海绵城市
Sponge cities — Chinese reading, HSK 7–9
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极端暴雨来袭时，不少城市“看海”的场景屡见不鲜：道路变成河流，地下车库被淹，交通陷入瘫痪。究其原因，除了降雨量超出常规，城市大面积的水泥地面也难辞其咎——雨水无处渗透，只能四处横流。
jí duān bào yǔ lái xí shí bù shǎo chéng shì kàn hǎi de chǎng jǐng lǚ jiàn bù xiān dào lù biàn chéng hé liú dì xià chē kù bèi yān jiāo tōng xiàn rù tān huàn jiū qí yuán yīn chú le jiàng yǔ liàng chāo chū cháng guī chéng shì dà miàn jī de shuǐ ní dì miàn yě nán cí qí jiù yǔ shuǐ wú chù shèn tòu zhǐ néng sì chù héng liú
When extreme rainstorms strike, scenes of cities "turning into seas" are all too common: roads become rivers, underground car parks flood and traffic is paralysed. As for the cause, besides rainfall beyond the norm, cities' vast concrete surfaces are also to blame — the rain has nowhere to soak in and can only run everywhere.
“海绵城市”的理念正是针对这一问题提出的。通过建设透水路面、下沉式绿地和雨水花园，让城市像海绵一样，下雨时吸水、蓄水，干旱时再把水释放出来。
hǎi mián chéng shì de lǐ niàn zhèng shì zhēn duì zhè yí wèn tí tí chū de tōng guò jiàn shè tòu shuǐ lù miàn xià chén shì lǜ dì hé yǔ shuǐ huā yuán ràng chéng shì xiàng hǎi mián yí yàng xià yǔ shí xī shuǐ xù shuǐ gān hàn shí zài bǎ shuǐ shì fàng chū lái
The "sponge city" concept was proposed precisely to tackle this. By building permeable paving, sunken green spaces and rain gardens, a city can act like a sponge — absorbing and storing water when it rains and releasing it in dry spells.
这一工程投入大、见效慢，难以一蹴而就，但从长远来看，它体现的是顺应自然而非对抗自然的思路。
zhè yì gōng chéng tóu rù dà jiàn xiào màn nán yǐ yí cù ér jiù dàn cóng cháng yuǎn lái kàn tā tǐ xiàn de shì shùn yìng zì rán ér fēi duì kàng zì rán de sī lù
The project is costly and slow to show results, and can't be achieved overnight; but in the long run it reflects a way of thinking that works with nature rather than against it.
生詞
屡见不鲜 lǚjiànbùxiān common, nothing new
瘫痪 tānhuàn paralysed
难辞其咎 náncíqíjiù cannot escape blame
渗透 shèntòu to seep in
理念 lǐniàn concept, philosophy
释放 shìfàng to release
一蹴而就 yícùérjiù to succeed at one stroke
顺应 shùnyìng to conform to