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配音整理：BBC英語速讀
譯文原創：Howard Chen
原文來源：NBC News
Lester Holt: Good evening, everyone. Public health officials are pleading with Americans to forego holiday travel and get-togethers in order to slow the spread of coronavirus.
萊斯特·霍爾特：大家晚上好！公共衛生官員呼籲美國人放棄假日旅行和聚會，以減緩新冠病毒的傳播。
But adding to the domestic worries that brought a post-thanksgiving wave of cases, tonight there are heightened concerns about flights coming here from the UK where a mutated strain of the coronavirus has forced that country into lockdown and raised alarm here and around the world. Miguel Almaguer has details.
但是除了感恩節後的國內擔憂外，今晚來自英國的航班也引起了人們的高度關注。在英國，一種變異的冠狀病毒菌株已迫使該國進入封鎖狀態，並引起了國內和世界各地的警惕。下面是來自米格爾·阿爾瑪格的報導。
Reporter: Tonight, flight after flight from the UK continued to touchdown at JFK. Hundreds of travels were arriving from London where a highly contagious mutation of the coronavirus is spreading like wildfire as some 40 countries put a stop to the arrival of similar flights, the Ppresident-elect weighed in today.
記者：今晚，一架又一架從英國起飛的航班陸續在甘迺迪機場降落。數百名旅客從倫敦出發，一種高傳染性變異的冠狀病毒像野火一樣蔓延，大約40個國家已禁止類似航班的抵達。當選總統今天發表講話。
Biden: One of the things, I'm waiting to get a response from my covid team is whether or not we should require testing before they get on an aircraft to fly home, number one. And, number two, when they get home should they quarantine.
拜登：有一件事，我正在等待我的新冠肺炎團隊答覆。第一件事是，我們是否應該在他們登上飛機飛回家之前要求進行測試；第二，他們回家後應該隔離嗎？
Reporter: New York's Governor, who insists all UK travelers be screened and isolated if necessary, says State hospitals need to immediately begin testing for the new viral variant.
記者：紐約州長堅持認為，如果必要的話，所有英國遊客都要接受篩查和隔離，他說，州立醫院需要立即開始檢測這種新型病毒變體。
Gov. Andrew Cuomo, NY(D): This is about time and urgency. And this would be urgent.
安德魯·庫莫（紐約州長，民主黨）：這關乎時效性和緊迫性，，是非常緊急的。
Reporter: The heightened concern comes amid a new deadly surge in covid cases here at home and a national spike in travel.
記者：這種高度關注，是由於國內的新冠病例和全國的旅遊人數激增造成的。
Passenger: It is very important that I be home with the family during the holidays.
乘客：放假期間，我回家和家人在一起是非常重要的事情。
Reporter: But there will be no holiday from the heartbreak seen by frontline workers. California is on pace to hit a total of 2 million covid cases as early as tomorrow.
記者：但是第一線的工作人員不會因此而放假，加州最快明天就會有200萬新冠病例。
Dr.christina Ghaly (Los Angeles County Department Of Health Services Director): Today our hospitals continue to be under siege and under immense pressure.
克裡斯蒂娜·加利博士（洛杉磯縣衛生局局長）：今天，我們的醫院繼續人滿為患，承受著巨大的壓力。
Reporter: With ICUs already exceeding capacity, frontline workers and twins, Michelle and Cindy racanati were both infected with the virus, but michele never recovered.
記者：由於ICU已經超負荷運行，一線工作人員的雙胞胎姐妹米歇爾和辛迪都感染了病毒，但米歇爾從未康復。
Tre Cyr (Michele Recanati's Son): She always tried her best to make everysingle person she ever met happy. She was an amazing woman. She was the best mom.
三西爾（米歇爾·雷卡納蒂的兒子）：她總是盡她最大的努力讓她遇到的每個人都快樂，她是個了不起的女子，她是最好的媽媽。
Reporter: Despite the elevated risk to all, more than 3 million took to the air in just three days.
記者：儘管所有人都面臨著更高的風險，但3天之內就有300多萬人飛上了天空。
Passenger: It was a tough decision for me. I haven't seen my family since last year.
乘客：這對我來說是個艱難的決定，自從去年以來我就沒見過我的家人。
Reporter: For many Americans, the decisions were not easy, and now doctors hope the consequences are not dire. Tonight those who must fly are urged to check covid testing requirements for the states they're traveling into. Lester!
記者：對許多美國人來說，做決定並不容易，現在醫生們希望結果不可怕。今晚，那些必須乘坐飛機的乘客被敦促檢查他們所要去的州的新冠病毒測試要求。萊斯特!
Lester Holt: All right, thank you.
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