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個邦和七個聯(lián)合屬地的主電網(wǎng)發(fā)生故障，給企業(yè)造成估計

達數(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

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

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。