PBS高端访谈:加州大火火情愈发严峻

JUDY WOODRUFF: There is no rest for the wildfire-weary in Southern California. A fire that exploded to life before dawn threatened thousands of homes today and a presidential landmark¹. Stephanie Sy begins our coverage².

STEPHANIE SY: A new day, a new fire outside Los Angeles, this time in Simi Valley, where winds of 70 miles an hour fanned the flames toward the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. Smoke surrounded the site, but the center escaped damage. Whole neighborhoods spent anxious hours watching the fire's march across dry hillsides, as helicopters and tanker³ planes dumped water and chemicals to slow the fire. Firefighters had sounded the alarm overnight.

JAIME MOORE, Los Angeles Assistant Fire Chief: The worst winds that Los Angeles has seen in the last two to three years.

STEPHANIE SY: Indeed, the National Weather Service issued rarely used extreme red flag warnings, signaling severe fire danger over wide stretches of the state. In Northern California's wine country, the Kincade Fire continues to burn. Trees across Sonoma County were painted red with fire retardant yesterday. And by this morning, power blackouts remained in effect for hundreds of thousands of PG&E customers in the north. Officials said some of the blackouts could last for days. Some of those forced to evacuate⁴ or coping with no electricity say they're becoming habituated

to the havoc⁵.

NICK STAUER, Evacuee⁶: I hate to say it. We're experienced.

WOMAN: Yes, hate to say that.

NICK STAUER: You shouldn't be experienced in something like this.

GOV. GAVIN NEWSOM (D-CA): Enough is enough.

STEPHANIE SY: But Governor Gavin Newsom insisted today that blackouts must be short-term.

GOV. GAVIN NEWSOM: We will make sure that there are brighter days in the future. We, I assure you, are not allowing any of this to be the new normal. And this will not take 10 years to fix. I can promise you that.

STEPHANIE SY: The dangerous winds are expected to calm by tomorrow, but the tinder-dry conditions will last for the foreseeable future. For the PBS NewsHour, I'm Stephanie Sy.

JUDY WOODRUFF: Stephanie will be back with more on what's happening in California right after the news summary.

1 landmark   

n.陆标，划时代的事，地界标

参考例句：

• The Russian Revolution represents a landmark in world history.俄国革命是世界历史上的一个里程碑。
• The tower was once a landmark for ships.这座塔曾是船只的陆标。

2 coverage   

n.报导，保险范围，保险额，范围，覆盖

参考例句：

• There's little coverage of foreign news in the newspaper.报纸上几乎没有国外新闻报道。
• This is an insurance policy with extensive coverage.这是一项承保范围广泛的保险。

3 tanker   

n.油轮

参考例句：

• The tanker took on 200,000 barrels of crude oil.油轮装载了二十万桶原油。
• Heavy seas had pounded the tanker into three parts.汹涌的巨浪把油轮撞成三载。

4 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。

5 havoc   

n.大破坏，浩劫，大混乱，大杂乱

参考例句：

• The earthquake wreaked havoc on the city.地震对这个城市造成了大破坏。
• This concentration of airborne firepower wrought havoc with the enemy forces.这次机载火力的集中攻击给敌军造成很大破坏。

6 evacuee   

n.被疏散的人员，被撤走的人员

参考例句：

• A woman sits motionless at an evacuee center for leaked radiation from the damaged fukushima nuclear facilities friday march 25 2011 in soma fukushima prefecture japan.2011年3月25日星期五，日本福岛县相马市，为福岛核设施泄露而设立的避难中心里，一位妇女一动不动地坐在那里。
• Not quite true,said Tom,a 42-year-old evacuee.但汤姆，一位42岁的避难者，说事实不尽然如此。