1·I escaped the heatwave in Washington earlier this summer and flew to Maine.
我今年初夏躲避了华盛顿的热浪，飞到了缅因州。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
2·But after several bumper harvests an unprecedented heatwave and drought have scorched grain crops this year driving many farmers to the brink of bankruptcy.
但是，经历了几个丰收年后，今年，史无前例的热浪和干旱炙烤着庄稼，使许多农民处于破产边缘。
3·In a cooler world, this sort of high pressure over Russia would be less likely to result in such a dramatic heatwave; nor, probably, would the floods in Pakistan have been so bad.
在更冷的世界里，俄罗斯上空的这种高气压压本不可能导致如此剧烈的热浪；而且巴基斯坦的洪灾情况也本不可能如此严峻。
4·If you take into account the warming trend of the past half century, however, the extraordinary heatwave starts to look less improbable: a once-in-a-century event, perhaps.
如果你考虑到过去的半个世纪里全球变暖的趋势，然而，这种不寻常的热浪开始显得那么不可思议：也许是一个一世纪一次的大事件。
5·Pakistan has just experienced both extreme heat and catastrophic floods; Russia has been scorched by heatwave and its forests incinerated.
巴基斯坦刚刚经历了极热天气和灾难性洪水；俄罗斯已经被热浪烤焦，森森已经化为灰烬。