联合国称2024年有2.5亿学生因天气原因失学
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A United Nations report has found that extreme weather interrupted the schooling of at least 242 million children last year.
联合国的一份报告发现，去年极端天气至少中断了2.42亿儿童的学业。
The weather included severe events such as heatwaves, cyclones and extreme dryness and flooding, the U.N.’s Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said.
联合国儿童基金会（UNICEF）表示，天气状况包括热浪、气旋、极端干旱和洪水等严重事件。
Students in 85 nations were affected.
85个国家的学生受到影响。
UNICEF said weather-related interruptions amounted to one in seven school-aged children across the world being kept out of class at some point during 2024.
联合国儿童基金会表示，与天气相关的中断导致全球七分之一的学龄儿童在2024年的某个时候无法上课。
The report also noted that some countries said that hundreds of their schools were destroyed by weather.
报告还指出，一些国家表示有数百所学校因天气原因被毁。
Nations in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa were hit especially hard.
亚洲和撒哈拉以南非洲的国家受到的冲击尤为严重。
But the report said other parts of the world also experienced problems.
但报告称，世界其他地区也遇到了问题。
The report noted that heavy rains and flooding near the end of 2024 disrupted school for more than 900,000 children in Italy.
报告指出，2024年末的暴雨和洪水导致意大利超过90万名儿童学业中断。
And in Spain, thousands of students had their classes canceled because of severe flooding.
而在西班牙，数千名学生因严重洪水而停课。
UNICEF reported that southern Europe experienced deadly floods and parts of Asia and Africa suffered flooding and cyclones.
联合国儿童基金会报告称，南欧经历了致命的洪水，亚洲和非洲部分地区则遭受了洪水和气旋袭击。
But heatwaves, the report noted, were “the predominant climate hazard shuttering schools last year.”
但报告指出，热浪是“去年导致学校停课的主要气候灾害”。
More than 118 million children had their schooling interrupted in April alone, the report said.
报告称，仅4月份就有超过1.18亿儿童的学业受到干扰。
Those interruptions were linked to heatwaves in parts of the Middle East and Asia.
这些停电事件与中东和亚洲部分地区的热浪有关。
School was interrupted because temperatures rose above 40 degrees Celsius.
学校停课是因为气温超过了40摄氏度。
UNICEF executive director Catherine Russell said in a statement the report shows that the world’s children today “are more vulnerable” to extreme weather-related events than in the past.
联合国儿童基金会执行主任凯瑟琳·拉塞尔在一份声明中表示，该报告显示，当今世界的儿童在极端天气相关事件面前“比过去更脆弱”。
She added, “Children cannot concentrate in classrooms that offer no respite from sweltering heat, and they cannot get to school if the path is flooded, or if schools are washed away.
她补充道：“在酷热难耐、无法喘息的教室里，孩子们无法集中注意力；如果道路被洪水淹没，或者学校被冲毁，他们也无法上学。”
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Around 74 percent of the children affected in 2024 were in middle- and low-income countries, the report said.
报告称，2024年受影响的儿童中约有74%来自中等收入和低收入国家。
UNICEF said this demonstrates how climate extremes continue to have a damaging effect on the world’s poorest countries.
联合国儿童基金会表示，这显示出极端气候如何继续对世界上最贫困的国家造成破坏性影响。
In Pakistan, flooding ruined more than 400 schools in April.
在巴基斯坦，四月份的洪水摧毁了400多所学校。
And Afghanistan experienced heatwaves followed by severe flooding that destroyed more than 110 schools in May.
阿富汗在5月经历了热浪，随后又遭遇严重洪灾，导致110多所学校被毁。
Months of drought in southern Africa threatened schooling for millions of children, the report added.
报告补充说，南部非洲持续数月的干旱威胁到数百万儿童的学业。
More recently, the French territory of Mayotte in the Indian Ocean off Africa was left in ruins by Cyclone Chido in December.
最近，位于非洲附近印度洋上的法国属地马约特岛在12月被气旋奇多摧毁，变成了一片废墟。
Cyclone Chido also destroyed more than 330 schools and three education departments in Mozambique.
气旋“奇多”还摧毁了莫桑比克330多所学校以及三个教育部门。
The U.N. children’s agency report stated that the world's schools and education systems “are largely ill-equipped” to deal with the effects of extreme weather.
联合国儿童基金会的报告指出，全球的学校和教育系统“在很大程度上不具备应对极端天气影响的能力”。
I’m Bryan Lynn.
我是布莱恩·林恩。
The Associated Press reported this story.
美联社报道了这一事件。
Bryan Lynn adapted the report for VOA Learning English.
布莱恩·林恩为VOA英语学习频道改编了这份报告。
