VOA慢速英语:Japan, a Year After the Disaster

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。

2. Twenty thousand people died, mostly from the tsunami.

die from死于
例句：In a severe winter, wild animals can die from lack of food.
在寒冷的冬天, 野兽可能因为缺乏食物而饿死。

3. For days, I and millions of people in Japan absorbed significantly higher doses of radiation than we normally would have been exposed to.

expose to暴露于
例句： Don't expose undeveloped film to light.
不要把未冲洗的胶卷暴露在光照下。

4. No one has died from radiation as a result of the accident in Japan.

as a result of由于…的结果
例句：He was injured as a result of boiler explosion.
他因锅炉爆炸而受伤。

5. Japan also finds itself facing huge costs for cleaning up after the nuclear disaster and for paying damages to victims.

clean up赚钱, 发财
例句：The brothers cleaned up a profit in the property market.
那兄弟几个在房地产市场捞了一笔钱。

6. Those are mostly design weaknesses that a good engineering think-through might say, let's put the backup power at very high elevations so that it could not possibly get drowned out.

drown out淹没
例句：The loud cheers drown out his shouts.
欢呼声盖过了他的喊叫声。

7. Still, he says, they cannot provide decision makers with all the answers.

provide with给…提供;以…装备
例句：Somehow she managed to provide her children with food and clothing.
她总算设法使她的孩子有饭吃,有衣穿。

8. We will try to our best to give early warning if that's possible and set up emergency response systems, but ultimately individuals have to prepare themselves.

set up建立，建造, 创立, 竖立
例句：Plenty of foreign firms have set up factories here.
很多外国公司已在这里开办工厂。