1·I have been all over the world hunting hurricanes.
我在世界各地追寻飓风。
2·In 2008, Cuba was hit by five successive hurricanes, but only seven people were killed.
2008年,古巴连续遭受了五次飓风袭击,但只有七人死亡。
3·At the same time, extreme weather events like Category 5 hurricanes are becoming more frequent.
与此同时,5级飓风等极端气象事件出现得越来越频繁。
4·Just turn on the news and you can hear about hurricanes, earthquakes, and more happenings in our world every day.
只要打开新闻,你每天都可以听到关于飓风、地震的新闻,还有世上发生的其他事情。
5·Remember how, in the wake of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Al Gore claimed that we were in store for ever more destructive hurricanes?
还记得2005年卡特里娜飓风过后,阿尔·戈尔是如何宣称我们正准备迎接比以往更具破坏性的飓风的吗?
6·Massive floods, long droughts, hurricanes and severe monsoons take their toll each year, destroying millions of tons of valuable crops.
大规模的洪水、长期的干旱、飓风和严重的季风每年都会造成损失,摧毁数百万吨有价值的农作物。
7·One of the most powerful of all weather systems, hurricanes are powered by the heat energy released by the condensation of water vapour.
作为所有天气系统中最强大的系统之一,飓风是由水蒸气凝结释放的热能所驱动的。
8·In 2018 alone, wildfires, volcanic eruptions, hurricanes, mudslides, and other natural disasters cost at least $49 billion in the United States.
仅2018年这一年,山火、火山爆发、飓风、泥石流和其他自然灾害就给美国造成了至少490亿美元的损失。
9·The ancient Maya were presumably more experienced and did better, but nevertheless they too must have faced risks of crop failures from droughts and hurricanes.
古代玛雅人也许经验更丰富,做得更好,但他们也一定会面临干旱和飓风引起谷物歉收的风险。
10·The risk is that global warming will make hurricanes more common.
这种风险是全球变暖将会导致飓风频频发生。