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Nigeria's largest city Lagos declared a car "Horn-Free Day" last week in an attempt to raise awareness of noise pollution. People are constantly bombarded with an endless cacophony of screeches, sirens and high-pitched honking from impatient motorists. The Lagos State Governor Babatunde Fashola told reporters that the extent of the noise from car horns was now serious enough to be a danger to people's hearing. Talking about Horn-Free Day, he told reporters: "It is for our own good. It is for our own health. It is for our own life." The World Health Organization said high-decibel noise pollution was a critical health hazard that increases the risk of cardiovascular diseases and high blood pressure.
尼日利亞最大的城市拉各斯上周宣布“禁止汽車?guó)Q笛日”，試圖提高對(duì)噪聲污染的認(rèn)識(shí)。人們不斷受到無盡刺耳的急剎車時(shí)的尖叫聲,不耐煩的汽車司機(jī)的高音喇叭聲的困擾。拉各斯州州長(zhǎng)法仕拉先生告訴記者, 現(xiàn)在汽車?yán)仍胍舻某潭葒?yán)重威脅人們的聽力。談到“禁止鳴笛日”，他告訴記者，這是為了我們自己的利益。這是為了我們自己的健康。這是為了我們自己的生命。”世界衛(wèi)生組織說，這樣高強(qiáng)度的噪聲污染嚴(yán)重危害健康,而且會(huì)增加心血管疾病和高血壓的風(fēng)險(xiǎn)。
Governor Fashola hoped his city's roads would be a little quieter. He contrasted the constant honking in Lagos to the relative quiet of European roads. He said he recently spent ten days in Europe and, "did not hear the sound of a horn while driving". He asked: "Can you imagine that we can drive in Lagos without horns?" However, a Lagos blogger defended the use of the horn as part of the city's culture. He said: "Honking is a beautiful trend in this part of the world, and it is a trend that every class of people in the country embraces." Apart from making other drivers aware of danger, he said people honk to greet friends and celebrate weddings and other happy occasions.
州長(zhǎng)法仕拉先生希望他所在城市的道路安靜一些。他將拉各斯的持續(xù)不斷的鳴笛聲與相對(duì)安靜的歐洲道路做了對(duì)比。他說，他最近在歐洲花了十天，在開車的時(shí)候沒有聽到喇叭的聲音。他問道，你能想象我們?cè)诶魉归_車不鳴笛的狀況嗎？然而, 拉各斯博主為喇叭的使用辯護(hù)，稱喇叭是城市文化的一部分。他說，鳴笛在這個(gè)世界的部分地區(qū)是一種美好的趨勢(shì)。而且國(guó)家的每個(gè)階層的人都很喜歡這種趨勢(shì)。除了讓其他司機(jī)意識(shí)到危險(xiǎn),他說,人們?cè)谝恍g樂的場(chǎng)合下也會(huì)鳴笛，例如歡迎朋友和慶祝婚禮。
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