【雙語閱讀】颶風(fēng)桑迪水淹紐約.

　　為幫助廣大考生更好地準(zhǔn)備雅思、托福、SAT等考試，澳際留學(xué)特推出【英語學(xué)習(xí)】頻道，涵蓋基礎(chǔ)英語、實(shí)用英語、娛樂英語等多項(xiàng)內(nèi)容，在您通往成功的道路上做您最堅(jiān)實(shí)的左膀右臂。

　　以下部分為【雙語閱讀】內(nèi)容，本文介紹颶風(fēng)桑迪水淹紐約，中文翻譯部分見第二頁。

　　Sandy Hits Coast, Floods New York

　　Superstorm Sandy carved a harrowing path of destruction through the East Coast on Monday, inundating Atlantic City and sending cars floating through the streets of lower Manhattan.

　　Accelerating Monday evening as it made landfall on the New Jersey coast, the storm promised a legacy as one of the most damaging ever to menace the Northeast, from North Carolina to New England.

　　Some 3.1 million people were lt without electricity across the region Monday evening─the most since the 2003 blackout. In New York, more than 250,000 Con Ed customers from 39th Street south were lt without power. One of the city&aposs major hospitals was forced to evacuate patients late Monday when its backup power system failed.

　　&aposIt&aposs sure shaping up to be a storm that will be historic in nature,&apos said Louis Uccellini, director of the National Centers for Environmental Prediction, a federal government agency.

　　The storm lt a trail of death, and the toll is expected to mount. Two people perished in Mendham, N.J., when a tree struck their car, officials said. In New York state, at least six were killed, including a 30-year-old man who died when a tree fell on his home.

　　Connecticut&aposs governor, Dannel Malloy said thousands were stranded by rising water along the coastline of his state. He urged people in one-story homes to move to their roofs. &aposThis is a Katrina-like warning we are issuing,&apos he said.

　　The economic fallout could be considerable. As night fell Monday, the storm surge combined with high tides to flood New York&aposs Brooklyn-Battery tunnel, a major traffic artery, as well as portions of the city&aposs subway system. Subway service could be crippled for &aposat least a week,&apos the head of the municipal transportation authority said late Monday.

　　Economic damages from Sandy, which is expected to affect some 20% of the U.S. population, could be in the range of $10 billion to $20 billion, according to EQECAT, a catastrophe-risk modeling firm. That compares to Hurricane Irene, which caused $10 billion in damage last year. Insured losses from Hurricane Katrina in 2005 alone topped $45 billion, adjusted for inflation.

　　Over the course of Monday, as winds strengthened to 90 miles per hour, waves swept away a historic pier in Ocean City, Md., Monday and lt Atlantic City, N.J., largely submerged─the sea rushing over its iconic boardwalk, surging through the streets, and leaving hundreds of people in need of rescue.

　　In New York City, the backup power at NYU Langone Medical Center on First Avenue in Manhattan failed, prompting an emergency evacuation of patients, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Monday night.

　　In parts of West Virginia and Maryland, the National Weather Service issued a rare blizzard warning. &aposI can&apost ever remember a hurricane causing a blizzard warning,&apos said Joe Palko, a Pittsburgh-based hydrologist with the National Weather Service.

　　At least 4.7 million public school students─about the population of Norway─stayed home Monday or will stay home Tuesday as a result of Hurricane Sandy, according to a Wall Street Journal tally. That estimate doesn&apost include private-school students; there may be more school closings that weren&apost reported to state education departments.

　　Sandy was relabeled from a hurricane to a posttropical cyclone on Monday evening. Earlier, its classification as a Category 1 storm, the least powerful category of hurricane, was deceiving. Scientists say the storm has an unusually low atmospheric pressure near its center, an important measure of a storm&aposs strength.

　　Hurricane-force winds extended as much as 175 miles from Sandy&aposs center. As of Monday, more than 14,200 flights had been canceled in and out of airports stretching from Washington, D.C., to Boston, according to FlightAware.com, a flight-tracking service─well above the roughly 10,000 flights canceled by airlines in August 2011 for Hurricane Irene.

　　The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission sent extra inspectors to 10 nuclear plants from Maryland to New York, aware that Japan&aposs Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster last year unfolded after that plant was struck by a devastating flood of water from a tsunami.

　　Several major U.S. companies, including pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Inc. and power-plant operator NRG Energy Inc., postponed quarterly reports because of Hurricane Sandy on the East Coast.

