Chilean engineers are working on a plan to speed up the rescue of 33 miners trapped hundreds of feet underground.
trapped: kapana kısılmış (tuzağa düşmüş, tutsak kalmış, köşeye sıkışmış)
speed up: hızlandırmak
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Workers are due on Monday to start drilling an escape shaft going about 700m (2,300ft) underground, which is likely to take four months to complete.
due on: tarihine kadar
drilling: matkaplama, sondaj, delme, delik açma,
(escape) shaft: (kaçış) kuyu, baca, maden kuyusu, sığınak bacası (Gömme sığınaklarda, havalandırma maksadıyla kullanılan ve acil hallerde çıkış yeri olarak ta faydalanılan menfezler)
be likely to: muhtemelen
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But engineers say widening an existing tunnel may reach the men in two months.
widening: genişletme, genişleyen (Synonym=broaden)
existing: mevcut, var olan
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Officials are looking at several plans to rescue the men, who have been stuck below ground since 5 August.
officals: yetkililer, resmi görevliler
looking at: gözden geçirmek, göz önüne almak, incelemek, bakmak
stuck: takılmış, sıkışmış, çaresiz kalmış
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Engineer Walter Herrera told reporters: "We can broaden the hole that is already there with the latest generation machines and using a wider diameter bore."
broaden: genişletmek(Synonym=widening)
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Mr Herrera said government experts were studying his proposal.
proposal: teklif, öneri, tasarı, plan
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Health Minister Jaime Manalich announced on Saturday that "Plan B has already been designed", promising more details later.
Minister: Bakan
announced: ilan etti, duyurdu, açıkladı
designed: tasarlandı, yapıldı
promising: umut verici
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However, Mining Minister Laurence Golborne had earlier dismissed speculation that the miners could be rescued in as little as 30 or 60 days.
dismissed: reddetti
in as little as: (30 ila 60) kadar az (gün içinde)
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"The information is extremely clear, the time frame is... between three and four months," Mr Golborne told local media, according to AFP news agency.
time frame: zaman dilimi
local media: yerel medya
according to: -e göre (AFP haber ajansın"a göre")
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As part of the original plan, Chile has imported a special hydraulic bore to drill the escape shaft down to the miners.
imported: ithal edilmiş, alınmış
bore: Boru
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The Strata 950 will drill a shaft down to the men, and a capsule can be lowered to rescue the men one by one.
Strata 950: Bİr çeşit sondaj aleti adı. (resim için kelimenin üzerine tıklayın)
drill: matkaplama, sondaj, delme, delik açma,
capsule: kapsül
lowered: Alçaltmak
one by one: birer birer, sırayla
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On Friday, Mr Manalich said five of the trapped miners were showing signs of depression, and that psychologists would try to help them through an intercom system.
showing signs of depression: Depresyon belirtileri göstermek
intercom system: Dahili telefon, diyafon sistemi
through: vasıtasıyla, yoluyla
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The miners at the San Jose gold and copper mine near the city of Copiapo, some 725km (450 miles) north of Santiago, were discovered last Sunday after the mine collapsed several weeks earlier.
collapsed: çökmüş
several weeks earlier: birkaç hafta önce
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Rescuers have managed to drill a small tunnel to the men from the surface to allow supplies to be sent down.
surface: yüzey
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On Thursday the men made a video for their families showing their living conditions in the shaft, which was broadcast on Chilean TV.
broadcast: yayınlamak, tv'den, radyodan yayınlamak
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The men appeared to be in good spirits, despite their ordeal.
despite their ordeal: onların sıkıntısına rağmen,
spirits: moral, ruh, keyif
appear: görünmek
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Many family members have camped out at the surface of the mine.
camped: kamp kurmak
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Some relatives have launched legal cases against government officials and the owners of the mine, which was reopened in 2008 after being closed because of an accident.
relative: akraba
launch: başlatmak
legal case: hukuki dava
against goverment officials: hükümet yetkililerine karşı
owner of the mine: maden sahibi
accident: kaza, kötü olay
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