【2009经济学人杂志双语阅读】Taiwan's disastrous typhoon毁灭性台风袭击台湾

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Taiwan's disastrous typhoon毁灭性台风袭击台湾

Aug 13th 2009
From The Economist print edition

AP

The confirmed death toll in Taiwan caused by Typhoon Morakot, which first hit the island on August 6th, causing the worst floods since 1959, is bad enough.By the middle of this week, over 100 people were reported dead and more than 60 were missing. But there had been fears that 500 people had been buried alive in Hsiao Lin, a village in the wooded mountains of Taiwan’s south, and even more in remote neighbouring villages. These eased on August 12th, when almost 1,600 people were found alive by a 25-helicopter search mission. Survivors had not eaten for days and helicopters dropped provisions and began a slow evacuation, hampered by drenching rain. The army says it does not know how many people may have died there. The government faced criticism for not having arranged an evacuation as soon as it heard the typhoon was coming. “We should brace ourselves against typhoons as if they are an invading enemy,” said Chu Wen-sen, one of Taiwan’s leading water-management experts.

台风莫拉克于8月6日第一次袭击台湾。导致台湾境内发生了自1959年以来最肆虐的洪水。人员伤亡十分惨重。

据报导，本周三又有100多人遇难，60多人失踪。台湾南部林乡的小林村估计500人被活埋，邻村甚至更多。8月12号，25架直升机搜救队伍发现了1600多人依然存活。人们紧张的情绪终于有所放松。这些幸存者已经数日没有进食了。受连绵不绝的大雨影响，直升机空投了一些援救物资，并且慢慢展开营救。救援军队对死亡的人数仍然不知。台湾政府由于在获得台风来临的消息之后没有及时组织民众的疏导撤离工作，受到批评。台湾的水利专家楚文森说：台风就像侵略军，我们应该团结一致，奋起抗击。

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名字怎么变了？
是“柱子”吗？还是新朋友？