双语新闻：据数据预测北京还要再呼吸16年雾霾

2014-07-10 17:58:55来源：可可英语

　　“Improving air quality in the city is not going to be an easy task,” Pan Tao, head of the Beijing Municipal Research Institute of Environmental Protection, said at a conference, according to China Daily. “It takes time and effort to turn the ship around.”

　　据《中国日报》报道，「改善北京空气质量不是一项简单的任务，」北京市环境保护科学研究院院长潘涛在参加会议时说。「改变现状需要时间和精力。」

　　The concentration level of PM 2.5 cited by China Daily as “healthy,” and supposedly attainable by 2030, was 35 micrograms per cubic meter. The article said the World Health Organization had stated that PM 2.5 levels should not exceed this.

　　《中国日报》报道称，PM2.5浓度的「健康」标准为35微克/立方米，北京有望在2030年达标。文章称，世界卫生组织(World Health Organization，简称WHO)已经说明，PM2.5浓度不应该超过这个标准。

　　Actually, the W.H.O. has said that PM 2.5 should not exceed 25 micrograms per cubic meter over a 24-hour period. By that standard, Beijing still might not have healthy air by 2030. The limit of 35 micrograms per cubic meter, mistakenly cited by China Daily as the W.H.O. standard, is actually just an interim target set by the W.H.O. for heavily polluted countries. For all nations, the W.H.O. recommends achieving the standard of 25 micrograms per cubic meter.

　　实际上，WHO说的是PM2.5平均浓度要在24小时内不超过25微克/立方米。按照这个标准，北京的空气质量可能在2030年前无法达标。《中国日报》错误地引用了WHO设定的35微克/立方米的标准，实际上那是WHO为污染严重的国家设定的过渡目标。WHO建议所有国家达到25微克/立方米的标准。

　　China Daily cited Mr. Pan as saying an average PM 2.5 concentration of 35 micrograms per cubic meter could be reached by 2030.

　　《中国日报》援引潘涛的话称，北京的PM2.5年均浓度有望在2030年达标。

　　The Beijing Environmental Protection Bureau has said the average PM 2.5 concentration last year was 89.5 micrograms per cubic meter, which is more than 3.5 times the W.H.O. recommended exposure limit. On a particularly grim day in January 2013 that is now commonly called the “airpocalypse” by English speakers, parts of Beijing had PM 2.5 concentrations that were 40 times the W.H.O. recommended limit.

　　北京市环保局曾表示，去年PM2.5年均浓度为89.5微克/立方米，是WHO建议的接触限度的三倍多。在2013年1月空气格外糟糕的一天——说英语的人通常称之为「airpocalypse」(空气末日)，北京部分地区的PM2.5浓度是WHO建议的接触限度的40倍。

　　On Tuesday, which happened to be the 93rd birthday of the Chinese Communist Party, the PM 2.5 concentration in Beijing hit 168 micrograms per cubic meter, almost seven times the W.H.O. exposure limit, according to the United States Embassy’s rooftop air monitor. The air was a dismal gray soup the entire day, and the embassy rated it as “very unhealthy” in the evening.

　　美国大使馆屋顶上的空气污染监测器显示，周二，北京的PM2.5浓度达到了168微克/立方米，几乎是WHO接触限度的七倍，这一天正好是中国共产党的93岁生日。天空一整天都非常阴沉，大使馆在晚上将空气质量评定为「非常不健康」。

　　“The current pollution emission is far beyond the environmental capacity in the city, and any adverse climate condition would easily result in smoggy days,” Mr. Pan said, according to China Daily. “The key to current air quality improvement lies in emission reduction.”

　　据《中国日报》报道，「当前北京的污染物排放量仍远超环境容量，任何恶劣的气候条件都容易产生雾霾天，」潘涛说。「目前，改善空气质量关键在于减排。」

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