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沉没的城市,升腾的愤怒:曼谷洪水引发对政府不作为的愤怒Sinking city, rising rage: Bangkok’s floods fuel fury over government inaction

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当洪水从曼谷的排水道涌出时,Fon的汽车沉没的速度比她安然逃离洪水的希望还要快。她买这辆车还不到一个月。

As floodwaters surged from Bangkok’s drains, Fon’s car sank faster than her hopes of escaping the floods unscathed. She had bought it less than a month earlier.

“我早上5点醒来,但为时已晚,”这位24岁的女子说道,回忆起她上周末决定等到黎明再把车开到附近的购物中心。“我的车已经被淹没了。我甚至还没开始还贷,车就没了。”九月份持续不断的雨水瘫痪了泰国首都,倾泻了一个月雨量的……

“I woke up at 5am but it was too late,” the 24-year-old said, recalling her decision last weekend to wait until dawn to move her car to a nearby shopping centre. “My car was already submerged. I hadn’t even started making the payments and it’s gone.”Relentless rain paralysed Thailand’s capital this September, dumping a month’s worth of...