一篇关于地震的英语作文(合集20篇)

导语：家乡遭受强烈地震，在外打工的人心急如焚。他们的第一个念头就是，亲人可安全?家园怎么样?下面是yuwenmi小编为大家整理的优秀英语作文，欢迎阅读与借鉴，谢谢!

Home to a strong earthquake, the people working outside Xinjirufen. Their first thought is that their loved ones are safe » How home-like » Rush to return home as soon as possible, to participate in the rescue and rebuild their homes. But natural disasters which blocked the railway, the train decommissioning, long-distance truck capacity shortage, more than 10,000 from around the convergence of Sichuan Province to Xian transit workers in disaster areas anxiously awaiting the return home! Qualcomm situation in the heart, blood is thicker than water. Migrant workers in the disaster areas to return home affect the way the hearts of the people of Xian. Provincial Party Secretary Zhao Leji, governor Yuan Chunqing the first time made important instructions, Xian municipal government immediately made arrangements to mobilize all the forces can be mobilized quickly organized the citys capacity to the fastest speed Sending migrant workers to go home. To the secretary, to the mayor, to the commander and political commissar of the past, public security, traffic, traffic police and health departments to the person in charge. Migrant workers came to the middle, Wenhanwennuan, a certain commitment to send them home as soon as possible, so that migrant workers have been anxious the warm comfort. Metro, the mobilization of Yanta, who conscientiously fulfill their duties; Bureau of Transportation, bus companies to mobilize, they transferred the bus in good condition; Xian tourism groups to mobilize, they prepared the way migrant workers The necessary food and drink; policemen mobilized, they clear their task is to maintain order and cleared the way by police escort; oil companies to mobilize, they ensure that the fuel is sufficient; mobilization of the health system, ambulances and medical staff Accompanied all the way to the Bao Kang; our troops mobilized, they built the road vehicles and all the necessary supplies. A few hours, Xian on the mobilization of the 268 long-distance bus, eager to return home to the migrant workers send home the road. No Valentines love in the earthquake. Party committees at all levels of Xian, the love, the urgency of radical workers, migrant workers would like to think, to handle the affairs of migrant workers in the hearts. Xian love in all walks of life, their real actions, another interpretation of "a difficult one, P Plus assistance," the traditional Chinese virtues.

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家乡遭受强烈地震，在外打工的人心急如焚。他们的第一个念头就是，亲人可安全?家园怎么样?尽快赶回家，参加抢救，重建家园。但灾害使铁路受阻，火车停运，长途车运力不足，一万多名从各地汇聚到西安中转的四川灾区民工在焦急地等待回家! 情通于心，血浓于水。灾区民工的回家之路牵动着西安人民的心。省委书记赵乐际、省长袁纯清在第一时间作出了重要指示，西安市委、市政府立即作出了部署，要求动员一切可以动员的力量，迅速组织全市运力，以最快的速度送民工返乡。 书记来了，市长来了，司令来了，政委来了，公安、交通、交警、卫生等各部门的负责人来了。来到民工中间，问寒问暖，承诺一定尽快送他们回家，让焦急的民工得到了温暖的抚慰。新城、雁塔政府动员起来了，他们认真履行着自己的职责;交通局、公交公司动员起来了，他们调来了状况良好的大客车;西安旅游集团动员起来了，他们备好了民工路上所需的食品饮料;公安干警动员起来了，他们明确自己的任务是维持秩序，并用警车开道护航;石油公司动员起来了，他们确保的是油料充足;卫生系统动员起来了，救护车和医护人员一路相随为的是保康健;我们的部队动员起来了，他们自带车辆和路上所需的一切给养。短短的几个小时，西安就调集了268辆长途客车，把急切返乡的民工送上了回家的路。 地震无情人有情。西安各级党委、政府有情，急民工所急，想民工所想，把事情办在了民工的心坎上。西安各行各业有情，他们用实际行动又一次诠释了“一方有难，八方援手”的中华传统美德。

Home to a strong earthquake, the people working outside Xinjirufen. Their first thought is that their loved ones are safe ? How home-like ? Rush to return home as soon as possible, to participate in the rescue and rebuild their homes. But natural disasters which blocked the railway, the train decommissioning, long-distance truck capacity shortage, more than 10,000 from around the convergence of Sichuan Province to Xian transit workers in disaster areas anxiously awaiting the return home!

Qualcomm situation in the heart, blood is thicker than water. Migrant workers in the disaster areas to return home affect the way the hearts of the people of Xian. Provincial Party Secretary Zhao Leji, governor Yuan Chunqing the first time made important instructions, Xian municipal government immediately made arrangements to mobilize all the forces can be mobilized quickly organized the citys capacity to the fastest speed Sending migrant workers to go home.

To the secretary, to the mayor, to the commander and political commissar of the past, public security, traffic, traffic police and health departments to the person in charge. Migrant workers came to the middle, Wenhanwennuan, a certain commitment to send them home as soon as possible, so that migrant workers have been anxious the warm comfort. Metro, the mobilization of Yanta, who conscientiously fulfill their duties; Bureau of Transportation, bus companies to mobilize, they transferred the bus in good condition; Xian tourism groups to mobilize, they prepared the way migrant workers The necessary food and drink; policemen mobilized, they clear their task is to maintain order and cleared the way by police escort; oil companies to mobilize, they ensure that the fuel is sufficient; mobilization of the health system, ambulances and medical staff Accompanied all the way to the Bao Kang; our troops mobilized, they built the road vehicles and all the necessary supplies. A few hours, Xian on the mobilization of the 268 long-distance bus, eager to return home to the migrant workers send home the road.

No Valentines love in the earthquake. Party committees at all levels of Xian, the love, the urgency of radical workers, migrant workers would like to think, to handle the affairs of migrant workers in the hearts. Xian love in all walks of life, their real actions, another interpretation of "a difficult one, P Plus assistance," the traditional Chinese virtues.

家乡遭受强烈地震，在外打工的人心急如焚。他们的第一个念头就是，亲人可安全?家园怎么样?尽快赶回家，参加抢救，重建家园。但灾害使铁路受阻，火车停运，长途车运力不足，一万多名从各地汇聚到西安中转的四川灾区民工在焦急地等待回家!

情通于心，血浓于水。灾区民工的回家之路牵动着西安人民的心。省委书记赵乐际、省长袁纯清在第一时间作出了重要指示，西安市委、市政府立即作出了部署，要求动员一切可以动员的力量，迅速组织全市运力，以最快的速度送民工返乡。

书记来了，市长来了，司令来了，政委来了，公安、交通、交警、卫生等各部门的负责人来了。来到民工中间，问寒问暖，承诺一定尽快送他们回家，让焦急的民工得到了温暖的抚慰。新城、雁塔政府动员起来了，他们认真履行着自己的职责;交通局、公交公司动员起来了，他们调来了状况良好的大客车;西安旅游集团动员起来了，他们备好了民工路上所需的食品饮料;公安干警动员起来了，他们明确自己的任务是维持秩序，并用警车开道护航;石油公司动员起来了，他们确保的是油料充足;卫生系统动员起来了，救护车和医护人员一路相随为的是保康健;我们的部队动员起来了，他们自带车辆和路上所需的一切给养。短短的几个小时，西安就调集了268辆长途客车，把急切返乡的民工送上了回家的路。

地震无情人有情。西安各级党委、政府有情，急民工所急，想民工所想，把事情办在了民工的心坎上。西安各行各业有情，他们用实际行动又一次诠释了“一方有难，八方援手”的中华传统美德。

Strong earthquake hits China

A powerful earthquake measuring 7.8 has hit Chinas southern province of Sichuan, shaking buildings as far away as Beijing, Shanghai and Bangkok.

