每日新闻(60)【台风“杜苏芮”带来极端暴雨，北京等地数万居民撤离】

Thousands flee homes as heavy rain lashes China after Typhoon Doksuri

Tens of thousands of

people were

evacuated

from their homes in Beijing as the

remnants

of Typhoon Doksuri dumped record rainfall on the city,

grounding flights

and flooding hundreds of roads on Monday, state media reported.Besides Beijing,

heavy rain continued to

soak

the neighbouring city

of Tianjin

as well as

Hebei province in the wake of Doksuri, which was

downgraded

to a

tropical depression

on the weekend.

Three of the five rivers

(

that make up the Hai River basin

)

rose to dangerous levels

on Monday.Some houses were washed into the Yongding River, and nearly 55,000 people were evacuated from their homes in Baoding city,

state media reported

.

重点词汇释义：

evacuated 疏散，转移，撤离;排空;撤出，搬出，撤空;;evacuate的过去分词和过去式

remnants 残余部分;剩余部分;;布头;残存的;remnant的复数

grounding flights 停飞，

soak 浸泡;浸透;使湿透;向征收重税;浸渍;

downgraded 使降级;降低;贬低;使降职;downgrade的过去分词和过去式

tropical depression 热带低气压

译文：

台风“杜苏芮”过后，暴雨袭击中国，数千人逃离家园

据官方媒体报道，周一，台风“杜苏芮”的残余给北京带来了创纪录的降雨量，导致航班停飞，数百条道路被淹，数万人从家中撤离。除了北京，“杜苏芮”在周末降级为热带低气压后，暴雨继续侵袭邻近的天津和河北省。周一，海河流域的五条河流中有三条上升到危险水位。据官方媒体报道，一些房屋被冲入永定河，近5.5万人从保定市的家中疏散。来自路透社（Reuters）