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จง
แปลข่าวต่อไปนี้เป็นภาษาไทย
Australian
wildfires destroy 100 homes near Sydney
(Reuters)
– Wildfires destroyed at least 100 homes near Sydney, Australia's
biggest city, after forcing thousands to evacuate their homes, and on
Friday authorities warned more homes could be lost as fires burned out
of control.
Astonished
Sydney-siders watched on Thursday as a thick cloud of smoke from the fires
in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney moved across the city over some of
its best-known landmarks, including the Sydney Opera House and the Harbour
Bridge.
Fuelled
by unseasonably high temperatures and strong winds, 100 fires were still
burning in New South Wales, more than 30 of which were uncontained, the
NSW Rural Fire Service (RFS) reported.
Thousands
of people spent the night in evacuation centres on the outskirts of the
city. Emergency Services Minister Mike Gallacher said the loss of just 100
homes could be considered "lucky" given the magnitude of the threat posed
by the fires.
Reference
-
คำย่อ ให้เขียนชื่อตัวอักษรนั้น ๆ ลงเป็นภาษาไทย
และให้เขียนโดยไม่ต้องใส่จุดและไม่เว้นช่องไฟ
- Australia
- New South Wales
- Sydney
- Sydney Opera House
- Harbour Bridge
- Blue Mountains
Discussion
- Information units
- what
- who
- where
- when
- how
- why
- Astonished Sydney-siders watched on Thursday as a thick cloud of smoke
- เมื่อวันพฤหัสบดีประชาชนชาวเมือง
ซิดนีย์ต่างมองกลุ่มควันหนาทึบ
- เมื่อวันพฤหัสบดีชาวนครซิดนีย์
- Ambiguity in Thai translation of "west of Sydney"
- If you translate "west of Sydney" as "ทาง
ตะวันตกของเมืองซิดนีย์," you might be saying that the Blue
Mountains were situated in the western part of the city, not to the
west of the city.
- Proper names
- Blue Mountains
- เทือกเขาน้ำเงิน
- เทือกเขาบลู
- Sydney Opera House
- โรงละครซิดนีย์
- โรงโอเปราซิดนีย์
- ซิดนีย์โอเปราเฮาส์
- Harbour Bridge
- สะพานฮาร์เบอร์
-
ฮาร์เบอร์บริดจ์
- cf. common Thai terms for foreign places
- man-made; architecture
- the leaning tower of Pisa –
หอเอนปิซา
- the Statue of Liberty –
เทพีเสรีภาพ
- the Great Wall (of China) –
กำแพงเมืองจีน
- London Bridge, Tower Bridge –
ลอนดอนบริดจ์ เทาเวอร์บริดจ์ สะพานลอนดอน สะพานเทาเวอร์
- geographical sites
- the Alps – เทือกเขาแอลป์
- the Rockies – เทือกเขาร็อกกี
- cf. Thai terms for foreign organizations
- rural
- ภูธร เขตภูธร
- ชนบท
- บ้านนอก
- ต่างจังหวัด
Vocabulary
- wildfire (n.) –
- claim
- home
- force
- evacuate
- warn
- lost
- astonished
–
- Sydney-sider
- watch
– look; see; witness
- thick
- cloud
- smoke
– haze
extinguish
(the
fire) (v.) –
break
out
(v.) –
evacuate (v.) –
smoke inhalation
(v.) –
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Wildfire News
Source
Yueyang, Maggie Lu. "Australian Wildfires Kill One, Destroy 100 Homes Near
Sydney." Reuters, 18 Oct. 2013.
October 18, 20137:49 AM
Australian wildfires kill one, destroy 100 homes near Sydney
By Maggie Lu Yueyang
SYDNEY, Oct 18 (Reuters) - Wildfires claimed one life and destroyed at least
100 homes near Sydney, Australia’s biggest city, after forcing thousands to
evacuate their homes, and authorities warned on Friday more homes could be
lost as fires burned out of control.
Fuelled by unseasonably high temperatures and strong winds, 100 fires were
still burning in New South Wales state in Australia’s east, more than 30 of
which were uncontained, the NSW Rural Fire Service (RFS) said.
A 63-year-old man died from a heart attack on Thursday while trying to
defend his home from a fire in a coastal community a short drive north of
Sydney, an RFS spokesman said.
Thousands of people spent the night in evacuation centres on the western
outskirts of the city, as well as to the north and the south.
Astonished Sydneysiders watched on Thursday as a thick pall of smoke from
the fires in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney moved across the city over
some of its best-known landmarks, including the Sydney Opera House and the
Harbour Bridge.
Callers to Sydney talkback radio stations on Thursday reported ash and burnt
leaves falling on some of the city’s famous beaches, including Bondi.
Emergency warnings remained in place for fires in the Blue Mountains and the
Central Coast, just north of Sydney.
The biggest threat was on an uncontained fire in Wyong, 75 km (45 miles)
north of Sydney, with some homes believed to have been destroyed, the RFS
said in its latest update.
NSW Police and Emergency Services Minister Mike Gallacher said the loss of
just 100 homes could be considered “lucky” given the magnitude of the threat
posed by the fires.
“I suspect given what I saw last night ... I think the potential is most
certainly much higher,” Gallacher told Australian Broadcasting Corp. (ABC)
radio.
Residents said whole streets had been razed in some communities in the Blue
Mountains, where schools and businesses were forced to close.
“My son was here, a 19-year-old boy, and we were talking to him on the phone
and we simply said grab a few things,” Blue Mountains resident Ron Fuller
told ABC radio.
“He grabbed his favourite bass (guitar) and a couple of items and he got
out, and as he was driving up the street he could see the flames coming into
a little gorge behind us and then the next thing the houses were all going
up one by one.”
Authorities expected to reopen some areas in the Blue Mountains as the
weather turned milder on Friday.
With dry weather and a massive land area, Australia is particularly prone to
brushfires. In 2009, the “Black Saturday” wildfires in Victoria state killed
173 people and caused $4.4 billion worth of damage.
(Additional reporting by Lachlan Brunton and Lincoln Feast; Editing by Paul
Tait)
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