“饑荒”英語怎么說
導(dǎo)語:因干旱和戰(zhàn)亂等原因,目前索馬里正面臨嚴重饑荒,每6分鐘就有1名兒童被餓死,國際社會應(yīng)行動起來向索馬里提供緊急食品援助。聯(lián)合國糧食計劃署宣布,26日開始正式在索馬里摩加迪修地區(qū)啟動援助空中走廊,重點向當?shù)貎和峁┘Z食。
More than 11 million people in the Horn of Africa require food assistance due to the region's worst drought in half a century, the United Nations says.
The UN says that famine exists in two regions of southern Somalia, southern Bakool and Lower Shabelle. Across the country, nearly half of the Somali population — 3.7 million people — are now in crisis, of whom anestimated 2.8 million people are in the south.
But parts of Kenya and Ethiopia are also in crisis.
聯(lián)合國聲明指出,非洲之角半個世紀以來最嚴重的干旱導(dǎo)致該地區(qū)1100多萬人急需食物援助。
聯(lián)合國稱饑荒存在于索馬里南部地區(qū)---巴克勒州南部和下謝貝利州。索馬里全國近一半人口---370萬人正面臨這樣一個危機,其中大約有280萬是在南部地區(qū)。
但是肯尼亞和埃塞俄比亞部分地區(qū)也面臨著相同的危機。
【講解】
due to: prep. 因為,由于
eg: Her absence was due to the storm.
由于風雨交加她沒來。
Famine:n. 饑荒,極度缺乏
Eg: Drought has caused famine in Africa.
干旱在非洲造成了饑荒。
Estimate: v.估計,估價,評價
Eg: The police estimated the number of demonstrators at about 5,000.
警方估計示威者的人數(shù)為五千左右。
【課后拓展】
旱災(zāi)帶來饑荒,那么除此以外還有哪些自然災(zāi)害呢?讓我們來看看吧~
旱災(zāi) drought
洪澇 flood
臺風 typhoon
凍害 frozen injury
海嘯 tsunami
地震 earthquake
火山爆發(fā) volcanic eruption
泥石流 mud-rock flow
山體滑坡 mudslide(mud flow或landslide)
森林火災(zāi) forest-fire