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Smog

 

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smog = smoke + fog

 

隨著內地工業發展日盛，空氣污染也愈加嚴重。霧鎖中華，外國傳媒亦有報道：

 

Some parts of China have been covered in a thick pall of smog, though Beijing's normally filthy air has been relatively clear.

 

pall 罩／蓋

(noun 名詞)

 

a thick pall of = a thick cloud of

 

 

pall 使乏味

(verb 動詞)

 

= become less interesting after a period of time

 

例子：I find his movies pall on me after a while.

 

 

cast a pall on/ over sth

(phrasal verb 片語動詞)

 

= make sth less enjoyable than it should be

 

例子：Her sudden death cast a pall over the awards ceremony.

 

 

不過，內地官媒卻樂觀得很：

 

Commentaries by two of the mainland's most influential news outlets suggested an ongoing air pollution crisis was not without a silver lining. They drew a withering reaction from internet users and other media.

 

Every cloud has a silver lining.
(idiom 慣用語)

 

Silver lining指銀色的邊，“Every cloud has a silver lining” 字面的意思就是每朵雲都有一條銀邊，比喻黑暗中總有一線光明，用來鼓勵別人。

 

例子：The fall in inflation is the silver lining of the prolonged recession.

 

 

withering 咄咄逼人的眼色

(adjective 形容詞)

 

wither 枯萎／憔悴

(verb 動詞)

 

例子：If you don't eat more, you're going to wither away.

 

 

空氣污染影響國民健康，後果可大可小，有內地傳媒卻發揮阿Q精神，試圖化悲為喜：

 

The commentaries tried to put a positive spin on the mainland's smog problem.

 

put a positive spin on sth

(phrasal verb 片語動詞)

 

= to twist a report or story to one's advantage; to interpret an event to make it seem favorable or beneficial to oneself or one's cause.

 

政治公關，人稱spin doctors，出處就是在此。

 

例子：The mayor tried to put a positive spin on the damaging polls.

 

有標題指：China's Extreme Smog Forces Pilots to Train for Blind Landings，霧霾之濃，甚至令航空公司決意訓練機師單靠儀錶著陸，即所謂「盲降」是也。

 

China’s notoriously congested airports are dealing this month with the onset of a particularly extreme bout of lung-choking pollution, which lowers visibility and contributes to airline troubles.

 

a bout of sth 一陣（不快的事）

= a short of during which it occurs a great deal

 

例子：The school had a bout of food poisoning from the canteen.

 

choking 令人窒息的

(adjective 形容詞)

 

注意choke 不是chok，絕無「裝帥」之意！

 

例子：If you eat too fast, you might choke.

 

lower visibility 　(=less visible, blurry)

 

例子：The fog was so dense that the road seemed blurry.

   
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