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清理所有的道路以及修复所有被刮断的电线和电话线花了好几周时间。部队应召而来，把倒下的树木锯断，并帮助清理大小道路。英国其他地方的电力工人和电话工人赶到南方来帮助修复被损线路。他们一连几周都长时间地工作，才把一切恢复正常。
A great many parks lost trees in the hurricane. Three famous parks in and around London had over 1,400 trees blown over.
许许多多的公园在飓风中损失了树木。伦敦市内和附近三个著名的公园有一千四百多棵树被刮倒。
Kew Gardens is an old and famous research centre for plants in the London area. For centuries travellers have returned from abroad with seeds and young plants to add to the centre's collection. It has therefore a large number of old and unusual trees. Altogether the centre lost more than 1,000 trees in the hurricane. One tree which dated from 1761 was blown over and many other valuable trees were lost. Later on the centre had a large number of new trees planted.
凯尤·加登斯是伦敦地区一个古老而又著名的植物研究中心。几个世纪以来，从国外归来的旅游者带回许多种子和幼苗，增加了这个研究中心的品种。因此，这个研究中心拥有大量的古老而稀有的树木。在这次飓风中，这个中心总共损失了一千多棵树。有一棵1761年栽种的树被刮倒，其他许许多多珍贵的树种损失也不少。后来，这个中心栽种了许多新树。
Woods and forests in the southeast were completely destroyed. Millions of young trees have already been planted to take the place of those which were blown over. But it will be more than 100 years before the country begins once again to look as it did before.
东南部的大小森林全部被毁。现在已经种植了数百万棵小树，代替那些被刮倒的树。但是，要过一百多年以后，这个国家才能恢复原貌。
Surprisingly, the weather report on the evening before the storm said there would be strong winds, but not a hurricane. In fact, an expert who was studying the weather rang up the BBC to ask if a hurricane was on its way. The weatherman in his TV broadcast repeated this to millions of people and then said that there would be no hurricane. The next day he had a very red face.
令人惊奇的是，风暴发生前的那个晚上，天气预报说，只有强风，而没有飓风。事实上，有一位当时正在研究天气的专家给英国广播公司打电话，询问是否一场飓风要来。而气象员在电视中又对数百万观众重复上述报道，并且说不会有飓风。第二天他的脸羞得通红。