遇见未来?洪水恣肆的纽约城,安全最重要_BEC初级作文

遇见未来?洪水恣肆的纽约城,安全最重要

纽约人发现这个星期在暴风雨和洪水的冲击下，地铁、电线和其他基础设施也面临瘫痪。而找到解决方案的时间已不多了。桑迪期间的洪水甚至超过了2011年纽约州政府旨在帮助当局规划未来气候变化时设想的灾难场景。

"The impacts we saw in the last couple of days were actually impacts we did not think we would see until the 2080s, such as the flooding in lower Manhattan, and in Long Island, the vulnerability of subway tubes and some of the airports," said Art DeGaetano, a Cornell University professor and director of the north-east regional climate centre, who was one of the authors of the report.

“在过去的几天里我们看到的影响实际上是我们认为我们看不到的影响，直到2080年，例如洪水淹没曼哈顿下城，在长岛脆弱的地铁系统和一些机场，” Art DeGaetano说，康奈尔大学的教授和东北地区气候中心的主任，他是研究报告的作者之一。

With sea-level rise, a common storm could prove as catastrophic as Sandy, putting about a third of the city's streets in a flood danger zone.

随着海平面上升，一个常见的风暴都可能会像桑迪一样灾难性，把大约三分之一的城市街道置于洪水的危险地带。

The city is looking at a variety of options from big engineering projects, such as levees, sea walls and pumping stations, to offering a buy-out to people to move out of flood-prone areas.