万花筒 2011-03-12&03-13 日本发生8.9级强地震

 Cameras captured the moment the earthquake hit at 2:46 on Friday afternoon in Japan. The nation's lawmakers felt the power of the magnitude 8.9 force. And the cameras rolled here in a Sendai newsroom about 90 miles from the quake. It set off this huge oil refinery¹ fire north of Tokyo. Workers evacuated³ high-rises and filled the streets. Millions are without power after the deadly quake. One woman said "I thought I was going to die. It was enormous." And the aftershocks continued.

 

"It's interesting you are just mentioning some of the aftershocks, and I'm actually feeling one as I'm sitting here talking to you."

 

Then came the next wave of destruction, massive tsunami⁴ waves. First, one came to shore, rocking boats in its way. Then a few minutes later, helicopter showed another wave strong enough to reverse the direction of a river. It swept buildings off their foundations and kept moving. Take a look at the cars in the upper part of the screen, rushing to escape the approaching water. Tsunami warnings stretched through the Pacific from Australia to here in Hawaii, where sirens are sounding every hour warning people along the coast to evacuate². People are lining⁵ up for fuel.

 

"I don't think this one is going to be something that has really huge effects here in terms of, you know, wiping out the coast, but it's certainly still quite danger."

 

The first waves are expected to hit Hawaii around eight o'clock eastern time, and now parts of California, Oregon and Alaska are under tsunami warning as well.

1 refinery   

n.精炼厂，提炼厂

参考例句：

• They built a sugar refinery.他们建起了一座榨糖厂。
• The purpose of oil refinery is to refine crude petroleum.炼油厂的主要工作是提炼原油。

2 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。

3 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。

4 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。

5 lining   

n.衬里，衬料

参考例句：

• The lining of my coat is torn.我的外套衬里破了。
• Moss makes an attractive lining to wire baskets.用苔藓垫在铁丝篮里很漂亮。