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夏说英语新闻晨读 第449期:印尼海啸

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Friday's catastrophic tsunami1 event on Sulawesi Island is a puzzle. As the emergency response gathers pace, scientists are scratching their heads to understand why it generated such big waves. The quake was what geophysicists call a strike-slip event, where the ground breaks horizontally. Strike-slip quakes can cause tsunami events but the 6m-tall waves that crashed ashore2 at Palu city surprised everyone.

catastrophic: adj. 灾难的;悲惨的
disastrous3: adj. 灾难性的
tsunami: n. 海啸
Sulawesi Island: 苏拉威西岛
gather pace: 加速进行;加快步伐
pick up the pace: 加快步伐
scratch: vt. 挠;抓
wave: n. 海浪 vt. 向……挥手
geophysicist: n. 地球物理学家
geophysics: n. 地球物理学
geology: n. 地质学
geography: n. 地理学
horizontally: adv. 水平地
ashore: adv. 在岸上


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1 tsunami bpAyo     
n.海啸
参考例句:
  • 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。
2 ashore tNQyT     
adv.在(向)岸上,上岸
参考例句:
  • The children got ashore before the tide came in.涨潮前,孩子们就上岸了。
  • He laid hold of the rope and pulled the boat ashore.他抓住绳子拉船靠岸。
3 disastrous 2ujx0     
adj.灾难性的,造成灾害的;极坏的,很糟的
参考例句:
  • The heavy rainstorm caused a disastrous flood.暴雨成灾。
  • Her investment had disastrous consequences.She lost everything she owned.她的投资结果很惨,血本无归。

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