欧洲西北部遭暴风雨袭击 13人死亡
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(单词翻译:双击或拖选)
A storm battering1 north-western Europe has killed at least 13 people - six of them in Germany.

一场暴风雨在欧洲西北部地区肆虐,造成13人死亡——其中德国占6人。
 
Two people died when their car was crushed by a falling tree in Gelsenkirchen, in western Germany. Two children in the car were injured.
 
In Brittany, western France, a woman was swept out to sea. And in the Dutch city of Amsterdam a tree felled by the wind crushed a woman by a canal.
 
Record gusts2 of 191 km/h were measured over the North Sea. 
 
Many trains were cancelled in and around London and in north-western Germany.
 
At least 50 flights were cancelled at Schiphol airport in the Netherlands, and the German media reported severe delays at airports in Hamburg and Dusseldorf. 
 
In Germany, a fisherman and a sailor were killed in separate accidents at sea.
 
Including the Gelsenkirchen incident, four people were killed in north-western Germany when trees fell onto cars, DPA reported.
 
Power cuts hit 42,000 homes in northern France, and at Belle-Ile in Brittany a woman was swept into the sea from a cliff.
 
The storm whipped across Brittany and Normandy early on Monday, felling trees and knocking out power lines in some places.
 
In the UK as many as 600,000 homes suffered power cuts, though many were later reconnected.


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1 battering 98a585e7458f82d8b56c9e9dfbde727d     
n.用坏,损坏v.连续猛击( batter的现在分词 )
参考例句:
  • The film took a battering from critics in the US. 该影片在美国遭遇到批评家的猛烈抨击。
  • He kept battering away at the door. 他接连不断地砸门。 来自《简明英汉词典》
2 gusts 656c664e0ecfa47560efde859556ddfa     
一阵强风( gust的名词复数 ); (怒、笑等的)爆发; (感情的)迸发; 发作
参考例句:
  • Her profuse skirt bosomed out with the gusts. 她的宽大的裙子被风吹得鼓鼓的。
  • Turbulence is defined as a series of irregular gusts. 紊流定义为一组无规则的突风。
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