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🌊 It Was the First Coronavirus Hot Spot. Now, a Chinese Province Faces Big Floods.
新冠疫情剛剛緩解,湖北又迎嚴峻防汛挑戰
🧐 China’s central Hubei province, the original epicenter of the coronavirus, had only just emerged from an unprecedented monthslong lockdown aimed at containing the deadly pandemic.
作為新冠疫情最初的散播中心,為遏制致命的疫情擴散,中國湖北省不久前才甫脫離史無前例、長達數月的封鎖。
- epicenter (地震)震央;(原子彈爆炸的)中心爆炸點,這裡指的是病毒的擴散中心。
- emerge 出現,浮現;露出
- unprecedented 史無前例的
✏️ Now, it is facing its second calamity of the year as the largest rains in recent memory swell some sections of the Yangtze River and cause widespread flooding in the countryside around the provincial capital of Wuhan.
但湖北正面臨今年第二場災難,近年來最大的暴雨導致長江部分河段水位上漲,並在湖北省會武漢周邊的鄉村地區引發大面積洪水。
- calamity 災難;災禍
- swell (河水)上漲/ 腫起、腫脹/ (土地等)隆起
- provincial 省的/外省的,外地的
✍️ provincial也有「守舊的、偏狹的」之意
例如:provincial attitudes狹隘的想法
✍️ province 省份
💦 Record rainfall in and around Hubei has disrupted travel, hurt business activity and left millions stranded and separated from their loved ones—for many, for the second time in six months.
湖北及周邊地區創紀錄的降雨導致出入交通受阻,不但影響商業活動,更造成數百萬人受困其中無法和家人相聚。對很多人來說,這種分離已是六個月以來的第二次。
- disrupted 被打斷、中斷的
- leave… stranded 使…受困
✍️ stranded (因缺乏交通工具、金錢等)滯留的,被困住的
🌧China’s rainy season, known colloquially as the plum rain season, normally brings heavy rain to the Yangtze River region from June through mid-July.
中國的雨季,又俗稱梅雨季,通常在6月到7月中旬給長江地區帶來暴雨天氣。
- colloquially 口語地、通俗地
- plum rain season 梅雨季
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