英语口译：联合国秘书长潘基文2016年国际减灾日致辞

 　　Message on the International Day for Disaster Reduction

　　国际减灾日致辞

　　13 October 2016

　　2016年10月13日

　　Last year, Governments adopted the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction and embedded¹ its objectives in the 2030 Development Agenda. Today, we launch the “Sendai Seven Campaign: Seven Targets, Seven Years”, which highlights how we can all contribute to reducing disaster losses. This year’s target is reducing loss of life.

　　去年，各国政府通过了《仙台减少灾害风险框架》，并将框架目标纳入《2030年发展议程》。今天，我们启动“仙台七运动：七年七目标”，该运动重点指出我们如何都能为减少灾害损失作出贡献。今年的目标是减少生命损失。

　　We can replace material possessions, but we cannot replace people. I am repeatedly appalled² at how many people die in disasters. The majority of victims are invariably the poor and vulnerable.

　　物质财富损失后能够再换，人却不能。灾害中死亡人数之多一次次令我感到震惊。大多数遇难者总是穷人和弱势者。

　　Today, hundreds of millions of people live at risk from rising seas, earthquakes, drought, heatwaves, floods and storms. They live on marginal lands, beneath unstable³ hillsides or on storm-exposed coastlines. This is why eradicating⁴ extreme poverty – the first of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals, is essential to reducing disaster risk.

　　如今，数以亿计的人们生活在海平面上升、地震、干旱、热浪、洪水和风暴带来的风险之中。他们生活在边缘土地上、不稳定的山坡下或面临风暴危险的海岸线上。这就是为什么消除极端贫穷，即17项可持续发展目标中的第一项，对减少灾害风险至关重要。

　　The report “Poverty & Death: Disaster Mortality 1996-2015” published today by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR), is a damning indictment⁵ of inequality. High income countries suffer huge economic losses in disasters, but people in low income countries pay with their lives.

　　联合国减少灾害风险办公室(减灾办)今天发布的题为“贫穷与死亡：1996年至2015年灾害死亡率”的报告是对不平等现象的一个强烈谴责。在灾害中，高收入国家遭受巨大的经济损失，而低收入国家的人民则付出生命的代价。

　　On this International Day for Disaster Reduction, I call on all Governments to work with civil society and the private sector⁶ to move from managing disasters to managing risk. Let us move from a culture of reaction to one of prevention and build resilience by reducing loss of life.

　　值此国际减灾日，我呼吁各国政府与民间社会和私营部门合作，从管理灾害转向管理风险。让我们通过减少生命损失，从被动反应的文化走向预防文化，并建设抗灾能力。

1 embedded   

a.扎牢的

参考例句：

• an operation to remove glass that was embedded in his leg 取出扎入他腿部玻璃的手术
• He has embedded his name in the minds of millions of people. 他的名字铭刻在数百万人民心中。

2 appalled   

v.使惊骇，使充满恐惧( appall的过去式和过去分词)adj.惊骇的；丧胆的

参考例句：

• The brutality of the crime has appalled the public. 罪行之残暴使公众大为震惊。
• They were appalled by the reports of the nuclear war. 他们被核战争的报道吓坏了。 来自《简明英汉词典》

3 unstable   

adj.不稳定的，易变的

参考例句：

• This bookcase is too unstable to hold so many books.这书橱很不结实，装不了这么多书。
• The patient's condition was unstable.那患者的病情不稳定。

4 eradicating   

摧毁，完全根除( eradicate的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• Objective: To study the acute and chronic toxicity of Ten-flavor-acne eradicating-capsule. 目的：探讨复方中药合剂十味平痤胶囊的急性及慢性毒性。
• We are on the verge of eradicating polio in the world. 我们已在世界消除小儿？痹症的边缘了。

5 indictment   

n.起诉；诉状

参考例句：

• He handed up the indictment to the supreme court.他把起诉书送交最高法院。
• They issued an indictment against them.他们起诉了他们。

6 sector   

n.部门，部分；防御地段，防区；扇形

参考例句：

• The export sector will aid the economic recovery. 出口产业将促进经济复苏。
• The enemy have attacked the British sector.敌人已进攻英国防区。