美国有线新闻 CNN 2015-05-07

 Welcome to CNN Student News on Cinco de Mayo, 2015. I'm Carl Azuz, delivering current events with no commercials. 

 

This Tuesday, we're starting with an update from earthquake-stricken Nepal. 

 

The National Emergency Operation Center says the April 25th quake and the aftershocks that followed killed more than 7,200 people, almost twice that many were injured. A week after the quake, there was a remarkable¹ rescue, a 101-year-old man who'd been trapped under the rubble² of his home. Officials say he's in stable condition. They don't know how he survived.

 

The country's finance minister says the 7.8 magnitude quake either partially³ or completed destroyed almost 300,000 homes. Some are in remote villages that aid worker are still unable to reach. A CNN drone flew over some of these areas. The destruction it found in places was catastrophic. It's why officials expect the death toll⁴ to go up significantly.  

 

Nepalese leaders are calling for more international aid, especially funding to help the Nepalese people recover. 

 

Class is back in session at Kopila Valley Children's Home and School. It was started by CNN Hero Maggie Doyne, whom we told you about before the quake. She and the students are all OK, but other CNN heroes are struggling with the quake's destruction. 

 

Both Nepalese winning CNN's top prize for their charity work, both now emotionally crushed by the earthquake that devastated⁵ the country.

 

We have to do, we have to take out all the stones, everything, again back. So, we have to start again from the down.

 

Four of our houses in the districts have absolutely, is is, absolutely gone.

 

Koirala runs a rehabilitation⁶ center for more than 400 women and children, mostly victims of human trafficking and sexual violence. 

 

Today, she's also taking on these 11 orphans⁷, because their shelter was damaged by the earthquake.

 

Basnet runs a home for children and incarcerated⁸ parents.

 

It's a bit of a setback⁹ from this earthquake.

 

Yes, it has setback, but I think, not just in my life, but everyone's life. But someday, I think things will work out.

 

She bought this property with the money she won from CNN Heroes. The home where she and her 45 children have lived for years is now uninhabitable.

 

This is where the children had been camping out since the earthquake hit, because butterfly home has been deemed unsafe and right now, they just don't know when they'll be able to move back.

 

A guava tree for shade, a patch of grass, their temporary home. I asked them what the earthquake felt like.

 

"It shook us like this, like I was in the swing," he says. "I thought I would die", he says.

 

Even though they laugh about it now, the elders and the children, Laxmi says they were terrified.

 

They were scared at that time when it...

 

The mental trauma¹⁰ will linger. It will take time to restore their livelihoods¹¹. But with heroes like Basnet and Koirala as their caretakers, determined¹² to overcome the setback and soon, they know they are the lucky ones.

1 remarkable   

adj.显著的，异常的，非凡的，值得注意的

参考例句：

• She has made remarkable headway in her writing skills.她在写作技巧方面有了长足进步。
• These cars are remarkable for the quietness of their engines.这些汽车因发动机没有噪音而不同凡响。

2 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。

3 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。

4 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。

5 devastated   

v.彻底破坏( devastate的过去式和过去分词)；摧毁；毁灭；在感情上（精神上、财务上等）压垮adj.毁坏的；极为震惊的

参考例句：

• The bomb devastated much of the old part of the city. 这颗炸弹炸毁了旧城的一大片地方。
• His family is absolutely devastated. 他的一家感到极为震惊。

6 rehabilitation   

n.康复，悔过自新，修复，复兴，复职，复位

参考例句：

• He's booked himself into a rehabilitation clinic.他自己联系了一家康复诊所。
• No one can really make me rehabilitation of injuries.已经没有人可以真正令我的伤康复了。

7 orphans   

孤儿( orphan的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The poor orphans were kept on short commons. 贫苦的孤儿们吃不饱饭。
• Their uncle was declared guardian to the orphans. 这些孤儿的叔父成为他们的监护人。

8 incarcerated   

钳闭的

参考例句：

• They were incarcerated for the duration of the war. 战争期间，他们被关在狱中。 来自辞典例句
• I don't want to worry them by being incarcerated. 我不想让他们知道我被拘禁的事情。 来自电影对白

9 setback   

n.退步，挫折，挫败

参考例句：

• Since that time there has never been any setback in his career.从那时起他在事业上一直没有遇到周折。
• She views every minor setback as a disaster.她把每个较小的挫折都看成重大灾难。

10 trauma   

n.外伤，精神创伤

参考例句：

• Counselling is helping him work through this trauma.心理辅导正帮助他面对痛苦。
• The phobia may have its root in a childhood trauma.恐惧症可能源于童年时期的创伤。

11 livelihoods   

生计，谋生之道( livelihood的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• First came the earliest individualistic pioneers who depended on hunting and fishing for their livelihoods. 走在最前面的是早期的个人主义先驱者，他们靠狩猎捕鱼为生。 来自英汉非文学 - 政府文件
• With little influence over policies, their traditional livelihoods are threatened. 因为马赛族人对政策的影响力太小，他们的传统生计受到了威胁。

12 determined   

adj.坚定的；有决心的

参考例句：

• I have determined on going to Tibet after graduation.我已决定毕业后去西藏。
• He determined to view the rooms behind the office.他决定查看一下办公室后面的房间。