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進入《中英對照讀新聞》Weather disasters occur almost daily, becoming more frequent -UN 聯合國：氣候災害幾乎每天發生，變得越來越頻繁
菲律賓遭受風災景象。（歐新社資料照）
◎李信漢
Weather-related disasters such as floods and heatwaves have occurred almost daily in the past decade, almost twice as often as two decades ago, with Asia being the hardest hit region, a U.N. report said on Monday.
氣候相關的災害像是水災和熱浪，在過去10年間已是幾乎每天發生，其頻率幾乎是20年前的2倍，亞洲是受創最嚴重的地區，聯合國的一份報告週一說。
While the report authors could not pin the increase wholly on climate change, they did say that the upward trend was likely to continue as extreme weather events increased.
儘管報告的作者們無法精確指出氣候變遷整體增加的幅度，他們確實指出上升的趨勢似乎將持續下去，因為極端氣候事件增加。
Since 1995, weather disasters have killed 606,000 people, left 4.1 billion injured, homeless or in need of aid, and accounted for 90 percent of all disasters, it said.
自1995年起，氣候災害已造成60萬6000人喪命，41億人受傷、無家可歸或需要接受援助，而氣候災害造成的傷亡人數佔所有災害傷亡人數的9成，報告說。
A recent peak year was 2002, when drought in India hit 200 million and a sandstorm in China affected 100 million. But the standout mega-disaster was Cyclone Nargis, which killed 138,000 in Myanmar in 2008.
最近的高峰年度是2002年，印度的乾旱襲擊2億人，而中國的沙塵暴影響1億人。但最顯著的大災害是特強氣旋風暴「納吉斯」，2008年它在緬甸造成13萬8000人喪命。
The report, called "The Human Cost of Weather Related Disasters", found there were an average of 335 weather-related disasters annually between 2005 and August this year, up 14 percent from 1995-2004 and almost twice as many as in the years from 1985 to 1994.（Reuters）
這份名為《氣候災害造成的人類損失》的報告發現，2005年到2015年8月間，每年平均有335起氣候相關災害，比1995年到2004年間增加14％，而且次數幾乎是1985年到1994年間的2倍。（路透）
新聞辭典
heat wave：名詞，熱浪。例句：The researchers have shown that heat waves are likely to increase both in severity and number during the next two decades.（研究人員指出，未來20年熱浪可能更嚴重，發生次數也會增加。）
drought：名詞，乾旱。例句：The drought caused serious damage to crops.（乾旱造成農作物嚴重受損。）
sandstorm：名詞，沙塵暴。例句：They were caught in a sandstorm.（他們碰上沙塵暴。）
