比纳吉·古鲁巴查里亚，尼兰詹·施雷斯塔 加德满都，尼泊尔 —— 在沙特阿拉伯工作五年后，纳拉扬·普拉桑带着积蓄回到尼泊尔的家中，却在2015年地震中失去了房屋。他再次出国务工，赚够了钱重建家园，与家人幸福地安顿下来。上个月的洪水再次摧毁了一切。
BINAJ GURUBACHARYA, NIRANJAN SHRESTHA KATHMANDU, Nepal — After spending five years working in Saudi Arabia, Narayan Prassan returned to his home in Nepal with savings, only to lose his house in the 2015 earthquake . He went abroad again, earned enough to rebuild his home and settled happily with his family. Last month’s floods have destroyed everything once more.
由于家园位于指定危险区，且对家人将在何处重新安家毫无头绪，普拉桑正和妻儿住在亲戚家中，考虑再次出国打工。
With his home in a designated danger zone and no clear idea of where his family will resettle, Prassan is staying with his wife and children at a relative’s house and mulling another stint overseas.
“这场洪水夺走了一切，”他说，“我不知道该怎么办。” 一个月前，毁灭性洪水席卷尼泊尔部分地区，成千上万像普拉桑一样的人流离失所，救援人员仍在搜寻数千名失踪者，其中包括许多被困在六座水电项目隧道中的人员。这场灾难让政府面临漫长而昂贵的恢复重建，家庭面临亲人、家园和生计的丧失。
“This flood has taken everything,” he said. “I don’t know what to do.” A month after devastating floods swept through parts of Nepal, thousands are displaced like Prassan and rescuers continue searching for thousands others missing, including many believed trapped in six hydropower project tunnels. The disaster has left the government facing a long and costly recovery, with families confronting the loss of loved ones, homes and livelihoods.
总理巴伦德拉·沙阿周四在联合国大会首次发言时，强调此次洪水是对喜马拉雅地区日益加剧的气候风险的警示。
Prime Minister Balendra Shah used his first address to the U.N. General Assembly on Thursday to highlight the flooding as a warning about the growing climate risks facing the Himalayan region.
“这场灾难不仅是一场局部悲剧，更是对世界的警告，”沙阿说，“我今天要问：我们真的听到了这个警告吗？” 沙阿还呼吁国际社会给予尼泊尔恢复重建更大支持，并加强区域合作，以应对气候相关灾害。“气候变化不承认国界。冰川和洪水不需要护照和签证，”他说。
“The disaster was not just a local tragedy, but a warning to the world,” Shah said. “I ask you today: Have we really heard that warning?” Shah also called for greater international support for Nepal’s recovery and stronger regional cooperation to prepare for climate-related disasters. “Climate change does not recognize borders. Glaciers and floods do not travel with stamps and passports,” he said.
尼泊尔灾害管理机构表示，已发现1453具遗体，5644人仍下落不明。仅有112具遗体已移交亲属，1333具遗体暂时安葬，待身份确认。邻国中国官方报告称，失踪者中有261名外国公民。
Nepal’s disaster management agency said 1,453 bodies had been recovered and 5,644 people remained missing. Only 112 bodies had been handed over to relatives, while 1,333 were temporarily buried pending identification. In neighboring China, officials reported 261 foreign nationals among the missing .
加德满都尼泊尔警察医院已搭建帐篷，供亲属提供DNA样本，以协助确认遇难者身份。当局正将这些样本与从已寻回遗体中提取的DNA进行比对。
Tents have been set up at the Nepal Police Hospital in Kathmandu, where relatives can provide DNA samples to help identify the dead. Authorities are comparing the samples with DNA collected from recovered remains.
实验室官员以隐私为由拒绝透露具体细节，但表示来自印度、中国、美国、新加坡和韩国的专家正在协助相关工作。
Laboratory officials declined to provide details, citing privacy concerns, but said experts from India, China, the United States, Singapore and South Korea were assisting with the work.
