天津爆炸事故救援和灾后安置的脚步依然匆匆。在震惊、哀痛和惋惜的同时，我们要了解受灾人们的需要，最大限度地帮助他们度过难关；我们也要痛定思痛，了解如何避免此类灾难的发生。
下面，YOYO老师就为大家详细分析英国卫报对本次爆炸事件及后续的报道。
文中加粗的，是话题相关的词汇和词组【YOYO说词】，而有下划线的，是大家可以借鉴甚至套用的句型【YOYO说句】。
III.
“According to the Tianjin Tanggu environmental monitoring station, hazardous chemicals stored by the company concerned include sodium cyanide, toluene diisocyanate and calcium carbide, all of which pose direct threats to human health on contact.”
Sodium cyanide is highly toxic, as it releases hydrogen cyanide gas, which interferes with the ability to breathe and can be“rapidly fatal”, the US centre for disease control said. It has a distinctive smell that has been described as bitter almonds or“musty old sneakers”but many people cannot detect it.
The other two named chemicals react violently with water, with risk of explosion, which makes rain or firefighting with water extremely risky.
【YOYO说词】
本部分需要关注的是相当多的有关易燃易爆危险化学品的词汇。我们至少需要知道哪些词汇经常用来表示“危险”、“有毒”、“有害”，以帮助自己和提醒他人远离这些物品，注意安全，珍爱生命。
environmental monitoring station 环境监管局
hazardous chemicals危险化学品；有害化学物质
sodium cyanide氰化钠：白色结晶颗粒或粉末，易潮解，有微弱的苦杏仁气味。剧毒，皮肤伤口接触、吸入、吞食微量可中毒死亡。该品不易燃。发生火灾时应尽量抢救商品，防止包装破损，引起环境污染。消防人员须佩戴防毒面具、穿全身消防服，在上风向灭火。灭火剂：干粉、砂土。禁止用二氧化碳和酸碱灭火剂灭火——百度百科
toluene diisocyanate甲苯二异氰酸脂 (toluene 甲苯；di-iso-cyanate 联合前一个词汇，可记忆 cyan“氰基”这个词根；cyanide 氰化物；cyanate 氰酸盐)
甲苯二异氰酸脂: 无色至淡黄色透明液体，有强烈刺激性气味。与水反应生成二氧化碳。能与含活泼氢的化合物反应，具有很高的活性。遇明火能燃烧，受高热分解放出有毒气体。有毒，对皮肤、眼睛、粘膜有强烈的刺激性。应避免与水、醇类、酸、碱等不相容物接触或温度超过45℃——百度百科
calcium carbide碳化钙；calcium 钙，亦为雅思口语HEALTH话题常用词汇；carbide 碳化物；建议记忆词根 carb-(与碳有关的)；常用衍生词: carbon 碳(元素)；carbonic 由碳产生的；carbnate 碳酸盐；carbs 高碳水化合物含量的食物；carbohydrate 碳水化合物；糖类
碳化钙: 无机化合物，白色晶体，工业品为灰黑色块状物，断面为紫色或灰色。遇水立即发生激烈反应，并放出热量。遇湿易燃。遇水或湿气能迅速产生高度易燃的乙炔气体，在空气中达到一定的浓度时，可发生爆炸性灾害。禁止用水或泡沫灭火。二氧化碳也无效。须用干燥石墨粉或其它干粉（如干砂）灭火——百度百科
pose direct threats to human health on contact 一旦发生接触，会直接对人体健康造成威胁
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【YOYO说句】
本语段需要关注的要点为如何简要描述药品/化学品性状 (It has a distinctive smell that has been described as…) 和毒理 (highly toxic as…, interferes with the ability to breathe…)。事实上大多数科普类文章经常出现类似描述。熟悉此类文体及其语言风格，是阅读各类学科教科书的基本功。
Sodium cyanide is highly toxic, as it releases hydrogen cyanide gas, which interferes with the ability to breathe and can be“rapidly fatal”, the US centre for disease control said. It has a distinctive smell that has been described as bitter almonds or“musty old sneakers”but many people cannot detect it.
The other two named chemicals react violently with water, with risk of explosion, which makes rain or firefighting with water extremely risky.
IV.
Cheng Qian, Greenpeace's toxics assistant campaign manager in Beijing, said:“It is now critical that relevant authorities monitor the situation closely and release further information on what caused the blast and what chemicals are being released into the air. This will have an impact on measures to fight fires, to protect the residents of Tianjin, and on minimising the potential health and environmental hazards of the blast.”
The government has admitted there was some contamination from the blast, but said prevailing winds were pushing it out to sea rather than inland towards Tianjin city centre and other urban areas nearby. Beijing is just a few dozen kilometres away from the disaster site.
The manager of the private firm has been arrested, the China Daily reported. The company has a 46,000 square-metre facility in Tianjin port, and the explosion was pinpointed as coming from a warehouse there.
The blast also partly shut down Tianjin port, the 10th largest in the world, which handles large quantities of crude oil, metal ore, coal and steel, and more containers than Rotterdam, Hamburg and Los Angeles, the Associated Press reported.
The maritime safety administration said ships carrying oil and“hazardous products”were barred from entering the port, and all vessels were banned from the central zone near the blast site.
【YOYO说词】
monitor the situation closely 严密做好情况监控
release further information on 进一步发布有关信息
released into the air 释放到空气中
minimising the potential health and environmental hazards 将潜在的健康及环境危害降至最低
contamination 污染
prevailing winds 主导风(向)
pinpointed 精准定位
handles（在此）装卸搬运或中转运输；原义”操纵、操作”
large quantities of 大批的；尤其适用于，运输，生产，制造等行业的语境内
crude oil, metal ore, coal and steel, containers 原油，矿砂，煤，钢铁，集装箱
were barred from 被拒之门外
vessels 船舶
were banned from 被禁止通行于
the blast site 爆炸地点
【YOYO说句】
1. 如何表达“应该采取……措施”。大家可能在应答此类问题时习惯于直接使用 we should/must/ought to…或者…should be done 等句型；其实大家可以尝试其他的表达方式，比如文中用到的 it is critical that…相似的表达还包括，it is necessary/vital/crucial that…
另外，大家在谈及可以采取的措施时，可能很少会主动谈及为什么应该采取这种措施，更少提到如果不这样做可能产生的后果。
其实在回答建议类问题 (SUGGESTION) 时——这类题经常充斥着PART III——各位不妨将一套完整的“为什么—怎么办—反之后果如何”的逻辑推理呈现给考官。事实上，出国以后在做 PRESNTATION 的过程，就是这样一种将自己所做的 RESEARCH 的方法论、原理、步骤等等，进行逻辑再现的过程。
It is now critical that relevant authorities monitor the situation closely and release further information on what caused the blast and what chemicals are being released into the air. This will have an impact on measures to fight fires, to protect the residents of Tianjin, and on minimising the potential health and environmental hazards of the blast.”
2. 有关天津港的背景常识:
The blast also partly shut down Tianjin port, the 10th largest in the world, which handles large quantities of crude oil, metal ore, coal and steel, and more containers than Rotterdam, Hamburg and Los Angeles, the Associated Press reported.
愿所有受灾的人民早日恢复正常的生活；愿天津港早日回复运营。
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