Power restored in storm-hit Anhui

 HEFEI, Aug. 11 (Xinhua) -- Power supplies have been restored for 962,000 households in east China's Anhui province, which has been slashed¹ by rainstorms and floods triggered by typhoon Haikui, local authorities said Saturday.

Anhui was hit hard by Haikui, the 11th typhoon of the year. The storm has left six people dead in Anhui and Jiangxi provinces, as well as the city of Shanghai, since making landfall on Wednesday morning.

The storm has destroyed 1,556 houses, damaged 80,000 hectares of farmland and forced 163,000 people to relocate in Anhui. Direct economic losses are believed to be 880 million yuan (138 million U.S. dollars).

Workers are repairing roads and power lines that were damaged in the storm, according to the province's flood control headquarters.

Haikui, which means "sea anemone²" in Chinese, is the third typhoon to wallop China's eastern coast in a week after storms Saola and Damrey hit the region over the weekend.

The storm has brought gales³ and heavy downpours to the region. In Zhejiang, where Haikui made landfall, torrential rains caused a reservoir dam to collapse⁴, killing⁵ 11 people in an ensuing flood.

More than 2.17 million people have been evacuated⁶ in four provincial-level regions in east China, the Ministry⁷ of Civil Affairs said in a statement on Friday.

Meteorological authorities in Anhui said Haikui has been downgraded to a tropical depression in the province but warned of additional geological disasters.

1 slashed   

v.挥砍( slash的过去式和过去分词 )；鞭打；割破；削减

参考例句：

• Someone had slashed the tyres on my car. 有人把我的汽车轮胎割破了。
• He slashed the bark off the tree with his knife. 他用刀把树皮从树上砍下。 来自《简明英汉词典》

2 anemone   

n.海葵

参考例句：

• Do you want this anemone to sting you?你想让这个海葵刺疼你吗？
• The bodies of the hydra and sea anemone can produce buds.水螅和海葵的身体能产生芽。

3 gales   

龙猫

参考例句：

• I could hear gales of laughter coming from downstairs. 我能听到来自楼下的阵阵笑声。
• This was greeted with gales of laughter from the audience. 观众对此报以阵阵笑声。

4 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。

5 killing   

n.巨额利润；突然赚大钱，发大财

参考例句：

• Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
• Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。

6 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。

7 ministry   

n.(政府的)部；牧师

参考例句：

• They sent a deputation to the ministry to complain.他们派了一个代表团到部里投诉。
• We probed the Air Ministry statements.我们调查了空军部的记录。