《中英對照讀新聞》Greenhouse Gases溫室效應氣體
Scientists have found the first unequivocal link between man-made greenhouse gases and a dramatic heating of the Earth's oceans. The researchers have seen what they describe as a “stunning” correlation between a rise in ocean temperature over the past 40 years and pollution of the atmosphere.
科學家已經在人類製造的溫室效應氣體與地球海洋不尋常變熱之間,發現第一個明確的關聯。研究人員已在過去四十年來海水溫度上升和大氣層污染之間,找到他們所描述的「令人目瞪口呆的」相互關係。
The study destroys a central argument of global warming sceptics within the Bush administration - that climate change could be a natural phenomenon.
這項研究推翻布希政府內部溫室效應懷疑論者所持的一項中心論點-氣候變遷可能是一種自然現象。
The findings are crucial because much of the evidence of a warmer world has until now been from air temperatures, but it is the oceans that are the driving force behind the Earth's climate. Dr Tim Barnett, a marine physicist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego and a leading member of the team, said: “Over the past 40 years there has been considerable warming of the planetary system and approximately 90 per cent of that warming has gone directly into the oceans.”
這些發現非常重要,因為有關世界變得更溫暖的許多證據迄今仍是來自空氣溫度,但海洋才是地球氣候背後的左右力量。提姆‧巴內特博士-聖地牙哥「史格里波斯海洋學研究所」物理學家,也是本研究團隊的一名主要成員說:「過去四十年來,這個行星體系出現可觀的暖化,其中大約九十%直接進入海洋。」
Dictionary--新聞辭典
unequivocal:形容詞,不含糊的;相反詞是 equivocal(模稜兩可的、曖昧的)。例句:The President issued an unequivocal refusal to the demands of the opposition parties. (總統直截了當拒絕在野黨的要求。)
stunning:形容詞,驚人的、極誘人的。a stunning news 是指令人震驚的消息。 She looks absolutely stunning in that dress 是說她穿上那件衣服,看起來很吸引人。
sceptic:名詞,懷疑論者。此為英式拼法,美式拼法為 skeptic。例句:Iraq's former U.S. governor, Paul Bremer, praised Iraq's election as a victory for democracy and said it had proved the skeptics wrong. (伊拉克的前美國最高行政長官保羅‧布瑞默稱讚伊拉克的選舉是民主的勝利,表示這證明懷疑論者是錯誤的。)