VOA常速英语2023 缅甸遭遇超强风暴

缅甸遭遇超强风暴

　　Some 400,000 people were evacuated¹ in Myanmar and low-lying neighboring Bangladesh ahead of one of the strongest storms to hit the region in years.

　　在缅甸和地势低洼的邻国孟加拉国遭遇多年来最强风暴之前，大约40万人被疏散。

　　Reuters correspondent Olivia Chang reports.

　　路透社记者奥利维亚·常报道。

　　Storm surges whipped up by a powerful cyclone² inundated³ the Myanmar port city of Sittwe on Sunday.

　　周日，由强热带风暴引发的风暴潮淹没了缅甸港口城市实兑。

　　Across Rakhine state and the northwest of the country, about six million people were already in need of humanitarian⁴ assistance.

　　在若开邦和缅甸西北部，大约有600万人迫切需要人道主义援助。

　　In Bangladesh, authorities moved around 300,000 people to safer areas before the storm hit.

　　在孟加拉国，当局在风暴来袭前将大约30万人转移到了安全地区。

　　More than a million Rohingya refugees, half-a-million children among them, live in sprawling⁵ camps prone⁶ to flooding and landslides⁷ after having fled a military-led crackdown in Myanmar in 2017.

　　罗兴亚难民数量超过100万，其中包括50万儿童，他们在2017年逃离缅甸军方领导的镇压行动后，生活在容易发生洪水和山体滑坡的庞大营地中。

　　Reuters correspondent Olivia Chang.

　　路透社记者奥利维亚·常报道。

　　A new mobile app is allowing 1,000 would-be migrants per day to make an appointment to apply for asylum⁸ in the United States.

　　每天有1000名准移民能在一款新的移动应用程序上预约申请美国的庇护。

　　AP correspondent Jackie Quinn reports.

　　美联社记者杰基·奎恩报道。

　　Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas says they're encouraging migrants to use the legal pathway toward entry and that's helping⁹ to reduce the flood of migrants coming in at the southern border.

　　国土安全部部长亚历杭德罗·马约卡斯表示，他们鼓励移民使用合法途径入境，这有助于减少涌入南部边境的移民潮。

　　"... approximately 50 percent drop ..." He spoke¹⁰ on ABC's "This Week" with George Stephanopoulos.

　　“… 大约下降了50%……”他在美国广播公司的“本周”节目中接受了乔治·斯特凡诺普洛斯的采访。

　　"We have to incentivize the use of the lawful¹¹ pathways ..."

　　“我们必须鼓励人们使用合法途径……”

　　But Texas Republican Congressman¹² Mike McCaul says too many migrants are being allowed in without a hearing date.

　　但是德克萨斯州共和党国会议员迈克·麦考尔表示，在没有举行听证会的情况下，太多移民被允许进入美国。

　　" ...whether they have legitimate¹³ claims or not, they're released into our society and then you have five million people without any legal status."

　　“…不管移民是否有合法的要求，他们都被放置在我们的社会，然后就出现了500万人没有任何合法身份的情况。”

　　The Biden administration says it will penalize¹⁴ those who try to seek asylum without going through the proper channels.

　　拜登政府表示，将惩罚那些没有通过适当渠道寻求庇护的人。

　　I'm Jackie Quinn.

　　我是杰基·奎恩。

1 evacuated   

撤退者的

参考例句：

• Police evacuated nearby buildings. 警方已将附近大楼的居民疏散。
• The fireman evacuated the guests from the burning hotel. 消防队员把客人们从燃烧着的旅馆中撤出来。

2 cyclone   

n.旋风，龙卷风

参考例句：

• An exceptionally violent cyclone hit the town last night.昨晚异常猛烈的旋风吹袭了那个小镇。
• The cyclone brought misery to thousands of people.旋风给成千上万的人带来苦难。

3 inundated   

v.淹没( inundate的过去式和过去分词 )；（洪水般地）涌来；充满；给予或交予（太多事物）使难以应付

参考例句：

• We have been inundated with offers of help. 主动援助多得使我们应接不暇。
• We have been inundated with every bit of information imaginable. 凡是想得到的各种各样的信息潮水般地向我们涌来。 来自《简明英汉词典》

4 humanitarian   

n.人道主义者，博爱者，基督凡人论者

参考例句：

• She has many humanitarian interests and contributes a lot to them.她拥有很多慈善事业，并作了很大的贡献。
• The British government has now suspended humanitarian aid to the area.英国政府现已暂停对这一地区的人道主义援助。

5 sprawling   

adj.蔓生的，不规则地伸展的v.伸开四肢坐[躺]( sprawl的现在分词 )；蔓延；杂乱无序地拓展；四肢伸展坐着（或躺着）

参考例句：

• He was sprawling in an armchair in front of the TV. 他伸开手脚坐在电视机前的一张扶手椅上。
• a modern sprawling town 一座杂乱无序拓展的现代城镇

6 prone   

adj.(to)易于…的，很可能…的；俯卧的

参考例句：

• Some people are prone to jump to hasty conclusions.有些人往往作出轻率的结论。
• He is prone to lose his temper when people disagree with him.人家一不同意他的意见,他就发脾气。

7 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。

8 asylum   

n.避难所，庇护所，避难

参考例句：

• The people ask for political asylum.人们请求政治避难。
• Having sought asylum in the West for many years,they were eventually granted it.他们最终获得了在西方寻求多年的避难权。

9 helping   

n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的，辅助的

参考例句：

• The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
• By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。

10 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。

11 lawful   

adj.法律许可的，守法的，合法的

参考例句：

• It is not lawful to park in front of a hydrant.在消火栓前停车是不合法的。
• We don't recognised him to be the lawful heir.我们不承认他为合法继承人。

12 Congressman   

n.（美）国会议员

参考例句：

• He related several anecdotes about his first years as a congressman.他讲述自己初任议员那几年的几则轶事。
• The congressman is meditating a reply to his critics.这位国会议员正在考虑给他的批评者一个答复。

13 legitimate   

adj.合法的，合理的，合乎逻辑的；v.使合法

参考例句：

• Sickness is a legitimate reason for asking for leave.生病是请假的一个正当的理由。
• That's a perfectly legitimate fear.怀有这种恐惧完全在情理之中。

14 penalize   

vt.对…处以刑罚，宣告…有罪；处罚

参考例句：

• It would be unfair to penalize those without a job.失业人员待遇低下是不公平的。
• The association decided not to penalize you for the race.赛马协会决定对你不予处罚。