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新聞來源: http://edition.cnn.com/2011/10/14/world/asia/thailand-flooding-scene/index.html

今日單字:  Fear  [n.]  =  害怕、恐懼

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(一) 今日新聞導讀

1.  Monsoonal rains have flooded Thailand's plains and now the bursting river threatens to drown Bangkok.

雨季的豪雨已淹沒了泰國的平原，而潰堤的河川正向曼谷逼近。

2.  In Bangkok and other deluged cities and towns, the strong carried the feeble on their backs. The young aided the old.

在曼谷及其他被淹沒的城市裡，強健的背起了衰弱的。年輕的也協助起年邁的。

3.  It was hard to imagine that last year, Red Shirts battled Yellow Shirts in deadly political street protests that prompted a state of emergency in Thailand and left a nation deeply divided.

很難想像就在去年，紅衫軍與黃衫軍曾在一場場致命的街頭政治抗爭中大戰，導致泰國當時宣布緊急狀態以及留下嚴重分裂的國家。

4.  The water was not raging. There weren't torrents. It just kept inching upward. Slowly, but surely.

水不兇猛。沒有洪流。水只是一吋吋的上升，緩慢但確實。

5.  The military helped evacuate them, whisking them away by boat or carrying them through chest-high water.

軍隊幫忙疏散人民，用船載走，或抬著他們走過水深及胸處。

(二) 延伸討論

Have you been caught in a flood before ?

Luckily, I haven't been in a serious flood before.

But, during the typhoon season, flooding and mudslides are common in many parts of our country.

So, here is a website that teaches you how to survive a flood...

http://www.wikihow.com/Survive-a-Flood