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The initial symptoms of radiation sickness - vomiting, nausea and diarrhea - are followed by a latency period.
最初的輻射病癥狀是嘔吐作嘔以及腹瀉 之前則有一段潛伏期
It's only later that much more fatal symptoms appear, such as deterioration of bone marrow and horrible burns that eat flesh down to the bone.
接著會有更多致命癥狀出現 像是骨髓退化以及侵蝕肌肉直達骨頭的恐怖灼痛
When they arrived at the clinic, it was very hard, psychologically speaking.
他們前來門診時 就心理上來說真的很讓人難受 他
They came straight from the airport. Almost all of them were young.
他們直接從機場被送來 幾乎所有人都還很年輕
They arrived during the latency period. They felt fine. They were all dressed alike, wearing the same pyjamas. They were making jokes.
他們抵達時都還是潛伏期 他們不會覺得不適 他們的衣著都一樣 都穿著同樣的睡衣 彼此開著玩笑
But we already knew that a lot of them were going to die. 27 of them died quite quickly.
但是我們知道其中有很多人會死 有27人很快就死亡
They'd all received huge doses of radiation and were suffering from life-threatening burns.
他們都吸收了巨量的輻射 因為致命的燒灼而痛苦不已
For 15 years, only the first victims will be acknowledged by the authorities.
有15年 當局只承認了第一批受害者
Thirty kilometres east of the plant, the forest has been scorched by the radioactive blast from the explosion.
核電廠東方30公里處 森林被爆炸后的放射性氣流燒成焦黃
But the disaster area already stretches well beyond.
但是災區早已延伸到更遠的地方
Since the explosion, radioactive particles carried by the clouds have been falling with the rain.
爆炸發生后 云層所攜帶的放射性粒子隨著雨水降落
A "leopard-spot" pattern of contamination that affected the Ukraine as well as Belorussia and Russia.
以花豹斑點般的模式污染烏克蘭、白俄羅斯與俄羅斯
On the first of May, the wind shifts, and areas of Kiev are also contaminated, as seen from this map drawn up from the readings taken by Colonel Grebeniouk's men.
5月1日風向轉變 基輔地區也遭到污染 可透過這張克倫班亞克上校的手下
The seriously contaminated areas appear in red, surrounded by areas where the radiation level was normal. But the population is still kept in the dark.
測量讀數后所繪制的地圖看出來 嚴重污染的地區以紅色呈現 周圍則是輻射值正常的地區 但是所有居民仍被蒙蔽真相
There is only one report, a tiny article on the bottom of page three of the Pravda, playing down the accident and claiming the danger has passed.
相關報導只出現一則 刊載于真理報三版底部的小標題 對該起事故輕描淡寫 表示危險已經過去
The roof was caving in, and there we were acting as if nothing was happening.
天就要塌下來了 我們卻顯得若無其事
By going ahead with the May Day festivities, it was like the country refused to acknowledge the situation.
還在籌備五月節慶典 國家仿佛拒絕承認相關狀況
That was the second phase in the huge Chernobyl disaster.
這是切爾諾貝利災變的另一個面貌
