美国有线新闻 CNN 2016-8-08

AZUZ: It's a modern marvel¹ of engineering. Reportedly, the largest movable object constructed on land, a dome² tall enough to cover the Statue of Liberty and wide enough to cover the U.S. Capitol building.

阿祖兹：这是现代工程奇迹。据报道称，一个世界上最大的可移动拱门正在修建，其高度足以覆盖自由女神像，宽度足以覆盖美国国会大厦。

But it's not being built to house tourists, sports or businesses. It's for the remains³ of a reactor⁴ at the Chernobyl nuclear power station. It's located in Ukraine. When it was online in the 1980s, it was part of the Soviet⁵ Union. A disaster there exactly 30 years ago was the worst in the history of nuclear power.

但是这座拱门并不是为了旅游业、体育业或商业而建。它是为了切尔诺贝利核电站的反应堆遗址而建。这座核电站位于乌克兰。上世纪80年代，当它出现在网络上时，它还是前苏联的一部分。30年前，这座核电站发生了核电史上最严重的灾难。

An experiment gone wrong caused explosions and blew the roof off Chernobyl's number four reactor. Thirty people died immediately, but scientists estimate that thousand of cases of radiation sickness and cancer deaths will have resulted as well.

实验失误引发爆炸，炸毁了切尔诺贝利核电站4号核反应堆的屋顶。爆炸造成30人当场死亡，但是科学家估计，这起事故还会导致上千人因放射性疾病和癌症死亡。

After the accident, a giant steel and concrete cover was built to seal reactor four and contain some of its radioactive material. But it's deteriorating⁶ and radiation is leaking out. So, the $1.7 billion dome called the New Safe Confinement⁷ is being built to cover it.

事故发生后，修建起一个钢筋混凝土保护层，用来密封4号核反应堆，防止放射性材料扩散。但是这个保护层逐渐退化，导致辐射泄漏。所以，为保护4号核反应堆，修建了这个耗资17亿美元的“新安全保护罩”。

Engineers plan to use rails to slide it over the current structure this November and to finish sealing it off by the end of next year. Workers are constantly monitored for radiation exposure.

工程师计划在今年11月，用钢轨将拱门滑到现有结构之上，然后在明年年底前完成密封工作。工人们仍在继续监督辐射暴露情况。

1 marvel   

vi.(at)惊叹vt.感到惊异；n.令人惊异的事

参考例句：

• The robot is a marvel of modern engineering.机器人是现代工程技术的奇迹。
• The operation was a marvel of medical skill.这次手术是医术上的一个奇迹。

2 dome   

n.圆屋顶，拱顶

参考例句：

• The dome was supported by white marble columns.圆顶由白色大理石柱支撑着。
• They formed the dome with the tree's branches.他们用树枝搭成圆屋顶。

3 remains   

n.剩余物，残留物；遗体，遗迹

参考例句：

• He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
• The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。

4 reactor   

n.反应器；反应堆

参考例句：

• The atomic reactor generates enormous amounts of thermal energy.原子反应堆发出大量的热能。
• Inside the reactor the large molecules are cracked into smaller molecules.在反应堆里，大分子裂变为小分子。

5 Soviet   

adj.苏联的，苏维埃的；n.苏维埃

参考例句：

• Zhukov was a marshal of the former Soviet Union.朱可夫是前苏联的一位元帅。
• Germany began to attack the Soviet Union in 1941.德国在1941年开始进攻苏联。

6 deteriorating   

恶化，变坏( deteriorate的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• The weather conditions are deteriorating. 天气变得越来越糟。
• I was well aware of the bad morale and the deteriorating factories. 我很清楚，大家情绪低落，各个工厂越搞越坏。

7 confinement   

n.幽禁，拘留，监禁；分娩；限制，局限

参考例句：

• He spent eleven years in solitary confinement.他度过了11年的单独监禁。
• The date for my wife's confinement was approaching closer and closer.妻子分娩的日子越来越近了。