VOA慢速英语2011.05.18(1) 美国, 英语, people, 墨西哥湾, 密西西比河

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The Mississippi River flows down the middle of the United States to the Gulf of Mexico. (1)_________________ The result has been what some people are calling the worst flooding in eighty years in states along the Mississippi.
密西西比河流经美国中部，注入墨西哥湾。形成了人们所说的“沿密西西比河各州80年来最严重的洪灾”。
In Louisiana, engineers are working to keep floodwaters away from two big cities -- New Orleans and Baton Rouge. New Orleans is still recovering from the failure of its flood controls during Hurricane Katrina in two thousand five.
在路易斯安那州，工程师们正努力让洪水远离新奥尔良和巴吞鲁日这两大城市。新奥尔良市尚未从2005年卡特里娜飓风期间的洪灾中恢复过来。
A plan to direct some of the water into the Morganza Spillway means (2)_____________________. As many as twenty-five thousand people may have to leave areas that would be flooded. Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal has been urging them to prepare to leave.
一项将洪水引入摩根萨溢洪道的计划意味着。多达2,5000人不得不撤离那片可能被淹没的地区。路易斯安那州州长博比·金达尔（Bobby Jindal）一再督促他们做好离开的准备。

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xiaotantan

1）Right now，moated slow and heavy rains from the north are moving south
2）flooding rich finance in another part of state

fangnan

Right now, multi-snow & heavy rain from north are moving south.
flooding rich farm lands in another part of the state.