和谐英语

VOA慢速英语:Scientists Say Climate Change Is Real and Human-Caused

2014-01-14来源:VOA
短语讲解:

1.The factor on the sea level rise itself can be attributed to a large extent to the climate change, which has occurred.

be attributed to  归于;  
例句:It has argued that the discrepancy cannot be attributed to coverage alone.
他辩称,数据的不一致不能仅仅归因于调查范围。

2. Yet no single weather event can be linked to climate change.

be linked to 与…连接;
例句:About two billion dollars in loans would be linked to progress in government reforms.
其中近20亿美元将与政府改革的进展情况联系起来。

3. The World Meteorological Organization says this will have an effect on climate change unless countries do more to limit the gases.

have an effect on 对…有影响,对…起作用,产生效果;  
例句:It is generally studied and mapped by an organization through lists and reports containing demographic information that may have an effect on the marketing of key products or services.
组织通常通过包含了可能对主要产品或服务的市场营销产生影响的人口统计信息的列表或包括来研究或划分它的。

4. So it stays for very long periods -- hundreds of years, or even more.

even more 更; 越发; 愈加; 还; 
例句:Communication styles vary even more.
沟通方式则更是千差万别。