CNN News: 痛心!澳大利亚连发森林大火

Fire and ice are the first two topics today on CNN 10. I'm Carl Azuz. Hope your Thursday is going well. A resident of Sydney, Australia says at one point this week she thought her house was on fire.

火和冰是今天cnn10的头两个话题。我是卡尔·阿祖。希望星期四一切顺利。澳大利亚悉尼的一位居民说，本周她一度以为自己的房子着火了。

It wasn't but as the smoke blew into Sydney from the bushfires burning nearby, air quality dropped to hazardous levels. Some Australians started complaining of burning eyes and the symptoms of asthma and a haze has settled over Australia's largest city.

当附近森林大火的浓烟吹进悉尼时，空气质量降至危险水平。一些澳大利亚人开始抱怨眼睛灼痛，哮喘和雾霾的症状已经笼罩了澳大利亚最大的城市。

The state it's in, New South Wales, is home to almost 8 million people. It's been dealing with bushfires for much of this month. They've destroyed hundreds of homes and killed four people and more than 1,300 firefighters are still fighting the blazes in New South Wales and in the state that forms its northern border Queensland.

的新南威尔士州拥有近800万人口。本月大部分时间它都在应对丛林大火。他们摧毁了数百座房屋，造成4人死亡，1300多名消防员仍在新南威尔士州和昆士兰州北部边境地区灭火。

Meantime, one state west in south Australia more than 100 schools have closed because of incredibly dangerous conditions. The South Australian of Meteorology says any fires that start will be extremely hard to control. A total ban on starting new fires is in place and like the ongoing power shutoffs we've told you about in California, electricity has been switched off to more than 10,000 people in south Australia.

与此同时，在南澳大利亚西部的一个州，100多所学校因极其危险的条件而关闭。南澳大利亚气象局表示，一旦发生火灾，将很难控制。全面禁止生火的禁令已经实施，就像我们已经所说的在加州正在进行的断电一样，南澳大利亚州已经有超过1万人断电。

Officials don't want equipment starting any new bushfires. About 2.5 million acres of land have burned so far. It's late springtime in Australia when the region is prone to wildfires and high temperatures, strong winds and an ongoing drought are only making conditions more dangerous. Forecasters predict that Thursday will be another hot and dangerous day with windy conditions on the eastern part of the continent.

官员们不希望设备引发任何新的丛林火灾。到目前为止，约有250万英亩土地被烧毁。现在是澳大利亚的晚春时节，该地区容易发生野火、高温、强风和持续的干旱，这只会使情况更加危险。天气预报员预测，周四将是非洲大陆东部又一个炎热、危险、多风的天气。