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It is important to understand the powerful economic and social forces at work behind our own actions.
重要的是，要理解在我们自身行动背后起作用的强大的经济和社会力量。
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- On September 8th Kim Jong Un, the North's dictator, assembled his top brass to review the damage a week earlier from the second of the typhoons, Maysak,
- 9月8日，朝鲜独裁者金正恩召集朝鲜高层去审查一周之前的第二次台风“美莎克”造成的损失，
- which destroyed 2,000 homes and washed away 60km of roads and 57 bridges.
- 这次台风摧毁了两千座房屋，冲毁了60公里的道路和57座桥梁。
- As the meeting took place, the third, Haishen, was sweeping inland.
- 就在金正恩举行相关会议时，第三次台风“海神”纵贯朝鲜内陆。
- Although it had weakened before it made landfall, Haishen was the first "supertyphoon" of the season.
- 尽管台风“海神”在登陆前已经减弱，但它还是本季第一个“超级台风”。
- It packed sustained winds of 135 knots (250kph).
- 它的风速持续达到135节（合每小时250公里）。
- Most of the western Pacific, the world's biggest typhoon factory, has actually seen unusually few this season.
- 尽管西太平洋地区是世界上最大的台风工厂，但实际上，这个季节的台风并不多见。
- Meteorologists had predicted that.
- 气象学家预测到了这一点。
- Thanks to a regular rhythm in the climate known as the El Nino-Southern Oscillation,
- 由于厄尔尼诺-南方涛动气候的周期固定，
- their models said tradewinds in lower latitudes would be stronger than usual, making it harder for typhoons to form.
- 气候模型表明，低纬度地区的信风将比平时更强，使台风更难形成。
- Yet something man-made may be at work farther north.
- 然而有些由人为原因引发的气候可能会在更远的北方发挥作用。
- A facet of global warming is that the tropics are expanding.
- 全球变暖体现的一个方面是热带地区正在扩张。
- That may account for increased monsoon flooding and a shift north in the intensity of typhoons.
- 由此可能引发了雨季洪水增多和台风强度北移的现象。
- Surface temperatures in a huge patch of ocean south of Japan have been at record highs.
- 日本南部一大片海域的表面温度一直处于历史最高水平。
- The heat gives strength to the typhoons passing over.
- 高温为经过的台风赋予了力量。
- As Maysak unwound, the energy it dumped into the jet stream may have contributed to savage swings from hot to cold in western America.
- 随着台风“美莎克”的平息，它注入急流中的能量可能导致了美国西部从热到冷的剧烈震荡。
- Japan and South Korea grew rich by pouring concrete.
- 日本和韩国靠浇注混凝土致富。
- Construction—dams, levees, pumping stations—still delights planners confronting threats from the weather.
- 尽管规划者面临着气候威胁，但他们还是为水坝、堤坝和泵站的建设而感到高兴。
- A shrine for the world's disaster experts is a cathedral-like cistern under Tokyo,
- 对于世界灾难学家，位于东京地下的一个类似神庙的蓄水池就是圣地，
- a 6.3km-network of tunnels and tanks supported by 500-tonne columns.
- 这个6.3km长的地下通道和水罐网络，由500吨重的柱子支撑着。
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