水电工人拉比·库马尔·塔帕·马格尔失去了妻子、兄弟、嫂子及母亲。他表示，他通过一张遇难者照片认出了自己的妻子，但当局在家人见到遗体之前就已将其下葬。
Rabi Kumar Thapa Magar, a hydropower worker who lost his wife, brother, sister-in-law and mother, said he identified his wife from a photo of the dead — but authorities had buried her body before the family could see it.
当局表示，在DNA比对完成前不会释放遗体，该过程至少需要一个月。家属随后使用人偶举行了象征性的最后仪式。许多其他人仍在消化悲痛。
Authorities declined to release the body pending DNA matching, a process they said would take at least a month. The family later performed symbolic final rites using an effigy.
32岁的帕桑·玛雅·塔芒在洪水中失去了年幼的儿子，她说自己仍然梦见儿子在呼救。
Many others are still processing the grief. Pasang Maya Tamang, 32, who lost her young son in the floods, said she still dreams of him pleading for help.
塔芒在受洪水影响的努瓦科特镇的一处避难所表示：“我儿子的遗体已经找到，但我没能见他最后一面，这让我非常悲伤。我在梦中听到他说，为什么把我一个人丢下。”
“The body of my son has been recovered but I was not able to see him for the last time. I am very sad about that. I hear in my dreams him saying why I left him alone,” Tamang said at a shelter home in the flood-affected town of Nuwakot.
洪水来袭时，她的儿子正和邻居一起去上学。等她得知事情发生时，学校早已被冲毁。三天后，儿子的遗体在南部一个地区被找到，但她无法前往那里见他。
Her son had gone to school with a neighbor when the flood hit. By the time she learned what had happened, the school had already been swept away. His body was recovered three days later in a southern district, but she was unable to travel there to see him.
8月26日的洪水发生在早晨，正值学生抵达学校或前往学校的途中。努瓦科特居民阿斯塔·曼·丹戈尔表示，后来发现的一些儿童遗体身上仍系着印有学校标志的领带。
The Aug. 26 flood hit in the morning, around the time students were arriving at schools or making their way there. Some children’s bodies were later recovered still wearing ties bearing their school’s logo, said Asta Man Dangol, a resident in Nuwakot.
他说：“大一点的学生能够跑上山坡逃生，但那些跑不快的小孩子……被洪水卷走了。”
The Aug. 26 flood hit in the morning, around the time students were arriving at schools or making their way there. Some children’s bodies were later recovered still wearing ties bearing their school’s logo, said Asta Man Dangol, a resident in Nuwakot.
尼泊尔政府估计，重建和恢复工作将耗资47.7亿美元。近3.3万人受到影响，约7500所房屋受损或被毁。
“The older students were able to run uphill and escape, but the little ones who were not able to run fast ... were swept away,” he said.
目前的恢复工作重点是修复因洪水而中断的道路和桥梁，特别是在那些因基础设施受损而导致救援物资难以送达的偏远地区。
The Nepal government estimates reconstruction and recovery will cost $4.77 billion. Nearly 33,000 people have been affected, and about 7,500 homes were damaged or destroyed.
道路工程师伊什米塔·沙阿（Ishmita Shah）表示，自洪水发生后的第二天起，工作人员就一直与尼泊尔军队合作，以重新打通受灾地区的路线。
The recovery is now focused on restoring roads and bridges cut off by the floods, particularly in remote areas where damaged infrastructure has made it difficult to deliver aid. Ishmita Shah, a roads engineer, said crews have been working with Nepal’s army since the second day after the floods to reopen routes in affected areas.
沙阿说，目前正在修建桥梁，以改善通往受灾最严重地区的交通，并使救援物资的运输更加便利。但她表示，工作仍然困难重重，预计未来几天还会有恶劣天气。
Shah said bridges were being built to improve access to the worst-affected areas and make it easier to transport relief supplies. But the work remains difficult, with more bad weather expected in the coming days, she said.
“由于天气原因，接下来的几天将非常具有挑战性，但我们也已为此做好了充分准备，”她说。
“The upcoming few days are going to be very challenging because of the weather, but we are fully prepared for that too,” she said.