Deadly Mining Accident in Guangxi
广西致命矿灾
【新闻关键字】
1. miner ：矿工
2. flood ：v. 淹进
3. mine shaft ：n. 矿井
4. oxygen level ：n. 氧气含量
5. trapped underground ：v.phr., 受困于地底
6. exhaust ：v. 耗竭
7. escape ：v. 逃脱
8. gas blast ：瓦斯爆炸（同gas explosion）
Anchor:
29 Chinese miners are trapped underground after water flooded into their mine shaft on Monday in Guangxi. Seven have so far been confirmed dead.
新闻主播：广西省矿坑周一时因水淹入坑道，造成29名中国矿工受困地底。
Concern is growing as the miners spend a third day trapped underground. rescuers say that low oxygen levels in the mine shafts could exhaust the miners, leaving them with no strength to escape.
当矿工在受困的地底度过第三日，人们愈来愈担心。救援者说矿坑道内的低氧气含量可能会让矿工耗竭，造成他们没有力气逃脱。
Some 56 miners had been working in the mine when it flooded on Monday. Seven miners escaped on their own and 13 have already been rescued.
周一当水淹进来时，大约有56名矿工在矿坑内工作。有7名矿工自行脱困，13名矿工获救。
A total of 3,786 Chinese coal miners died in gas blasts , flooding and other accidents in 2007.
在2007年，总数有3786名中国矿工死于瓦斯爆炸、淹水与其他的意外事故。◇
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