美国有线新闻 CNN 拜登赴新泽西州视察"艾达"灾情（在线收听）

U.S. President Joe Biden traveled to New Jersey on Tuesday to have a look at the damage caused by Hurricane Ida.

周二，美国总统乔·拜登前往新泽西州，视察飓风“艾达”造成的损失。

The president had visited Louisiana late last week. The storm made landfall in Louisiana on August 29th.

总统上周晚些时候视察了路易斯安那州。这场风暴于8月29日在路易斯安那州登陆。

It was a powerful Category 4 hurricane at the time,

飓风“艾达”以4级飓风的强度登陆，

and Hurricane Ida has been blamed for at least 22 deaths in that state and neighboring Mississippi

在该州和邻近的密西西比州造成至少22人死亡，

along with extensive damage and widespread power outages in the region.

并在这一地区造成广泛破坏和大面积停电。

In the days that followed its landfall, what was left of the storm carried tremendous amounts of rain inland, eventually reaching the U.S. northeast.

在登陆后的几天里，这场风暴的余波将大量雨水带到内陆，并最终到达美国东北部。

In states from Virginia to Connecticut, Ida has been cited as a factor in at least 50 deaths.

从弗吉尼亚州到康涅狄格州，“艾达”被认为是造成至少50人死亡的一个因素。

Many of those lives were lost when homes flooded, or when people's cars got trapped in flood waters.

许多人因房屋被淹或者汽车被困在洪水中而失去生命。

In New Jersey, President Biden pushed for Congress to pass new legislation in response to the storm.

在新泽西州，拜登总统敦促国会通过新立法以应对风暴。

For decades, scientists have warned of extreme weather and it would be more extreme and climate change was here, and we're living through it now. We don't have any more time.

数十年来，科学家一直就极端天气发出警告，而且可能会更加极端，气候变化已经出现，我们现在就在经历。我们没有更多的时间了。

But critics have said the president and his supporters are trying to take advantage of severe weather to promote policies that would harm the country.

但批评人士表示，总统及其支持者正试图利用恶劣天气来推行危害国家的政策。

Hurricane Ida is not the strongest storm ever to strike the U.S., but it is one of the three strongest to hit Louisiana.

飓风“艾达”并不是袭击美国的最强风暴，但它是袭击路易斯安那州的三大最强风暴之一。

And as people there assess the damage to their homes,

在该州民众评估家园受损情况时，

some are grappling with a tough decision about whether to stay and rebuild, or look to live somewhere else.

有些人正在努力做出艰难的决定，是留下来重建，还是去其他地方生活。