【读新闻学英语】这种水果威力太强大，大学图书馆500多人被疏散

The stench of a durian fruit has caused a library in Australia to evacuate 500 people.

水果榴莲的味道太臭，导致澳大利亚的一所图书馆疏散了500人。

durian ：榴莲

Fire and rescue teams in the Australian Capital Territory were called out to investigate calls of "a strong smell of gas" inside the University of Canberra library."Firefighters have completed a search of the building and located the source of the smell," read a statement from the emergency services department.

澳大利亚首都领地的消防和救援队员被召集起来，调查堪培拉大学图书馆内的“强烈气味。”应急服务部门的一份声明中说到：“消防员已经完成了对大楼的搜索，并找到了气味来源。”

rescue teams：救援队伍

Emergency services identified that the pong was coming from a pungent durian fruit.

紧急服务部门确定难闻的气味来自水果榴莲。

pong：强烈难闻的气味

pungent ：刺鼻的

A post on the university library's Facebook page stated. "The lingering gas-like smell in the building is completely safe – someone left a durian fruit in one of our bins! Very sneaky.”

该学校图书馆Facebook页面上的一篇帖子中写道：“建筑物中挥之不去的气味是完全安全的，有人把榴莲仍在了垃圾箱里。非常狡猾。”

 lingering ：缓慢消失的

Considered the "king of fruits" in many South-east Asian countries, the distinctive odour of durian is very divisive – food writer Richard Sterling once described it as "turpentine and onions, garnished with a gym sock”.

在很多东南亚国家，榴莲被誉为水果之王，它独特气味非常分裂。食物作家Richard Sterling曾经形容榴莲的味道是“松节油和洋葱，再加上健身房的袜子味。”

odour：臭味

This is the second time in a year that a durian has led to the mass evacuation of a university library in Australia.In 2018, 600 staff and students at the RMIT campus in Melbourne's central business district were evacuated as 40 firefighters and a specialist crew searched the building for a suspected gas leak.

这是一年中第二次由于榴莲而导致的澳大利亚图书馆大规模撤离事件。2018年，墨尔本皇家理工学院的校园内，600名工作人员和学生被疏散。在墨尔本中央商务区，40名消防人员和一名专家搜索大楼，查到了可疑泄露气体。

evacuated ：疏散

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