托福阅读：美国报纸报道上海死猪事件

　　Here's a riddle for you: When is the discovery of 2,813 dead and rotting pigs in a major city's water source not a public health problem?

　　给你出个谜语：一个大型城市的水源在什么情况下发现2813头腐烂的死猪不算是一个公共卫生问题?

　　Answer: When the discovery is made in China.

　　答案：当在中国发现的时候。

　　The Shanghai water bureau, which oversees the water consumed in China's largest city, was insisting on Monday that tap water derived from the Huangpu River met national standards despite the presence of the decomposing pigs.

　　负责监管这座中国城市用水的上海水务局在周一坚称，尽管出现大量腐败的死猪，来自黄浦江的自来水水质仍然符合国家标准。

　　All I can say is that I am glad I live in Beijing, not Shanghai.

　　我所能说的是，我很高兴自己住在北京，而不是上海。

　　Truly disgusting photographs of bloated porcine carcasses on a riverbank have appeared in many Chinese papers and websites, drawing attention to what seems – believe it or not – to be a relatively common occurrence.

　　中国许多家报纸和网站都刊登了令人极其恶心的发胀死猪尸体照片，让大众注意到这似乎是一种比较普遍的现象，不论你信不信。 

　　Workers look for dead pigs floating on the river Monday, March 11, 2013 on the outskirts of Shanghai, China.

　　When pigs die of disease, farmers who cannot be bothered to bury the animals just toss them into the nearest river.

　　如果猪死于疾病，农民们都懒得掩埋，而是直接扔到最近的河里。

　　Local residents of one pig-rearing village upstream from Shanghai told the national broadcaster China Central Television on Sunday that disposing of dead pigs in the river was a common practice. "After the pigs died of illness, [they] just dumped them in the river … constantly. Every day," one villager said.

　　来自上海上游地区的一个养猪村的本地村民在周日接受中国中央电视台采访时说，将死猪丢到河里是一种常见做法。一位村民说，“猪病死后，他们直接将死猪扔到河里……每日不断。”

　　"They are everywhere and they smell very bad," the villager added.

　　这位村民补充道：“到处都是死猪，味道非常难闻。”

　　Thousands of pigs in the Shanghai area have succumbed to epidemic disease in recent months, according to the Jiaxing Daily, a government-run paper in a hog-raising region southwest of Shanghai.

　　据位于上海西南肉猪饲养区政府运营的一份报纸《嘉兴日报》报道，最近几个月，上海地区有数千头猪死于流行疾病。

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