英伦广角 2012-06-09 苏格兰现军团病疫情

 Vapor being release and sent to the atmosphere is a constant in southwestern Edinburgh. In this industrial corner of the city, it’s being an everyday reassuring¹ sight for decade, not now. Now it’s the prime suspect into the investigation² into what caused this outbreak of legionnaire disease. It had claimed one life before the Scottish government called what was effectively at a crisis meeting of health experts. In the news conference, they revealed the latest figures, they were up but there had been no more death.

        Very much hope that we do not see anybody else lose their lives through the so big obviously ongoing³ outbreak. The numbers of cases are continuing to increase, I would expect them to increase further.

        Situated⁴ in this part of Scotland’s capital as a home of Scottish rugby and hearts of football club, but there’s a cooling tower that is less unknown institutions attracting all the attention now. 16 cooling towers are being tested at four sites: the North British Distillery, Macfarlan Smith Chemical, AEGON, it logged inside Edinburg and  Burton’s Biscuit factory. Most of the confirmed cases are in three areas of the city: Dalry, Saughton and Gorgie. So far one man has died and another 21 confirmed cases with 19 suspected cases.

        It’s quite afraid, you know, it should really, you know specially⁵, we’ve people dying of it, you don’t know where the sources coming from, what’s happened and what they’re doing about it ?

        That’s quite bothered. It should be taken off injection as well, obviously these cooling towers are. That some dusky happened apart away. 

        As a track sound, when you walk and run about. It isn’t now. So you don’t know what we can talk about it

        It’ different if it is another country you know like third world countries but here it shouldn’t happen in this country.

        The majority of those who become infected on the streets are male. Those in hospital aged⁶ between 30 and 90.

        Tests on these cooling towers won’t produce results for several days and so there won’t be any confirmation⁷ of a source for some time nor will it be a definitive⁸ figure for those effective for several days because the occupation period of legionnaire disease, it can take days for someone to recognize the symptoms.

        And so now for some time will they know here how cloud this could get .

1 reassuring   

a.使人消除恐惧和疑虑的，使人放心的

参考例句：

• He gave her a reassuring pat on the shoulder. 他轻拍了一下她的肩膀让她放心。
• With a reassuring pat on her arm, he left. 他鼓励地拍了拍她的手臂就离开了。

2 investigation   

n.调查，调查研究

参考例句：

• In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
• He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。

3 ongoing   

adj.进行中的，前进的

参考例句：

• The problem is ongoing.这个问题尚未解决。
• The issues raised in the report relate directly to Age Concern's ongoing work in this area.报告中提出的问题与“关心老人”组织在这方面正在做的工作有直接的关系。

4 situated   

adj.坐落在...的，处于某种境地的

参考例句：

• The village is situated at the margin of a forest.村子位于森林的边缘。
• She is awkwardly situated.她的处境困难。

5 specially   

adv.特定地；特殊地；明确地

参考例句：

• They are specially packaged so that they stack easily.它们经过特别包装以便于堆放。
• The machine was designed specially for demolishing old buildings.这种机器是专为拆毁旧楼房而设计的。

6 aged   

adj.年老的，陈年的

参考例句：

• He had put on weight and aged a little.他胖了，也老点了。
• He is aged,but his memory is still good.他已年老，然而记忆力还好。

7 confirmation   

n.证实，确认，批准

参考例句：

• We are waiting for confirmation of the news.我们正在等待证实那个消息。
• We need confirmation in writing before we can send your order out.给你们发送订购的货物之前，我们需要书面确认。

8 definitive   

adj.确切的，权威性的；最后的，决定性的

参考例句：

• This book is the definitive guide to world cuisine.这本书是世界美食的权威指南。
• No one has come up with a definitive answer as to why this should be so.至于为什么该这样，还没有人给出明确的答复。