学个词Learn a Word 第804期 Outage

今天我们要学的词是outage。 Outage指服务或供应中断。Power outage停电。Water outage停水。"I was trapped in an elevator when a power outage occurred," 停电时我正好被困在了电梯里。"A major power outage caused some flight delays at the local airport," 大规模停电造成了当地机场飞机航班的推迟。

"The power outage caused by the storm impacted¹ more than 100,000 customers," 风暴造成的停电使十万多名用户受到了影响。"Google's email service suffered a two-hour widespread outage on Tuesday," 谷歌的电邮系统星期二大规模瘫痪长达两小时。 好的，今天我们学习的词是outage...

 

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压紧的，结实的； 冲击式

参考例句：

• The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers. 战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。
• The ground had been impacted by many people walking across it. 因为走的人多，地面被踏得坚实了。