亚洲地区洪水打击当地经济

短语讲解：

1. Floodwaters in central Thailand have inundated industrial parks and manufacturing centers, adding to the mounting economic costs of the disaster.

add to增加, 加强
例句：The snowstorm added to our difficulties.
暴风雪增加了我们的困难。

2. The damage has shut Honda and Toyota automobile assembly plants that account for about seven percent of their combined global production.

account for占有，占...百分比
例句：APEC members account for more than half of the world's economic output.
亚太经合组织成员的经济总量在世界占一半以上。

3. So you need some time to drain it out.

drain out (使)流出
例句：When the pipe was unblocked, the water drained out.
一打开水管, 水就流了出来。

4. "Our concern is that the major area in the central area that is mainly the manufacturing of automobile, electronics, right now that is under flood and the major threat is that is comes through to Bangkok," said Fongarunrung.

come through穿过; 穿透
例句：The flood came through to my garden.
洪水直涌入我的园子。

5. While authorities warn Bangkok is at risk for flooding in the coming days, much of the damage so far has been in rural and agricultural areas in Southeast Asia.

at risk有危险
例句：The disease is spreading, and all children under five are at risk.
这疾病在蔓延, 五岁以下的小孩都有危险。

6. The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) said the flooding across countries bound by the Mekong River system - Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam and Laos - had led to the loss of over 550 lives.

lead to导致, 引起
例句：An ordinary cold can soon lead to a fever.
一场普通的感冒很快便会引起高烧。

7. "They've been using these small amounts of money - maybe $10,000 or $20,000 a year - to gradually build up some of the small roads and things around the village and their commune - and now they're all washed away," said Brimble.

build up 逐步建立, 增进, 增强,使增大; 盖满了建筑物
例句：The area has been built up since I moved.
自我搬家以来这个地区就不断地盖起了新房。
wash away冲走, 清洗
例句：A ship got stranded along the shore, but last night sea waves washed it away again.
有条船在岸边搁浅了, 可昨天晚上海浪又把它冲走了。