CNN news 2011-09-01 加文本

短语讲解：

1. I’m Carl Azuz, reporting on the aftermath of Hurricane Irene.

report on报道…, 就…作报告
例句：Jim has been sent to Iran to report on the situation there.
吉姆已被派往伊朗报道那里的局势。

2. It only took a couple days for the storm to billow up the Eastern Seaboard, but it could be a long time before some places in its path get back to normal.

get back回到…上来
例句：Things will not get back to normal soon after the earthquake.
地震过后一切都不会马上恢复正常。

3. State police captain says southern Vermont is pretty much shut down.

shut down完全关闭，倒闭，停止运转
例句：The factory was shut down for two months as a result of the strike.
那工厂因罢工的结果而停工了两个月。

4. Some power lines fell in Irene’s gusty winds.

fall in倒塌, 塌陷
例句：The explosion caused the walls of the building to fall in.
爆炸使建筑物的墙倒塌了。

5. Others were taken out by falling trees, some of those literally uprooted in the storm.

take out把…带出去
例句：Please take the children out, their noise is making my head ache.
请把孩子们领出去, 他们吵得我头痛。

6. Dozens of people died when Irene came through.

come through出来；到达
例句：The sun came through after days of rain.
下了几天雨后，太阳出来了。

7. And because part of it was cut off, cnn’s Brian Todd had to take a helicopter to reach the area to file this report.

cut off使分离；使隔绝
例句：The village was cut off by the snow for more than a month.
这个村庄被大雪封闭了一个多月。

8. One older home not only got hit with the hurricane, but caught on fire and burned down.

catch on fire着火，开始燃烧
例句：A wooden building can easily catch on fire.
木制房屋容易起火。
burn down烧毁
The building was burnt down.
房子烧毁了。

9. It looked like an earthquake hit it. The road caved in, it was chopped up, there were power lines down.

cave in塌陷; 坍方
例句：The weight of the snow caused the roof of the cabin to cave in.
雪的重量使得小屋的屋顶塌陷。
chop up把…分成小块; 切碎；剁碎
After the war, the country was chopped up into several smaller nations.
战后，这个国家被分成了几个小国。

10. Now another resident told us that folks there have lived through stronger hurricanes, at least technically stronger, Category 2, 3 and even 4 hurricanes that they’ve stuck around for.

live through经历过; 经历…而未死
例句：They lived through the long famine.
他们经历了长久的饥荒而未死。