“We have a long paleorecord for precipitation, and you see that there was almost a switch. The monsoon was either on, or it was off, with very little in between,” said Levermann.

我们得到了有关降水的很长一段历史记录，从中可以发现季风有一个开关，要么开着，要么关闭，很少出现中间状况，“莱韦尔曼说。

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Reflecting this trend, the Indian monsoon - which in terms of absolute levels of rainfall changed little over the 20th century-has been seeing more of its rainfall in extreme events than it used to.

反应这股趋势的是，印度季风- - - 20世纪以来，在绝对降雨量方面变化很小- - -出现更多降雨的比率比过去增加了。

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The public works do little to better India’s awful infrastructure: many get washed away each monsoon, only to be rebuilt, badly, the following year.

而公共建设工程几乎没有改善印度糟糕的基础设施：许多设施在雨季被雨水冲走，第二年重建，质量一样差。

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There are Koreans who can still remember when this country was little more than rice paddies and villages that would flood during monsoon season.

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