It was not immediately clear if there were any casualties or damage from the tremor which the the US Geological Survey (UGS) earlier put at 7.8.

The epicentre of the quake was 93 kilometres north of Chengdu.

Wenchuan, which took full force of the quake, has a population of 111,000 people.

It is in an ethnic Tibetan area in Aba county which recently saw violent clashes between Tibetans and Chinese authorities.

According to some reports there was a second earthquake measuring 3.9 which hit the Beijing district of Tongzhou at roughly the same time.

Telephone lines in the affected area are jammed and there are still no reports of casualties.

Reports from Thailand say high buildings in Bangkok continued to shake several minutes after the tremors began.

"We felt continuous shaking for about two or three minutes. All the people in our office are rushing downstairs. Were still feeling slight tremblings," said an office worker in Chengdu.

Chinas tallest building, the Jinmao Tower, and other highrise buildings in Shanghais financial district were evacuated after tremors were first felt.

"People were shouting get out, get out, so we all ran out of our dorm," said a student surnamed Zhang at a university in nearby Chongqing.

A spokesman for the China Earthquake Administration said it was still checking the epicentre and scale of the tremor.

At 14:28 on May 12, 2008, wenchuan earthquake! At that moment, earthquakes, countless people lost their homes in this sudden disaster, family. From TV and newspaper, I also learned that many like me are get ready for class in the school classrooms brother, sister, brother and sister, they are at the time of the earthquake, because no time to escape, be forever buried in the rubble, lost the life is like a flower. News, all people act to help for the people of disaster areas, some contributions, some unpaid blood donation, some also toured the disaster area to participate in the rescue. Everyone is trying to dedicate a love for the people in the disaster areas.

In our school, but also to develop the mourning and disaster relief activities. In May 2008 on May 21, 19 solstice, is the National Day of mourning, the school playground that flag also quietly be flown. At 14:28 on May 19, 2008, the entire school teachers and students to stand in silence for three minutes for the people of disaster areas the dead. Our school has carried out the donation activity. Under the call of the teacher, the students have their peacetime accumulated pocket money to the school. In class, the students in my hands, to deliver contributions to enthusiastically, 5 yuan, 10 yuan, 50 yuan, one hundred yuan, although money is not much, but every points on behalf of the classmates to the disaster area peoples love. Donation ceremony held in the school, the school classmate to stand on the playground, every class representative on donations, solemnly embodies the students love will be cast into the donation box.

At this moment, I believe that the people in the disaster area with the help of the people all over the country, must be able to stand up from the disaster, rebuild beautiful homeland.

2008年5月12日14时28分，汶川大地震!那一刻，山崩地裂，无数人在这突如其来的灾难中失去了家园、亲人。从电视和报纸上，我也得知许多与我一样正在学校教室中准备上课的哥哥姐姐、弟弟妹妹，他们在地震发生时，由于来不及逃生，被永远地埋在了废墟中，失去了如花的生命。消息传来，所有的人都行动起来，为灾区人民伸出援手，有的捐款捐物，有的无偿献血，有的还亲自奔赴灾区参加救援。大家都在尽力为灾区人民奉献一片爱心。

在我们学校，也开展了悼念和赈灾活动。2008年5月19日至5月21日，是全国哀悼日，学校操场上那面国旗也悄然降下半旗。2008年5月19日14时28分，全校师生为灾区死难人民默哀三分钟。我们学校还开展了捐款活动。在老师的号召下，同学们纷纷将自己平时积攒下来的零花钱带到了学校。在班级里，同学们踊跃地将捐款交到了老师手中，五元、十元、五十元、一百元，钱虽然不多，但每一分都代表了班上同学对灾区人民的爱心。在学校举行的捐款仪式上，全校同学肃立在操场上，各个班级都派出代表走上捐款台，庄严地将凝聚着同学们爱心的捐款投到捐款箱中。

这一刻，我相信灾区人民在全国人民的帮助下，一定能够从灾难中站起来，重建美好的家园。

On April 25, 2015, 14 at 11 points, Nepal (28.2 degrees north latitude, 84.7 degrees east longitude) a magnitude 8.1 earthquake, focal depth of 20 km, 70 aftershocks. The epicenter is located in pokhara, maximum intensity of X, heavy intensity area from the epicenter of eastward.

As of May 1, 2015, the quake killed at least 7040 people, 14123 people were injured, Tibet, China, India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, etc are casualties.

The earthquake epicenter located in pokhara, the city is the second largest city of Nepal, the famous tourist resort. For the mountain near the epicenter, broken terrain secondary disasters such as landslide risk is extremely high. Earthquake zone building aseismic performance is very poor, mud-brick building types in masonry structure, give priority to.

Nepal, India, China, Bangladesh, Pakistan and other countries and regions of the earthquake was felt, and adjacent to the Tibet autonomous region of Nepal jilong xian xigaze nyalam county, tingri county, felt very strongly.

2015年4月25日14时11分，尼泊尔(北纬28.2度，东经84.7度)发生8.1级地震，震源深度20千米，余震70次。震中位于博克拉，最大烈度为X度，重烈度区从震中向东延伸。

截至2015年5月1日，地震至少造成7040人死亡，14123人受伤，中国西藏、印度、孟加拉国、不丹等地均出现人员伤亡。

地震震中位于博克拉，该城市是尼泊尔第二大城市、著名旅游胜地。震中附近为山地破碎地形，滑坡等次生灾害发生风险极高。震区建筑物抗震性能很差，建筑物类型以砌石结构、土砖房为主。

尼泊尔、印度、中国、孟加拉国、巴基斯坦等国家和地区对地震都有震感，与尼泊尔毗邻的西藏自治区日喀则市聂拉木县、定日县、吉隆县震感非常强烈。

Morning, my mother and I rubbed his change to eyes, skid to sit up, turn on the TV to watch the news, the television was on sichuan earthquake situation, my mother and I just watched with rapt attention, the news says the death toll has more than 170 people, 6986 people were injured. The peoples liberation army uncles last night didnt sleep a wink last night, has been in the search and rescue, hope within 72 hours of gold rescue more people.

Among them forth county has an 11 year old girl named Huang Siyi, her parents work in the county, Huang Siyi with grandma and grandpa always live together, at the time of the earthquake, Huang Siyi run down from upstairs, on the way to be on fence. With the help of the neighbours, rescued out of grace. Injury is very serious, scarlett yi has accepted the right leg amputation, but still in a coma, can only rely on breathing machine help to breathe. The doctor said she suffered serious damage of liver and kidneys. Grace is huaxi hospital intensive care unit for emergency treatment. To see her mother tearfully when accepting a reporter to interview, sad, my in the mind very afflictive, sour nose, I pray for her, want her to wake up and get well soon. Yi, come on!

My heart trembling, and the terrible earthquake, damn, why didnt at the time of the earthquake precursor, why no one can predict? Before the typhoon weather here advised us that want us to do a good job of typhoon. Sincerely hope that we can anticipate this natural disaster.

早晨，我和妈妈揉了揉惺松的眼睛，一骨碌地坐起来，打开电视看新闻，电视上面正在直播四川地震情况，我和妈妈就全神贯注地看了起来，新闻上说死亡人数已经超过170多人，6986人受伤。解放军叔叔们昨晚上一晚上都没合眼，一直在搜救，希望在72小时的黄金时间内搜救出更多的人民。

其中芦山县有一位11岁女孩叫黄思怡，她父母在县城打工，黄思怡一直跟爷爷奶奶生活在一起，地震发生时，黄思怡从楼上往下跑，途中被围墙砸到。在邻居的帮助下，思怡被救出来。伤势很严重，思怡已经接受了右腿截肢手术，但依然昏迷不醒，只能靠呼吸机辅助呼吸。医生说她的肝、肾功能受到严重损害。思怡正在华西医院的重症监护室进行抢救。看到她妈妈接受记者采访的时候声泪俱下，伤心欲绝，我心里很难受，鼻子酸酸的，我为她祈祷，希望她快点醒过来，快点好起来。思怡，加油!

