NBC晚间新闻 美国一工厂500人新冠阳性

I'm Blaine Alexander. In Sioux Falls South Dakota where some residents are desperate for an order to stay at home. They want to keep their family safe, they want to keep their community safe. South Dakota is among only a handful of states with no statewide mandate¹ to shelter in place, despite the fact that COVID-19 cases here have nearly tripled in just one week. More than half traced to this one plant, the Smithfield Foods pork processing facility. Governor Christy Nome says a statewide order would not have stopped the virus because the plant is an essential business. This plant is incredibly important to our food supply in this country.

A CDC team arrived today, with more than 500 employees at the processing plant having tested positive. You'd see very crowded departments, very crowded floors. You see narrow hallways, narrow staircases. Now the plant that supplies five percent of our nation's entire pork supply is closed indefinitely. And today Smithfield announced two more closures, joining other companies taking similar measures. How different is it going to look when we go to the grocery store one week two weeks from now? I think there are, you're gonna see the signs, you know, that say you know you can only buy one pack of pork chops this today. Smithfield says it's taking new precautions to prevent future COVID-19 cases but officials fear without an order to stay at home the virus will devastate² the small town. Without that order some people just don't get it.

我是布莱恩·亚历山大。在南达科他州的苏福尔斯市，一些居民迫切希望下达留在家里的命令。他们希望自己的家人安全，他们希望维持社区安全。南达科他州是少数几个没有全州强制隔离的州之一，尽管这里的新冠肺炎病例在一周内几乎翻了三倍。其中一半以上的传染都来源于史密斯菲尔德食品公司的猪肉加工厂。该州州长克里斯蒂·诺姆表示，全州范围内的命令并不能阻止这种病毒传播，猪肉加工是一项重要的生产。这个工厂对美国的食物供应非常重要。疾控中心的一个小组今天抵达苏福尔斯市，该加工厂的500多名员工经检测呈阳性。在这个工厂里，你会看到非常拥挤的部门，非常拥挤的楼层。你可以看到狭窄的走廊，狭窄的楼梯。现在，这家供应全国5%猪肉量的工厂被无限期关闭。今天，和其他公司采取的措施相似，史密斯菲尔德又关闭了两家工厂。从现在开始的两周后，当我们去杂货店时，情况会有什么不同？我想你会看到一些标志，上面写着今天只限买一包猪排。史密斯菲尔德公司表示，他们正在采取新的预防措施防止未来出现新冠肺炎病例，但官员们担心，如果不下令呆在家里，病毒将摧毁这个小镇。不下命令的情况下，有些人就是不能明白疫情的严重性。

1 mandate   

n.托管地；命令，指示

参考例句：

• The President had a clear mandate to end the war.总统得到明确的授权结束那场战争。
• The General Election gave him no such mandate.大选并未授予他这种权力。

2 devastate   

v.使荒芜，破坏，压倒

参考例句：

• A few days before,a fire had devastated large parts of Windsor Castle.几天前，温莎城堡的大部分被一场大火烧毁。
• Earthquakes can also cause tsunamis,which devastate coastal regions.地震还引发海啸，它直接破坏海岸地区。