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“饥荒”英语怎么说

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 导语:因干旱和战乱等原因,目前索马里正面临严重饥荒,每6分钟就有1名儿童被饿死,国际社会应行动起来向索马里提供紧急食品援助。联合国粮食计划署宣布,26日开始正式在索马里摩加迪修地区启动援助空中走廊,重点向当地儿童提供粮食。

“饥荒”英语怎么说

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.

联合国声明指出,非洲之角半个世纪以来最严重的干旱导致该地区1100多万人急需食物援助。

联合国称饥荒存在于索马里南部地区---巴克勒州南部和下谢贝利州。索马里全国近一半人口---370万人正面临这样一个危机,其中大约有280万是在南部地区。

但是肯尼亚和埃塞俄比亚部分地区也面临着相同的危机。

  【讲解】

due to: prep. 因为,由于

eg: Her absence was due to the storm.

由于风雨交加她没来。

Famine:n. 饥荒,极度缺乏

Eg: Drought has caused famine in Africa.

干旱在非洲造成了饥荒。

Estimate: v.估计,估价,评价

Eg: The police estimated the number of demonstrators at about 5,000.

警方估计示威者的人数为五千左右。

  【课后拓展】

旱灾带来饥荒,那么除此以外还有哪些自然灾害呢?让我们来看看吧~

旱灾 drought

洪涝 flood

台风 typhoon

冻害 frozen injury

海啸 tsunami

地震 earthquake

火山爆发 volcanic eruption

泥石流 mud-rock flow

山体滑坡 mudslide(mud flow或landslide)

森林火灾 forest-fire