我心里直打哆嗦，这可怕的地震真可恶，地震发生时为什么都没有前兆呢，为什么没有人能预测呢?我们这里台风来临之前气象台都会通知，要我们做好防台工作。真心希望我们人类能够事先预测这种自然灾害。

When mothers were immersed in the joy of mothers day, when the children walking in the childrens day is yearning, when all people expect that the Olympic Games countdown, all of a sudden, shrinks, breaks: 2008 at 14:28 on May 12, a 8.0 -magnitude earthquake wenchuan time terminated at this moment. Human is so small, the life is so fragile, so a few seconds, all over! Rows of torsion crack of slab, the collapse streets bodies, survivors panicked look in the eyes, as if to sigh of the deepest sorrow. Departed relatives, their homes destroyed the whole city lay in ruins, a lifeless.

One party hard, p plus support. Destruction is the wenchuan earthquake, but affects the global Chinese peoples heart. The first time after the earthquake, the volunteers, the peoples liberation army, medical staff rushed to the forefront, day and night ground save buried in the ruins of the life. Successive aftershocks, and continuous heavy rain, the collapse of the debris flow occurred from time to time, always shake their determination to stick to the rescue. "As long as there is a ray of hope, well do efforts a one hundred times," premier wens strong words encouraged everyone to continue to hold on...

One time goes by, the golden 72 hours of rescue already more and more close, all people are looking forward to have more people to be rescued. Sometimes off the lights at night, close your eyes, but I couldnt sleep, and always repeated thought: I can lie in a comfortable bed, covered with a quilt satiated with food and sleep, even as thousands of miles away, at the same time, with many also the burden of being cold floor and bricks, struggling in the ruins of the gap, their hearts in the final a glimmer of hope may hold waiting for rescue workers, or maybe it is slowly despair... I dont know that they could not move, coming along with all the pain and cold, can only put hope on others to live mood how uncomfortable!

Disaster has been a month, but the disaster relief work is far from complete, nor our love like the tide, and as the tide receded, let us heart hand is linked together with the people in the disaster areas, to build homes!

当母亲们沉浸在母亲节的喜悦中，当孩子们徜徉在儿童节的向往中，当所有人期盼在奥运会的倒计时中时，突然间，地动山摇，山崩地裂：2008年的5月12日14时28分，里氏8.0级大地震让汶川的时间在这一刻终止。人类是多么的渺小，生命是如此的脆弱，就那么几秒钟， 一切都完了!崩塌扭裂的楼板，街道旁的一排排尸体，幸存者惊慌失措的眼神，仿佛在发出最深沉悲怆的叹息。亲人离去了，家园毁灭了，整个城市躺在了废墟里，一片死气沉沉。

一方有难，八方支援。地震毁灭的是汶川，但牵动的是全球中华儿女的心。地震后的第一时间，志愿者，解放军，医护人员迅速赶到最前线，不分昼夜地线拯救被埋在残垣断壁里的生命。接连不断的余震，连绵不绝的大雨，不时发生的崩塌泥石流，始终动摇不了他们坚持救援的决心。“只要有一线希望，我们就要尽百倍努力”温家宝总理的坚定的话语鼓励着所有人要继续坚持下去。。。

时间一分一秒的流逝，距离救援的黄金72小时已经越来越近，所有人都在期盼能有更多的人被救出。有时晚上关了灯，闭上眼，我却辗转无法入睡，总是反复的想：我可以躺在舒服的床上，吃饱喝足盖着被子睡觉，可就在几千公里之外，就在同时同刻，很多人还正在被冰冷沉重的楼板和砖头压着，在残垣断壁的缝隙中挣扎着，他们的心在或许抱着最后一丝希望苦苦等待救援人员，又或许正在慢慢绝望。。。我不知道那种自己动弹不得，疼痛和寒冷一并袭来，只能把生存的希望寄托在别人身上的心情有多么难受!

灾难发生已经一个月了，但救灾的工作远远没有完成，我们的爱也不能像潮水一般来，又像潮水一般退去，让我们与灾区人民心手相连，共建家园!

May 12th is an ordinary day in 2008,itis in this day that shocking earthquake happened in Sichuan province,China.The earthquake destroyed nearly everything in Wenchan county Sichuan province. It was terrible.We cant describle the scene what we saw with any words.thousands of people were injured even died. And thousands of children became such unlucky ones who lost fathers or mothers , they longed to have families to continue their lives .I am sympathetic to their fate ! But I believed that we can fight against the fate and change it .For example ,there many people keeping living without food or water for about 100 hours during the earthquake!

What an unbelievable thing it is !their great spirits showed the powerful life vitality of humans!However,they must keep fighting against the death .Many schools were destroyed and there were many students and teachers who left us forever.Sadness,hoplessness and different kinds of danger spreaded out here and there !

But ,fortunately ,love is around us :the Communist party helps us ,the army helps us ,the people all over the world help us .They offer us with money ,goods ,love and so on !For example ,li lian ji, a warm-hearted man ,offered us with 20 million yuan !

With the help of the such a large love ,we will over come the damage of the earthquake and face our beautiful future !

2008年5月12日是一个平凡的一天,它在这一天,令人震惊的地震发生在四川省,中国。地震几乎毁了一切在Wenchan县四川省。这是可怕的。我们不能简述现场我们看到任何单词。成千上万的人受伤甚至死亡。和成千上万的儿童成为不幸的人失去了父亲或母亲,他们渴望有家庭继续他们的生活。我同情他们的命运!但是我相信我们可以对抗命运和改变它。例如,有很多人保持生活没有食物或水约100个小时在地震!

什么不可思议的事情啊!人类的伟大的心灵表现出强大的生命活力!然而,他们必须对抗死亡。许多学校被毁,有许多学生和老师永远离开了我们。悲伤、hoplessness和不同种类的危险到处传播出去!

但是,幸运的是,爱是在我们周围:共产党帮助我们,军队帮助我们,全世界的人都帮助我们。他们给我们钱,商品、爱等等!例如,李连,一个热心的人,给我们2000万元!

的帮助下如此大爱,我们将在地震的破坏,面对我们的美好未来!

导语：事件类的英语作文是常见的作文类别，要求我们词汇量要过关，重要还是要把句子写通顺。下面和小编一起来看看事件英语作文：四川地震的深度创伤。希望对大家有所帮助。

Deep Wounds of the Sichuan Quake

四川地震的深度创伤

Deep Wounds of the Sichuan Quake

One of the recurring themes from last years earthquake in Sichuan is official corruption and the extent it contributed to the collapse of substandard schools, killing a still unknown number of children. Another, less discussed issue, is the degree to which many local officials in the disaster zone were victims themselves.

