Our first story, in a part of Africa that's still reeling from a cyclone that made landfall in March, government officials are now getting an idea of the destruction by a second major storm.

第一则报，仍在从三月登陆的飓风中恢复，政府官员们就已经获知第二次大风暴所造成的破坏。

Hurricanes, tropical cyclones, drought, and heavy rain could all become more likely as a result.

飓风、热带气旋、干旱和暴雨都因此更有可能发生。

Blame the bomb cyclone. Yep, that's right. Bomb cyclone is actually a real weather term.

这都是炸弹低气压所致。是的, 这是正确的。这实际上是一种真正的气象术语。

The generic term for it is a tropical cyclone.

按照通用术语来说, 它是一种热带气旋。

And if you are around the Indian Ocean or the Southern Hemisphere you're a cyclone.

如果在印度洋或南半球附近，就是一个旋风。

Those numbers have dropped a bit since then and the country said it was taking steps to make sure hospitals in the areas effected by the cyclone would have electricity and enough oxygen supplies.

之后，确诊数量有所下降，该国表示其正在采取措施以确保受飓风影响地区的医院有足够的电力和氧气供应。

After years of drought, two cyclones hit East Africa in as many years.

在经历了数年干旱之后，东在数年内又经历了两次飓风。

Typhoons or hurricanes are cyclones. They are the same thing just in different oceans.

台风和飓风都属于气旋。它们性质相同，只不于不同的大洋。

It's expected to make landfall near the Ganges River delta where the Ganges and the Brahmaputra Rivers empty into the Bay of Bengal and that could bring major storm surges, a rise in seawater levels blown ashore by a cyclone.

预计它将在恒河三角附近登陆，恒河和雅鲁藏布江在那里流入孟加拉湾，这可能会导致巨大的风暴潮，飓风吹上岸的海水会使水位会上升。

A storm, a tropical storm, cyclone, typhoon, hurricane, that rapidly intensifies.

风暴、热带风暴、气旋、台风、飓风等都会迅速加剧。

The forecasting company also said that this storm met the definition of a bomb cyclone.

该预测公司还表示，这次风暴符合对“炸弹气旋”的定义。

The storm was expected to weaken as it approached Hawaii but as of yesterday afternoon, it was a Category 4 cyclone with wind speeds of 130 miles per hour.

人们预计风暴在到达夏威夷时强度会减弱，但直到昨天下午，它的等级仍为四级，风速为130英里每小时。

And if you're around the Indian Ocean or in the Southern Hemisphere, you're a cyclone.

如果是在印度洋或南半球，就会产生气旋。

First up, a devastating cyclone has rocked the Southeast Asian country of Myanmar.

首先，一场毁灭性的飓风袭击了东南亚国家缅甸。

A rare post-tropical cyclone has come ashore on the Atlantic coast of Portugal.

一场罕见的后热带气旋登陆了葡萄牙的大西洋沿岸。

Cyclones are one of the most destructive forces in the South Pacific.

龙卷风是南太平洋最具破坏力的力量之一。

The Mozambican coastal city of Beira is virtually cut off after a tropical cyclone Idai crushed power lines, shut down the airport and flooded roads.

莫桑比克沿海城市贝拉已全称断电，因为热带气旋伊代破坏了电力线，导致机场关停，又淹没了路。

NPR's Eyder Peralta joins us now to talk about the cyclone. Hey, Eyder.

NPR新闻的爱德尔·佩拉尔塔将和我们连线，详细介绍这一气旋。好，爱德尔。

The reports said the force of the cyclone caused flood barriers to break.

报称，此次气旋来势汹汹，导致多个拦洪坝决堤。

Anywhere to get out of that living cyclone's path!

只要能避开那个活生生的旋风，哪里都行！