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Haiti's Storm Refugees Want To Know: What's The Plan? 

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The hurricane left hundreds of people dead in Haiti, and the president there is calling the situation in the southwest of his country a catastrophe². Hundreds of thousands lost homes or crops. Many lost everything. Survivors³ are growing frustrated⁴. They're worried they may not get any help. NPR's Jason Beaubien reports from the port city of Les Cayes.

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JASON BEAUBIEN, BYLINE⁵: We're in a high school in Les Cayes right now, and this is one of the places that was designated as a shelter before the storm. And a lot of these people moved in before. Some people came right after the storm actually hit. And right now, it is packed with people. There's laundry hanging from every spare space of balcony along here.

And the other thing is that people are incredibly frustrated. People don't know when they're going to be able to move back into their homes. A lot of people are injured. There are a lot of people right in front of me with bandages on their head, on their arms, people with gashes⁶ on their feet.

Across town, a large crowd has gathered around a truck that people heard might be loaded with food aid. Young muscled man shoved the crowd away from the vehicle. People are trying to get on with their lives here. Amidst the felled power lines and destroyed buildings, street vendors⁷ have gone back to selling mangoes and fried plantains. Stores have reopened.

Despite this attempt towards normalcy, aid agencies say the needs here are huge. Hundreds of thousands of people had their homes partially⁹ or totally destroyed. Crops have been wiped out.

LANCE PLYLER: Let's use this. Let's use this.

BEAUBIEN: At the main public hospital in Les Cayes, Dr. Lance Plyler from the Christian¹⁰ aid group Samaritan's Purse today was bandaging a 3-year-old boy's broken ankle. Dr. Plyler had just stopped by the hospital. There was no one to attend to the boy, so he ended up bandaging the boy's leg in the parking lot between two cars.

PLYLER: This kid's got a broken and infect leg. We're just putting a Band-Aid on a big problem, but we're trying to hopefully just, you know, arrest the infection enough that he'll be OK.

BEAUBIEN: This hospital is still struggling to reopen. The 156-bed facility today could only take 10 patients. Most of the staff who could make it to work were busy trying to clear debris¹¹ from the compound and mop mud out of the wards⁸. Gilbert Lorcy is one of the people who didn't lose his roof. His tin roof and wouldn't rafters blew off in the Category 4 hurricane. They were able to pick it back up, however, and prop¹² it up on what was left of his stone walls. During the day, Lorcy and his family of five camp out under it. Then, at night, they go to sleep in a shelter. His neighbor next door is doing the same thing.

GILBERT LORCY: (Through interpreter) As now, we have nothing to cope with the situation. So we spend the day in our yard. But every night, we go in a shelter. For two or three days, we believe that they will host us. But later on, we'll have, like, to find, like, a way to address a proper living.

BEAUBIEN: Lorcy says he doesn't have a plan. He has no money to rebuild, but he also doesn't have anywhere else to go. He hopes the government or aid groups will provide building materials so that he can reconstruct his house. His neighbor worries that if aid does arrive, it won't go to people like Lorcy. Haitians have far too much experience as aid recipients¹³. These men worry that the relief will go to people who are better connected, better off or stronger than they are. Jason Beaubien, NPR News, Les Cayes.

1 browser   

n.浏览者

参考例句：

• View edits in a web browser.在浏览器中看编辑的效果。
• I think my browser has a list of shareware links.我想在浏览器中会有一系列的共享软件链接。

2 catastrophe   

n.大灾难，大祸

参考例句：

• I owe it to you that I survived the catastrophe.亏得你我才大难不死。
• This is a catastrophe beyond human control.这是一场人类无法控制的灾难。

3 survivors   

幸存者，残存者，生还者( survivor的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The survivors were adrift in a lifeboat for six days. 幸存者在救生艇上漂流了六天。
• survivors clinging to a raft 紧紧抓住救生筏的幸存者

4 frustrated   

adj.挫败的，失意的，泄气的v.使不成功( frustrate的过去式和过去分词 )；挫败；使受挫折；令人沮丧

参考例句：

• It's very easy to get frustrated in this job. 这个工作很容易令人懊恼。
• The bad weather frustrated all our hopes of going out. 恶劣的天气破坏了我们出行的愿望。 来自《简明英汉词典》

5 byline   

n.署名；v.署名

参考例句：

• His byline was absent as well.他的署名也不见了。
• We wish to thank the author of this article which carries no byline.我们要感谢这篇文章的那位没有署名的作者。

6 gashes   

n.深长的切口（或伤口）( gash的名词复数 )v.划伤，割破( gash的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

• The classmates' hearts ached for him and they begged him to wear gloves to prevent any more gashes. 同学们都心疼他，劝他干活时戴上手套，免得再弄破手。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• He stripped himself, and I counted twenty-seven separate scars and gashes. 他脱去衣服，我在他身上数出了二十七处瘢痕和深深的伤口。 来自辞典例句

7 vendors   

n.摊贩( vendor的名词复数 )；小贩；（房屋等的）卖主；卖方

参考例句：

• The vendors were gazundered at the last minute. 卖主在最后一刻被要求降低房价。
• At the same time, interface standards also benefIt'software vendors. 同时，界面标准也有利于软件开发商。 来自About Face 3交互设计精髓

8 wards   

区( ward的名词复数 )； 病房； 受监护的未成年者； 被人照顾或控制的状态

参考例句：

• This hospital has 20 medical [surgical] wards. 这所医院有 20 个内科[外科]病房。
• It was a big constituency divided into three wards. 这是一个大选区，下设三个分区。

9 partially   

adv.部分地，从某些方面讲

参考例句：

• The door was partially concealed by the drapes.门有一部分被门帘遮住了。
• The police managed to restore calm and the curfew was partially lifted.警方设法恢复了平静，宵禁部分解除。

10 Christian   

adj.基督教徒的；n.基督教徒

参考例句：

• They always addressed each other by their Christian name.他们总是以教名互相称呼。
• His mother is a sincere Christian.他母亲是个虔诚的基督教徒。

11 debris   

n.瓦砾堆，废墟，碎片

参考例句：

• After the bombing there was a lot of debris everywhere.轰炸之后到处瓦砾成堆。
• Bacteria sticks to food debris in the teeth,causing decay.细菌附着在牙缝中的食物残渣上，导致蛀牙。

12 prop   

vt.支撑；n.支柱，支撑物；支持者，靠山

参考例句：

• A worker put a prop against the wall of the tunnel to keep it from falling.一名工人用东西支撑住隧道壁好使它不会倒塌。
• The government does not intend to prop up declining industries.政府无意扶持不景气的企业。

13 recipients   

adj.接受的；受领的；容纳的；愿意接受的n.收件人；接受者；受领者；接受器

参考例句：

• The recipients of the prizes had their names printed in the paper. 获奖者的姓名登在报上。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The recipients of prizes had their names printed in the paper. 获奖者名单登在报上。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》