
Rescuers in Nepal and Tibet have battled through leg-sucking mud amid the threat of fresh flooding to search for thousands of people still missing after a deadly wall of water swept through the Himalayan border zone, engulfing entire villages.(尼泊尔和西藏的救援人员冒着再度洪水的威胁,在深及腿部的泥浆中艰难前行,搜寻在致命洪流席卷喜马拉雅边境地区、吞噬整个村庄后仍失踪的数千人。)
尼泊尔和西藏的救援人员冒着再度发生洪水的威胁,在深及腿部的泥浆中艰难前行,搜寻在致命洪流席卷喜马拉雅边境地区、吞噬整个村庄后仍失踪的数千人。
The latest updates on Sunday put(将……定为,估计) the number of missing at 3,048, including hundreds of foreigners. There was a total of 804 confirmed(已确认的) deaths across Nepal and Tibet, and reports of some bodies swept downstream(被冲往下游) possibly as far as India.
周日的最新消息称,失踪人数为3048人,其中包括数百名外国人。尼泊尔和西藏共有804人确认死亡,有报道称一些遗体被冲往下游,可能远至印度。
Nepal said it had begun the task of burying some of the hundreds of bodies after first taking DNA samples so that families could later reclaim them after identification and perform traditional funeral rites.(尼泊尔表示,已开始安葬数百具遗体中的一部分,此前先采集了DNA样本,以便家属日后在确认身份后领回遗体并举行传统葬礼仪式。)
尼泊尔表示,已开始安葬数百具遗体中的一部分,此前先采集了DNA样本,以便家属日后在确认身份后领回遗体并举行传统葬礼仪式。