低碳环保，2024巴黎奥运村将不安装空调

Temperatures are expected to soar again in Europe this summer, but there will be no air conditioning in the athletes rooms at the Paris 2024 Olympics.

今年夏天，欧洲的气温预计将再次飙升，但2024年巴黎奥运会的运动员房间将不会安装空调。

Organizers have pledged to host the greenest Games ever, and in that spirit, buildings in the athletes village were designed to avoid the need for aircon.

组织方已经承诺要举办有史以来最环保的奥运会，本着这一精神，奥运村的建筑设计没有考虑关于空调的需求。

So how will the athletes rooms be cooled?

那么运动员的房间将如何制冷呢？

The buildings have cooling systems that draw water from underground. The facades are also orientated, so they get little direct sunlight.

这些建筑会配备一套地下汲水的冷却系统。并且立面也针对性地做了朝向设计，很少有阳光直射。

Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo: "It was designed by architects, engineers and urban planners by positioning the buildings in relation to the wind, in relation to the River Seine,

巴黎市长安妮·伊达尔戈表示：“这是由建筑师、工程师和城市规划者设计的，把建筑的定位与风向、塞纳河关联了起来，

with studies and scientists who have looked into the subject and comfort is guaranteed."

有了研究人员和科学家对这一项目的考量，舒适感是能够保证的。”

The Paris Mayor has one message to those nations planning on installing air conditioning: trust the science.

这位巴黎市长向那些计划安装空调的国家传达了一个信息：相信科学。

Now, 我们继续我们的核心词汇精讲

diffuse v.扩散;传播a.(文章等)冗长的,漫无边际的

【助记】dif(分开)+fuse(倾，倒)→扩散

【真题链接】 Alvarez’s experience demonstrates the importance of finding ways to diffuse stress before it threatens your health and your ability to function.（2008年阅读）

【译文】 Alvarez的经历证明了当压力威胁你的健康和正常生理功能之前解压是非常重要的。

orient n.东方,亚洲; v.使朝东,为…定位,使适应

【助记】ori(升起)+ent→太阳升起的地方→东方

【真题链接】 Anthropology is a field-study oriented discipline which makes extensive use of the comparative method in analysis.（2003年翻译）

【译文】 人类学是一门以实地考查为导向的学科，在研究中需要广泛地运用比较法。

renew vt. (使)更新,恢复,重新开始,继续

【助记】re(again)+new(新的)→再次变新→更新

【真题链接】 Americans flocked to these fairs to admire the new machines and thus to renew their faith in the beneficence of technological advance.（1996年阅读）

【译文】 美国人纷纷涌向这些集市和博览会去欣赏新机械，因而更加坚信技术进步会造福人类。

charge vt.索(价);控告;充电 ；n.( pl .)费用,代价;电荷

【搭配】in charge (of) 负责，主管(主动意义)

in the charge of… 受……管理、照管(被动意义)

【真题链接】 If railroads charged all customers the same average rate, they argue, shippers who have the option of switching to trucks or other forms of transportation would do so, leaving remaining customers to shoulder the cost of keeping up the line.（2003年阅读）

【译文】 如果客户感到他们被多收费，他们有权上诉到联邦政府的“陆路运输局”以争取价格下调。

appropriate a.适当的,恰当的,特有的 ；vt.拨给,挪用,盗用

【助记】 appropriate = ap （= ad ，使）+ propri （自己的）+ ate （动词后缀）→使变成自己的→符合自己的→适当的

【真题链接】 He explores such problems consciously, articulately, and frankly, first by asking factual questions, then by asking moral questions, finally by suggesting action which seems appropriate in the light of the factual and moral information which he has obtained.（2006年翻译）

【译文】 他首先提出实际问题，然后提出道德层面上的问题，最后提出看起来和他所获得的实际和道德信息相符合的行动建议。通过这一系列行为来清晰明了真实地探究此类问题。

dictate vt.口授;(使)听写;指令,指示,命令;

【助记】-dict- 说 , 讲 + -ate 动词词尾

【真题链接】 Towns like Bournemouth and Eastbourne sprang up to house large “comfortable” classes who had retired on their incomes, and who had no relation to the rest of the community except that of drawing dividends and occasionally attending a shareholders’ meeting to dictate their orders to the management.（1996年阅读）

【译文】 像伯恩茅斯和伊斯特本这样的城市的兴起是为了给大批“舒适”阶层提供居住场所，这些人靠自己的丰厚收入而不工作，除了领取红利，偶尔参加股东会议向管理人员发号施令外，他们与外界没有联系。

equivalent a.( to)相等的,等价的; n.相等物,等价物

【助记】 -equ- 均 , 等 + -i- + -val- 价值 + -ent 形容词词尾

【真题链接】 In a society that so persistently celebrates procreation, is it any wonder that admitting you regret having children is equivalent to admitting you support kitten-killing ?（2011年阅读）

【译文】 在一个不断地庆祝生育的社会中，承认自己后悔生育孩子就相当于承认自己支持杀小猫，这难道不值得反思吗？