广播电视英语短句 第 220 课：海地强震-4

Yet before this week, there were signs of promise of better times ahead for its nine million people. 但在本周之前，还向海地 900 万人许诺好日子。

On Friday, the United Nations made an emergency appeal for more than half a billion dollars. 周 5 ，联合国紧急拨款超过 5 亿。

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said many of the three million people in the Port-au-Prince area lack food, water, shelter and electricity. 联合国秘书长 Ban-Ki-moon 说海地有 300 万多人缺少食物、水、帐篷和电。

President Obama spoke Friday by phone with Haiti 's President Rene Preval, who himself lost his home in the quake. 总统奥巴马在周 5 和在地震中失去了家院的海地总统 Rene Preval 通话。

The new head of the United States Agency for International Development （ 美国国际开发署） is supervising the American disaster relief （赈灾，灾难援助） . 美国国际开发署的新领导人监督美国的赈灾。