Lụt lội nghiêm trọng tại châu Âu
Từ vựng - Vocabulary
havoc (chaos and confusion): (sự) tàn phá, rối ren
swollen (bigger than usual because of a problem): phình ra, sưng phồng, căng lên
packed (crowded): đầy, chật cứng
evacuated (forced to move from a place of danger): di tản, buộc phải rời đi
sedated (given medicine to go to sleep): được tiêm hoặc cho uống thuốc ngủ
Bài khóa - Transcript
Floods have been causing havoc in central Europe.
Some areas had two months’ rain in two days. Rivers are swollen and still rising.
In the Czech capital, Prague, streets normally packed with tourists are filled with soldiers and volunteers.
Several people have been killed and thousands evacuated.
At the zoo, the tigers are being sedated and moved; the monkeys climbed to safety.
Bản dịch - Translation
Lụt lội đang tàn phá tại các nước Trung Âu.
Một số vùng có lượng mưa tương đương 2 tháng chỉ trong hai ngày. Các con sông đầy ắp nước và tiếp tục dâng cao.
Tại thủ đô Cộng hòa Czech, Prague, đường phố thường đông đúc khách du lịch nay đầy binh lính và những người tình nguyện.
Vài người đã bị thiệt mạng và hàng ngàn người phải di tản.
Tại vườn thú, hổ được tiêm thuốc ngủ và đưa đi; khỉ leo lên những nơi an toàn.
Bài tập - Exercise
Hãy dùng các từ và cụm từ dưới đây ở dạng thích hợp để hoàn thành những câu sau:
havoc / swollen / packed / evacuated / sedated
1. The ward is so __________ with babies and young children that they are sharing beds. At one stage, up to 70 new patients were arriving at the hospital every day.
2. The sixth Fast & Furious movie stars Vin Diesel as a gang leader who is ordered by a US agent - played by Dwayne Johnson - to stop a team of mercenary drivers causing __________ across 12 countries.
3. John McNair, 77, became trapped after his vehicle was picked up by the water and carried down a __________ stream in Chew Stoke, Somerset, on 22 November.
4. The Great Western Ambulance Service spokeswoman Mel Glanville said: "Paramedics and a critical care team attended the scene where the patient, suffering from head and chest injuries, was __________ before being transferred to hospital."
5. A fire then broke out in the right engine of the Airbus A319 British Airways flight to Oslo. The jet landed safely and its 75 passengers and crew were__________ .
Giải đáp - Answers
1. The ward is so packed with babies and young children that they are sharing beds. At one stage, up to 70 new patients were arriving at the hospital every day. Source: <link type="page"><caption> Fighting Pakistan's measles epidemic</caption><url href="http://bbc.in/13iBPxX" platform="highweb"/></link>
2. The sixth Fast & Furious movie stars Vin Diesel as a gang leader who is ordered by a US agent - played by Dwayne Johnson - to stop a team of mercenary drivers causing havoc across 12 countries. Source: <link type="page"><caption> Fast & Furious races to top of US box office</caption><url href="http://bbc.in/134c1Eh" platform="highweb"/></link>
3. John McNair, 77, became trapped after his vehicle was picked up by the water and carried down a swollen stream in Chew Stoke, Somerset, on 22 November. Source: <link type="page"><caption> Chew Stoke flood car death 'was an accident'</caption><url href="http://bbc.in/1b0315Y" platform="highweb"/></link>
4. Great Western Ambulance Service spokeswoman Mel Glanville said: "Paramedics and a critical care team attended the scene where the patient, suffering from head and chest injuries, was sedated before being transferred to hospital." Source: <link type="page"><caption> Boy 'stable' after stairwell fall at a school in Bristol</caption><url href="http://bbc.in/13CFntX" platform="highweb"/></link>
5. A fire then broke out in the right engine of the Airbus A319 British Airways flight to Oslo. The jet landed safely and its 75 passengers and crew were evacuated. Source: <link type="page"><caption> Heathrow emergency landing: Engine doors 'left unlatched'</caption><url href="http://bbc.in/11UWquf" platform="highweb"/></link>