They are racing against time to restore power and cooling systems to the six reactors at Fukushima Daiichi and try to avert the biggest nuclear catastrophe since Chernobyl in 1986.

他们正在和时间赛跑来恢复在福岛的6个核反应堆的电力和冷却系统，以试图避免自1986年切尔诺贝利以来最大的核灾难。

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Now is the time for nations and peoples to come together to avert an even worse catastrophe by offering support and assistance to on-going relief efforts.

各个国家和人民现在应该携手同心，向持续展开的救援行动提供支持和协助，从而避免甚至更大的灾难的发生。

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If you've been following climate science, you know what I mean: the sense that we're hurtling toward catastrophe but nobody wants to hear about it or do anything to avert it.

如果你一直都跟踪有关环境科学方面的信息，你会明白我说的意思：是那种我们飞速的撞向灾难，但是人人都对此漠不关心，或者做出一些事情避免这种灾难的感觉。

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Our carbon emissions would have to be slashed with strict targets set and met by 2050 to avert catastrophe but this was essentially a man-made problem with man-made solutions.

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Right now, Wall Street is resisting reforms that might possibly help the country avert the catastrophe that overwhelmed us a couple of years ago.

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Consider what would be necessary to slash global greenhouse-gas emissions just 50% below 2000 levels by 2050--a far less aggressive goal than what the enviros say is necessary to avert climate catastrophe.

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