不少国内的小伙伴想必正在大冬天里盼着春节的到来，而世界之都纽约却迎来了世纪罕见的大暴雪，这雪究竟大到什么地步？墨尔本文波雅思PTE为大家带来最详细的热点解析，内容包含了描述天气事件的相关高分词汇、地道表达，以及可以分别应用于Describe Image和雅思口语Part 2的精彩内容，赶紧来学学看吧！
US snowstorm: Blizzard shuts New York City
关键词汇：
sweep 席卷，扫荡
snowfall 降雪
suspended 暂停
severe 剧烈的，严重的
impassible 无法通过
generational 世代的
雅思口语Part 2模拟：
Describe a recent event/news that surprised you/one extreme weather that you have seen.
You should say:
What the event/weather is;
When and where it happened,
What effects it had on people,
And explain how you felt about this event/weather.
关键句型：
I’m going to talk about the snowstorm sweeping the US recently/this year.
It is reported that all non-essential travel has been banned in New York, transport suspended and bridges shut as the city is being hit by one of its worst snowstorms.
纽约史上最惨暴雪之一，导致全城交通瘫痪
Parts of the eastern US have received over 100cm of snowfall in a huge blizzard that is sweeping across the region, affecting 85 million people.
美国东海岸降雪超过100cm，约8千万人受灾
At least 17 deaths have been blamed on the severe weather, most from traffic accidents. Emergencies have been declared in 11 states.
恶劣天气导致交通事故频发，17人死亡，11个州宣布进入紧急状态
Parts of roads Washington DC have become impassable.
首都华盛顿多数道路无法通行
Emergency vehicles and workers carrying out repairs are being allowed to use roads – but those driving non-essential vehicles risk being arrested.
除了救援车辆和维修人员外，闲杂车辆上路打酱油都将面临被逮捕的风险
Tens of thousands of homes are without power and traffic jams lasting more than 12 hours were reported in Kentucky and Pennsylvania.
数万家住户停电，部分地区交通拥堵长达12小时以上
Almost all flights into the city have been cancelled.
机场关闭，纽约全城所有航班停飞
Above-ground and subway train services were suspended as well.
地面公交和地铁全部停运
As far as I could tell, this is going to be one of those generational events, where your parents talk about how bad it was.
在我看来，这是那种跨越世代的大事件，日后父母会跟孩子说起这次暴雪有多惨多糟糕
Describe Image模拟：
The graph gives a detailed distribution of the probabilities of further heavy snowfall in parts of the United States.
Overall, the snowing area is located along the eastern coast of the Atlantic Ocean.
It is clear that snowstorm is most likely to continue in New York with the highest possibility at 50%.
While for the capital Washington DC, which is 200 miles away from the center of the blizzard, there is little chance that it would see more snow coming in the next few days.
We can also find that in cities like Philadelphia and Boston, the possibility of expecting further snowfall is between 10% and 20%.
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