이번주 시사영어 강의 기사 : 대만 대지진, 하지만 작은 피해의 이유

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이번 주에는

지난 4월2일에 있었던 대만 대지진 관련 내용을 가지고

영어훈련하겠습니다.

이번 대만 대지진은 진도 7.4의 강진으로서

엄청난 피해를 야기할 것을 예상되었지만,

결과적으로 그 피해가 매우 적은 것으로 드러났습니다.

그 이유를 알아보면서 우리가 배워야 할 것이 있는지 알아보겠습니다.

그리고, 지진 관련 내용에서 항상 나오는 표현들을 알아보고

CNN에서 그런 표현들이 나왔을 때 쉽게 알아들을 수 있도록

훈련하시기 바랍니다.

How Taiwan Escaped Catastrophe in Massive Earthquake

Magnitude-7.4 quake was the island’s strongest in 25 years, but preparation—and some luck—made it far less deadly than the last big one

About 15 minutes after Taiwan’s largest earthquake in a quarter-century struck, Chen Hsiu-ying watched her apartment building from a few hundred yards down the road as it tilted and then partially collapsed.

“I live on the fifth floor, but now it has become the second floor,” the 59-year-old woodworker said Thursday at a shelter in Hualien, a city of around 100,000 people on Taiwan’s rugged eastern coast.
The official death toll from Wednesday’s magnitude-7.4 quake stood at 10 people as of Thursday evening. A woman in Chen’s building who initially escaped died after going back in for her cat. Although Chen’s apartment, which she had been planning to buy, was severely damaged, she couldn’t help but feel a measure of relief.

That sense Chen felt of having escaped catastrophe mirrored a broader feeling across Taiwan. The quake took a toll on the community of Hualien and the island as a whole, but it was far less deadly than one that struck in 1999, which killed more than 2,400 people and left more than 11,000 others injured. That 7.7-magnitude quake struck the center of the island and destroyed thousands of buildings.

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