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<< review queue entry 56767 - submitted by 'richwarm' >> 瞇起眼睛，望向霧氣蒸騰的外海， Now close your eyes and imagine yourself looking out over the foggy ocean. 6月9日下午台北街頭暑氣蒸騰，環保署4樓會議室也人聲鼎沸，空氣中瀰漫一股燥熱之氣， The streets of Taipei on June 9 bake under a glaring sun. Meanwhile, on the fourth floor of the Environmental Protection Administration (EPA), simmering passions threaten to set the conference room aboil. 南台灣的日頭高掛，微微帶著酸甜腐臭味的鳳梨田煙霧蒸騰，不一會就全身濕透，汗珠刺得眼睛發痛，可是客人等著送貨，哪敢稍歇？ A faintly fermented scent of pineapple, half-sweet, half-putrid, hangs in the air, and the tropical sun of southern Taiwan is already promising another hot day. 暑假，在酷暑蒸騰的台北盆地，更是一坐整天，一個月寫下六萬字。 During summer vacations, in the steam-room that is the Taipei Basin, he spends all day at his desk, cranking out 60,000 words a month. 近來，小小的台灣隨著樂透公益彩券的發行而一片蒸騰，一張五十元的彩券讓數百萬人可以至少作上幾天的億萬富翁夢。假如成了億萬富豪，你想做什麼？會做什麼？ What would you do if you had mil-lions of dollars? That's a timely question these days in Taiwan, now that the national lottery has been resumed and ticket buyers across the island are dreaming of riches falling into their laps. What about you? What would you do if you became a multi-millionaire all of a sudden? 早上才剛下過一陣大雨的北縣瑞芳鎮，天空還滿布著陰霾，水氣蒸騰的暖溼高溫，讓人走沒幾步就滿身汗涔涔，對多數人來說，這並不是個適合出遊的天氣。 In the wake of a morning downpour, Ruifang Township, Taipei County, is overcast and sweltering, the high heat and humidity levels leaving you covered in sweat after just a few steps. You'd hardly expect people to be out traveling in this kind of weather. 「從茂盛的原始林，到機械蒸騰的伐木戰場，到櫻花淨美的人間情境，到人去樓空的蕭條沒落，再到鋼筋水泥的觀光俗豔，真可謂滄海桑田，瞬息萬變！」 "From lush primeval forests, to aggressively logged lands, to paradise decked in cherry blossoms, to an abandoned, decaying wasteland, and then to concrete tourist gaudiness: time has truly brought great changes." 有人終日埋首於縫紉機及熨斗的蒸騰熱氣中， Some are hunched all day before a sewing machine or stand amid the vapors of industrial steam irons making uniforms for prisons and public agencies; |
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- 蒸騰 蒸腾 [zheng1 teng2] /rising (steam etc)/ + 蒸騰 蒸腾 [zheng1 teng2] /(of a vapor etc) to rise/to hang in the air/ |