澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) "世界末日"再度降临

 

Cataclysmic climate change threatens, the worldwide financial catastrophe¹ not only looms² but continues, we have over-population, we have famines in which millions will surely die. Every time you go to an airport, of course, you are comprehensively frisked; you’re soon to be put through some new sort of x-ray to remind you we now live in terror. But are we, in fact, growing weary of fear and is the hyperbole making us immune to the message? 

灾难性气候变化威胁着我们,世界金融灾难隐约还会继续下去,我们已经人口过剩,而且有饥荒,百万计的人一定会死。每次你到机场,你都要受到全面检查,你很快就会受到一种新的X光侵扰，我们现在是生活在恐惧之中。但是我们,事实上是在逐渐厌烦恐惧并且有一种夸张法让我们对这种信息免疫?

1 catastrophe   

n.大灾难，大祸

参考例句：

• I owe it to you that I survived the catastrophe.亏得你我才大难不死。
• This is a catastrophe beyond human control.这是一场人类无法控制的灾难。

2 looms   

n.织布机( loom的名词复数 )v.隐约出现，阴森地逼近( loom的第三人称单数 )；隐约出现，阴森地逼近

参考例句：

• All were busily engaged,men at their ploughs,women at their looms. 大家都很忙，男的耕田，女的织布。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The factory has twenty-five looms. 那家工厂有25台织布机。 来自《简明英汉词典》