paralyze 使瘫痪,使麻痹

公路停运火车票停售的原因是大雪造成了部分地区的公路铁路瘫痪，因此瘫痪一词也频频见诸报端。

Passengers in Guangzhou have been especially heavy because the southern end of the Beijing-Guangzhou rail line, a north-south trunk railroad, has been paralyzed because of heavy snow in the central Hunan Province.

由于湖南省大雪，造成铁路南北主干线京广线南端瘫痪，聚集在广州火车站内的旅客人数异常巨大。

halt 停止，尤其指暂停

大雪造成铁路运输不畅，公路也停运了。

Road traffic between Hunan and Guangdong provinces has also ground to a halt. Jiangxi Province has halted all provincial¹ bus service.

湖南和广东之间的公路运输也停止了。江西省也停掉了所有的公路客运运输。

evacuate² 疏散,撤出

这么严重的雪灾有的地方就要疏散群众了，所以疏散这个词也在报道中被多次提及。

请看外电的报道：

Some 827,000 people have been evacuated³ in 14 provinces since January 10, the Ministry⁴ of Civil Affairs ministry said.

据民政部统计，1月10日以来，全国14个省份约有82.7万人被疏散。

power failure 停电

Almost 150,000 passengers were stuck at Guangzhou railway station by Jan.26 night after a power failure caused by snow, ice and sleet⁵ stopped more than 136 electric trains in Hunan province on the trunk line between Beijing and Guangzhou.

报道中说，截止至1月26日晚，由于大雪造成的停电，致使广州火车站内大约15万名旅客滞留；而冰雪天气同时导致京广线湖南境内超过136列列车受阻滞留。

Power cut / power failure 均表示”停电，断电“；相关词汇有：电网 power grid⁶， 架高压电缆的铁塔 pylons⁷。

Power brownouts 电力管制，限电

电力短缺不仅对铁路运输造成了影响，同时，天冷也导致煤电消耗很大。为了确保居民用电，部分城市地区实行了电力管制，限制用电。

Changsha, capital of the central Hunan province, has reported power brownouts.

据报道，湖南省会长沙已经限电。

请看外电的报道：

Several regional airports have been closed and many provinces have imposed power brownouts to conserve⁸ energy.

部分地方城市机场已经关闭，许多省份实施限电以节省能源。