ABC News原文：

Thousands of people marched through Athens on Thursday as part of a general strike in response to the country's worst ever rail disaster last month. The general strike in Greece was called in response to a rail disaster last month. Protests across the country have grounded flights, kept ferries to the Greek islands at port, left public hospitals running with the emergency staff, halted public transport services and led to class cancellations at state-run schools.

周四，数千人在雅典游行，作为大罢工的一部分，以回应上个月该国有史以来最严重的铁路灾难。希腊的大罢工是为了回应上个月的铁路灾难。全国各地的抗议活动导致航班停飞，前往希腊岛屿的渡轮滞留在港口，公立医院只有紧急救援人员在工作，公共交通服务暂停，公立学校的课程取消。

1.a general strike 总罢工，大罢工

2.rail disaster 铁路灾难

3.halt public transport services 暂停公共交通服务

Unions have rallied behind railway workers associations who stage rolling walkouts since the head-on train collision in northern Greece February 28 that left 57 people dead and dozens injured. The government facing parliamentary elections before the summer says rail services will restart on March 22 and be restored gradually through April 11. Greece's transport minister submitted his resignation and a local train station master has been arrested over the deadliest train crash to hit Greece in

many years.

2月28日，希腊北部发生火车相撞事故，造成57人死亡，数十人受伤。自那以来，工会一直支持铁路工人协会举行轮流罢工。政府表示，铁路服务将于3月22日恢复，并逐步恢复到4月11日。希腊交通部长提交辞呈，当地火车站站长因希腊多年以来最严重的一次火车相撞事故被逮捕。

4.head-on train collision 火车正面相撞（head-on adj. 面对面的）

5.train crash 火车相撞事故

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6.rail crash 铁路事故

例句：Two trains collided in northern Greece, killing at least 43 people and crumpling carriages into twisted steel knots in the country’s deadliest rail crash.

希腊北部两列火车相撞，造成至少43人死亡，车厢被压成扭曲的钢节，这是发生在希腊最严重的一次铁路事故。

7.go on strike 举行罢工

例句：Tens of thousands of people took to the streets of Greece on Wednesday and workers went on strike in the biggest show of public anger yet over the country's deadliest train disaster that killed 57 people last week.

周三，成千上万的希腊人走上街头，工人们举行罢工，这是迄今为止希腊民众对上周发生的最严重火车事故最大规模的愤怒，此次事故已造成57人死亡。