1.海啸
1.a large destructive ocean wave caused by an underwater earthquake or another movement of the earth's surface
1.It did up to the word tsunamis above because he took a break of about 20 minutes, during which I made corrections.
只有“海啸”这个词往上还保留着，因为CM在此处中断了约20分钟，在此期间我进行校正。
2.NOAA spends forty million dollars a year in an effort to protect the United States from tsunamis.
诺阿花费四千万美元一年，以努力防止海啸美国。
3.Collapsing buildings claim by far the majority of lives, but the destruction is often compounded by mud slides, fires, floods, or tsunamis.
地震引起的房屋倒塌通常了绝大多数的伤亡，而地震带来的危害却不止于此，还包括由此引发的泥石流、火灾、洪灾和海啸。
4.Given that events like earthquakes and tsunamis cannot be escaped, the bank is also doing more to help poor countries prepare for the worst.
考虑到地震和海啸所带来的灾害在所难免，世界银行正在帮助贫穷国家做最坏的准备。
5.But he said the paper does not provide enough data to show that tsunamis in Haiti are 10 times more likely than previously estimated.
但是他说该论文并没有提供足够的数据从而证明海地的海啸是此前估计的可能性的10倍。
6.Finding evidence of landslides does not necessarily imply that they triggered tsunamis, he said.
他说，找到滑坡的证据并不必然意味着它们引发了海啸。
7.Tsunamis can travel thousands of miles, and still send water crashing a hundred feet high into a harbor or coastal town.
海啸能形成成千上万海里，同时也能激起足有百余英尺高的浪花到海港或海岸城市。
8.While it is sometimes easy to find bodies after a major earthquake once the rubble is cleared, tsunamis can scatter bodies far and wide.
发生大地震后，有时废墟一旦被清理就很容易找到尸体，但海啸却能把尸体席卷到很远的地方。
9.Look, airports have been struck by quakes, if maybe not tsunamis, many times in the past, and I am unaware of any onboard casualties.
你看，以前机场被地震袭击过很多次，也许没有海啸，但我从没发现任何机上的人员伤亡。
10.That episode also prodded many scientists to ratchet up their efforts to understand tsunamis and communicate their danger.
那些片断也促使科学家努力去研究海啸并且把他们的危害传达给人们。