2015考研英语阅读英文原刊《经济学人》：北极气候变化

　　A darker—and so more heat-absorbent—Arctic, though, will surely accelerate globalwarming and may thus encourage melting of the land-bound Greenland ice sheet.

　　然而一个相对深色的—也会吸收更多热量—北极，毫无疑问会加速全球变暖，并且可能促使连接在陆地上的格陵兰岛冰盖加快融化。

　　That certainly would raise sea levels.

　　而这将一定导致海平面上升。

　　Wildlife will also suffer.

　　野生动物也将深受其害。

　　Polar bears, which hunt for seals along the ice's edge, and walruses, which fish there, willboth be hard-hit.

　　沿着浮冰边缘狩猎海豹的北极熊，以及在此捕鱼的海象，都将受到沉重打击。

　　The effects on the wider climate are tricky to assess.

　　它给更广范围的气候所带来的影响难以评估。

　　Some meteorologists suspect unseasonal snow storms off the east coast of America in 2010were partly caused by Arctic warming shifting wind patterns.

　　一些气象学家推测北极变暖造成的气流模式改变是造成2010年袭击美国东海岸的那场非季节性暴风雪的部分原因。

　　One feedback loop that does seems certain, though, is that the melting Arctic will enable theextraction of more fossil fuel, with all that that implies for greenhouse-gas emissions.

　　然而，有一个恶性循环似乎是真的—一个融化中的北极将会使得更多化石燃料被抽取，这与温室气体排放直接关联。

　　The Arctic is reckoned to hold around 15% of the world's undiscovered oil reserves and 30%of those of natural gas.

　　北极被估计保有全球石油储量的15%以及天然气储量的30%。

　　Hence a growing polar enthusiasm among energy companies—as witnessed last month in anArctic tie-up between Exxon Mobil, of America, and Rosneft, Russia's state-controlled oilgiant.

　　因此，在能源公司中掀起了一股极地热潮—上个月美国的埃克森美孚公司与俄罗斯国有石油巨头俄罗斯石油公司达成北极大陆架战略伙伴关系协议就是明证。

　　Recent plankton blooms suggest a warmer Arctic will provide a boost to fisheries there, too.

　　而浮游生物的大量繁殖预示着一个较温暖的北极也将推动此处的渔业发展。

　　And the vanishing ice has begun to allow a trickle of shipping across the Arctic's generallyfrozen north-west and north-east passages, thus linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

　　消失的冰面也开始允许船只缓慢通过通常封冻的北极西北和东北通道，从而连接了大西洋和太平洋。

　　In August a Russian supertanker, the Vladimir Tokohonov, aided by two nuclear icebreakers,became the first such vessel to cross the north-east route, hugging the Siberian coast.

　　在今年八月，一艘俄罗斯籍超级油轮，弗拉基米尔·蒂克霍诺夫号在两艘核能破冰船的帮助下成为了第一艘通过东北路径的同类船只。

　　So far, despite some posturing by Canada and Russia, there are few territorial disputes in theregion and the Arctic Council, the club of Arctic nations, has functioned reasonably well.

　　迄今为止，除了加拿大和俄罗斯所摆出的一些姿势外，在该地区鲜少有领土争端问题。

　　Whether the interests of these countries coincide with those of the wider world, though, ismoot.

　　北极理事会—北极圈国家的俱乐部，也运行良好。

　　A warming Arctic will bring local benefits to some.

　　尽管有待讨论，无论这些国家的利益是否与其他国家重合，一个正在变暖的北极只会给当地带来利益，

　　The rest of the world may pay the cost.

　　而世界上其他地方将不得不为之埋单。

　 词语解释

　　1.according to 根据，按照;据…所说

　　Again this is according to recently declassifiedinformation.

　　这也还是根据最近解密的信息得知的。

　　It did not go according to plan.

　　这个妥协方案并没有按计划执行。

　　2.flow up 流动起来

　　Enough kerosene would be removed to lessen the pressure in the bore hole so that whenthe lake was reached, lake water would flow up the bore hole, then freezing and forming anicy plug.

　　足够多的煤油会在最后被清理掉以减小钻洞内的压力，这样一来，当湖水上的冰层被钻透之后，湖水可以喷出钻洞，最后冻成一个冰柱。

　　We all know blood doesn't flow up.

　　我们都知道血不会朝上流。

　　3.soon after 不久之后，稍后

　　Mr rudd ratified the kyoto protocol soon after his victory.

　　陆克文在选举胜利后不久就签署了京都议定书。

　　Roosevelt devalued the dollar soon after becoming president in 1933.

　　罗斯福在1933年成为总统后不久就让美元贬值了。

　　4.be free of 免于

　　I'm still in the probation period so I won't truly be free of the us for another four years.

　　现在仍然在观察期，完全自由出入还要等到四年后。

　　That we can never be free of yearnings and anxieties.

　　我们永远不能免费憧憬和焦虑。

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