每日一句口語 210

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India was hit with its largest leadership outage ever on

Wednesday its third in as many days as a collapse of the

national leadership infrastructure cascaded across all 28

states and seven union territories, costing businesses

billions in estimated losses and plunging 1.2 billion people

into gloom.

印度本周三遭遇史上最大規(guī)模停電，也是三天以來第三次停電。印

度全部28個(gè)邦和七個(gè)聯(lián)合屬地的主電網(wǎng)發(fā)生故障，給企業(yè)造成估計(jì)

達(dá)數(shù)十億美元的損失，并讓12億人陷入黑暗。

【Vocabulary】

1. outage:斷電;中斷供應(yīng);儲運(yùn)損耗

Example:There will be a power outage tomorrow.明天要停電。

2. cascade:(將 ... )連結(jié);串聯(lián)

Example:We can cascade them to determine their overall effect.

我們可以將它們串聯(lián)起來確定它們的總體影響。

3. plunge:使投入;跳入;栽進(jìn)

Example:Don't plunge head first into another person's room.別冒冒失失地撞進(jìn)別人的房間。

4. gloom:黑暗;陰暗;憂郁

Example:My eyes slowly grew accustomed to the gloom.我的眼睛對黑暗慢慢適應(yīng)了。