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十月份 第 03 课

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  • (2010-10-05)------

  • Toxic Waste Spill Floods Hungarian Towns, Kills 3
  • 有毒废料侵袭匈牙利城镇造成 3 人死亡
  •   Officials in western Hungary declared a state of emergency Tuesday after a toxic sludge spill that killed three people and injured 120 others.
  • 匈牙利西部的官员星期二在一家工厂发生有毒污泥洩露事故后宣佈这裡进入紧急状态;这起事故导致 3 人死亡, 120 人受伤。

  •   The emergency order covers three counties near a metals plant where a reservoir burst Monday, flooding several towns with the waste.
  • 这个紧急令涵盖了一个金属厂附近的叁个县;有毒泥浆星期一从这家金属厂储存废料的水库里涌出,衝流到好几个城镇。

  •   Officials say as much as 700,000 cubic meters of the sludge were spilled at the plant, about 160 kilometers west of Budapest.
  • 有关官员说,这家位於布达佩斯以西大约 160 公里处的金属厂溢出了多达 70 万立方米的废水混合物。

  •   The plant makes alumina -- a derivative of the metal ore bauxite that is used to make aluminum.
  • 这家工厂生產矾土;矾土是金属矿石铝土矿的衍生品,用来製造金属铝。

  •   The waste can be fatal if swallowed.
  • 如果吞嚥这些废水是会致命的。

  •   Police are investigating what caused the reservoir to break.
  • 警方正在调查导致贮液水库破裂的原因。

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  • (2010-10-05)------

  • Ecuador Raises Security Forces' Pay
  • 厄瓜多提高安全部队工资
  •   Ecuador's government has raised salaries for its security forces several days after soldiers rescued President Rafael Correa from a deadly police uprising.
  • 厄瓜多军人从一次造成死亡的警察叛乱中解救科雷亚总统几天后,政府提高了安全部队人员的工资。

  •   The pay of four ranks of security personnel will increase by up to $570 a month.
  • 四个级别安全人员的月工资将提高最高到 570 美元。

  •   Defense Minister Javier Ponce said Monday the salary hikes were planned before last week's unrest.
  • 厄瓜多国防部部长哈维尔‧庞塞星期一说,提高工资是在上星期的骚乱之前就已经计划好的。

  •   Thursday police and some military units occupied a runway at the country's main airport and shut down highways to protest a new law that cuts their promotion bonuses.
  • 上星期四,警察和一些军人佔领了厄瓜多主要机场的一条跑道,并封闭高速公路,以抗议一项削减升职奖励的新法令。

  •   Angry police confronted Mr. Correa and fired tear gas at him when he tried to meet with them.
  • 愤怒的警察与科雷亚总统对峙,并在总统试图会见他们时发射催泪弹。

  •   The president took refuge in a Quito hospital before he was rescued in a nighttime raid by loyal troops.
  • 科雷亚在基多的一所医院寻求庇护,之后在一次夜间突袭中被忠於自己的部队解救。

  •   At least eight people were killed in the violence, which spread to several parts of Ecuador.
  • 在厄瓜多一些地区发生的暴力事件中至少有 8 人被打死。

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