研究:气候变化是引发暴力事件的主因

短语讲解：

1. A new study in the journal Nature finds that war is associated with global climate.

associate with与…交往, 联系
例句：The doctor was associated in the child's mind with injections and pains.
在孩子的心里, 医生总是使他联想到打针与疼痛。

2. Researchers from Princeton University and the Earth Institute at Columbia University focused on the natural climate cycle known as El Nino Southern Oscillation, or ENSO.

focus on对(某事或做某事)予以注意
例句：Today we're going to focus on the question of homeless people.
今天, 我们主要讨论无家可归者的问题。

3. This periodic warming of Pacific Ocean waters occurs every three to five years - alternating with cooling periods known as La Nina.

alternate with轮流, 交换
例句：We must alternate work with rest.
我们要劳逸结合。

4. When we went back and looked through the data since 1950 approximately one-in-five civil conflicts were influenced by El Nino.

go back回转, 回顾, 追溯
例句：To go back to the point you have just mentioned is worthless.
再回头来谈论你的论点是毫无价值的。
look through仔细检查〔审查〕(某物)
例句：I'll look your suggestion through before passing it to the committee.
我要先审查一下你的建议然后再送交委员会。

5. But, Hsiang says, combined with other factors it can deliver the final blow.

combine with与…结合
例句：If he can combine his ability with hard work, he should be very successful.
如果他能把自己的才能和勤奋结合起来, 必定会很有成就。

6. I think it is imperative to demonstrate that food availability, food prices, crop production etc., vary systematically with these ENSO cycles in areas where we do observe conflict that are sensitive to the ENSOs.

be sensitive to对……敏感
例句：He is too sensitive to criticism.
他对批评太敏感。

7. Now what we’re doing is we’re pulling together new datasets and we’re doing additional research to try and dig deeper and figure out what are the underlying mechanisms that are really producing this result.

pull together把…拉在一起; 通力合作;同心协力
例句：We must pull together to fulfill the plan.
我们必须齐心协力完成计划。
figure out弄明白
例句：I didn't figure out how to do it.
我不知道该怎么办。

8. Forecasters can now predict with greater certainty an El Nino or La Nina cycle two years in advance.

in advance预先, 事先
例句：Everything was fixed in advance.
一切都是预先安排好的。

9. If governments, international organizations or aid groups are able to use those forecasts, the forecasts of El Nino effectively, they might be able to either prepare populations on the ground or themselves prepare their own resources to be in a better situation when conflict breaks out.

break out突然发生, 爆发
例句：Something unexpected always breaks out in this area.
在这一地区总有意想不到的事情发生。

10. He notes that forecasters were able to predict the current famine in the Horn of Africa two years ago, but not enough aid arrived in time to mitigate the human cost of the crisis.

in time及时, 不迟
例句：The doctor came in time to save his life.
医生及时来抢救他的生命。