停电威胁厄瓜多尔小镇的冰淇淋产业
📖 逐句对照翻译
In Ecuador, power outages threaten ice cream businesses in the small town of Salcedo in the country’s central highlands.
在厄瓜多尔，停电威胁着该国中部高地小镇萨尔塞多的冰淇淋生意。
Ice cream production in Salcedo began in the middle of the 1900s.
萨尔塞多的冰淇淋生产始于20世纪中叶。
Women working in a Roman Catholic religious center there would make a fruit drink with milk from the area's dairy farms.
在那里一家罗马天主教宗教中心工作的女性会用当地奶牛场的牛奶制作水果饮料。
One of the female religious workers, called nuns, began collecting the unused drink mixture.
其中一位被称为修女的女宗教工作者开始收集未使用的饮料混合物。
She turned it into creamy popsicles, frozen treats that quickly became popular.
她把它做成了奶油冰棒，这种冷冻甜品很快便流行起来。
The nuns sold the popsicles in town to gather money for the poor.
修女们在镇上卖冰棍，为穷人筹集钱款。
But the people of Salcedo saw a business opportunity and began trying new flavors and methods.
但萨尔塞多的人们看到了商机，开始尝试新的口味和制作方法。
Soon ice cream lovers came to support the industry in the town.
很快，冰淇淋爱好者们开始支持镇上的这个产业。
However, a recent wave of power outages is threatening Salcedo's ice-cream industry.
然而，最近的一波停电正威胁着萨尔塞多的冰淇淋产业。
The daily loss of electrical power, began earlier this year.
今年早些时候开始出现每日电力损耗。
Each outage can last up to 14 hours.
每次停电最长可达14小时。
The problem is a long period without rain.
问题是长时间没有降雨。
Ecuador gets much of its power from hydroelectric centers which depend on lakes and rainwater.
厄瓜多尔的电力很大一部分来自依赖湖泊和雨水的水力发电中心。
Gabriel Pumasunta is part owner, with his two brothers, of the Polar Bear ice-cream factory.
加布里埃尔·普马孙塔和他的两个兄弟共同拥有北极熊冰淇淋工厂的部分产权。
He said that if the power outages continue this month, they will have to shut down the factory.
他说如果这个月继续停电，他们将不得不关闭工厂。
Pumasunta said that much of his product has melted because of power outages.
普马孙塔表示，由于停电，他的许多产品都融化了。
Before September, Polar Bear was producing 60,000 popsicles per month.
九月之前，北极熊每月生产6万根冰棍。
Now, the small company makes 10,000 popsicles per month.
现在，这家小公司每月生产1万根冰棍。
The business has been forced to let go of eight of its 10 employees.
这家企业被迫解雇了10名员工中的8名。
Pumasunta is spending the company's savings and those of his family.
普马孙塔正在花掉公司的积蓄和他家人的积蓄。
He now works on the plant's machines himself.
他现在亲自负责工厂机器的维护工作。
His parents are helping to run the factory.
他的父母正在帮忙管理工厂。
Severe business losses from power outages
停电造成的严重业务损失
Ecuador’s President Daniel Noboa has not been able to solve the electricity crisis.
厄瓜多尔总统丹尼尔·诺沃亚未能解决电力危机。
The chamber of commerce in Guayaquil, Ecuador's largest city, estimates that power outages are creating weekly losses of $700 million for Ecuadorian businesses.
厄瓜多尔最大城市瓜亚基尔的商会估计，停电每周给厄瓜多尔企业造成7亿美元的损失。
Germán Soria is president of the association of artisanal ice-cream makers.
赫尔曼·索里亚是手工冰淇淋制造商协会的主席。
He said that before the power crisis, Salcedo had 80 small- and medium-sized ice-cream makers and three large factories.
他说，在电力危机之前，萨尔塞多有80家中小型冰淇淋制造商和三家大型工厂。
Now, 30 of these smaller businesses have had to close.
现在，这些小型企业中有30家不得不关闭。
Even the large factories are slowing production.
就连大型工厂也在放缓生产。
Soria's own ice-cream business is no longer operating.
索里亚自己的冰淇淋生意已经不再经营了。
He said he stopped production three weeks ago and had to sell some equipment, as well as some land to pay his debts.
他说他三周前停止了生产，不得不卖掉一些设备以及一些土地来还债。
He said that the outages happen at unexpected times.
他说停电发生在意想不到的时候。
That means buyers, like small stores, are unwilling to purchase ice cream because they are unsure whether it will melt.
这意味着像小商店这样的买家不愿意购买冰淇淋，因为他们不确定冰淇淋是否会融化。
Local officials say the power crisis has cost 300 jobs in Salcedo.
当地官员表示，电力危机已导致萨尔塞多失去300个工作岗位。
The town is known for its fruit-flavored ice-cream, including flavors such as blackberries and taxo, a kind of tropical fruit.
这个小镇以其水果口味的冰淇淋而闻名，包括黑莓和一种热带水果——塔克索等口味。
New sources of power
新的权力来源
The Ecuadorian government has bought some large electric generators that run on oil or gas.
厄瓜多尔政府购买了一些大型燃油或燃气发电机。
But as Marco Acuña, the president of Ecuador's national guild of engineers, said: "They do not have the capacity to make up for the current deficit."
但正如厄瓜多尔全国工程师协会主席马尔科·阿库尼亚所说：“他们没有能力弥补当前的缺口。”
In Salcedo, the collapse of the ice-cream industry has hurt the local economy.
在萨尔塞多，冰淇淋产业的崩溃已经损害了当地经济。
Dairy farms, fruit growers, transporters and small stores that sell popsicles all feel the effects.
奶牛场、果农、运输商以及销售冰棍的小商店都感受到了影响。
"Before (the power cuts) we would buy up to 150 popsicles a day," said Maria Juliette López, who owns a small store on the Panamerican highway where tourists and truck drivers stop to buy snacks.
“停电之前，我们一天最多能卖150根冰棍，”玛丽亚·朱丽叶特·洛佩斯说。她在泛美公路上开了一家小商店，游客和卡车司机常在这里停下来买零食。
"Now we can only take up to 40 popsicles a day, because any product that is left over will melt,” she said.
她说：“现在我们每天只能做最多40根冰棍，因为任何剩下的产品都会融化。”
I’m Jill Robbins.
我是吉尔·罗宾斯。
Gonzalo Solano reported this story for the Associated Press.
贡萨洛·索拉诺为美联社报道了这一事件。
Jill Robbins adapted it for Learning English.
吉尔·罗宾斯为《学习英语》改编了它。
