Police: Huge WWII-era bomb successfully defused in Frankfurt
警方：二戰時期炸彈在法蘭克福成功得以拆除
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Bomb disposal experts defused a huge unexploded World War II-era bomb in the German financial capital Frankfurt that forced the evacuation of more than 60,000 residents, police said Sunday.
德國，法蘭克福-周日，警方透露，拆彈專家在德國的金融之都法蘭克福拆除了一顆二戰時期遺留的沒有爆炸的巨型炸彈。為此，被迫疏散了超過6萬人。
Hospital patients and the elderly were among those affected in what was Germany’s biggest evacuation in recent history.
此次是德國近年來最大的一次疏散，其中包括了醫院病人和老年人。
Construction workers found the 1.8-ton (4,000-pound) British bomb Tuesday. Officials ordered residents to evacuate homes within a 1.5-kilometer (nearly a mile) radius of the site in Germany’s financial capital. Dozens of ambulances lined up early Sunday to pick up anyone unable to independently leave the danger zone.
周二的時候，建築工人發現了這枚重達1.8噸（4000磅）的英國炸彈。金融之都的官方要求附近半徑1.5公裡（近一英裡）範圍內的居民自家中撤離。周日早上數十輛救護車排成長隊，幫助那些無法自行撤離危險區的居民。
The high capacity bomb, also dubbed a Blockbuster, was one of thousands dropped over Germany by the Royal Air Force during the final years of World War II to cripple the Nazi war machine and demoralize the German population.
這枚高能炸彈，也被稱作重磅炸彈，是二戰末期英國皇家空軍投在德國的數千顆重磅炸彈之一，當時的目的是削弱納粹的戰爭機器和打擊德國人的意志。
Authorities warned that if the bomb had exploded, the shock wave could have caused widespread damage throughout the western part of the city.
權威人士稱，如果這枚炸彈爆炸，巨大的衝擊波能夠破壞城市西部大片的地區。
Unexploded bombs are still found regularly across Germany, even 72 years after the war ended. About 20,000 people were evacuated from the western city of Koblenz before specialists disarmed a 500-kilogram U.S. bomb there Saturday.
在戰爭結束的72年後，在全德國境內還會發現未爆的炸彈，就在星期六，拆彈專家在西部城市科布倫茨拆除了一個500公斤的美軍投下的炸彈，約2萬名居民被疏散。
重點單詞彙總
bomb: 炸彈
defused: 拆除（爆炸物）的引信
huge: 巨大的; 龐大的; 極大的;
unexploded: 未爆炸的，未發射的，裝著炸藥的
evacuation: 疏散; 撤離; 撤退; 撤空;
disarmed: 解除武裝; 使繳械; 使息怒; 緩和;
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