缺水的春天
A spring without water — Chinese reading, HSK 5
文章
臺灣雖然一年下很多雨，但是因為山高、河短，雨水很快就流進了海裡，其實很容易缺水。幾年前，因為颱風沒來、梅雨也很少，中部好幾個水庫都快見底了。
Tái wān suī rán yì nián xià hěn duō yǔ dàn shì yīn wèi shān gāo hé duǎn yǔ shuǐ hěn kuài jiù liú jìn le hǎi lǐ qí shí hěn róng yì quē shuǐ jǐ nián qián yīn wèi tái fēng méi lái méi yǔ yě hěn shǎo zhōng bù hǎo jǐ gè shuǐ kù dōu kuài jiàn dǐ le
Taiwan gets a lot of rain each year, but because its mountains are high and rivers short, the rain quickly runs off into the sea, so water shortages actually come easily. A few years ago, with no typhoons and little plum rain, several reservoirs in central Taiwan were almost dry.
政府只好分區停水，一個星期停兩天。那段時間，家家戶戶都忙著用水桶存水，洗菜的水拿來澆花，洗衣服的水拿來沖馬桶。
zhèng fǔ zhǐ hǎo fēn qū tíng shuǐ yí gè xīng qí tíng liǎng tiān nà duàn shí jiān jiā jiā hù hù dōu máng zhe yòng shuǐ tǒng cún shuǐ xǐ cài de shuǐ ná lái jiāo huā xǐ yī fú de shuǐ ná lái chōng mǎ tǒng
The government had to cut the water supply district by district, two days a week. During that time every household was busy storing water in buckets: water from washing vegetables went on the plants, and laundry water was used to flush the toilet.
那次經驗讓我明白，打開水龍頭就有水，並不是理所當然的事。
nà cì jīng yàn ràng wǒ míng bái dǎ kāi shuǐ lóng tóu jiù yǒu shuǐ bìng bú shì lǐ suǒ dāng rán de shì
That experience taught me that water coming out when you turn on the tap is not something to take for granted.
生詞
缺水 quēshuǐ water shortage
水庫 shuǐkù reservoir
見底 jiàndǐ to run dry
分區 fēnqū by district
存 cún to store, save
澆花 jiāohuā to water plants
水龍頭 shuǐlóngtóu tap
理所當然 lǐsuǒdāngrán to be taken for granted