In China, heavy snows and bitter cold are causing chaos for travelers, shades of the US travel system. The winter blast there has spread across China, and it comes at the peak travel season in China when the approaching Lunar New Year creates the largest human migration on the planet. ABC’s Stephanie Sy is in Beijing.
The snow is so heavy major rail lines and highways are cut off, airports in at least ten cities temporarily closed. Supply trucks carrying food and coal are piled up on icy highways, and the Chinese Communist Party is mobilizing its entire membership to lead what it is calling anti-disaster efforts.
Worst of all is what the storms are doing to millions of holiday travelers. In the southern city of Guangzhou, 200,000 people waited outside a packed train terminal with the number of stranded passengers expected to reach up to 600,000 just in this one station. From now until Chinese New Year, which falls on February 7 - this, the equivalent of Labor Day in the US - tens of millions of people flood out of the big cities, headed home.
More than 178 million people take trains during the Chinese New Year holiday. That’s more than half the entire US population. 70 percent of those passengers are migrant workers who are only afforded one annual vacation. This man told us, “There’s a Chinese saying that when people are anxious to go home, they want to travel as swiftly as an arrow.”
Instead, millions of Chinese aren’t traveling at all. They’re eating, sleeping, and minding their children in tents. The forecast is for more snow, meaning all these people may miss their only homecoming of the year. Stephanie Sy, ABC News, Beijing.
※ what + 주어 + 동사 + (동사) 구문 ex. Researchers overseas have discovered what they say is a startling link to cancer.(해외 연구진이 놀랄만한 한 발암물질을 발견했다고 주장한다.) ex. Dr. Brigette Boisselier says the birth of what she says is the first human clone is part of a much bigger plan.(Brigette Boisselier 박사는 자신이 주장하고 있는 이 최초의 복제 인간 탄생은 보다 커다란 계획의 일부라고 말한다.) ex. How could this happen in what many argue is the strongest economy in American history? (많은 사람들이 미국 역사상 가장 견실하다고 하는 경제 상황에서 어떻게 이런 일이 일어날 수 있을까?) ex. These include what the State Department calls very aggressive counterintelligence operations against US interests in the region. (여기에는 이 지역에서 미국의 이익을 저해하는, 국무성의 표현에 따르면, 매우 공세적인 방첩활동도 포함된다 ) ex. We worked together and achieved what many considered (to be) an impossible project in an astonishingly brief amount of time. = We worked together and achieved what many regard as an impossible project in an astonishingly brief amount of time (우리는 함께 노력해서 많은 사람들이 불가능하다고 생각한 프로젝트를 놀랄 만큼 짧은 시간에 달성해냈다.)
※ with 분사구문 with + 목적어 + 목적격 보어 ( 형용사 , 현 . 분 , 과 . 분 , 전치사구 , 부사 , 명 ) -- 동시상황이나 이유를 나타내지만 문맥에 따라 적절히 번역한다 . 1. Don't speak with your mouth full. ( 형 ) 2. With an eye bandaged, he could not see well. ( 과 . 분 ) It was a misty morning, with little wind blowing. ( 현 . 분 ) 3. He was standing with his hands in his pockets.( 전치사 구 ) 4. I would be lonely with you away. ( 부 ) 5. With tomorrow the deadline for filing federal income tax returns, your financial health may be on your mind. ( 명 )
※ pack 1. pack (a bag) : you put clothes and other things into it, because you are leaving a place or going on holiday. ex. When I was 17, I packed my bags and left home. ex. I packed and said goodbye to Charlie. 2. pack things : put them into containers or parcels so that they can be transported. ex. They offered me a job packing goods in a warehouse. ex. I decided to pack a few things and take the kids to my mother. 3. people or things pack into a place / pack a place : there are so many of them that the place is full. ex. Hundreds of thousands of people packed into the mosque. ex. Seventy thousand people will pack the stadium. ex. The government has packed the conference with its own supporters. ~을...로 꽉 채우다
