1. Haiti (n.海地) Earthquake (n.地震): In January, an earthquake rocked (v.震驚) the Haitian (adj.海地的) capital (n.首都) of Port-au-Prince (n.太子港). Some (adv.大約) 230,000 people died.
      2. WikiLeaks (n.“維基解密”): WikiLeaks dropped two considerable bombshells (n.炸彈) with the July release (v.公開) of 77,000 U.S.(n.美國)'s Afghanistan (n.阿富汗) military files, and 400,000 Iraq (n.伊拉克) war logs (n.日誌) in October. Then it leaked (v.泄漏) more than 200,000 U.S. diplomatic (adj.外交的) cables (n.電報) in November.
      3. Chilean (adj.智利的) Miners (n.礦工): On Aug. 5, 33 miners in a copper mine found themselves trapped (v.困住) in a collapsed (adj.倒塌的) shaft (n.豎井). They miraculously (adv.奇地) survived (v.生還) after 69 days.
      4. Pakistan (n.巴基斯坦) Floods (n.洪水): Monsoon (n.季候風) rains in July triggered (v.引發) almost unprecedented (adj.史無前例的) flooding that inundated (v.使氾濫) the Indus River (n.印度河) basin (n.流域) - at one point, almost a fifth of the country was underwater.
      5. North Korea (n.韓國)'s Year of Bad Behavior: It began in March when the Cheonan (n.天安), a South Korean (adj.韓國的) corvette (n.小型護衛艦), sank in waters disputed (v.爭議) by the two Koreas, killing 46 sailors. Then the rogue (n.流氓) state shelled (v.炮擊) a South Korean island in November. Four South Koreans (n.韓國人) died.
      (Time.com, December 2010)

      一，海地地震：1月，海地首都太子港發生強烈地震，大約有23萬人死去。
      二，“維基解密”：“維基解密”在7月和10月投下了兩枚巨大炸彈，首先公開了美國7萬7千份阿富汗軍事檔案，然後是40萬篇伊拉克戰爭日誌；11月，他們再泄漏20多萬份美國外交電報。
      三，智利礦工：8月5日，33名銅礦礦工被困於一個倒塌了的豎井中；69天後，他們奇生還。
      四，巴基斯坦洪水：7月的季候風引發幾乎是史無前例的洪水，令印度河流域氾濫——在某個階段，全國幾乎有五分之一地區水浸。
      五，北韓搗蛋之年：首先在3月，南韓小型護衛艦天安號在兩韓爭議的水域沉沒，46名水手喪生；然後在11月，這個流氓國家炮擊南韓一個小島，導致4人死去。（Time.com，2010年12月）