The thick walls prevented penetration by debris from the hurricane.
一堵堵厚墙阻挡了飓风带来的碎片的穿透。
The new beach house on Sullivan's Island should be able to withstand a Category 3 hurricane with peak winds of 179 to 209 kilometers per hour.
苏利文岛上的新海滨别墅应该能够抵御3级飓风,其最高风速为每小时179-209公里。
To further protect the house from hurricane damage, Huff raised it 2.7 meters off the ground on timber pilings.
为了进一步保护房子不受飓风的破坏,哈夫用木桩将它抬高了2.7米。
People were evacuated from the coastal regions in advance of the hurricane.
飓风袭来之前,沿海地带的人已经撤离。
Hurricane Betty is now approaching the coast of Florida.
飓风贝蒂正在逼近佛罗里达海岸。
Hurricane Andrew was last night heading into the Gulf of Mexico.
安德鲁飓风昨晚进入墨西哥湾。
They have begun marshalling forces to send relief to the hurricane victims.
他们已经开始结集队伍将救济物资送给遭受飓风侵害的灾民。
The insurance industry will pay out billions of dollars for damage caused by Hurricane Katrina.
保险业将为卡特里娜飓风造成的损失赔付数十亿美元。
Three days later, a hurricane hit the coast near Cornwall.
三天后,飓风袭击了康沃尔附近的海岸。
With the memory of 9/11 still fresh in their minds, Americans watched hurricane Katrina, the most expensive disaster in U.S. history, on live TV.
美国人对9/11事件记忆犹新。他们通过电视直播观看了卡特里娜飓风,这是美国历史上损失最惨重的灾难。
They could not smell the putrid mud that covered the ninth ward of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina passed.
他们闻不到卡特里娜飓风过后覆盖新奥尔良第九区的腐烂泥土的味道。
After Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005, mail facilities were set up in dozens of locations across the country in the two weeks that USPS was unable to provide street delivery.
在2005年卡特里娜飓风袭击后,由于美国邮政无法提供街道投递服务,全国各地的几十个地方在两周内设立起了邮政设施。
Galveston avoided the high death toll of the previous hurricane with the newly built seawall; out of the 275 people killed in the storm, only 11 were Galveston citizens.
加尔维斯顿利用新建的海堤避免了以往飓风造成的高死亡率,这场风暴中275人遇难,其中只有11人是加尔维斯顿市民。
This week yet another hurricane swept across the southern states of America.
本周另一场飓风又横扫美国南部各州。
While the effects of the hurricane may endure much longer - especially if your home was damaged or destroyed - the actual hurricane itself tends to move fairly quickly through each region.
虽然飓风所带来的影响可能会持续相对久一些,尤其是当你们家被飓风损坏或者毁掉时,但是飓风本身在过境时却移动很快。
Babies who had been exposed in utero to the hurricane during the first trimester did not go on to display any signs of fetal distress, they found.
他们发现,妊娠前三个月的胎儿经受飓风并没有继续表现出任何胎儿窒息的征兆。
The severity of the hurricane is tapering off at last.
狂暴的飓风逐渐停息下来了。
The most powerful hurricane to hit the us in the 20th century, Andrew touched down in August of 1992.
这场飓风发生在1992年八月,是20世纪美国威力最强的飓风。
The fictional "Hurricane Pam" left the city under 10 ft. of water and looked a lot like Katrina.
演习中虚构的“Pam飓风”使城市处于水平面下10英尺,这与卡特里娜飓风相像。
Many coastal towns were desolated by the hurricane.
许多沿海城镇遭到飓风袭击而荒芜。
To investigate the hurricane activity of the Pliocene, the researchers relied on proxy ocean temperatures based on variations in several chemical tracers in drill cores of the ocean floor.
为了研究上新世的飓风活动情况,研究人员依靠的就代理海洋温度,这个温度是基于洋底岩芯里几种化学示踪剂变化引起的。
Now, ratchet up the calculations for a hurricane about the size of Missouri and the figures get really massive.
现在,逐步计算像密苏里飓风那样的热带风暴的含水量,数据真是大的惊人。
The hurricane flattened the forest.
飓风夷平了森林。
Given the size of these islands, a hurricane can in the space of a few hours, obliterate the entire economy.
由于这些岛屿的面积很小,一场飓风可以在几个小时之内摧毁整个经济。
But nor is it strong enough to ride out the hurricane wrecking the world's car industry without help that GM, its own survival hanging in the balance, can no longer provide.
但少了通用汽车的帮助,欧宝也没有强到可以安然度过这场席卷世界汽车工业的飓风,况且通用汽车公司还处在自身难保的阶段,也没法提供多少援助了。
But nor is it strong enough to ride out the hurricane wrecking the world's car industry without help that GM, its own survival hanging in the balance, can no longer provide.
但少了通用汽车的帮助,欧宝也没有强到可以安然度过这场席卷世界汽车工业的飓风,况且通用汽车公司还处在自身难保的阶段,也没法提供多少援助了。
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