bitter : 쓴, 쓰라린, 고통스러운, <증오 등이> 격렬한, <말 등이> 신 랄한, 통렬한 chaos : 혼돈, 무질서, 대혼란 * chaotic : 혼돈된, 무질서한, 혼란한 shade(s) of~ : ~을 생각나게 하는 것 ex. Look at all these kids' games - shades of my childhood. * shade :그늘, 응달, 음지, (얼굴의) 어두운 기색, 차양(blind), 근 소한[미미한] 차이, [a shade] 아주 적은 양[정도], [a shade] [부사적으로] (아주) 조 금, [shades]선글라스, 그늘지게 하다, <빛·열을> 가로막다 ex. We sat in the shade and ate our lunch. / ex. All shades of political opinion were represented at the conference. ex. a certain shade of disapproval 불찬성의 기미 ex. There is not a shade of doubt. 티끌만한 의심도 없다. ex. a shade better 아주 조금 나아[나은] * put ~ in the shade : ~을 무색하게 하 다 ex. Portland's metro really puts our public transportation system in the shade. 포틀랜드의 지하철은 우리 대중교통 체제를 무색케한다. blast : 1. 돌풍(a strong current of air, wind, heat etc), * blast of : ex. A blast of cold air hit them as they opened the door. 2. 강하게 부는 소리 (a sudden short loud sound, especially on a musical instrument, a car horn, or a whistle) ex. The ship's siren let out several short blasts. 3. 폭 파, 폭발, (폭파에 따라 생기는) 충격파, 폭풍 ex. Ten people were injured in the blast. 4. 격렬한 비난 [공격] 5. (나팔.경적을) 크게 울리다, ~ 을 폭파하다, ~ 을 비난하다, 총을 쏘다 Lunar New Year : 음력설 lunar : 달의, 태음(太陰)의 * solar 태양의, 태양의 작용에 의한 migration : 이 주, 이동 (v. migrate) rail line : 철도, 철로 cut off ~ : ~끊다, 차단하다, ~ 을 잘라내다 ex. They cut off the electricity last week. ex. The roads are cut off. 도로가 끊겼다. ex. The floods completely cut off the town. ex. Our house is cut off from the rest of the town. ex. Don't cut me off when I'm talking. ex. We got cut off in the middle of the call. ex. Why did all his friends suddenly cut him off? 왜 관계를 단 절했냐? * cut in 끼어들다. (사람. 자동차가) 새치기하다. ex. Don't even try to cut in the line. pile up : ~ 을 쌓다, ~ 를 축적하다. ~ 가 쌓이다, (여러 대의 자동차가) 추돌(追突)하다, (여러 대의 자동차가) 밀리다 * pileup : (일·서류 따위의) 산적, 밀림, (자동차) 연쇄 [다중] 충돌 ex. Newspapers and magazines were piled up on the floor. ex. All the time the bills were piling up. ex. These policies could be piling up financial trouble for future governments. * pile : 쌓아 올린 것, 퇴적, (물건의) 더미, 다수, 다량, 많음 (of) ~ 을 쌓아 올 리다 ( up), ~ 을 축적하다, ~ 가 쌓이다 ex. a pile of boxes[logs] 상자 [통나무] 더미 mobilize : ~을 동원하다 pack : 꾸러미, 보따리, 일당, 한패, (사냥개 이리 등의) 떼, 무리, (담배의) 한 갑, (짐을) 꾸리다, 싸다, (~ 으로) 꽉 채우다 (총 등을) 휴대하 다, (위력 등을) 갖추고 있다, (강타 충격 등을) 가할 수가 있다 / If something packs a punch, it has a very powerful effect. * packed : 꽉 찬, 만원의 ex. a packed train 만원 열차 ex. one of them was packing a gun. strand : 좌초시키다, [보통 수동형] 오도가도 못하게 하다 / If you are stranded, you are prevented from leaving a place, for example because of bad weather. ex. The climbers had been stranded by a storm. ex. The airport had to be closed, stranding tourists. equivalent : (…과) 동등한, (…과) 동등한 것 ex. an equivalent sum of money 같은 금액 . / ex. Sometimes saying nothing is equivalent to lying. 아무 말도 않는 것이 때로는 거짓말로 되는 수가 있다 . ex. Even the cheapest car costs the equivalent of 70 years' salary for a government worker. flood : 홍수, 범람, 쇄도, 범람시키다, 홍수지게 하다, ~ 에 많이 몰려들다, 쇄도하다 ex. a flood of tears 마구 쏟아지는 눈물 ex. Applicants flooded the office. 지원자들이 사무실에 쇄도했다. ex. The station was flooded with refugees. 역에는 피난민들이 몰려 들 었다. migrant : 이주하는, (새가) 이주성의, 이주자 ex. migrant birds 철새 afford : 1. [can, could, be able to 와 함께] (경제적·시간적으로) 여 유가 있다, 2. ~ 을 주다, 가져오다 ex. I cannot afford holidays. 휴식 [휴가] 을 취할 여유가 없다 / ex. I can't afford a car. 나는 자동차를 살 여유가 없다 ex. Reading affords me great pleasure.= Reading affords great pleasure to me. 독서는 나에게 큰 즐거움을 준다. (old) saying : (옛) 속담(proverb), 전해오는 말 * as the saying goes (=according to the saying): ex. Well, as the saying goes, 'A problem shared is a problem halved'. anxious : 걱정하는, 근심하는, 열망하여, 몹시 ~하고 싶 어하는 * be anxious about ~ : ~이 걱정스럽다 ex. I'm anxious about his health. 그의 건강이 걱정스럽다. * be anxious to ~ : ~하기를 열망 하다 ex. He is anxious to know the result. 그는 몹시 결과를 알고 싶어한다. homecoming : 귀가, 귀성, 귀향, 귀국, (미국 대학·고교 등 의 연 1 회의) 동창회, 귀향의, 동창회의 /AMERICAN a celebration once a year at schools and universities when ALUMNI (=people who went to the school before) return for parties and a football game.