自去年四川地震以来，一个反复出现的主题是关于政府官员的腐坏，以及因之产生的未达标学校的倒塌，导致仍不知确切数字的孩子们的死亡。而很少论及的另一个问题，是灾区地方官员自己成为受害者的程度。

In Beichuan, where as many as 15,000 residents were killed, a quarter of the local officials also perished in the quake. Many of the survivors lost family members. When my colleague Lin Yang and photographer Ian Teh went back to Sichuan last fall, we met with a Beichuan official whose wife and daughter were both killed on May 12. Zhang Kangqi keeps a drawing of them, sketched from old ID photos, by his bed. All other mementos of them were buried in Beichuan. （You can see Ians photos of the recovery efforts, including a portrait of Zhang, in this gallery.）

在北川，多达15，000名居民死亡，四分之一的地方官员也在地震中死去。许多幸存者失去了家人。去年秋天，我和同事杨林和摄像郑永仁回到四川时，遇到一位北川官员，他的妻子和女儿都在5.12地震中死亡。张康齐保存着从旧身份证的照片上临摹下来的一张她们的画像，放在床头。她们的其它所有遗物都被埋在北川下面了。（在这个画廊中，你可以看到郑永仁画的在关恢复工作的照片，其中包括一幅张的肖像。）

Zhang immersed himself in recovery efforts, but not all his co-workers had the same capacity to work through their suffering. A few weeks before we visited Dong Yufei, another local official who lost his son, killed himself. "He was a good man," Zhang said of Yu, "but not everyone can handle the pressure. His child had died."

张专注地做着恢复工作，但是，他的同事并不都具有同样的战胜痛苦的能力。在我们采访董玉飞之前几个星期，另一位失去儿子的地方官自杀了。“他是个好人，”张提到玉飞说，“不过，并不是每个人都能应付压力。他的孩子死了。”

Yesterday brought the grim news that another Beichuan official committed suicide. Feng Xiang, the vice director of the Beichuan publicity department, had lost his 7-year-old son in the quake. Shortly before his death Feng, 33, wrote a post on his blog titled "What If," urging his family not to grieve. "Son, when you left, your father did not have a future, did not have hope, did not have any expectations," Feng wrote. "To be with you is my biggest joy."

昨天，又传来一个无情的消息，另一位北川官员自杀了。北川宣传部副主任冯翔在地震中失去了七岁的儿子。33岁的冯翔死前不久在博客中以“假如”为题力劝家人不要悲伤。冯写道：“儿子，你离开了，爸爸没有了未来，没有了希望，没有了憧憬，与你相聚，是爸爸最大的快乐。”

[事件英语作文：四川地震的深度创伤

May 12th, 2008. That’s the most mournful day for our Chinese that will

never be forgotten, because a horrible earthquake happened in Wenchuan, which

caused tens of thousands of children’s death.

On hearing the news, I felt so sorrowful. “Why was the god so cruel to

them?” I asked. They were still at the entrance of the life. They seemed like

little eagles that were willing to open their wings and hover in the sky. Maybe

they would have their brilliant future. What a great loss to our nation! I had

my deepest sympathy on the people in the disastrous area. So I donated some

money and clothes to them. And I also prayed for the dead people sincerely. I

eagerly hope that there would be no earthquakes in the future, so that we could

live a more peaceful life.

我原本以为，这种毁灭性的灾难不会在我有生之年发生。可它，还是发生了。2008年5月12日四川汶川发生8。0级的大地震，让原本喧嚣的城市在倾刻间变成一片废墟，多少生命在瓦砾间戈然而止。那一幕幕揪心的画面让我潸然泪下，咸湿的空气浸满了泪水。那些幸存的孩童睁着无辜的大眼睛看着这个劫后余生的城市，眼了写满了悲伤乃至恐惧。那些年轻，美丽的生命，还来不及跟这个世界说一声“再见”就以阴阳相隔。只是不管是多么沉痛的呼喊也呼不回孩子那纯真的笑容，也喊不回孩子那稚嫩的声音。

I thought this devastating disaster will happen in my lifetime. But, it does happen. In May 12, 2008, Sichuan Wenchuan 8. A 0 magnitude earthquake, let originally the hustle and bustle of the city at the moment the ruins, many lives among the rubble suddenly stop. The scenes of worried picture let me shed tears salty air. The surviving children with innocent eyes looked at the city to be a survivor of a disaster, eyes filled with sorrow and fear. The young, beautiful life, also not to the world to say "good bye" to be apart of yin and yang. But no matter how painful cry will call back to the childs innocent smile, also called the child back that little voice.

然而，面对这些，我却无能为力。唯有捐献出自己小小的爱心，以此表示对灾区人民的关心。我用我的真心，祈祷灾区人民日平安，祝福灾区幸存人民幸福。

However, in the face of these, I incapable of action. Only to donate their little hearts, said this to the people of disaster areas of concern. I use my heart, pray for people in the disaster areas, peace, blessing and happiness of the people of earthquake survivors.

手拉手，一起，为他们祈福。

Hand in hand, together, to pray for them.

Qinghai lies in the northeastern part of the Tibetan Plateau, which formed due to the ongoing collision of the Indian Plate with the Eurasian Plate. The main deformation in this area is crustal shortening, but there is also a component of left lateral strike-slip faulting on major west–east trending structures such as the Kunlun and Altyn Tagh fault systems that accommodate southeastward translation of the Tibetan area. More For Yushu earthquake.

青海位于青藏高原的东北部，由于印度板块与欧亚板块的碰撞，形成了青藏高原。这一地区的主要变形是地壳缩短，但在主要的西东趋势结构上，也有一种左旋的断裂作用，如昆仑和Altyn Tagh的断层系统，以适应西藏地区的翻译。为玉树地震。

The earthquake occurred on the Yunshu fault,about 300 kilometres (186 mi) south of the Kunlun fault. The Yunshu fault forms part of the Yushu-Garzê-Xianshuihe fault zone (玉树-甘孜-鲜水河断裂带), one of the most active fault zones in eastern Tibet.In history, many earthquakes with magnitude greater than 7 have occurred in the Xianshuihe fault zone,[此为地域名] for example, the magnitude 7.25 earthquake in the Luhuo area on March 24, 1923, and the Ms 7.6 earthquake on Febuary 6, 1973 in Luhuo.

这次地震发生在距昆仑断裂带以南约300公里(186英里)的玉树地区。(Joozone Note:在这里yushu也可以拼做：Yunshu)。玉树地区是“玉树-甘孜-鲜水河断裂带”的一部分，它是西藏东部最活跃的断裂带之一。历史上，大量的超过七级的地震都发生在鲜水河断裂带，比如，1923年3月24日，在炉霍地区发生的7.25级地震，和1973年2月6日在炉霍地区发生的MS 7.6级地震。翻译由作文地带提供。

Almost all sections of the Xianshuihe fault zone have produced strong earthquakes in records, except the sections of Yushu and Shimian (石棉). However, a trace of a strong earthquake occurred about 16 000 or 17 000 years ago has been found in Shimian. Hence, the Shimian section of the Xianshuihe fault zone is speculated to be currently locked and have the possibility of producing strong earthquake in the future.

据史料记载，除玉树和石棉之外，几乎所有的发生在鲜水河断裂带的地震都非常的强烈。然而，在石棉县发生的一次强烈地震被发现，此次地震发生在约16万或17万年前。因此，鲜水河断裂带的石棉县地带已经被锁定为在未来可能会产生强震。

In the past hundred years, there have heen frequent natural disasters, such

as floods, droughts, mud-rock flows, seismic sea waves, earthquakes, windstorms

and the stretching of new deserts. The disasters have killed millions upon

millions of people, destroyed countless homes, and wiped out numerous pieces of

fertile land.

Now more and more people become aware that those disasters have much to do

with what we have done to the earth. We have cut down too many trees in the

forests,we have badly polluted the environment, we have shocked our own

home-planet time and against with tremendously powerful explosions of nuclear

bombs. As a result, climates have become abnormal, rainwater rushes down

hillsides angrily, and the underground energy goes up to revenge itself on

us.

The earth is our only home-planet. It is urgent for us to stop damaging it,

and to do our best to protect it and make it a lovely place suitable to live in,

for we have nowhere to go and survive except where we are now.

