| 单词 | 县城 |
| 释义 | 县城 The contrast between Mr Osborne, a lifelong metropolitan, and Mr Cameron, a son of the rural home counties, is often said to lie in the former’s social liberalism. Gangsters are preying on a small mid-western town. The sheriff and his deputies are spineless; law and order have failed. The quake lasted minutes at most, but it left half the town smothered by landslides, swallowing people, cars and entire buildings. Mud and water engulfed the county town of Zhouqu, in the south of Gansu province, after hours of torrential rain. The survey, which relies on2008 data, is an indication of how American small towns and rural areas are faring economically. Even in Dangcheng township at the foot of the Wangkuai dam, where groundwater is relatively plentiful, some farmers say they have had to plant fewer crops and take up other jobs. Every year droughts and floods ruin entire counties of crops, particularly in the American Midwest. In that year county after county fell to the enemy. If the day was hot and if the wind blew the wrong way, the stench carried through town. In fact, in most rural areas, there are only a few rural financial services providers located in the County or Township centers with limited competition. They hurried through the work and started off for the county town. There was only one public bathroom in the small county town and it was always packed with people. Perhaps the myth was necessary in the days of the wild west, of isolated frontier towns and roaming gangs. A previously little noticed county in the coal- rich Shanxi province caught people’s attention when Yang’s sad story was made public. In a county where unemployment reaches13% in some months, young people are moving away, replaced by seasonal part-timers. In Zhouqu, soldiers are trying to remove debris from the Bailing River amid fears that more rain could cause it to overflow, causing more chaos for a town that is already one third underwater. By evening, authorities reported that they had cleared major roads leading to the county and that power was back in some parts of the area. Zhouqu town is in a valley. Zhouqu town is in a valley. Heavy rain quickly ran off the steep, barren hills, triggering mudslides and swelling the river. The legislature also passed the National Rifle Association’s bill to prohibit cities and counties from adopting local gun- control ordinances, the same measure I had vetoed in1989. The abandoned town has been slated to be turned into a museum commemorating the quake's victims, although the flooding of the town could affect those plans. She had the county in her pocket for years. |
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