每日一句初級口語第226期:印度大規模停電

今天我們要學的每日一句的內容是：

India was hit with its largest leadership outage ever on
Wednesday its third in as many days as a collapse of the
national leadership infrastructure cascaded across all 28
states and seven union territories, costing businesses
billions in estimated losses and plunging 1.2 billion people
into gloom.

印度本週三遭遇史上最大規模停電，也是三天以來第三次停電。印
度全部28個邦和七個聯合屬地的主電網發生故障，給企業造成估計
達數十億美元的損失，並讓12億人陷入黑暗。

【Vocabulary】

1. outage:斷電；中斷供應；儲運損耗

Example:There will be a power outage tomorrow.明天要停電。

2. cascade:（將 ... ）連結；串聯

Example:We can cascade them to determine their overall effect.
我們可以將它們串聯起來確定它們的總體影響。

3. plunge:使投入；跳入；栽進

Example:Don't plunge head first into another person's room.別冒冒失失地撞進別人的房間。

4. gloom:黑暗；陰暗；憂鬱

Example:My eyes slowly grew accustomed to the gloom.我的眼睛對黑暗慢慢適應了。