世界各地熄燈響應"地球一小時"

        Europe's best known landmarks - including the Eiffel Tower, Big Ben and Rome's Colosseum - fell dark Saturday, following Sydney's Opera House and Beijing's Forbidden City in joining a global climate change protest, as lights were switched off across the world to mark the Earth Hour event.

　　上周六，世界各地紛紛熄燈響應“地球一小時”、抵御全球氣候變化的活動。悉尼歌劇院、北京故宮，以及埃菲爾鐵塔、大本鐘和羅馬圓形大劇場等歐洲著名地標建筑相繼熄燈。

　　In the United States, the lights went out at the Empire State Building in New York, the National Cathedral in Washington, and the Coca-Cola headquarters in Atlanta.

　　美國紐約的帝國大廈、華盛頓的國家大教堂、亞特蘭大的可口可樂公司總部等建筑也在當晚熄滅了燈光。

　　Millions were expected to turn off lights and appliances for an hour from 8:30 pm in a gesture to highlight environmental concerns and to call for a binding pact to cut greenhouse gas emissions. This year's was the fourth annual Earth Hour, organized by the World Wildlife Fund.

　　“地球一小時”活動于上周六晚8點30分開始，當晚預計有數(shù)百萬人關掉電燈和電器一小時以示響應。該活動旨在加強人們的環(huán)保意識，并呼吁制定一個減少溫室氣體排放的有約束力協(xié)議。今年是世界自然基金會第四次舉辦“地球一小時”活動。

　　"I think it's great to see that hundreds of millions of people share this common value of lowering our carbon footprint," said Dan Forman, a spokesman for WWF in Washington.

　　世界自然基金會華盛頓分會的發(fā)言人丹?弗爾曼說：“看到全球億萬民眾都持有減少碳足跡的共同價值觀，真是件好事。”