　　【中文對照翻譯】

　　颶風(fēng)桑迪水淹紐約

　　周一晚間，颶風(fēng)桑迪裹挾洪浪涌進(jìn)紐約。預(yù)計(jì)美國東北部地區(qū)本周將遭受颶風(fēng)桑迪的侵襲。

　　周一，颶風(fēng)“桑迪”(Sandy)在美國東海岸沿線各州造成了令人心悸的破壞。大西洋城泛濫成災(zāi)，車輛漂浮在曼哈頓下城區(qū)的各條街道上。

　　周一晚上登陸新澤西海岸的時(shí)候，颶風(fēng)“桑迪”還在加速。它有望成為威脅美國東北部從北卡羅來納州到新英格蘭的最具破壞性的一次風(fēng)暴。

　　Bebeto Matthews/Associated Press周一晚間，曼哈頓下城區(qū)停電，導(dǎo)致摩天大樓和街道陷入一片黑暗之中。圖中能看見光的地方是在建的自由大廈。周一晚間，上述地區(qū)大約310萬人沒有電力供應(yīng)，是2003年大停電以來遭遇停電人數(shù)最多的。在紐約，從39街以南有25萬多名愛迪生電力公司(Con Ed)的用戶遭遇停電。周一晚間，紐約一家大醫(yī)院因備用電力系統(tǒng)故障而不得不疏散病人。

　　聯(lián)邦政府機(jī)構(gòu)美國國家環(huán)境預(yù)報(bào)中心(National Centers for Environmental Prediction) 負(fù)責(zé)人烏切利尼(Louis Uccellini)說，颶風(fēng)“桑迪”肯定將成為一場史上罕見的風(fēng)暴。

　　這場風(fēng)暴所到之處造成了人員傷亡，死亡數(shù)字預(yù)計(jì)還將不斷增加。相關(guān)官員說，新澤西州門德漢姆(Mendham)有兩人因一棵樹擊中他們的汽車而身亡。紐約州至少六人死亡，其中包括房屋被樹壓倒的一名30歲男子。

　　康涅狄格州州長馬洛伊說(Dannel Malloy)，該州沿海水位上升，數(shù)千人被困。他敦促房子只有一層的居民轉(zhuǎn)移到屋頂上。他說，我們現(xiàn)在發(fā)布的預(yù)警達(dá)到了與颶風(fēng)卡特里娜(Katrina)類似的級別。

　　此次颶風(fēng)可能帶來相當(dāng)大的經(jīng)濟(jì)損失。周一夜間，狂風(fēng)怒潮導(dǎo)致紐約交通主干線布魯克林-炮臺公園隧道(Brooklyn-Battery tunnel)進(jìn)水，該市地鐵系統(tǒng)也有多處進(jìn)水。紐約市交通局負(fù)責(zé)人周一夜間說，地鐵服務(wù)可能暫停至少一周。

　　災(zāi)難模型分析公司EQECAT的數(shù)據(jù)顯示，颶風(fēng)桑迪預(yù)計(jì)將影響美國大約20%的人口，經(jīng)濟(jì)損失可能在100億美元至200億美元。這與颶風(fēng)艾琳相當(dāng)，后者去年造成了100億美元的經(jīng)濟(jì)損失。2005年颶風(fēng)卡特里娜造成的保險(xiǎn)損失一項(xiàng)就超過450億美元(經(jīng)通脹因素調(diào)整后)。

　　周一，隨著風(fēng)力逐漸增強(qiáng)，風(fēng)速達(dá)到每小時(shí)90英里(約合145公里)，海浪卷走了馬里蘭州大洋城一個(gè)歷史悠久的碼頭，新澤西州大西洋城也已浸水。海水涌過大西洋城標(biāo)志性的木棧道，涌入各條街道，致使數(shù)百人需要救援。

　　紐約市長布隆伯格(Michael Bloomberg)周一晚間說，紐約大學(xué)蘭貢醫(yī)學(xué)中心(New York University Langone Medical Center)備用電力中斷，病人被迫緊急疏散。

　　美國國家氣象局(National Weather Service)針對西弗吉尼亞州和馬里蘭州部分地區(qū)發(fā)出罕見的暴風(fēng)雪警告。美國國家氣象局駐匹茲堡的水文專家帕爾科(Joe Palko)說：在我的印象中還不曾有颶風(fēng)引發(fā)暴風(fēng)雪警告。

　　據(jù)《華爾街日報(bào)》統(tǒng)計(jì)，至少有470萬名公立學(xué)校學(xué)生(約等于挪威人口總數(shù))周一由于颶風(fēng)“桑迪”停課在家，他們周二可能還將繼續(xù)待在家中。這一數(shù)字不包括私立學(xué)校的學(xué)生?？赡苓€有更多已經(jīng)停課但未上報(bào)州教育部門的學(xué)校。

　　周一晚間，此前被稱為颶風(fēng)的“桑迪”被重新歸類為后熱帶氣旋。早些時(shí)候，“桑迪”被歸為一級，屬于最弱級別的颶風(fēng)。這個(gè)歸類容易讓人產(chǎn)生誤解?？茖W(xué)家說，風(fēng)暴中心附近的氣壓非常低，而這是衡量一場風(fēng)暴強(qiáng)弱的重要指標(biāo)。

　　颶風(fēng)級大風(fēng)從“桑迪”的中心最遠(yuǎn)吹到175英里(282公里)之外。據(jù)跟蹤航班情況的FlightAware.com的數(shù)據(jù)，截至周一，從華盛頓特區(qū)一直到波士頓，超過14,200架次的起降航班已被取消，遠(yuǎn)高于2011年8月航空公司因?yàn)轱Z風(fēng)“艾琳”(Irene)而取消的大約1萬架次航班。

