英国政府正告知家庭储备三天份的食物、水和必需品，因为自然灾害、武装冲突和其他紧急情况正变得愈发频繁。英国首相安迪·伯纳姆的办公室上周启动了“Be Ready”（做好准备）运动，敦促英国民众储备家庭物资，包括以下物品：其理念是让家庭在与外界补给或支付系统中断的情况下，能够坚持三天。伯纳姆表示，发起这项运动是因为“意外事件似乎变得越来越常见”，但他敦促民众不要恐慌。
The UK is telling families to prepare three days' worth of food, water, and essentials amid concern that natural disasters, armed conflict, and other emergencies are becoming more frequent. UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham's office launched the "Be Ready" campaign last week, urging British people to arrange household stockpiles including the following items: The idea is to give households the ability to hold out for three days while cut off from supplies or payment systems. Burnham said the campaign was started as "unexpected events seem to be becoming more and more common," but urged people not to panic.
他周五对当地媒体表示：“这只是采取明智的措施，确保家中储备足够的物资，以便在遇到困难局面时能够渡过难关。” 该运动鼓励人们逐步建立储备，例如在日常购物时增添一些物品，并每六个月检查一次，替换任何已过期的物品。
"It's about just taking sensible measures to have enough in the house to tide you over should there be a difficult situation," he told local media on Friday. The campaign encourages people to build their stockpiles gradually, for example by adding some items to regular shopping trips, and to check them every six months to replace any that have expired.
此举正值全球各地政府机构和公司上周因在一种为约70%互联网提供动力的开源编程语言中发现重大安全漏洞，而暂时关闭其网站之际。英国国防大臣韦斯·斯特里廷周五表示：“我们将发现这类事情发生得越来越多。这不仅来自从事间谍活动或破坏活动的外国，也来自有组织犯罪集团。”
It comes as government agencies and companies around the world temporarily shut down their websites last week after a major security flaw was found in an open-source programming language that powers about 70% of the internet. "We're going to find these sorts of things happening more and more," said the UK's defense minister, Wes Streeting, on Friday. "And it's not just from foreign states engaging in espionage or sabotage. It's also organized criminals."
在连续两场风暴袭击北欧之际，约40万英国家庭在周末的某个时段曾断电。但英国官员也日益警告有必要遏制欧洲战争的威胁，并希望提升国家韧性以应对这种可能性。斯特里廷周日对《每日电讯报》表示：“我们对手伤害我们的意愿并非新鲜事。变化的是他们的能力。到2030年，他们的兵力和战时经济可能会使他们处于发动攻击的位置。”国防大臣补充称，英国还有1000天的时间为战争做准备。
About 400,000 British homes also lost power at some point over the weekend as two back-to-back storms battered northern Europe. But UK officials have also increasingly warned about the need to deter the threat of war in Europe, and are hoping to raise their country's national resilience in the face of such a possibility. "Our adversaries' willingness to harm us is not new. What has changed is their capacity. By 2030, their force strength and war economy could put them in a position to attack," Streeting told The Telegraph on Sunday. The defense minister added that the UK had 1,000 days left to prepare itself for war.