Earthquake is one of the most severe natural disasters. Its shaking of the

ground caused by the sudden breaking and shifting of large sections of Earths

rocky ourter shell. Its results can be very horrible. The Wenchuan Earthquake in

2008 and Japan Earthquake in 2011 are the most severe earthquakes in recent

years, causing huge casualties and property losses. But earthquakes almost never

kill people directly. Many deaths and injuries in earthquaking result from

falling objects and the collapse of buildings

I was a child Aba, examinations of the University of the Southwest University of Finance and Economics.

Yesterday afternoon, and I always like sitting in their dorm room, ready to classes on the afternoon of a sudden, a while obviously felt the shake, and then I immediately from the reaction, shouting out: "Earthquake!" With a female dormitory probably not Reaction from, surprised at me and asked: "What!" Voice soon, the bedroom floor, has been keen shaking up, because I live in the girls bedroom, fifth floor, and bedroom area of relatively large, so is feeling very strong, almost Standing instability, along with Weng Weng Sheng,…… cabinets on the table to start things out below, I thought…… quick collapse of the house!

I Benchu bedroom door, dormitory building came girls panic sounds……

My first reaction was running toilet, the toilet because of the relatively small frame, but from a sudden reaction. Our hostel is a collective toilet area than the bedroom are also some big panic, I do not know aisle in which the girls called out: "drilling under the table!" I reaction from immediately back bedroom with drilling on the computer under the table. Under the table, I immediately called her roommate also under the table, but she has disappeared, this time I only house one person, accompanied by a drastic shake, I looked at the table under the bed shaking and suddenly think: " I also do not want to die ah! "

This time seems to be shaking a little bit better, I go all out for his calm, that should not be very serious, and then outside the bedroom door, crying next to a friend, did not expect she disappeared……

Then I speed the return of dormitory, Nahao keys, bag, close the bedroom door, and then with the crowd Xialou.

This has shocked when drawing to a close.

Xialou run, all the girls dormitory below, friends and roommates are safe, my friend is to phone, but could not see me down, she was pleased. Later we went to the relative safety of the spacious, sunny square of the school started to discuss the issue of the earthquake, the phone completely unreasonable.

Friends said: "Mobile is not to say that in the Himalayas have signals on them……" She said she took Xialou the student cards Khan…… NDS has also brought me to see all the people Are playing out in the telephone, then perhaps more than telephones

Commissary of the phone cards are sold out

The bank teller who is also a long line of the team, although there are disturbing, but everyone together, let me feel at ease. Later, we take things back to the bedroom, she was wearing slippers, go back and change, did not expect the unit first arrived, the ground began to shake with the speed we end things, the withdrawal and return to the Sunshine Plaza! Friends and I Started discussions on the issue of earthquake!

We analyzed, certainly not the epicenter, and then she said that the epicenter may Xichang side, I suddenly of a heart Jiling, which will not be the Aba side! Heart has begun unrest, a friend using a mobile phone Internet barely started to help me check the earthquake information……

This time the people have been found next to, to listen to him said: "Wenchuan!" Is Wenchuan! ! This扎the same name as the knife in my heart, Wenchuan! I GREw up in small places! My home! My mother is still there! I asked the person-the past, he said: "Wenchuan, 7.6 earthquake in Tangshan, and almost" the moment I have Meng, fell into the hands of the cups to the ground. Then I began to frantically phone, unreasonable……

Mother fighting to stop, could not use a landline, a cell phone……

At that time, I thought, I have to go back, I have to go back! !

Later, in the plane of the dial in Barkam, the father of the telephone, immediately feel at ease the minds of many, he has not news, but nothing……

I am anxious to spend in the afternoon to evening, the school issued an order to prohibit students back bedroom, so we all sleep in the square, we very good mentality, playing poker, playing computer, tents, mats blankets, food, We are ready to put a square in the audio, broadcast earthquake in the relevant circumstances

I can not under the heart, the only non-stop the call, and then ah! Then ah! Each time a busy tone I was disappointed on the one night I played no fewer than 100, the occasional-be: "I am sorry, you are temporarily unable to dial the phone connected!" Now every section of the news affects all of my Heart……

I have been praying in his heart, on God, must let my mother without incident, I Wenchuan in exchange for it, let my mother come in here! Wenchuan all the relatives, friends, Come on! You must be OK! Also my mother! Hope that we pray for them!

[青海玉树地震英语作文

May 12th is an ordinary day in 2008it is in this day that shocking earthquake happened in Sichuan provinceChina.The earthquake destroyed nearly everything in Wenchuan country Sichuan province. It was terrible.We cant describle the scene what we saw with any words.Thousands of people were injured even died. And thousands of children became such unlucky ones who lost fathers or mothers they longed to have families to continue their lives .I am sympathetic to their fate ! But I believed that we can fight against the fate and change it .For example there many people keeping living without food or water for about 100 hours during the earthquake!

What an unbelievable thing it is !their great spirits showed the powerful life vitality of humans!Howeverthey must keep fighting against the death .Many schools were destroyed and there were many students and teachers who left us forever.Sadnesshoplessness and different kinds of danger spreaded out here and there !

But fortunately love is around us :the Communist party helps us the army helps us the people all over the world help us .They offer us with money goods love and so on !For example li lian ji a warm-hearted man offered us with 20 million yuan !

With the help of the such a large love we will over come the damage of the earthquake and face our beautiful future !

Deep Wounds of the Sichuan Quake

四川地震的深度创伤

Deep Wounds of the Sichuan Quake

One of the recurring themes from last years earthquake in Sichuan is official corruption and the extent it contributed to the collapse of substandard schools, killing a still unknown number of children. Another, less discussed issue, is the degree to which many local officials in the disaster zone were victims themselves.

自去年四川地震以来，一个反复出现的主题是关于政府官员的腐`败，以及因之产生的未达标学校的倒塌，导致仍不知确切数字的孩子们的死亡。而很少论及的另一个问题，是灾区地方官员自己成为受害者的程度。

In Beichuan, where as many as 15,000 residents were killed, a quarter of the local officials also perished in the quake. Many of the survivors lost family members. When my colleague Lin Yang and photographer Ian Teh went back to Sichuan last fall, we met with a Beichuan official whose wife and daughter were both killed on May 12. Zhang Kangqi keeps a drawing of them, sketched from old ID photos, by his bed. All other mementos of them were buried in Beichuan. (You can see Ians photos of the recovery efforts, including a portrait of Zhang, in this gallery.)

在北川，多达15，000名居民死亡，四分之一的地方官员也在地震中死去。许多幸存者失去了家人。去年秋天，我和同事杨林和摄像郑永仁回到四川时，遇到一位北川官员，他的妻子和女儿都在5.12地震中死亡。张康齐保存着从旧身份证的照片上临摹下来的一张她们的画像，放在床头。她们的其它所有遗物都被埋在北川下面了。（在这个画廊中，你可以看到郑永仁画的在关恢复工作的照片，其中包括一幅张的肖像。）

Zhang immersed himself in recovery efforts, but not all his co-workers had the same capacity to work through their suffering. A few weeks before we visited Dong Yufei, another local official who lost his son, killed himself. "He was a good man," Zhang said of Yu, "but not everyone can handle the pressure. His child had died."

张专注地做着恢复工作，但是，他的同事并不都具有同样的战胜痛苦的能力。在我们采访董玉飞之前几个星期，另一位失去儿子的地方官自杀了。“他是个好人，”张提到玉飞说，“不过，并不是每个人都能应付压力。他的孩子死了。”

Yesterday brought the grim news that another Beichuan official committed suicide. Feng Xiang, the vice director of the Beichuan publicity department, had lost his 7-year-old son in the quake. Shortly before his death Feng, 33, wrote a post on his blog titled "What If," urging his family not to grieve. "Son, when you left, your father did not have a future, did not have hope, did not have any expectations," Feng wrote. "To be with you is my biggest joy."