　　美國核管理委員會(Nuclear Regulatory Commission)向馬里蘭州一直到紐約的10座核電廠增派檢查人員。他們知道，去年日本福島第一核電站發(fā)生的核災(zāi)難，就是在海嘯形成的洪水給電站帶來破壞之后發(fā)生的。

　　包括制藥巨頭輝瑞公司(Pfizer Inc., PFE)和發(fā)電企業(yè)NRG能源公司(NRG Energy Inc.)在內(nèi)的幾家主要的美國企業(yè)，已經(jīng)因?yàn)闁|海岸的颶風(fēng)“桑迪”推遲發(fā)布季度報(bào)告。

　　為幫助廣大考生更好地準(zhǔn)備雅思、托福、SAT等考試，澳際留學(xué)特推出【英語學(xué)習(xí)】頻道，涵蓋基礎(chǔ)英語、實(shí)用英語、娛樂英語等多項(xiàng)內(nèi)容，在您通往成功的道路上做您最堅(jiān)實(shí)的左膀右臂。

　　以下部分為【雙語閱讀】內(nèi)容，本文介紹颶風(fēng)桑迪水淹紐約，中文翻譯部分見第二頁。

　　Sandy Hits Coast, Floods New York

　　Superstorm Sandy carved a harrowing path of destruction through the East Coast on Monday, inundating Atlantic City and sending cars floating through the streets of lower Manhattan.

　　Accelerating Monday evening as it made landfall on the New Jersey coast, the storm promised a legacy as one of the most damaging ever to menace the Northeast, from North Carolina to New England.

　　Some 3.1 million people were lt without electricity across the region Monday evening─the most since the 2003 blackout. In New York, more than 250,000 Con Ed customers from 39th Street south were lt without power. One of the city&aposs major hospitals was forced to evacuate patients late Monday when its backup power system failed.

　　&aposIt&aposs sure shaping up to be a storm that will be historic in nature,&apos said Louis Uccellini, director of the National Centers for Environmental Prediction, a federal government agency.

　　The storm lt a trail of death, and the toll is expected to mount. Two people perished in Mendham, N.J., when a tree struck their car, officials said. In New York state, at least six were killed, including a 30-year-old man who died when a tree fell on his home.

　　Connecticut&aposs governor, Dannel Malloy said thousands were stranded by rising water along the coastline of his state. He urged people in one-story homes to move to their roofs. &aposThis is a Katrina-like warning we are issuing,&apos he said.

　　The economic fallout could be considerable. As night fell Monday, the storm surge combined with high tides to flood New York&aposs Brooklyn-Battery tunnel, a major traffic artery, as well as portions of the city&aposs subway system. Subway service could be crippled for &aposat least a week,&apos the head of the municipal transportation authority said late Monday.

　　Economic damages from Sandy, which is expected to affect some 20% of the U.S. population, could be in the range of $10 billion to $20 billion, according to EQECAT, a catastrophe-risk modeling firm. That compares to Hurricane Irene, which caused $10 billion in damage last year. Insured losses from Hurricane Katrina in 2005 alone topped $45 billion, adjusted for inflation.

　　Over the course of Monday, as winds strengthened to 90 miles per hour, waves swept away a historic pier in Ocean City, Md., Monday and lt Atlantic City, N.J., largely submerged─the sea rushing over its iconic boardwalk, surging through the streets, and leaving hundreds of people in need of rescue.

　　In New York City, the backup power at NYU Langone Medical Center on First Avenue in Manhattan failed, prompting an emergency evacuation of patients, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Monday night.

　　In parts of West Virginia and Maryland, the National Weather Service issued a rare blizzard warning. &aposI can&apost ever remember a hurricane causing a blizzard warning,&apos said Joe Palko, a Pittsburgh-based hydrologist with the National Weather Service.

　　At least 4.7 million public school students─about the population of Norway─stayed home Monday or will stay home Tuesday as a result of Hurricane Sandy, according to a Wall Street Journal tally. That estimate doesn&apost include private-school students; there may be more school closings that weren&apost reported to state education departments.

　　Sandy was relabeled from a hurricane to a posttropical cyclone on Monday evening. Earlier, its classification as a Category 1 storm, the least powerful category of hurricane, was deceiving. Scientists say the storm has an unusually low atmospheric pressure near its center, an important measure of a storm&aposs strength.

　　Hurricane-force winds extended as much as 175 miles from Sandy&aposs center. As of Monday, more than 14,200 flights had been canceled in and out of airports stretching from Washington, D.C., to Boston, according to FlightAware.com, a flight-tracking service─well above the roughly 10,000 flights canceled by airlines in August 2011 for Hurricane Irene.

　　The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission sent extra inspectors to 10 nuclear plants from Maryland to New York, aware that Japan&aposs Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster last year unfolded after that plant was struck by a devastating flood of water from a tsunami.

　　Several major U.S. companies, including pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Inc. and power-plant operator NRG Energy Inc., postponed quarterly reports because of Hurricane Sandy on the East Coast.

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