一些地区本已脆弱，一旦打击到来，生计艰难，存活渺茫；而气候变化已经为这些地区添加了更多的压力。
Climate change is already adding an additional set of stresses in areas that are already fragile, with marginal livelihoods and thin margins of survival when shocks occur.
渔夫说：“如果我现在放弃手上已经得到的小利而去追求那些虚无渺茫的大利，那我岂不成了傻子了吗？”
The fisherman says: "If I give up the present small profit to seek an uncertain future large one, am I not a fool?"
去年四月英国石油公司的墨西哥湾的深海石油钻井爆炸后，大量石油被泄漏到了海洋里；尽管人们已经清理了大部分泄漏的石油，但生活在墨西哥湾的渔民仍然感到未来渺茫。
Even though much of the oil that spilled from last April's Deepwater Horizon rig explosion has been cleaned up, the future is still murky for people who make a living plying Gulf waters.
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