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Ukraine War Wounded Flood Civilian Hospitals
Dozens of injured Ukrainian troops arrive daily at the Central Hospital in the Donetsk region city of Artemivsk, 40 kilometers from the government-controlled town of Debaltseve, which has been under siege from pro-Russian rebels for the past week. The scene there is sometimes chaotic, always stressful and too often somber.
For a while, the ambulances were arriving every few minutes early Sunday, carrying troops wounded in the nearby combat zone. Their comrades moved quickly to help them, and civilian medical personnel hurried to keep up.
As in any war, ambulance crews do some of the most dangerous work.
“I came from two places. I will not name them. From one point I brought a dead body, and from the other two wounded. Action from the Russian side has intensified. That is why these are hard days,” said Private Vasyl from the Ukrainian National Guard.
Vasyl’s colleague, Private Lilya, said that medical evacuation teams face a constant shortage of properly equipped vehicles.
“Our essential, essential need is medical and intensive care transport. That is what we do not have. Transport does not last long here. Our vehicles are constantly under shelling, and this is a big problem for us,” said Lilya.
Inside, many of the medical workers do not want their faces shown for fear of reprisals if the rebels take the town.
The wounded will not talk on camera, but their faces tell their stories. This man has arm and leg injuries from shrapnel that hit him in a village near Debaltseve.
Nearby, a trauma doctor who gave his name only as Nikolai checks more injured troops. He said that the hospital was running out of space, and he that had to call in an extra doctor to help before mid-day, as more wounded came in.
“I just left the operating room. We did an amputation of a lower leg. We cut the soldier’s leg off. They drove onto an anti-personnel mine when they were evacuating the wounded,” said Nikolai.
The doctor said injuries from explosions are the most frequent, and the worst, penetrating deeply and tearing at body parts. And he reports at least 40 cases a day during the past week, more than official government figures for the entire battlefront.
The staff keeps careful handwritten records that become part of cold, hard statistics by the time they get to news briefings.
The hospital is filled with young men with terrible, possibly life-changing injuries. And there are also those whose lives end here, a family tragedy and another statistic - 13 killed one day, 15 another, more than 5,000 soldiers and civilians in all since separatist rebels, backed by Moscow, as Kyiv and the West contend, began their revolt in April.
詞匯解析
appearance
難度：4星核心詞匯，屬常用3000詞
英漢解釋
n.出現(xiàn)；露面；外貌；外表；出場
參考例句
用作名詞 (n.)
I don't want to go to the party but I'd better put in an appearance, I suppose.
我不想?yún)⒓幽莻€(gè)聚會，可是我最好還是要露一下面。
The first appearance of Jielun Chou impresses us with showing off coldness and unruliness!
周杰倫一出場給人一種愛耍酷，桀驁不馴的感覺，不喜歡對媒體親近。
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preserve
難度：4星核心詞匯，屬常用3000詞
英漢解釋
v.保護(hù)；保存；保持
n.禁獵區(qū)；蜜餞
參考例句
用作動詞 (v.)
It is highly important to preserve the environment.
保護(hù)自然環(huán)境至關(guān)重要。
用作名詞 (n.)
No hunting is allowed in the preserve .
在禁獵區(qū)內(nèi)不許打獵。
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custom
難度：4星核心詞匯，屬常用3000詞
英漢解釋
n.習(xí)慣；風(fēng)俗；慣例
（復(fù)）customs: 海關(guān)；關(guān)稅.
adj.定做的；定制的
參考例句
用作名詞 (n.)
The custom has now become a rule.
那種習(xí)慣現(xiàn)已變?yōu)槌梢?guī)。
用作形容詞 (adj.)
Please enter a name for the custom controller.
請輸入自定義控制器的名稱。
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combine
難度：4星核心詞匯，屬常用3000詞
英漢解釋
v.聯(lián)合；使結(jié)合；結(jié)合
n.集團(tuán)；聯(lián)合收割機(jī)；聯(lián)合企業(yè)
參考例句
用作動詞 (v.)
Two parties will combine to defeat the third.
兩黨派將聯(lián)合以擊敗第三黨。
用作名詞 (n.)
The newspaper combine threatened all the smaller papers.
這家報(bào)刊集團(tuán)威脅者小報(bào)社的生存。
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shortage
難度：3星常用詞匯，屬常用6000詞
英漢解釋
n.不足；缺少，短缺
參考例句
用作名詞 (n.)
The war was lost because of a shortage of munitions.
戰(zhàn)爭因軍火不足而失敗。
The company's main problem is the shortage of skilled personnel.
這家公司的主要問題是缺少有技術(shù)的人員。
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attempt
難度：4星核心詞匯，屬常用3000詞
英漢解釋
v.企圖；嘗試
n.企圖；試圖
參考例句
用作動詞 (v.)
He attempted to smother up the scandal about his family.
他企圖掩飾有關(guān)他家庭的丑聞。
用作名詞 (n.)
He studied hard in an attempt to pass the exam.
他努力學(xué)習(xí)試圖通過考試。
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male
難度：5星基本詞匯，屬常用1000詞
英漢解釋
adj.男性的；雄性的
n.男子；雄性動物
參考例句
用作形容詞 (adj.)
In early days only male athletes were allowed to take part in the Olympic Games.
在奧林匹克運(yùn)動會早期，只有男性運(yùn)動員才能參加比賽。
用作名詞 (n.)
The male of the species has a white tail.
這一物種的雄性有一條白色的尾巴。
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