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Thousands flee Philippines volcano
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/12/200912159492369522.html
* flee [flíː] = 달아나다, 도망치다, (위험 등에서) 벗어나다, 피하다 (from), 피난하다 (to)
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Mount Mayon has erupted more than 50 times in the last four centuries [AFP]
Thousands of people living near the slopes of Mount Mayon in the central Philippines have fled their homes after the volcano spewed lava and sent ash plumes high into the air.
* slope = 1 비탈, 경사, 사면(斜面) 2 경사지게 하다 3 경사지다
* fled = FLEE의 과거·과거분사
* spew = 1 토하다, 게우다, 내뿜다, 분출하다 2 털어놓다 3 뿜어 나오다
* lava = (유동 상태의) 용암; (응고한) 용암, 화산암
* ash = 재, 화산재, 담뱃재
* plume = 1 깃털, 깃장식, (투구·모자 앞에 꽂는) 깃털
2 깃모양의 털, 우상 원추화(羽狀圓錘花)
Soldiers and police oversaw the evacuation around the Mayon volcano on Tuesday, amid concerns that an eruption could occur at any moment.
"After the series of ash puffs and ash explosions of 1,000 metres [high], we cannot rule out a major explosion," Cedric Daep, the head of the disaster relief operations in the eastern Bicol region, said.
* puff = 1. 훅 불기[소리], 한 번 불기[부는 양(量)] 2 (숨을) 훅훅 불다, (연기를) 내뿜다
Daep said the authorities aimed to evacuate nearly 50,000 people from villages within eight kilometres of the volcano by Thursday.
Volcanologists raised the alert level on the 2,460-metre high volcano to two levels below eruption on Monday after lava was seen dripping from the crater.
* alert = 1 방심하지 않는, 기민한 2 경보, 경계 3 경고하다
* drip = 1 똑똑 떨어지기, 듣는 방울 2 (물방울을) 듣게 하다, 똑똑 떨어뜨리다
* crater = 분화구, (운석이 떨어져 생긴) 구멍, (달의) 크레이터
However, the national volcanology institute also said Mayon could yet calm down and might not necessarily erupt.
Frequent eruptions
Officials said it is unlikely that villagers would be able to return home before Christmas, the biggest holiday of the year in the mainly Catholic country.
"It's 10 days before Christmas. Most likely people will be in evacuation centres, and if Mayon's activity won't ease down we will not allow them to return to their homes,'' Jukes Nunez, a provincial emergency management official, said.
* centre = center = 중심
* ease = 1 편함, 마음 편함 2 진정시키다 3 가벼워지다
Mayon is the most active of 22 volcanoes in the Philippines, having erupted more than 50 times in the last four centuries.
Residents in Albay province are used to moving away from Mayon, which spewed ash last month and prompted some villages to flee.
The last time the volcano erupted was in 2006.
Mayon's most destructive eruption came in 1841 when lava flows buried the town of Cagsawa and killed more than 1,200 people.
* destructive = 파괴적인, 해를 끼치는
The country lies on the volatile "Ring of Fire", a belt of volcanoes circling the Pacific Ocean that is also prone to earthquakes.
* volatile= 1 휘발성의 2 변덕스러운, 민첩한 3 (정세·상황 따위가) 불안정한, 일촉즉발의
* prone = (좋지 않은 방향으로의) 경향이 있는,
(…하기) 일쑤인, (…하기) 쉬운(liable) (to; to do)
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1. 내용 이해하기
A. 화산폭발에 어떤 대비 하고 있나?
B. 필리핀과 Albay의 화산 관련 과거 사실은?
2. 크리스마스를 분출 직전 화산 옆에서 보내는 것에 대한 당신의 생각은?
A. 찬성이면, 당신은 무엇을 하고 싶은가?
B. 반대면, 왜 그렇고. 대신 당신은 크리스마스에 어디에 있고 싶은가?
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