昨天，又传来一个无情的消息，另一位北川官员自杀了。北川宣传部副主任冯翔在地震中失去了七岁的儿子。33岁的冯翔死前不久在博客中以“假如”为题力劝家人不要悲伤。冯写道：“儿子，你离开了，爸爸没有了未来，没有了希望，没有了憧憬，与你相聚，是爸爸最大的快乐。”

everyone has some unforgettable experiences.

last monday, there was a serious earthquake in sichuan province. many people were killed. a large number of houses collapsed. i was shocked. when i see theses pictures on tv, my eyes were filled with tears. i wanted to do something for people in the disaster areas.

two days later, in front of the library of our school, almost all of the teachers and students came to donate money. i was moved. i thought although i couldn’t go to sichuan like the soldiers and the doctors, i still wanted to try my best to help them. i took out all my pocket money and threw it into the donation box.

i hope they can rebuild their homeland early. it will be an unforgettable experience in my life. it makes me experience that if everyone makes a contribution for our country, we can overcome any difficulties.

[地震献爱心的英语作文

也许在此时，在四川又有一条生命因地震而丧失，也许在此时，一个昔日和谐的家庭因地震耳破碎!面对着一切有一切的悲剧，难道您此时就不想为他们说些什么?以下是小编为大家整理的关于英语作文汶川大地震，给大家作为参考，欢迎阅读!

英语作文汶川大地震1：

May 12th is an ordinary day in 2008, it is in this day that shocking earthquake happened in Sichuan province, China. The earthquake destroyed nearly everything in Wenchan county Sichuan province. It was terrible. We cant describe the scene what we saw with any words. Thousands of people were injured even died. And thousands of children became such unlucky ones who lost fathers or mothers, they looked forward to having families to continue their lives .I am sorry to see that ! But I believed that we can fight against the fate and change it .For example, there many people keeping living without food or water for about 100 hours during the earthquake!

英语作文汶川大地震2：

In the May 12, 2008, in the Chuan Wenchuan, since 1949 than have taken place in Tangshan earthquake also serious natural disasters - 7.8 earthquake. So far, since the advent of the disaster, the death toll reached 28,000 people, injured 190,000 people, this figure could not imagine, the site slowly climbing the figures, it is Jiuxin, is sad.

The earthquake, heavy casualties, countless people lost their lives. Some of the children, lost their parents and some parents lost their sons and daughters, who Shanranleixia after the earthquake, those who have lost the most beloved of the people, mind infinite grief

After the disaster, our beloved Premier Wen Jiabao personally to the hardest hit earthquake relief command, to visit people in disaster areas, a sentence of concern words, the warm comfort of a sentence, so immersed in grief of people get a glimmer of consolation; our beloved The President Hu Jintao immediately deployed to save lives as soon as possible, arrangements for victims of life. Clearly, our national leaders for this earthquake very seriously.

It is not only national leaders concerned about the disaster, the people of the whole country into the earthquake relief in the struggle, all provinces have organized a rescue team to disaster area transport relief supplies. To donate their children a Yasui Qian, even those of persons with disabilities also donate their own living expenses. China Life Insurance, Bank of China, triple in the Division……, and other enterprises have also donated money. We have also contributions to the school teachers and students, people across the country have donated money to more than 600,000 yuan.

1 letters from all over the country sent a letter, a sum of money in total are integrated into each individuals love. Every person and every all in all a sum of money into each of the casualties caused by the earthquake of concern. 100 yuan, 50 yuan, 200 yuan, 400 yuan…… everyone around the country have sacrificed their own in a loving, have sacrificed their own compatriots love. Each warming can love a persons soul.

In those far the hardest hit of my friends, please do not worry, every one of us will pray for you, you pray safe and healthy through this disaster.

This time of the earthquake in China has lost hundreds of millions of good, but it can not explain what to prove that China is strong to win the Chinese peoples unity, the spirit of Xinlian Xin, who is now bogged down in the end to the relatives, not sad, not to give up, Refueling, to overcome all!

This disaster is natural to us a test, we must be firm, to tide over their difficulties!

英语作文汶川大地震3：

2008年5月12日，四川省汶川地区发生了罕见的大地震，那里的人们痛失亲人和家园。全国人民众志成城，抗震救灾。作为一名中学生，请你谈谈你的做法和感受。

要求：文章语言流畅，逻辑清晰，用词准确，80—100字左右;

词汇参考：地震earthquake，悲痛sorrow，受到感动be deeply moved，安慰comfort，重建rebuild，自愿做某事volunteer to do sth

参考范文：

On May 12th, a big earthquake happened in Wenchun, Sichuan. Many people lost their relatives and their homes. All the Chinese people feel quite sorrow.A lot of people volunteer to help them. Some people raise money for them, some people buy something for them, some people go there to comfort the sad children. Thousands of soldiers help them to save their relatives and rebuild their homes Even foreign friends also give them a hand. I’m deeply moved by these people. So I’ll use my pocket money to buy some food and school things for the children there. I think all of us should try our best to help them to get out of the trouble together.

英语作文汶川大地震4：

Wenchuan, a small city, was destroyed by the earthquake. Many people were buried underground. Many houses were collapsed.

The army comes to help people save some people who were buried underground. People said thanks to them.

The force of the earthquake is very big. But people dont afraid it. People around the world contributed money to Wenchuan. We wish Wenchuan will become more and more beautiful.

What an unbelievable thing it is! Their great spirits showed the powerful life vitality of humans! However, they must keep fighting against the death .Many schools were destroyed and there were many students and teachers who left us forever. Sadness, hopelessness and different kinds of danger spreaded out here and there!

But ,fortunately ,love is around us :the Communist party helps us ,the army helps us ,the people all over the world help us .They offer us with money ,goods, love and so on !For example ,li Lian ji, a warm-hearted man ,offered us with 20 million yuan !

With the help of the such a large love, we will over come the damage of the earthquake and face our beautiful future!

英语作文汶川大地震5：

The passage of time bit by bit, every minute, have a lot of the people of disaster areas due to the doctors and rescue officers and men of insufficient resources, and faced with the risk of death. The Internet, the latest news and pictures and video continuously came, of which a video, What I can not forget: the first video screen, is one of the buildings have collapsed, this place was once a beautiful campus. Collapsed in a pile of rubble, an immature in the eyes of Xiaolian. It was a level of about 12 girls. After a day of the burial, the little girls face due to excessive hunger and the lack of oxygen, the original Hongrun Xiaolian has become a black and yellow of the yellow. In her face, vaguely Kuguo the Leihen can see, there are the touch of despair. The little girls mouth is still one of a, but in the video but did not hear her voice, presumably little girl buried in the rubble cried out at once, for help and my voice has changed a dud. To see this little girl, my heart is very mixed feelings. Sichuans major earthquake, resulting in tens of thousands of people under siege in the ruins. They and the little girl, in the rubble of the reactor can not help themselves, if not timely rescue of their officers and men, these peoples lives will be at risk, by the death of oppression. At that time, only heard a while shouting: "Anyone here!" A group of officers and men from running, moved to the implementation of the rescue work. The little girls face suddenly filled with joy, Jiao Zhe shouted: "Come and save me!" Officers and men of a Di Xiatou, the little girl said: "girl, we are to save you. Do not speech, a good Daizhuo, patience And so on us! "The little girl did not listen to the speech, Yan Baba to see the officers and men. As the little girl in the rubble layer, if the use of some rescue equipment, could collapse again ruins of the crisis little girls life. Can not be used machinery, the officers and men on the tube into a circle, hand-to Paozhao Paxia to rubble. At this time is 1:00, the rescue of these officers and men have a number of locations collapsed, can not long ago tired of. However, as long as their lax one second, then trapped under the ruins of the people may face the risk of death! In order to the affected people, their plight, tired, simply nothing. Officers and men is Bingzhuo "as early as possible into more than one second to save a" belief, uninterrupted rescue the affected people. At that time, little girls around the rubble was finally finished cleaning up the officers and men, girls were successfully rescued by.

