据报道，8月25日凌晨，哈尔滨市松北区太阳岛一家温泉酒店发生火灾。截止今日13时许，死亡人数达19人。
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◉ 背景
路透社（Reuters）:
A fire early on Saturday morning at a hot springs hotel in the far northeastern Chinese city of Harbin killed 18 people, with 19 injured, authorities in the city said.
纽约时报（The New York Times）:
A predawn hotel fire killed at least 19 people on Saturday in a northeastern Chinese city just a day before an international marathon that attracts tens of thousands of visitors.
美联社（The Associated Press）:
At least 18 people were killed in a fire at a resort hotel in China's northeastern city of Harbin early Saturday, state media and an official said.
○ predawn: 黎明前(的)
○ dawn: (n.)“黎明，破晓”，还可以表示“开始，开端”，例如the dawn of civilization 文明的开端
○ springs hotel 温泉酒店
○ resort hotel 度假酒店
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据了解，起火建筑为四层砖混结构，过火面积约为400平方米。消防部门共出动30台消防车、107名消防官兵参与扑救，火灾于7时50分被扑灭。
◉ 细节
路透社（Reuters）:
Chinese state broadcaster CCTV said the fire in the four-storey building began at 4:36 a.m. (2036 GMT Friday), burning an area of about 400 square meters before being extinguished after about three hours.
纽约时报（The New York Times）:
The blaze at the Beilong Hot Spring Hotel in Harbin, the capital of Heilongjiang Province, burned for more than three hours before it was extinguished at 7:50 a.m., the city government announced on Weibo, a Twitter-like platform. In addition to the 19 victims, another 18 people were injured and sent to hospital for treatment, it said.
美联社（The Associated Press）:
The fire at the four-story, brick-and-concrete building started at 4:36 a.m. and was extinguished at 7:50 a.m. by a force of 105 firefighters with 30 fire trucks, state television reported. A video on its social media account showed firefighters spraying water on the smoke-blackened hotel while fire trucks and ambulances stood in the tree-lined street. It said 19 people were injured and a total of 70 evacuated.
○ -storey/-story: 表示“有...层楼的”，例如 a three-storey house 一栋三层高的房子
○ storey是英式拼法，story为美式拼法。
○ 四层砖混结构建筑 a four-story, brick-and-concrete building
○ blaze 通常用于新闻报道表示“火灾，烈火，大火”
灭火、控制火势：fight/tackle/control a blaze
化工厂的一场大火：a huge chemical factory blaze
○ extinguish = put out 扑灭，熄灭 〔火或光〕，英文解释为“to make a fire or light stop burning or shining”。
extinguish也可以表示“使〔想法或感情〕破灭；使消亡” ，举个 Nothing could extinguish his love for her. 什么都无法熄灭他对她的爱情之火。
○ 注意不要和 distinguish (区分，区别) 混淆了。
○ spray: (v.) to force liquid out of a container so that it comes out in a stream of very small drops and covers an area 喷，喷洒，举个 Someone had sprayed blue paint over his car. 有人在他的汽车上喷了蓝色油漆。
○ evacuate: (v.) to send people away from a dangerous place to a safe place 撤离，撤出，举个 Several families were evacuated from their homes. 好几户人家从家里撤出。
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◉ 事故原因正在调查中
路透社（Reuters）:
The cause of the blaze was under investigation, the Harbin propaganda department said on its Twitter-like Weibo account.
纽约时报（The New York Times）:
The cause of the fire was under investigation.
美联社（The Associated Press）:
The cause was under investigation, the Xinhua News Agency said.
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◉ 延申：以往事故
路透社（Reuters）:
Beijing's municipal government launched a 40-day “special operation” targeting fire code and building safety violations after an apartment fire in the Chinese capital in November killed 19 people.
○ code: 这里表示“法典，法规；行为准则，道德规范”，英文解释为“a set of rules, laws, or principles that tell people how to behave”，这里的fire code可以解释为消防规范，消防法规。
○ highway code: (英国)交通规则
美联社（The Associated Press）:
The disaster added to a string of deadly blazes that have plagued China despite official efforts to improve public safety over the past two decades. In November, a fire blamed on faulty wiring at a Beijing apartment building killed 19 people.
○ plague: 这个词在报道中也经常出现，可作动词也可作名词，动词表示“不断困扰，折磨，使苦恼”，英文解释为“to cause pain, suffering, or trouble to someone, especially for a long period of time”，举个 She was plagued by weakness, fatigue, and dizziness. 她受虚弱、疲劳和眩晕所折磨。
plague作名词可表示“瘟疫，疫病”，举个 a fresh outbreak of plague 瘟疫的新一轮爆发
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