Dozens of students and teachers were killed when dormitories and classrooms collapsed in Wednesday's devastating earthquake in western China, authorities said -- focusing attention on the safety of China's school buildings, which came under scrutiny after thousands of children were crushed during a massive 2008 temblor in Sichuan.
中国当局称，周三中国西部发生的大地震导致校舍和教室倒塌，数十名学生和教师遇难身亡。消息引发人们对中国学校建筑质量安全的密切关注。在此之前，2008年四川大地震导致数千名儿童死亡，学校建筑质量问题已受到外界广泛关注。

Wang Yubo, provincial education chief in Qinghai where the quake hit, said Thursday that at least 11 schools had been destroyed and that dozens of children were believed to be still trapped inside the collapsed buildings.

周四，灾民乘坐飞机来到成都接受治疗。在已经证实遇难的600多人中，至少有66名学生和10名教师。

Authorities said 66 students and 10 teachers were among the more than 600 people confirmed dead. An additional 313 people were listed as missing. Thousands were reported injured.
青海省教育厅厅长王予波周四称地震至少摧毁了11所学校，相信有数十名学生仍然被困在倒塌的建筑下面。当局称已确定有600多人死亡，其中有66名学生和10名教师，另有313人失踪，数千人受伤。

At the badly damaged No. 3 Wanquan Primary School in the hard-hit town of Jiegu, rescuers were trying to reach a large number of students thought by school officials to be buried in the rubble. As of Wednesday night, emergency workers had found 27 children alive beneath the wreckage of the elementary school and recovered 34 bodies, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
在受灾最严重的结古镇，第三完全小学严重损毁，校方认为有大量学生被埋在废墟下，救援人员正努力营救。据官方媒体新华社报道，截至周三晚，救援人员已在这所小学的废墟下发现了27名幸存儿童和34具尸体。

Soldiers, firemen, volunteers and red-robed Tibetan Buddhist monks continued to struggle to save people buried in the rubble of schools, homes and other buildings in Jiegu and elsewhere in Qinghai's Yushu prefecture. 'Our task is to find survivors and dig them out,' said Zhu Mingyu, a local government official helping with emergency operations in the region, which is inhabited predominantly by ethnic Tibetans. 'The top priority is to save people.'
解放军战士、消防员、志愿者和身着红袍的西藏喇嘛继续在青海玉树州的结古镇等地，努力营救被埋在学校、民宅和其它建筑物废墟中的人。协助该地区救援行动的当地政府官员朱明宇（音）说，我们的任务是找到幸存者并把他们挖出来，首要任务是救人。玉树地区的居民主要是藏族。

Rescuers battled altitude sickness -- Jiegu sits on the Tibetan plateau at an elevation of about 4,000 meters, or 13,200 feet -- cold weather and frequent aftershocks as they used shovels, picks and their bare hands to dig through the wreckage. Officials said hundreds of people had been found alive, and footage of successful rescues was broadcast nationwide on television.
由于结古镇位于青藏高原，海拔在4,000米左右，救援人员一边用铁铲、撬棍和双手在废墟中挖掘，一边还要与高原反应、寒冷的天气和频繁的余震博斗。官员称已找到数百名幸存者。全国的电视都在播放幸存者成功获救的场面。

In a sign of the political importance of the rescue and relief efforts, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao visited Jiegu on Thursday evening. Standing atop a pile of rubble, he told a large group of townspeople: 'Your disaster is our disaster. Your suffering is our suffering.' Mr. Wen delayed a trip to Southeast Asia and President Hu Jintao decided to cut short a visit to Latin America to focus on the earthquake recovery.
中国总理温家宝周四晚抵达结古镇。这显示出救援工作的政治重要性。温家宝站在一堆瓦砾上对结古镇的大批居民说，乡亲们的灾难就是大家的灾难，乡亲们的痛苦就是大家的痛苦。为了集中精力处理抗震救灾工作，温家宝推迟了对东南亚的访问，胡锦涛决定中断对拉美的访问提前回国。