Sichuan 7.8 earthquake alerted the world, the fate of the people of disaster areas also affect the 1.3 billion Chinese peoples heart. 4 Chuan Wenchuan earthquake, the China Seismological Bureau has launched a plan. 12 by the China Seismological Bureau, a unit of the Beijing Military Region, 150 and the Armed Police Corps General Hospital 22-member national earthquake disaster emergency rescue teams have rushed to the disaster areas Wenchuan, is responsible for search, rescue and medical tasks. Chinas Air Force today dispatched 22 military transport planes to the earthquake-stricken area in Sichuan air more than 6,000 paratroopers and four command vehicles, the implementation of Mianzhu, County, in north-earthquake relief mission. Ministry of Civil Affairs has allocated 25,000 emergency relief tents support Sichuan disaster areas and other relief supplies are being mobilized in transport. And the community, many enterprises in China Red Cross Society of China, Sichuan is also assistance.

The face of disaster, unity is strength. When the 1.3 billion Chinese people side by side, Shou Wanshou, Xin Lianxin time, any difficulties are temporary, and that any disaster can be overcome!

时间一点一点的消逝，每一分钟，都有着不少灾区人民因抢救官兵与医生的资源不够，而面临着死亡的危险。在网上，最新的消息和图片以及视频不断传来，而其中一则视频，更让我难以忘怀：视频的第一画面，是一座已经坍塌的楼房，这个地方曾经是一座美丽的校园。在坍塌的瓦砾堆中，一张稚嫩的小脸出现在眼前。那是一个一二年级左右的小女孩。经过了一天的掩埋，小女孩的脸由于过度饥饿和缺氧，原本红润的小脸已经变成了黑黄黑黄了。在她的脸上，依稀可以看见哭过的泪痕，还有那淡淡的绝望。小女孩的嘴巴还在一张一合，可是在视频中却听不到她的声音，想来小女孩在被废墟掩埋时曾经哭喊、求救，嗓子已经变哑了。看到这个小女孩，我心中很是感慨。四川的大地震，导致数以万计的人民围困在废墟中。他们和这位小女孩一样，在瓦砾堆之中无法自救，如果官兵不及时抢救他们，这些人民的生命将岌岌可危，受到死神的压迫。这时，只听一阵大喊：“这里有人!”一群官兵奔跑而来，激动地实施抢救工作。小女孩的脸上顿时充满了喜悦，大声叫着：“快来救我!”一位官兵低下头，对小女孩说道：“小妹妹，我们正在救你。你不要讲话，好好待着，耐心等我们!”小女孩听话地不讲话了，眼巴巴地看着官兵们。由于小女孩在废墟的里层，如果动用一些抢救的机器，可能会使废墟再度坍塌，危机小女孩的生命。不能动用机器，官兵们就围成一个圈，趴下来用手来刨着瓦砾。此时已是凌晨一点，这些官兵们已抢救了多个坍塌地点，早已累的不行了。可是，只要自己松懈一秒，那么困在废墟下的人民就有可能面临死亡的危险!为了受灾人民，自己苦点、累点，根本不算什么。官兵们就是秉着“早进一秒就可能多救一人”的信念，不间断地抢救着受灾人民。这时，小女孩周围的瓦砾终于被官兵们清理完了，小女孩成功地被解救了出来。

四川7.8级地震惊动了世界，灾区人民的命运也牵动着13亿中国人的心。四川汶川地震发生后，中国地震局已启动一级预案。由中国地震局12人、某部工兵团150人和武警总医院22人组成的国家地震灾害紧急救援队陆续奔赴汶川灾区，负责搜索、营救和医疗救护任务。中国空军今天派出二十二架军用运输机，向四川地震灾区空运六千多名空降兵和四台指挥车，执行绵竹、安县、北川地区的抗震救灾任务。民政部也紧急调拨25000顶救灾帐篷支援四川灾区，其他救灾物资正在调集运输中。而社会各界人士、中国多家企业公司、中国红十字会，也在援助四川。

面对灾难，团结就是力量。当13亿中国人肩并肩，手挽手，心连心的时候，任何困难都是暂时的，任何灾难都是可以战胜的!

Mobilize是一个平时不太常用的单词，但是此次四川地震灾难发生之后，全世界对于中国政府mobilize抗震救灾力量的效率给予了好评，我们也可以对mobilize有一个全新的认识与了解。在表示“废墟”的时候，英语中通常使用debris和rubble这两个单词。与地震相关的其他词语还包括地震的“震级”，“震中”，“地震强度”、“余震”等等，这些用英语怎么说?媒体是怎样报道的，让我们一起来学学!

2008年5月12日发生在四川西北部的特大地震及其惨重后果牵动了全体国人的心，媒体也迅速介入，在灾难发生后的第一时间，中央电视台启动24小时滚动直播。与此同时，西方媒体也纷纷迅速报道，而且大多惊叹中国政府的救灾效率，尤其是中国政府能在最短的时间内动员最大的人力投入救灾十分赞叹。

通过这些外媒的报道，我们也得到了一个通过新闻学习英语的良好机会，如果我们在积极关注地震灾难以及随后的可歌可泣抗争救灾行动的时候也注意通过英语媒体了解情况，我们就可以掌握一些地道的英语表达，丰富我们的语言应用能力。如美联社5月16日的一篇报道中有以下一段文字：China has mobilized 130,000 army and paramilitary troops to the disaster area, but the quake buckled roads and triggered mountain landslides, meaning that relief supplies and rescuers have struggled to reach the worst-hit areas.

Mobilize是一个平时不太常用的单词，但是此次四川地震灾难发生之后，全世界对于中国政府mobilize抗震救灾力量的效率给予了好评，我们也可以对mobilize有一个全新的认识与了解。中国政府此次动员的抗震救灾力量主要来自军警，上述文字中的paramilitary troops就是“准军事部队”的意思，也就是警察，包括武警。Paramilitary是西方国家通常用来表达警察和武警部队的英语词汇，在我国的汉英词典中，“武警”的译文通常是armed police，但这个表达远不如paramilitary在英语国家中用的普遍。中国政府此次出动的抗震救灾力量中除了军人之外还有大量武警、森林警察、消防警察和普通公安干警，这些警力在英语中可以统称为paramilitary troops。Buckled roads就是“阻挡道路”的意思，其中buckle这个单词在这里使用得十分生动形象，因为“阻挡道路”我们一般是表达为block road的，而buckle的意思是“使扭曲”，“使弯曲”，“使变形”，对于在汶川地震中毁坏的公路来说，buckle这个词显然是再形象不过的了，因为那里遭到毁坏的公路确实扭曲断裂变形了，这一点我们从电视上都看到了。triggered mountain landslides就是“引发山体滑坡”的意思，其中的mountain landslide就是“山体滑坡”的意思，slide属于美国英语用法，指的是(土、石、雪等的)崩落，崩塌。常见派生用法有landslide(山崩，滑坡，塌方)，mud slide就是“泥石流”。Trigger这个词用在这里也十分形象，因为它通常表示由于外来力量的作用而造成的某种后果。在美联社的另外一篇报道中，“引发”的英语对应词汇用的spark，其释义与trigger相似，如A strong aftershock sparked landslides near the epicenter of this weeks powerful earthquake Friday, burying vehicles and again cutting off ravaged areas of central China. 我们抗震救灾中所急需的各类“救灾物资”就是relief supplies。说到与“救”相关的词汇，我们的广大英语学习者往往会条件反射想到save这个英语单词，其实不然，在各种灾难救援行动中，rescue是一个更常用的词汇，下文的rescuers就是“救援人员”的意思，而“救援行动”本身在英语中就是relief。“救援人员”还可以表达为relief workers，如美联社的这篇报道中就提到了以下一句话：Relief workers said food, water and tents were urgently needed. 上文中的worst-hit areas指的就是此次地震灾害中受灾最严重的地区，比如说汶川，北川和青川等地。

