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英语第7单元翻译 【1】No one can say exactly (what it looks like) when a planet takes ill, but it probably looks a lot like earth. 当一个星球突然生病的时候没有人可以准确地说出它看起来像什么，但是它可能看起来很像地球。 Never mind what you’ve heard about global warming as a slow-motion emergency (that would take decades to play out). 不用担心，你所听到的全球变暖是一个缓慢的过程，需要几十年才能结束。 Suddenly and unexpectedly, the crisis is upon us 突然和意外的是，这场危机正在接近我们。 【2】It certainly looked that way last week as the atmospheric bomb that was Cyclone Larry—a Category 4 storm with wind bursts that reached 125 m.p.h (mile per hour) –exploded through northeastern Australia. （这个现象）的确看起来是这样的：上周的大气炸弹也就是赖瑞飓风——一种伴随着每小时125英里的风暴风阵——引爆了澳大利亚的东北部 It certainly looked that way last year as curtains of fire and dust turned the skies of Indonesia orange, thanks to drought-fueled blazes sweeping the island nation. （这个现象）的确看起来是这样的：去年由于燃料猛烈地燃烧席卷了印尼这个岛国，火灾和灰尘将印尼的天空变成了橘黄色。 It certainly looks that way as sections of ice the size of small states calve from the disintegrating Arctic and Antarctic. （这个现象）的确看起来是这样的：一些体积较小的冰川地区从碎裂的南北极地区继续崩解。 And it certainly looks that way as the sodden wreckage of New Orleans continues to molder, while the waters of the Atlantic gather themselves for a new hurricane season just two months away. （这个现象）也的确看起来是这样：新奥尔良失事的飞机残骸持续崩坏，当大西洋海域为了一个刚过去两个月的新飓风而聚集在一起。 Disasters have always been with us and surely always will be. But when they hit this hard and come this fast—when the emergency becomes commonplace—something has gone grievously wrong.That something is global warming 灾难始终伴随着我们，永远都是。但当他们的冲击如此巨大，速度如此之快——当这些紧急情况变得再平常不过——一些严重的事情已经发生。这就是全球变暖。 【3】The image of Earth organism—famously dubbed Gaia by environmentalist James Lovelock—has probably been overworked,but that`s not to say the planet can`t behave like a living thing,and these days,it`s a living thing fighting a fever.From heat waves to storms to floods to fires to massive glacial melts,the global climate seems to be crashing around us.Scientists have been calling this shot for decades.This is p