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จง แปลข่าวต่อไปนี้เป็นภาษาไทย

   

Typhoon disrupts Tokyo commute, grazes nuke plant

A powerful typhoon slammed into Japan on Wednesday, leaving 13 people dead or missing in south-central regions and halting trains in Tokyo before grazing a crippled nuclear plant in the tsunami-ravaged northeast.

Officials at the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant, where engineers are still struggling with small radiation leaks due to tsunami damage, expressed relief that Typhoon Roke's driving winds and rains caused no immediate problems there other than a broken security camera.

"The worst seems to be over," said Takeo Iwamoto, spokesman for plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co., after the storm passed just west of the plant and then headed north.

More than 200,000 households in central Japan were without electricity late Wednesday. Police and local media reported 13 people dead or missing in southern and central regions, many of them believed swept away by rivers swollen with rains.

In Tokyo, where many rush hour commuter trains were suspended, thousands of commuters trying to rush home were stuck at stations across the sprawling city.

 

Translation 1

โรงนิวเคลียร์ หวิดโดนไต้ฝุ่น โตเกียวชะงัก

เมื่อวันพุธที่ผ่านมาพายุไต้ฝุ่น กำลังแรงซัดเข้าถล่มประเทศญี่ปุ่น ส่งผลให้มีผู้สูญหายหรือเสียชีวิต 13 รายทางตอนกลางและตอนใต้ของประเทศและรถไฟในเมืองโตเกียวหยุดชะงัก  ก่อนผ่านเข้าไปใกล้โรงไฟฟ้านิวเคลียร์ในภาคตะวันออกเฉียงเหนือ ที่เพิ่งอ่วมจากสึนามิ

เจ้าหน้าที่โรงไฟฟ้านิวเคลียร์ฟุ กุชิมา ไดอิชิแสดงความโล่งใจที่ลมแรงจัดและฝนกระหน่ำจากไต้ฝุ่นโรคีทำให้กล้องวงจรปิดเสียหายเพียง 1 ตัว  วิศวกรโรงไฟฟ้ายังคงพยายามแก้ไขปัญหากัมมันตรังสีรั่วไหลจากเหตุสึนามิอยู่

"คงพ้นช่วงที่หนักที่สุดแล้ว" นายทาเคโอะ อิวาโมโตะโฆษกบริษัทโตเกียวอีเล็กทริกเพาเวอร์ที่ดูแลโรงไฟฟ้ากล่าวภายหลังพายุ เคลื่อนตัวผ่านไปทางทิศตะวันตกของโรงไฟฟ้านิวเคลียร์อย่างเฉียด ฉิวก่อนเคลื่อนตัวต่อไปทางเหนือ

บ้านเรือนกว่า 2 แสนหลังคาเรือนในภาคกลางของประเทศไม่มีไฟฟ้าใช้ช่วงคืนวันพุธ  เจ้าหน้าที่ตำรวจและสื่อญี่ปุ่นแจ้งมีผู้สูญหายหรือเสียชีวิต 13 รายทางตอนใต้และกลางของประเทศ เชื่อว่าหลายคนถูกกระแสน้ำในแม่น้ำพัดพาหายไปเนื่องจากฝนตกทำให้น้ำขึ้นสูง

รถไฟช่วงชั่วโมงเร่งด่วนในกรุง โตเกียวหลายขบวนหยุดเดินรถ เป็นเหตุให้ผู้โดยสารหลายหมื่นคนติดอยู่ตามสถานีรถไฟต่างๆ กระจายอยู่ทั่วเมืองกลับบ้านไม่ได้


 

Translation 2

ไต้ฝุ่นเฉียด โรงนิวเคลียร์ โตเกียวชะงัก


 


Reference

Fukushima

 

 


 

Discussion


 

Vocabulary



commute (n.) การเดินทาง(ไปกลับระหว่างบ้านกับที่ทำงาน)

1: an act or an instance of commuting
2: the distance covered in commuting <a long commute> (Merriam-Webster)

commute (v.) เดินทาง(ไปกลับระหว่างบ้านกับ ที่ทำงาน)

3: to travel back and forth regularly (as between a suburb and a city) <He commutes to work every day by train.> <She commutes 400 miles a week.> (Merriam-Webster)

graze (v.) เฉี่ยว เฉียด

transitive verb (Merriam-Webster)
1: to touch lightly in passing
2: abrade, scratch <grazed her knee when she fell>

plant (n.) โรงงาน

(Merriam-Webster)

1 a: a young tree, vine, shrub, or herb planted or suitable for planting b: any of a kingdom (Plantae) of multicellular eukaryotic mostly photosynthetic organisms typically lacking locomotive movement or obvious nervous or sensory organs and possessing cellulose cell walls
2 a: the land, buildings, machinery, apparatus, and fixtures employed in carrying on a trade or an industrial business b: a factory or workshop for the manufacture of a particular product; also: power plant c: the total facilities available for production or service d: the buildings and other physical equipment of an institution
3: an act of planting
4: something or someone planted

leak (n.) การรั่ว การรั่วไหล การซึม
2: the act, process, or an instance of leaking (Merriam-Webster)

halt (v.) หยุด ยุติ ไม่ทำงาน ไม่เดิน หยุดดำเนินการ

transitive verb (Merriam-Webster)
1: to bring to a stop <the strike halted subways and buses>
2: to cause the discontinuance of: end <halt hostilities>

crippled (adj.) พิการ หยุด(ทำงาน) ไม่ทำงาน พัง มีปัญหา อัมพาต

ravage (v.) ทำลาย

transitive verb: to wreak havoc on: affect destructively <a land ravaged by war> (Merriam-Webster)

intransitive verb: to commit destructive actions


official (n.) เจ้าหน้าที่

just

across (prep.) ทั่ว ตลอด

(Merriam-Webster)

