"These are levels that you would expect to see in the most polluted cities in the world like Delhi and so on."
"而这种污染程度只有在像德里那样污染最严重的城市才会看到."
Looking at the results, Dr Loxham also said the findings suggested the majority of the particulates were coming directly from the ship's funnels.
罗斯汉姆博士说,调查结果还显示出绝大多数的微粒都是从邮轮的烟囱中排放出来的.
He said: "Short term exposure can cause increasing respiratory symptoms. People who are asthmatic for example, that might give them a wheeze. Similarly for people with cardiovascular disease. Now that is not to say that these levels of particulates on this ship are going to do that but there is much evidence out there to suggest that increase levels of particulates can cause these symptoms."
他说："与污染空气短时间的接触可能导致呼吸道症状增加.如果有人是哮喘病患者,他就会变得气喘吁吁,患心血管疾病的人也会有相似症状.虽然调查不能证明这些症状是邮轮上的微粒含量导致的,但是很多现象都显示出微粒含量升高就会引起这些呼吸道症状."
Dr Loxham added that crew members working on the ship and who experienced repeated exposure could experience symptoms "that we are just starting to understand".
罗斯汉姆博士还说,那些游轮上的工作人员和经常暴露在污染气体中的人,也会有呼吸道症状,而"我们才知道这是怎么回事."
Speaking to the Dispatches team, Daniel Rieger, of the German environment association NABU (Nature And Biodiversity Conservation Union), said: "Ships cause not only greenhouse gas emissions, but also sulphur oxides, nitrogen oxides and particulate matter.
丹尼尔•里格尔在德国环境保护协会NABU（德国自然和生物多样性保护联盟）工作,他在节目中说："邮轮不仅仅会排放温室气体,还释放硫氧化物、氮氧化物以及微粒物质."
"Per day one cruise ship emits as much particulate matter as a million cars. So 30 cruise ships pollute as much as all the cars in the United Kingdom."
"一艘游轮每天排放的颗粒物相当于一百万台汽车的排放量,那么30艘邮轮的污染程度就相当于英国所有汽车引发污染的总和."
John Maggs, president of the Clean Shipping Coalition, also told Dispatches: "Most large ships burn heavy fuel oil. It's a residual product from the refining industry, so after the refiners have produced the petrol and diesel we put in our cars, they're left with what is essentially a waste product. It's called residual fuel, or heavy fuel oil.
清洁航运联盟负责人约翰·马格斯也和节目组说："大多数邮轮都烧重燃油,那是炼油产业的残余产物.炼油机产出汽车用的汽油和柴油之后,剩下的基本都是废料产物.这些废料产物就叫剩余燃油或者重燃油."
"From an environmental point of view, it's bad because of the air pollution caused by the very high sulphur content. The shipping industry, however, has traditionally liked it because it's much cheaper than other fuels."
"重燃油由于硫含量很高,污染环境,所以从环保角度来说这种油不好.但是因为重燃油比其他燃料便宜,所以航运产业一直偏爱它."
Responding to the findings revealed by the investigation, P&O Cruises said: "Since 2005 we have reduced our fuel consumption by 28 percent, with the accompanying reduction in air emissions."
P&O邮轮公司对调查结果做出回应说："我们从2005年至今,燃油消耗量减少了28%,污染气体排放量也随之减少."
It added that the Oceana is to be fitted with "exhaust gas cleaning systems, which have been installed on 60 ships across its brands".
他们还表示要给海洋号邮轮配备"废气净化系统,他们船队已经有60艘游轮安装了这种系统."
"This action significantly improves the quality of air emissions. Soot and particulate matter reductions in excess of 80 percent have been achieved."
"这个措施会明显提升气体排放质量.煤烟以及微粒物质已经减少了超过80%."
P&O also said that in 2014 it had reduced CO2 emissions by 20 percent and had "renewed its goal to continue reducing the rate".
P&O邮轮公司还补充说,他们在2014年已经减少了20%的二氧化碳排放量,而且他们还"为继续降低污染物排放设定了新目标".
It said: "The health, safety and welfare of guests and crew across all our ships is our absolute highest priority… We recognise that there is a public interest… related to particulate matter and related health issues".
他们说："我们承认……微粒物质污染和健康问题事关公众利益……游轮上所有游客和船员的健康、安全和幸福才是我们最重视的."
英文来源：独立报
