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BEICHUAN, Sichuan, May 13 (Xinhua) -- At least 1,000 students and teachers were dead or missing in a high school in Beichuan county of southwest China"s Sichuan Province, which suffered the worst from Monday"s earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale.
汶川震后，位于四川西南部北川县一所高级中学至此仍有至少1000名老师和学生生死未卜。
The main building of Beichuan Middle School in Mianyang City, 160 kilometers northeast of Chengdu, collapsed when the quake hit at around 2:30 pm, and very few students escaped, parents and rescuers said.
距离成都东北部160公里的绵阳市北川中学主楼在12日下午两点三十分地震中倒塌，据学生家长和救援者称，只有少量学生逃出。
Xinhua reporters saw the building, a six- or seven-story structure, was reduced to relics about two meters tall.
新华社记者见到震后的大楼，原本六七层高的建筑此时已成为仅有两米高的废墟。
About 2,000 students, parents and villagers waited on campus over the night as nearly 1,000 armed police officers searched for survivors in the ruins. Some covered themselves with quilts as it began to rain early on Tuesday.
一整晚，约有两千名学生、学生家长和村民守候在校园里，一千名武警官兵在废墟中搜索幸存者。周二清晨天开始下起雨，一些人把被子裹在身上继续留在现场。
Many parents couldn"t hold back their tears when a rescuer carried a teenage girl out of the ruins. She had lost her legs.
当一名救援者从废墟中抱出一名小女孩时，在场的很多父母潸然泪下。女孩已经失去双腿。
"I just pray my child is safe and sound," said one tearful mother. "Who cares if our house is ruined?"
“我只祈求我的孩子安全。”一名母亲哭诉道，“谁还在乎我家已经成了废墟？”
Chen Linglin, a first-grader, and her classmates huddled together waiting for help. "We need food and water more than anything else," she said.
一年级学生陈灵林（音）和她的同学们抱成一团等候救援。“我们急需水和食物。”
Beichuan Middle School is located in the mountains about 500 meters from the county seat. It has more than 2,000 students and teachers in three school buildings. The other two buildings also collapsed partially.
北川中学建在距离县城500米外的山里。学校里有两千多名师生，三栋教学楼。另外两栋楼也已经部分倒塌。
The quake, the worst to hit China since 1976, also toppled school buildings in several other parts of Sichuan and the neighboring Chongqing Municipality, trapping thousands.
这场1976年以来重创中国最严重的地震，也造成很多四川其他地方和重庆地区的学校楼层坍塌，被困师生数千。
Beichuan County is by far the worst-hit area in Monday"s quake. Up to 5,000 people were said dead there.
北川县现在是周一地震中受创最严重的地方，至此当地已有五千人在地震中死亡。
Power, water and gas supplies were disrupted in Anchang township of Anxian County, about 20 km from Beichuan. Food and drinking water have become scarce. Most stores in town have run out of supplies and many residents are living on leftovers from two days ago.
距北川20公里的安县安昌乡水电气供给中断，食物饮水缺乏。当地大部分商店供给耗尽，许多居民已经开始靠两天前的剩余食物维生。
Traffic was normal on the road between Anchang and Beichuan, but vehicles lined up at every gas station in Anchang, waiting to fill their tanks.
安昌至北川段公路运输正常，但是车辆都在安昌各个加油站排起了长队，等候加油。
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