1 a: from one side to the opposite side of : over, through <swam across the river> b: on the opposite side of <lives across the street from us>
2: so as to intersect or pass through at an angle <sawed across the grain of the wood>
3: so as to find or meet <came across your football in the hall closet>
4 a: throughout <obvious interest across the nation — Robert Goralski> b: so as to include or take into consideration all classes or categories <across differences, they insist, there can be no rational dialogue — Huston Smith>

sprawling (adj.) กระจัดกระจาย กระจาย ระเกะระกะ ไม่เป็นระเบียบ

sprawl (intransitive verb) (Merriam-Webster)

1 a archaic: to lie thrashing or tossing about b: to creep or clamber awkwardly
2: to lie or sit with arms and legs spread out
3: to spread or develop irregularly or without restraint <bushes sprawling along the road> <sprawling suburbs> <a sprawling narrative>

 


 

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Typhoon disrupts Tokyo commute, grazes nuke plant

 

AP Associated Press

updated 9/21/2011 1:49:37 PM ET

 

TOKYO — A powerful typhoon slammed into Japan on Wednesday, leaving 13 people dead or missing in south-central regions and halting trains in Tokyo before grazing a crippled nuclear plant in the tsunami-ravaged northeast.

Officials at the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant, where engineers are still struggling with small radiation leaks due to tsunami damage, expressed relief that Typhoon Roke's driving winds and rains caused no immediate problems there other than a broken security camera.

"The worst seems to be over," said Takeo Iwamoto, spokesman for plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co., after the storm passed just west of the plant and then headed north.

More than 200,000 households in central Japan were without electricity late Wednesday. Police and local media reported 13 people dead or missing in southern and central regions, many of them believed swept away by rivers swollen with rains.

The storm, packing sustained winds of up to 100 mph, made landfall in the early afternoon near the city of Hamamatsu, about 125 miles west of Tokyo. The fast-moving storm went past the capital in the evening and then headed into the Tohoku region, which was devastated by the March 11 earthquake tsunami.

In Tokyo, where many rush hour commuter trains were suspended, thousands of commuters trying to rush home were stuck at stations across the sprawling city.

"The hotels in the vicinity are all booked up, so I'm waiting for the bullet train to restart," Hiromu Harada, a 60-year-old businessman, said dejectedly at Tokyo Station.

Fire department officials reported three people injured in Tokyo. In the trendy shopping district of Shibuya, winds knocked a tree onto a sidewalk, but no one was hurt. Pedestrians struggled to walk straight in powerful winds that made umbrellas useless.

At the Fukushima plant, engineers are still working to stabilize the reactors six months after three of them melted down when the tsunami disabled the plant's power and back-up generators.

Iwamoto said the storm passed without damaging the reactors' cooling systems, which are crucial to keeping them under control. However, a closed-circuit camera that shows exteriors of the reactor buildings abruptly stopped, and plant workers were investigating, he said.

Workers were trying to prevent pools of contaminated water from flooding and leaking outside the complex, said Junichi Matsumoto, another power company spokesman.

"The contaminated water levels have been rising, and we are watching the situation very closely to make sure it stays there," Matsumoto told reporters.

As the storm headed further into the north, it triggered landslides in parts of Miyagi state that already were hit by the March disasters. Some 2,500 people, including 472 quake and tsunami survivors living in shelters in the town of Onagawa, were ordered to evacuate due to fear of flooding. The local government requested the help of defense troops. Dozens of schools canceled classes.

The disaster-struck region had a chilling reminder of its earlier disasters when a magnitude-5.3 earthquake struck late Wednesday just south of Fukushima in the Ibaraki state. Officials said the temblor posed no danger to the plant, and that it did not cause any damage or injuries in the region.

Image: Flooded area in Japan
Kyodo News via Reuters
An aerial view of flooded Toyokawa, central Japan, on Wednesday after Typhoon Roke caused flooding.

Heavy rains prompted floods and caused road damage earlier in dozens of locations in Nagoya and several other cities, the Aichi prefectural (state) government said.

Parts of Japan's central city of Nagoya, about 170 miles west of Tokyo, were flooded near swollen rivers where rescue workers helped residents evacuate in rubber boats.

Police in nearby Gifu prefecture said a 9-year-old boy and an 84-year-old man were missing after apparently falling into swollen rivers.

More than 200 domestic flights were canceled and some bullet train services were suspended.

Toyota Motor Corp., Japan's No. 1 automaker, shut down its plants as a precaution.

Machinery maker Mitsubishi Heavy Industries told workers at its five plants to stay home, company spokesman Hideo Ikuno said.

Nissan Motor Co. spokesman Chris Keeffe said workers at its Yokohama headquarters and nearby technical facilities were being told to go home early for safety reasons, and that two plants were not operating.

A typhoon that slammed Japan earlier this month left about 90 people dead or missing.

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