【英语趣味课堂】救援工作-Relief Work

Todd: So, I am here with Tarta and we are talking about the "tsunami¹" in Thailand and she helped people after the event. Can you talk about what it was like the few days after the "tsunami" hit?

Tarta: Yes, right away from like from the "tsunami" hit, I went on the 28th, so two days after "tsunami" hit, so everything is like damaged and, you know all waters are all over the place. There's car on top of the buildings too, like the second floor of the buildings and rotten² bodies like everywhere ...

 

Todd: Wow, dead bodies.

 

Tarta: Dead bodies like really everywhere, and because that time there were not many volunteers yet ... so if we just walk through the place that we just want to find a live person to give a food or to help but then we just hit by the dead body, like without knowing because it is a huge body and you can't recognize who is that person because, you know, all the faces are just getting, I just don't want to say it but ... but it really was ...

 

Todd: And you actually helped?

 

Tarta: I helped because I was there so early for two days and then I helped to the volunteer who helped to picking up the dead body so I ... whenever I find a dead body so I called the person and then we helped to pick up the dead body into the pick-up car and then send it to the temple. To ... for, what do you call the ...

 

Todd: The identification³?

 

Tarta: Yeah, identification at the temple. So, because they have some base over there and carry on for almost a week so there are probably, like, 50 organizations who come and help us.

 

Todd: So after this horrific event happened, how did it change you? Like, did it give you a different perspective⁴ about life or about nature or ... anything?

 

Tarta: Yeah, I do agree. I think, I mean, nature always have a, what do you call, always fair you know? If you do ... everything have cause and effect. So if you do something it is going to give you a return in somehow, in someway, like whenever it's going to happen. So, I believe in "karma" too, so I think it's a good example that what humans do to the nature and nature give you back.

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 rotten   

adj.腐烂(朽)的；令人不愉快的；糟糕的

参考例句：

• The book was pretty rotten.这本书糟透了。
• Rotten eggs give off a bad smell.臭蛋散发出难闻的气味。

3 identification   

n.视为同一，证明同一，确认

参考例句：

• He's made a formal identification of the body.他正式确认了死者身份。
• We should have identification card on the person when we go out.我们外出时应随身携带身份证。

4 perspective   

n.视角，观点，想法

参考例句：

• You can get a perspective of the whole city from here.从这里你可以看到城市的全景。
• We may get a clear perspective of the people's happy lives.我们知道人民对幸福生活的展望。