单数 )； 肿胀； （使）凸出； 充满（激情）

参考例句：

• The waters were heaving up in great swells. 河水正在急剧上升。
• A barrel swells in the middle. 水桶中部隆起。

12 dismantled   

拆开( dismantle的过去式和过去分词 )； 拆卸； 废除； 取消

参考例句：

• The plant was dismantled of all its equipment and furniture. 这家工厂的设备和家具全被拆除了。
• The Japanese empire was quickly dismantled. 日本帝国很快被打垮了。

13 lashed   

adj.具睫毛的v.鞭打( lash的过去式和过去分词 )；煽动；紧系；怒斥

参考例句：

• The rain lashed at the windows. 雨点猛烈地打在窗户上。
• The cleverly designed speech lashed the audience into a frenzy. 这篇精心设计的演说煽动听众使他们发狂。 来自《简明英汉词典》

14 prospects   

n.希望，前途(恒为复数)

参考例句：

• There is a mood of pessimism in the company about future job prospects. 公司中有一种对工作前景悲观的情绪。
• They are less sanguine about the company's long-term prospects. 他们对公司的远景不那么乐观。