12/2 ST
词汇:
head off v.阻止, 拦截
displaced person n.难民(=DP)
翻译:
"A focus and concern on climate change is entirely appropriate. We need to be careful that it is not a rush to focus on climate change to the exclusion of the traditional kinds of disasters that have caused the deaths and suffering of so many people around the world."
“聚集和关注气候变化是完全恰当的。我们需要注意的是对气候变化的关注不是一时的,而忽略那些传统意义上的自然灾害,它们已经给全世界许多人民带来了伤亡。”
The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warns that the planet is warming faster than previously predicted.
联合国政府间的气候变化小组警告说地球变暖速度比先前预计的快。
The Nobel Prize winning group of scientists says carbon and other heat-trapping greenhouse gas emissions must stabilize by 2015 and then decline to head off the worst consequences from climate change.
由科学家组成的诺贝尔获奖小组表示碳和其它温室气体排放必须在2015年前稳定下来,然后才能降低气候变化带来的最坏后果。
A new report by the humanitarian group Oxfam says weather-related natural disasters have risen from 120 annually in the 1980s to about 500 today.
一份由人道主义组织发布的新报告指出,与气候相关的自然灾害已经从20世纪80年代的每年120起增加到目前的500起。
Madeleen Helmer is Head of the Red Cross and Red Crescent climate change center in the Netherlands. She tells VOA climate change triggers weather-related disasters.
Madeleen Helmer是荷兰红十字与红新月会气候变化中心的负责人。她告诉VOA气候变化引发了与气候相关的灾害。
Helmer says problems caused by climate change will not go away and must be addressed.
Helmer表示气候变化引起的问题不会消失,必须要予以处理。
Other issues being discussed at the conference include the humanitarian needs of migrants and internally displaced persons and ways to deal with the impact of war.
会议上还讨论了其它一些问题,包括向移民和国内难民提供人道主义援助,以及处理战争所带来影响的方法。
总结:
还行~~
posted on 2007-12-06 19:55
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