万花筒 2009-08-15&08-16 台湾灾民群情激奋

The military helicopters are bringing in the last of the stranded¹ villagers now for some of their relatives and friends, who have been waiting here for days, there is relief. For others though, there is the anguish² of not knowing.

"Help us, please save my children, I have been waiting four days already." Says this woman.

At her tent, anger, especially at local officials.

"They said it was safe and we didn't need to evacuate³. Now there is not even a road to get back." He says.

And the man, who is the focus of much of the national blame is President Ma Ying-jeou, often confronted by angry survivors⁴ as he toured the disaster zone.

"How do you respond to people who blame you and your government, and say listen this was just all too slow to begin with, and then, when it did get underway, it just wasn't enough."

"Now, we certainly, I will take full responsibility, whatever the blame is, because, after all, I am the president of this country."

But President Ma says the slow start was because of bad weather, heavy rain left helicopters grounded.

"Once the weather is good, in one day, that is the 14th of August, we were able to evacuate 2518 people. It's a record."

But there was outrage⁵ last week, when he blamed local officials.

"They were not fully⁶ prepared."

So now he's seen comforting the grieving, apologizing, promising⁷ to do better. But as he opened the weekend baseball game, he was booed and jeered⁸. Protesters demanded his resignation.

"We'll find out, not only to correct the mistakes, but also may try to punish the people who are responsible."

As the rescue operations slowly wind down, the focus will soon shift to rebuilding lives and communities. Taiwan's embattled president told me that simply repairing all the damage from Typhoon Morakot could take up to a year.

John Vause, CNN, Cishan, Taiwan.
 

1 stranded   

a.搁浅的，进退两难的

参考例句：

• He was stranded in a strange city without money. 他流落在一个陌生的城市里， 身无分文，一筹莫展。
• I was stranded in the strange town without money or friends. 我困在那陌生的城市，既没有钱，又没有朋友。

2 anguish   

n.(尤指心灵上的)极度痛苦，烦恼

参考例句：

• She cried out for anguish at parting.分手时，她由于痛苦而失声大哭。
• The unspeakable anguish wrung his heart.难言的痛苦折磨着他的心。

3 evacuate   

v.遣送；搬空；抽出；排泄；大(小)便

参考例句：

• We must evacuate those soldiers at once!我们必须立即撤出这些士兵！
• They were planning to evacuate the seventy American officials still in the country.他们正计划转移仍滞留在该国的70名美国官员。

4 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

5 outrage   

n.暴行，侮辱，愤怒；vt.凌辱，激怒

参考例句：

• When he heard the news he reacted with a sense of outrage.他得悉此事时义愤填膺。
• We should never forget the outrage committed by the Japanese invaders.我们永远都不应该忘记日本侵略者犯下的暴行。

6 fully   

adv.完全地，全部地，彻底地；充分地

参考例句：

• The doctor asked me to breathe in,then to breathe out fully.医生让我先吸气，然后全部呼出。
• They soon became fully integrated into the local community.他们很快就完全融入了当地人的圈子。

7 promising   

adj.有希望的，有前途的

参考例句：

• The results of the experiments are very promising.实验的结果充满了希望。
• We're trying to bring along one or two promising young swimmers.我们正设法培养出一两名有前途的年轻游泳选手。

8 jeered   

v.嘲笑( jeer的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• The police were jeered at by the waiting crowd. 警察受到在等待的人群的嘲弄。
• The crowd jeered when the boxer was knocked down. 当那个拳击手被打倒时，人们开始嘲笑他。 来自《简明英汉词典》