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By Daniel Schearf
Bangkok
02 October 2009


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Indonesian youth clean up rubbles in their home destroyed by earthquake in Pariaman, coastal 2 town about 40 miles northwest of Padang, West Sumatra
Authorities say the death toll 3 from an earthquake in Indonesia is likely to pass 1,000 as underequipped rescue workers dig through rubble 1 for survivors 4. And the Philippines is on alert as a new typhoon heads toward the islands days after Typhoon Ketsana killed more than 400 people there and in Cambodia, Vietnam and Laos.


Indonesian rescue workers are digging by hand Friday, trying to find survivors among the hundreds of people believed trapped under piles of concrete.


Wednesday's earthquake struck off the coast of western Sumatra, with most of the damage in the city of Padang.


VOA's Jakarta correspondent, Brian Padden, has just arrived in Padang. He says the streets are busy with people and aid workers are pouring into the city.


"Just from the airport itself, it's like every third or fourth building we passed, there's serious damage, many have collapsed 5 completely," he said. "Electricity is out everywhere. … There are long lines at gas stations, people are lined up with containers waiting to get the limited supply of gasoline that's here in the area."


Padden says the damage from Wednesday's quake is much worse than that from an earthquake in early September.


"In the last earthquake that hit Java, damage there was scattered 6, there'd be little pinpoints 7 of damage. Here it seems everywhere, it's everywhere you look," he said.


Indonesia has asked for foreign aid to help with rescue efforts and support those affected 8 by the 7.6 magnitude quake.


Numerous countries have offered assistance, including the United States, which pledged $3 million to help the quake victims.


Washington has also pledged aid for victims of a tropical storm that struck the Philippines, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos this week. The storm killed more than 400 people in the region.


Typhoon Ketsana made landfall in the Philippines on Saturday, flooding parts of the capital, Manila and leaving tens of thousands homeless.


The Philippines is warning people to leave low-lying areas as another powerful typhoon nears.


In other natural disasters, the death toll from tsunami 9 waves that hit the pacific islands of Samoa, American Samoa, and Tonga is nearing 200.



n.(一堆)碎石,瓦砾
  • 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。
adj.海岸的,沿海的,沿岸的
  • The ocean waves are slowly eating away the coastal rocks.大海的波浪慢慢地侵蚀着岸边的岩石。
  • This country will fortify the coastal areas.该国将加强沿海地区的防御。
n.过路(桥)费;损失,伤亡人数;v.敲(钟)
  • 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。
幸存者,残存者,生还者( survivor的名词复数 )
  • The survivors were adrift in a lifeboat for six days. 幸存者在救生艇上漂流了六天。
  • survivors clinging to a raft 紧紧抓住救生筏的幸存者
adj.倒塌的
  • Jack collapsed in agony on the floor. 杰克十分痛苦地瘫倒在地板上。
  • The roof collapsed under the weight of snow. 房顶在雪的重压下突然坍塌下来。
adj.分散的,稀疏的;散步的;疏疏落落的
  • Gathering up his scattered papers,he pushed them into his case.他把散乱的文件收拾起来,塞进文件夹里。
准确地找出或描述( pinpoint的第三人称单数 ); 为…准确定位
  • The bombs hit the pinpoints at which they were aimed. 炸弹精确地击中了目标。
  • There's really no point in arguing about pinpoints. 为芝麻绿豆般的小事争论实在毫无意义。
adj.不自然的,假装的
  • She showed an affected interest in our subject.她假装对我们的课题感到兴趣。
  • His manners are affected.他的态度不自然。
n.海啸
  • Powerful quake sparks tsunami warning in Japan.大地震触发了日本的海啸预警。
  • Coastlines all around the Indian Ocean inundated by a huge tsunami.大海啸把印度洋沿岸地区都淹没了。
学英语单词
A.C.E. mixture
absolute thermal detector
acceleratory nerve
admissibilities
aircraft accident report
anisocarpic
applicaton for business
arternoon
atrichum undulatum
automatic dry-pipe sprinkler system
baso-erythrocytosis
batching machine
benefit performance
besot by
binary alloy steel
boetsches
caligo corneae
camera primaries
capital gain dividends
capitoli
cargo information
chain linkage
Chiselet
chitonomyces bidessarius
chuanchih-do (konni-do)
claw like termination
cost behavior analysis
disorbing
each, every
electro-magnetic compactibility
enthronizes
ethyl phosphite
fetel
forpine
fukienensis
gain frequency characteristic
gallused
gastightness test
greek to me
grounded clutch
gulosarmentoglucoside
harmony of trade
high-frequency resistance welding machine
historical geotectonics
holding up as
homogeneous concrete
invalidatings
invariance thesis
judicial world
labelling reader
laetmogonids
level of a test
limitation clause
macromerine
Mayvale
merogenote
millreis
natural food additive
noncyclical
ohmic heating carrier
opening price
peyroulet
photo-generated current
Physaliastrum
plug-assist forming
powdered fertilizer distributor
predicated-wave signaling
pylorochesis
quick start unit
range analysis
red sensitive
resistivity spectrum
rhinotrach(e)itis
Rusbend
salbutamols
Sambang-ri
sartori
self-commutated inverter
semibuoyant
sociographs
soon-to-weds
spherical motor
squitter-
stalk-liker
stereochemists
stop plug
supervillainy
Surkhet
switching process
temporale crest
TETRAC
TN-762
Tomonaga
tower basin
transcendental method
triketocholanic acid
troleandomycine
trollings
ulinka
upgrade to
varicorhinus barbatulus
work saddle