美国有线新闻 CNN 巴基斯坦全国大规模停电

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Which of these countries has the largest population? Pakistan, Nigeria, Brazil or Russia. Though it's far from the largest country on this list, Pakistan has the largest population with more than 233 million people.

以下哪个国家的人口最多？巴基斯坦、尼日利亚、巴西还是俄罗斯？虽然巴基斯坦不是上述名单中最大的国家，但该国拥有最多的人口，超过2.33亿人。

And unless they had back up power generators¹, they're lights went out on Saturday night. Blackouts aren't unusual in Pakistan but what the nation saw over the weekend was its most widespread² power shutdown since 2015.

除非有备用发电机，否则巴基斯坦会在周六晚上停电。停电在巴基斯坦并不罕见，但这个国家上周末遭遇 了自2015年以来最大规模的停电。

An engineering³ problem at one plant in southern Pakistan reportedly caused the nation's other ones to shut down. Because electricity can be unreliable here, all of the nation's major airports as well as many of its hospitals and some of its homes do have back-up generators.

据报道，巴基斯坦南部一家工厂的工程问题导致该国其他工厂断电。由于电力不可靠，该国所有主要机场、医院和部分房屋都配备了备用发电机。

Though residents⁴ say there was some very long lines at gas stations where people waited to get fuel for those generators. By dawn on Sunday morning, Pakistan's energy minister said power had come back on for major parts of the capital city of Islamabad. But there were still large parts of Karachi, Pakistan's biggest city, where power was still out early Sunday.

不过当地居民表示，加油站排起了长队，人们在那里等着给发电机加油。周日凌晨，巴基斯坦能源部长表示，首都伊斯兰堡大部分地区已恢复供电。但巴基斯坦最大城市卡拉奇仍有很大一部分地区在周日凌晨仍处以断电状态。