解读一则新闻

距离汤加火山爆发已经一周了，这一周到处都可以看到关于汤加的新闻报道，爱好科普的少年完全被激发出了好奇心，一连几天都沉迷于研究这一千年一次的火山大爆发，就差整出个ppt给我来个演示了。

我整理了一下娃这几天搜集、学习的资料，记录一下。

科普打底

先上科普，火山爆发到底是怎么一回事，除了查DK百科，少年习惯看“混知”，幽默易懂，简洁明了，且实效性很强，紧跟时事，之前江苏发生地震，混子哥也第一时间更新，科普了地震的原理，这一次汤加火山爆发，更深入一层解释了和地震的区别及影响。    
 

《万物》21年的12月份刊上有一篇专辑，记录人类历史上10次致命的火山爆发，少年又拿出来重温了一遍。

英语学新闻

有了科普背景知识的铺垫，就可以关注下新闻都是怎么报道这次事件的。少年平时学新闻一般两个途径：CNN学生英语和CHINA DAILY，这两项基本每天都看都读。

China Daily他就是读的公众号内容，一般情况，我会预读内容，短篇内容就直接让他在iPad上朗读，长篇我会打印下来，陪他逐句朗读学习。遇上特别好的文章，我会让他挑选金句进行背诵，比如，2022的习大大新年贺词，英文写得特别精炼，我们进行了摘抄并背诵，“不忘初心，方得始终”、“请党放心，强国有我”这样的表达，还是官方说得地道，背了不亏。   
 

这次汤加火山爆发的新闻，China Daily响应相对及时，因为是首发，内容比较短，不过随后又更新了两篇后续报道，读完之后了解了整个世界是如何反应这次事件的。   
 

CNN少年用的每日英语听力App，滚动字幕，没听明白的地方可以返回查看文本，用起来很方便。主持大叔的语速很快，但听上几天很快就能适应。   
 

这一篇关于汤加火山爆发的新闻报道并不是很及时，少年等了三天才盼到了CNN的报道，此时他已经对新闻事件本身很熟悉了，跟着CNN又过了一遍事件原委。

针对这则事件，少年还学习了YLYK上关于汤加火山爆发的精读新闻，新闻原文选自New York Times纽约时报。全文不难，少年仅有一处遇到困难，就是“spawn”，分词作状语表示“产生”，这里表示“产生了一座新的岛屿”。文章末尾附上原文。  
 

通常，这样一篇重大新闻我们都会从不同渠道获取信息，CNN和China Daily一个主外一个主内，正好形成互补。

新闻从多方面角度解读完成了，我想，少年除了满足了对火山的好奇心，应该也生出了对汤加人民的悲悯之心。火山爆发之前，他压根都不知道有这么一个国家，关注了这么些天的新闻，汤加人民远方的哭声渐渐被我们听到，而我们无法装作听不到，历史的一粒尘沙落在一个人身上就成了一座大山，为汤加祈福。

纽约时报英文原文

Underwater Volcano Erupts, Setting Off Tsunami Warnings Across Pacific

By Aina J. Khan

An underwater volcano erupted on Saturday near the remote Pacific nation of Tonga, triggering tsunami warnings across the Pacific and for the West Coast of the United States, and causing strong waves and currents in many coastal areas.

A four-foot tsunami wave was reported to have hit Tonga's capital, Nuku'alofa, sending people rushing to higher ground, and witnesses said ash had fallen from the sky. 

Despite Tonga's geographical isolation, a booming sound after the initial eruption was heard as far away as New Zealand, 1,100 miles northeast of the archipelago's main island of Tongatapu.

Across the Pacific warnings were sounded. New Zealand's National Emergency Management Agency advised people in coastal areas to expect "strong and unusual currents and unpredictable surges at the shore."

The volcano, Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai, which is about 40 miles north of Tongatapu, had been relatively inactive for several years.

The volcano had erupted in 2014, spawning a new island that eventually became home to blossoming vegetation and barn owls, according to the BBC.

The V.E.I. of the eruption Saturday has not been estimated yet, but before the eruption, the volcano was estimated to be able to produce an eruption with a maximum V.E.I. of 2.

Eruptions with a V.E.I. of 6 or higher send so much gas and particles so high into the atmosphere that they can have a cooling effect on the climate for several years, by reflecting more sunlight away from the Earth's surface. But eruptions of that magnitude occur very rarely.