英语翻译汉语 07 02 04The town of Ica seldom sees rain. Houses for
英语翻译汉语 07 02 04
The town of Ica seldom sees rain. Houses for the poor are built of adobe — sun-baked mud — standing side by side in long terraces. When the River Ica burst its banks in late January, 15,000 houses were swiftly flooded. Up to 5,000 houses were destroyed — a sign not only of the force of the river, which loosened huge rocks and swept them falling down from the Andean mountains, but of the vulnerability of the homes which hardly ever face rain. “They melted like chocolate,” exclaimed an eye-witness. “The extent of the damage was terrible!”