The disturbance to so elemental a part of this region’s natural architecture is a measure of only one of the many kinds of severe weather aberrations – from floods and droughts to unseasonal blizzards and massive dust storms – that have been unsettling China of late. No one can say with any certainty what the causes are.
而这种对该区域自然景观的控制只是应对最近侵扰中国的严酷气候灾害——从洪水，干旱，再到非季节性暴风雪以及大规模沙尘暴——的其中一项措施，也没有人能说明白这些灾难背后的成因究竟是什么。