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印度新德里雾霾严重 车辆限行工地停工

Of the 30 most polluted urban areas on the planet¹, 22 of them are in India, the world's second most populated country. In fact, the nation's capital New Delhi is ranked as the world's most polluted city. And right now the smog is at its worst. Record levels of pollution are expected for at least the next week. Government officials have declared a public health emergency and they've taken steps to try to get a handle on the pollution. They're stopping work at construction sites, which sends dust into the air.

They're limiting the number of cars that are allowed on the road, encouraging people to carpool and reducing traffic by 4 million vehicles each day.

But experts say, this isn't likely to have a major effect on the smog because a lot of it comes from outside New Delhi. Around the time of year when temperatures drop, India's farmers light fires to ge?t rid of leftover² crops and eliminate³ stubble on the ground. That produces a lot of the pollution that settles over New Delhi. The government has tried to address that problem in the past. One way was by providing farmers with discounted equipment that could keep them from having to burn the unwanted leftovers⁴ but nothing has really worked. And it may take a change in the weather for the problem to improve. That's especially concerning⁵ to residents⁶ of New Delhi because researchers have compared living in a place with heavily polluted air to smoking a pack of cigarettes everyday.

1 planet   

n.行星

参考例句：

• Neptune is the furthest planet from the sun. 海王星是离太阳最远的行星。
• Rubbish, however, is only part of the problem of polluting our planet. 然而, 垃圾只是我们这个星球的污染问题的一个方面。

2 leftover   

n.剩货，残留物，剩饭；adj.残余的

参考例句：

• These narrow roads are a leftover from the days of horse-drawn carriages.这些小道是从马车时代沿用下来的。
• Wonder if that bakery lets us take leftover home.不知道那家糕饼店会不会让我们把卖剩的带回家。

3 eliminate   

vt.排除，消除，根除

参考例句：

• Can we ever eliminate poverty from the world?我们有朝一日能消除世上的贫困吗？
• You must eliminate an unknown quantity.你必须消去一个未知数。

4 leftovers   

n.剩余物，残留物，剩菜

参考例句：

• He can do miracles with a few kitchen leftovers.他能用厨房里几样剩饭做出一顿美餐。
• She made supper from leftovers she had thrown together.她用吃剩的食物拼凑成一顿晚饭。

5 concerning   

prep.关于，论及

参考例句：

• What do you know concerning this?关于这事你知道些什么？
• Some senior students wrote in asking for information concerning postgraduate studies.一些四年级学生写信询问有关研究生课程的信息。

6 residents   

n.居民( resident的名词复数 )；（旅馆的）住宿者

参考例句：

• Plans to build a new mall were deep-sixed after protests from local residents. 修建新室内购物中心的计划由于当地居民反对而搁浅。
• Local residents have reacted angrily to the news. 当地居民对这一消息表示愤怒。