Additional troops and medical teams began arriving in remote Yushu on Thursday, and Mr. Zhu said some heavy lifting equipment had been brought in to move slabs of steel-reinforced concrete and other debris. But he said more was needed. Chinese seismologists said the quake was magnitude 7.1.
周四，新的部队和医疗救护队伍开始抵达偏远的玉树，据朱明宇称，一些大型启重设备已经运来，用于移除钢筋混凝土预制板和其他倒塌物。但他说这些还不够。中国地震学家称，这次地震的震级为7.1级。

The deaths of students in schools that collapsed in the 2008 earthquake in Sichuan became a controversial issue, with parents who lost children charging that government negligence and malfeasance by contractors were to blame. Local authorities sought to silence protesting parents, in some cases harassing and detaining them.
2008年四川发生地震时学生死于校舍倒塌，成为了一个引起争议的话题。失去孩子的家长们控诉称，校舍倒塌的原因在于政府失职和承包商违法。当地有关部门想办法让抗议的家长们噤声，有时候对其进行骚扰并采取拘留措施。

A year after that magnitude-7.9 quake, the government released its official death toll, saying that 5,335 students were among the 86,633 dead and missing in the quake -- a figure that would indicate that deaths among schoolchildren weren't disproportionately high, despite evidence of shoddy construction. Casualty figures in Wednesday's quake were too preliminary to draw any conclusions about the ratio of student deaths.
这次7.9级地震发生一年过后，政府公布了官方死亡数字，称在地震中死亡和失踪的86,633人中，有5,335名学生。这个数字说明，尽管有证据表明校舍质量低劣，但学生死亡人数比例并没有高得离奇。周三地震的伤亡数字仅是初步统计，还不能从中得出有关学生死亡比例的任何结论。

Last year, the government launched a three-year program to inspect and reinforce schools in quake-prone areas such as Yushu, and toughened quake-survival standards for schools and other public buildings.
去年，政府发起了一项为期三年的计划，以勘察并加固位于玉树等地震多发地带的校舍，并严格了学校和其他公共建筑的抗震标准。

Education officials in Qinghai province said they would invest in safety improvements for schools in five counties and one city. Yushu wasn't on the list.
青海教育部门当时表示，他们将投资于五县一市的校舍安全改进。玉树未列入这一名单。

A Qinghai schools official, who would only give his surname, Mr. Chen, said Thursday that a preliminary appraisal was done on school buildings in Yushu at the end of last year, and that construction work to strengthen them was scheduled to begin in May.
青海一位只透露姓陈的教育官员周四说，去年年底对玉树的学校建筑进行了一次初步评估，校舍的加固工作原本计划于5月份开始。

Online commentary on news reports of Wednesday's quake has focused on the collapsed schools. Given the experience of the earthquake in Sichuan, one person from Fujian asked in a posting on Web portal Sina.com: 'Why did the schools collapse again in Yushu? Is it a natural disaster, or negligence by our officials?'
周三地震相关新闻报道引起的网上评论关注了校舍倒塌的问题。考虑到四川地震的前车之鉴，一位来自福建的网民在门户网站新浪网上发帖问，玉树的校舍为什么又倒了？这是自然灾害，还是我们官员的失职？

Yushu prefecture, whose population is about 97% Tibetan, is remote, sparsely populated, mountainous and poor. Many residents earn their living raising yaks, sheep and horses. Chinese government efforts to curtail grazing as an environmental-protection measure have caused economic dislocation.
玉树州人口约97%为藏族人。这是一个偏远、人烟稀少、多山而贫穷的地区。很多居民靠蓄养口牛、绵羊和马匹为生。中国政府限制放牧以保护环境的措施阻碍了经济的发展。

According to government figures, there were 192 schools with 67,178 students in Yushu prefecture last year. The No. 3 Wanquan Primary School had 3,200 students, nearly all the children of herding families, according to a December report in Youth Times, a daily newspaper published by the Communist Party Youth League. The story said children were in need of winter clothes.
政府数据显示，去年玉树州有学校192所，学生67,178人。据团中央机关报《中国青年报》去年12月报道，玉树县第三完全小学有学生3,200人，差不多所有孩子都来自牧民家庭。这篇报道说孩子们缺乏冬衣

The earthquake destroyed 15,000 homes, leaving 100,000 people in need of relocation, according to China's Ministry of Civil Affairs.
中国民政部称，地震中有15,000户民房倒塌，10万人需要转移安置。