美国有线新闻 CNN 2013-11-16

 This is the place where there is little food, where is little water and there are many many people. And many people are trying to get out of here out of  the airports. You are seeing a lot of people lining¹ up around there. They have been lining up here all night long. They just waited at the airport. They frankly² have nowhere else to go. Because out there on the other side of the camera, it is where remains³ Talcloban, and it is not a pretty sight with dead bodies lying out near the wreckage⁴ of people’s homes. People sleep out in the street with little food and little water, and few answers frankly about the relief efforts. We are gonna try to get answers over the course of next hour, we are going to bring you update of all we have seen during the last 24 hours. 

 

It has been 5 days since super typhoon Haiyan slammed into the Philippines. But still after all that time, there is no official death toll⁵, no concerted effort to retreat bodies of those died. The cleanup in some badly hit areas has barely started, if it started at all. Everywhere you go, there are pleas for help. 

 

Everything is gone, we have nothing. Everything. There is nothing to eat, nothing to drink. 

 

We need more people to help to help the current situation. 

 

Help is on the way. 250 US service members are on the ground of Philippine and two more ships are on the way. But right now there simply is not enough aid. And what aid there is, is not getting out to those who need them most. Day after day, thousands come to Tacloban airport hoping for a ride out, praying they can escape the devastation⁶, the lack of food and water, the decaying bodies lying on the streets. But with the 800 000 people displaced, many are without options. While others continue to search for loved ones lost in the storm surge. 

 

Only 1 is missing is my eldest⁷ daughter, I hope she is still alive and she will be here.  

 

This woman cries for her mother who is still missing. I am still here in Talcloban, she says, I am still alive. 

 

Make shift shelters for those left behind have sprung up all over the area. People sleep in wherever they can, desperate to find a dry safe spot.

 

People around here just have no place else to go.  A lot of them who have been evacuated⁸ for the storm are coming back where it used to be their homes. There is a make shift shack⁹. So they constructed over there, and try to collect all the things they can salvage¹⁰. But it is not much. 

 

In many places not much is left but rubble¹¹, and the sound of pets waiting for owners who may never return. This make shift coffin¹² with a piece of rock with a name of a baby who has been placed inside. Marin ALCAIN is her name. She was only 1 year and 3 months old. 

 

At this hospital in Talcloban, the wounded and sick wait for treatment, while the hospital has no electricity and few supplies. 

 

We are admitting them as much as we can, because we can not refuse them. 

 

It is already too late for this young mother, cradling her dead child into her arms. 

 

I am going crazy, she says, I want to go back home. 

 

Home is not an option for her. It is not an option for many in this broken city.

1 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。

2 frankly   

adv.坦白地，直率地；坦率地说

参考例句：

• To speak frankly, I don't like the idea at all.老实说，我一点也不赞成这个主意。
• Frankly speaking, I'm not opposed to reform.坦率地说，我不反对改革。

3 remains   

n.剩余物，残留物；遗体，遗迹

参考例句：

• He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
• The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。

4 wreckage   

n.（失事飞机等的）残骸，破坏，毁坏

参考例句：

• They hauled him clear of the wreckage.他们把他从形骸中拖出来。
• New states were born out of the wreckage of old colonial empires.新生国家从老殖民帝国的废墟中诞生。

5 toll   

n.过路(桥)费；损失，伤亡人数；v.敲(钟)

参考例句：

• The hailstone took a heavy toll of the crops in our village last night.昨晚那场冰雹损坏了我们村的庄稼。
• The war took a heavy toll of human life.这次战争夺去了许多人的生命。

6 devastation   

n.毁坏；荒废；极度震惊或悲伤

参考例句：

• The bomb caused widespread devastation. 炸弹造成大面积破坏。
• There was devastation on every side. 到处都是破坏的创伤。 来自《简明英汉词典》

7 eldest   

adj.最年长的，最年老的

参考例句：

• The King's eldest son is the heir to the throne.国王的长子是王位的继承人。
• The castle and the land are entailed on the eldest son.城堡和土地限定由长子继承。

8 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。

9 shack   

adj.简陋的小屋，窝棚

参考例句：

• He had to sit down five times before he reached his shack.在走到他的茅棚以前，他不得不坐在地上歇了五次。
• The boys made a shack out of the old boards in the backyard.男孩们在后院用旧木板盖起一间小木屋。

10 salvage   

v.救助，营救，援救；n.救助，营救

参考例句：

• All attempts to salvage the wrecked ship failed.抢救失事船只的一切努力都失败了。
• The salvage was piled upon the pier.抢救出的财产被堆放在码头上。

11 rubble   

n.（一堆）碎石，瓦砾

参考例句：

• After the earthquake,it took months to clean up the rubble.地震后，花了数月才清理完瓦砾。
• After the war many cities were full of rubble.战后许多城市到处可见颓垣残壁。

12 coffin   

n.棺材，灵柩

参考例句：

• When one's coffin is covered,all discussion about him can be settled.盖棺论定。
• The coffin was placed in the grave.那口棺材已安放到坟墓里去了。