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In a country accustomed to heatwaves India's latest one is bringing more suffering and death than usual. At least 1, 100 people have lost their lives. Most of the victims are elderly or labourers suffering heat stroke or dehydration.
Doctors have had their leave cancelled to cope with t♒hose falling ill in temperatures of 47 Celsius.
Power cuts are adding to the misery, particularly in Andhra Pradesh which disaster management of♛f🦋icials say is worst-hit.
"The maximum today also in many places were recorded at 46 to 47 (Celsius) and the death toll r꧟eached 1020, 1020 have died all over the state."
May and June areꦦ traditionallyꦍ India's hottest months. It's normal for temperatures to rise above 40 Celsius.
The difference, say meteorologists, is that the number of days at a time the temperature soars to around 45 Celsius has increased over the last 15 yeaꦍrs.
For now it's a case of knocking ౠback cool drinks and waiting for the heatwave to give way to monsoon rains.
Người Ấn Độ đã quen vớ⭕i các đợt nắng nóng, nhưng năm nay nắng nóng kéo dài với cường độ cao hơn khiến ít nhất 1.100𝔉 người thiệt mạng.
Vocabulary:
| accustomed (adj) | /əˈkʌstəmd/ |
familiar with something |
quen với cái gì đó |
| elderly (n) |
/ˈel.dəl.i/ |
old people |
người già |
| stroke (n) | /stroʊk/ | a sudden change in the blood supply to a part of the brain, sometimes causing a loss of the ability to move particular parts of the body | sự đột quỵ |
| dehydration (n) | /ˌdiː.haɪˈdreɪ.ʃən/ | a drop below normal levels of water in the body | sự mất nước |
| misery (n) | /ˈmɪz.ər.i/ | great unhappiness | cảnh bất hạnh, sự khổ sở |
| death toll (n) | /deθ toʊl/ | the number of people who die | số người chết |
| meteorologist (n) |
/ˌmiː.ti.ərˈɒl.ə.dʒɪst/ |
someone who studies meteorology | nhà khí tượng |
Thanh Bình (Theo Reuters)