CNN News: 痛心!澳大利亞連發(fā)森林大火

Fire and ice are the first two topics today on CNN 10. I'm Carl Azuz. Hope your Thursday is going well. A resident of Sydney, Australia says at one point this week she thought her house was on fire.

火和冰是今天cnn10的頭兩個(gè)話題。我是卡爾·阿祖。希望星期四一切順利。澳大利亞悉尼的一位居民說，本周她一度以為自己的房子著火了。

It wasn't but as the smoke blew into Sydney from the bushfires burning nearby, air quality dropped to hazardous levels. Some Australians started complaining of burning eyes and the symptoms of asthma and a haze has settled over Australia's largest city.

當(dāng)附近森林大火的濃煙吹進(jìn)悉尼時(shí)，空氣質(zhì)量降至危險(xiǎn)水平。一些澳大利亞人開始抱怨眼睛灼痛，哮喘和霧霾的癥狀已經(jīng)籠罩了澳大利亞最大的城市。

The state it's in, New South Wales, is home to almost 8 million people. It's been dealing with bushfires for much of this month. They've destroyed hundreds of homes and killed four people and more than 1,300 firefighters are still fighting the blazes in New South Wales and in the state that forms its northern border Queensland.

的新南威爾士州擁有近800萬人口。本月大部分時(shí)間它都在應(yīng)對(duì)叢林大火。他們摧毀了數(shù)百座房屋，造成4人死亡，1300多名消防員仍在新南威爾士州和昆士蘭州北部邊境地區(qū)滅火。

Meantime, one state west in south Australia more than 100 schools have closed because of incredibly dangerous conditions. The South Australian of Meteorology says any fires that start will be extremely hard to control. A total ban on starting new fires is in place and like the ongoing power shutoffs we've told you about in California, electricity has been switched off to more than 10,000 people in south Australia.

與此同時(shí)，在南澳大利亞西部的一個(gè)州，100多所學(xué)校因極其危險(xiǎn)的條件而關(guān)閉。南澳大利亞氣象局表示，一旦發(fā)生火災(zāi)，將很難控制。全面禁止生火的禁令已經(jīng)實(shí)施，就像我們已經(jīng)所說的在加州正在進(jìn)行的斷電一樣，南澳大利亞州已經(jīng)有超過1萬人斷電。

Officials don't want equipment starting any new bushfires. About 2.5 million acres of land have burned so far. It's late springtime in Australia when the region is prone to wildfires and high temperatures, strong winds and an ongoing drought are only making conditions more dangerous. Forecasters predict that Thursday will be another hot and dangerous day with windy conditions on the eastern part of the continent.

官員們不希望設(shè)備引發(fā)任何新的叢林火災(zāi)。到目前為止，約有250萬英畝土地被燒毀。現(xiàn)在是澳大利亞的晚春時(shí)節(jié)，該地區(qū)容易發(fā)生野火、高溫、強(qiáng)風(fēng)和持續(xù)的干旱，這只會(huì)使情況更加危險(xiǎn)。天氣預(yù)報(bào)員預(yù)測，周四將是非洲大陸東部又一個(gè)炎熱、危險(xiǎn)、多風(fēng)的天氣。