酷暑難耐，又不想放棄娛樂，怎么辦？四川都江堰的麻將愛好者們干脆把麻將桌搬到了水上，水上麻將真是打起來爽快又清涼。

Mahjong lovers in China have found a unique way to deal with a merciless heat wave descending on their city.
在中國，麻將愛好者們找到了一種獨(dú)特的方式來應(yīng)對(duì)降臨在他們城市里的無情熱浪。

What do you do if it's way too hot but you just can't stay away from your favourite boardgame?
如果天氣太熱，而你又不想遠(yuǎn)離你最喜歡的游戲，你會(huì)怎么辦？

Well, kick your shoes and socks off, grab a chair and umbrella and head down to the river.
那就脫掉鞋襪，搬起椅子帶上陽傘，下河吧。

That's what people in the town of Dujiangyan are doing and regardless of who wins at mahjong - they certainly all beat the heat!
這就是都江堰的人們正在做的事情，不管誰贏了麻將，他們肯定都戰(zhàn)勝了炎熱！

And hot it is - media reports say that over the past days, the thermometer in the town in Sichuan province climbed to just under 40C.
那里現(xiàn)在有多熱呢？據(jù)媒體報(bào)道，在過去的幾天里，四川省都江堰的溫度已逼近40攝氏度。

Mahjong is an ancient Chinese board game and is often played by elderly people in public parks. But current temperatures are nothing to mess with.
麻將是一種古老的中國棋類游戲，你經(jīng)常會(huì)看到公園里有老年人在玩，但最近的高溫絲毫沒有減少人們打麻將的熱情。

Local media reports cite players joking that the only hazard they still have to tackle is the occasional shoe floating away downstream.
據(jù)當(dāng)?shù)孛襟w報(bào)道，打麻將的人開玩笑說，他們唯一要解決的問題是，偶爾會(huì)有一只鞋漂到下游。

But overall "it's awesome. I can enjoy mahjong while feeling cool and refreshing," one player says in a video uploaded by a regional paper.
但總的來說，“這太棒了。我可以一邊打麻將一邊享受清涼”，一名玩家在一家當(dāng)?shù)貓?bào)紙上傳的一段視頻中說道。

It's not the first time the region has seen such heat in the summer and river mahjong has been popular in the small town for a few years now.
這已不是該地區(qū)第一次遇到如此炎熱的夏天了，而河上麻將已經(jīng)在這個(gè)小城流行了好多年。

英文來源：BBC
翻譯：實(shí)習(xí)生王雅鈺
編審：yaning