此次汶川地震造成的严重后果之一就是大量人员、尤其是正在学校上学的孩子们被掩埋在建筑物坍塌之后的废墟之中，在表示“废墟”的时候，英语中通常使用debris和rubble这两个单词。如美联社的这篇报道提到：Rescuers saved a child from the debris of a school in the town of Beichuan 80 hours after the quake struck. They said they could hear weak calls for help from amid the rubble, Xinhua said.其中，debris所涵盖的范围比rubble更广泛，它可以泛指一切物体解体之后形成的碎片或者残骸，比如说飞机发生空难之后的残骸the debris of a plane，又如，The beach was littered with debris(海滩上到处都是残骸)。必须指出的是，debris是不可数名词。相对而言，rubble用在此次地震灾难的报道中就更加具有针对性，因为它表示(被毁的建筑物或墙壁)的碎石，碎砖，瓦砾，而汶川地震之后大量人员就是被掩埋在rubble之中的。Rubble同样也是不可数名词。此外，表示“倒塌的建筑物”时候，英语还经常使用ruin，它是可数名词，因此更经常使用ruins这个复数形式，其搭配介词是in。如美联社的这一报道说：Two girls held handsin the ruins of their school and swore to each other they would not give up hope, Xinhua said.又如，Elsewhere, rescuers were still finding survivors after being buried in rubble for 96 hours… 在词语搭配方面，除了ruin之外，rubble和debris的搭配介词也都是in，如buried in the rubble/debris就是“被掩埋在废墟/瓦砾之中”的意思。如果表达“被困”在废墟之中，那么，这时候的相应单词就是trap，其完整的词组表达就是英语被动式be trapped in the debris。如美联社的报道说： A Chinese state news agency says rescuers have pulled a student to safety afterbeing trapped for 80 hours in the debris of a school following this weeks massive earthquake.地震中的遇险人员在遭到掩埋之后必定会呼救，这时候的对应英语表达除了上文提到的call for help之外还可以是yell for help，如美联社报道说：Xinhua News Agency said Friday that rescuers could still hear weak yells for help from the collapsed building in Beichuan in the northern part of Sichuan and hope to rescue more students.

汶川大地震造成的灾难性后果之一就是许多学校的教学楼坍塌了，此次我国媒体报道的时候使用的词语叫做“垮塌”，在英语中，无论是坍塌还是垮塌，其实都是一个词，即collapse，既是名词，也是动词，还是美联社的同一篇报道中提到：In the town of Dujiangyan, a school collapse buried 900 students. In Wufu, nearly every building in the village withstood the quake but for a primary school, whose collapse killed some 300 students. 又如，美联社新闻说，Experts said hope was quickly fading for anyone still caught in the wreckage of homes, schools, offices and factories that collapsed in the magnitude-7.9 quake, the most powerful in three decades in quake-prone China.房屋collapse的后果就是被夷为平地，而英语中表示“夷为平地”的对应说法是flatten，如美联社报道说The magnitude 7.9 quake flattened houses, schools and offices the southwestern province of Sichuan. In Hanwang, the towns mostly older buildings were flattened or severely damaged by the quake.

此次地震造成大量人员不幸遇难，让我们无不为之揪心，但这又是无法回避的事实。为此，党中央和国务院紧急强调，在抗震救灾进入第二阶段之后，随着死亡人数的增加和气温的升高，震区防疫就成为工作重点。为严防灾区传染病流行，卫生部防疫队5月15日进驻灾区。这里提到的“防疫”就是epidemic prevention，其中的epidemic是“流行病”，“传染病”的意思，在这里指的是“疫情”。如美联社的这一报道说：There were concerns about epidemics if the dead were not soon buried or cremated. 这个句子中的cremate是人死亡之后进行火化处理的意思。为了更好地应对震区可能出现的疫情，卫生部下发了通知，美联社的报道说：The Ministry of Health issued a notice ordering bodies to be cleaned where they were found and buried as soon as possible, far from water sources and downwind from populated areas.

此次惨烈的大地震造成了数以万计的居民遇难，而且死亡人数还在不断攀升。天灾人祸中的死亡总数，英语中叫做death toll，如美联社报道说The emergency headquarters of the State Council, Chinas Cabinet, said the confirmed death toll had reached 19,509 — up more than 4,500 from the day before. The council said deaths could rise to 50,000, state media reported.上文的意思是，国家抗震救灾总指挥部宣布，截止5月15日，确认的死亡人数已达到19509人，但最终遇难人数可能上升到5万人。

地震造成的直接后果是无数人死伤和无数房屋建筑被毁，但是，地震还可能造成伴随而来的“次生灾害”，对此党中央和国务院十分重视，及时做出应对部署，以避免次生灾害对人民生命财产的再次损害。美联社报道说：Even though aftershocks had mostly abated, the risk of secondary damage remained. Chinas Ministry of Land and Resources warned heavy rains — forecast for the next few days — would likely set off new landslides in the mountainous disaster zone, where many workers were busy extracting victims and recovering bodies.上文中的secondary damage就是“次生灾害”，而aftershocks had mostly abated指的是余震已经减弱。 5月20日下午，中共中央政治局常委、国务院总理、国务院抗震救灾总指挥部总指挥温家宝主持召开总指挥部第11次会议时就强调切实做好受灾群众安置工作，防范次生灾害。

与地震相关的其他词语还包括地震的“震级”，“震中”，“地震强度”、“余震”等等，如美联社报道说，A major earthquake measuring 7.8 Richter Scale jolted Wenchuan County of Southwest Chinas Sichuan province at 2:28 p.m. on Monday.其中的measuring 7.8 Richter Scale就是“里氏7?8级”的意思，其中的measure还可以表达为register。A major earthquake of 7.8-magnitude shook Chinas Sichuan province on Monday, the US Geological Survey said. 其中的magnitude就是表示地震的强度。Roads to the epicenter were closed due to damage caused by the 7.8-magnitude quake, and the situation was making rescue efforts difficult even 48 hours after the deadly quake.这里的epicenter指的就是地震的“震中”，此次川西北大地震的震中就位于汶川县的映秀镇。又如，A strong aftershock sparked landslides near the epicenter of this weeks powerful earthquake Friday, burying vehicles and again cutting off ravaged areas of central China. Aftershock就是“余震”，上文已提及。而“地震”除了表达为earthquake及其缩略形式quake之外还可以说temblor，这是美国英语中用来表示“地震”的单词。此外，由于此次地震造成的伤亡后果十分惨重，因此在修饰性词汇方面，英语中用了多个不同单词，如massive/powerful/devastating/deadly/killer earthquake。

当然，与地震相关的词语表达还有很多，不可能在这里一一列举。在关注地震奉献爱心的时候，我们也可以通过阅读英语新闻报道来掌握一些英语词汇，丰富我们的语言表达能力，新闻媒介是当今日新月异的政治、经济、科技、文化和社会生活等各个层面活动的最佳表现渠道，语言便是其表现载体，因为语言是伴随着特定的政治、社会等环境而产生的，具有明显的社会性。