美国有线新闻 CNN 美国遭遇致命极寒天气 多地将打破最低温记录

 

CARL AZUZ, CNN 10 ANCHOR: A large chunk¹ of the U.S. is shivering in what meteorologists are calling the coldest temperatures in a generation.

Bundle up because that's where we're starting today's edition of CNN 10. I'm Carl Azuz and I'm thankful to be inside the CNN Center. On Wednesday morning, about 80 percent of the continental² U.S. saw temperatures below freezing. If they all stepped outside a?t once more than 224 million people would have felt it. And over the next couple days, temperatures are expected to stay that way for most of the country.

In many places, it actually feels colder than what thermometers say it is. That's because of the wind chill, the temperature combined with wind speed.

At International Falls, Minnesota the wind chill registered more than 60 degrees below zero Fahrenheit³. That's less than 10 degrees away from an all-time record. Wednesday night, Chicago, Illinois was expected to tie it's record of 27 degrees below zero. That's colder than some parts of Antarctica were expected to be. And experts expected that records would be broken from the Midwest to the Northeast to some parts of the South.

In the coldest places —we're talking about you guys in Minnesota and Iowa — forecasters say frostbite injuries can occur in just five minutes to exposed skin. The most common places that happens are on the fingers, toes, ears, nose, cheeks and chin. The National Weather Service is telling people where the wind chill is negative 50 to stay inside. This cold snap has been linked to at least five deaths this week. But forecasters say it should be over by this weekend.

1 chunk   

n.厚片，大块，相当大的部分（数量）

参考例句：

• They had to be careful of floating chunks of ice.他们必须当心大块浮冰。
• The company owns a chunk of farmland near Gatwick Airport.该公司拥有盖特威克机场周边的大片农田。

2 continental   

adj.大陆的，大陆性的，欧洲大陆的

参考例句：

• A continental climate is different from an insular one.大陆性气候不同于岛屿气候。
• The most ancient parts of the continental crust are 4000 million years old.大陆地壳最古老的部分有40亿年历史。

3 Fahrenheit   

n./adj.华氏温度；华氏温度计(的)

参考例句：

• He was asked for the boiling point of water in Fahrenheit.他被问到水的沸点是华氏多少度。
• The thermometer reads 80 degrees Fahrenheit.寒暑表指出华氏80度。