day 49disaster strikes
unit 7 · courts, crime & disastersdisaster strikes
Follow disaster news and say who did what to whom: 휩쓸다, 휩쓸리다, 휩싸이다, 덮치다, 경보, 해제, 출동, 구출, 수재민.
today’s words
- 효력 hyoryeok · effect, validity (in law)
- 경보 gyeongbo · alarm, warning
- 구출 guchul · rescue (getting someone out)
- 누출 nuchul · leak (of gas, information)
- 덮치다 deopchida · strike, hit, engulf
- 소실 sosil · loss, being destroyed (by fire)
- 소화기 sohwagi · fire extinguisher
- 수재민 sujaemin · flood victims
- 위태롭다 witaeropda · precarious, in danger
- 재앙 jaeang · catastrophe, calamity
- 처참하다 cheochamhada · devastated, wretched (a sight)
- 출동 chuldong · dispatch, call-out (of police, fire crews)
- 파멸 pamyeol · ruin, destruction
- 폐허 pyeheo · ruins
- 폭파 pokpa · blowing up, demolition by explosives
- 표류 pyoryu · drifting (at sea); (of plans) being adrift
- 해일 haeil · tsunami, tidal wave
- 해제 haeje · lifting (of a warning, a ban)
- 화 hwa · misfortune, disaster
- 휩싸이다 hwipssaida · be engulfed, be wrapped (in flames, fear)
- 휩쓸다 hwipsseulda · sweep (through), sweep away
- 휩쓸리다 hwipsseullida · be swept away (by wind, water, a mood)
sentences
- 남부 지방에 발령되었던 태풍 경보가 오후에 해제되었다. · The typhoon warning for the south was lifted in the afternoon.
- 해안 마을에 큰 파도가 덮쳐 도로가 물에 잠겼다. · Huge waves struck the coastal village, and the roads went under water.
- 거센 바람에 간판이 위태롭게 흔들렸다. · The sign swayed dangerously in the fierce wind.
- 소방서장의 지휘 아래 소방관들이 바로 출동해 주민들을 구출했다. · Under the fire chief’s command, firefighters went out at once and rescued the residents.
- 가스 누출로 시작된 불에 오래된 문화재가 소실되었다. · An old cultural treasure was lost in a fire that started with a gas leak.