Police: Huge WWII-era bomb successfully defused in Frankfurt
警方：二战时期炸弹在法兰克福成功得以拆除
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.
德国，法兰克福-周日，警方透露，拆弹专家在德国的金融之都法兰克福拆除了一颗二战时期遗留的没有爆炸的巨型炸弹。为此，被迫疏散了超过6万人。
Hospital patients and the elderly were among those affected in what was Germany’s biggest evacuation in recent history.
此次是德国近年来最大的一次疏散，其中包括了医院病人和老年人。
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.
周二的时候，建筑工人发现了这枚重达1.8吨（4000磅）的英国炸弹。金融之都的官方要求附近半径1.5公里（近一英里）范围内的居民自家中撤离。周日早上数十辆救护车排成长队，帮助那些无法自行撤离危险区的居民。
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.
这枚高能炸弹，也被称作重磅炸弹，是二战末期英国皇家空军投在德国的数千颗重磅炸弹之一，当时的目的是削弱纳粹的战争机器和打击德国人的意志。
Authorities warned that if the bomb had exploded, the shock wave could have caused widespread damage throughout the western part of the city.
权威人士称，如果这枚炸弹爆炸，巨大的冲击波能够破坏城市西部大片的地区。
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.
在战争结束的72年后，在全德国境内还会发现未爆的炸弹，就在星期六，拆弹专家在西部城市科布伦茨拆除了一个500公斤的美军投下的炸弹，约2万名居民被疏散。
重点单词汇总
bomb: 炸弹
defused: 拆除（爆炸物）的引信
huge: 巨大的; 庞大的; 极大的;
unexploded: 未爆炸的，未发射的，装着炸药的
evacuation: 疏散; 撤离; 撤退; 撤空;
disarmed: 解除武装; 使缴械; 使息怒; 缓和;
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