With as many as 40 floods per year between March and September, Venice is slowly sinking at an estimated rate of 2.5 inches every 10 ten years. Venice, a city of beauty and charm, was built as a collection of 118 separate islands, relying entirely on a canal system of about 150 canals, mostly very narrow, crossed by some 400 bridges. A severe flood in December 2008 brought renewed attention to Venice's vulnerable state and imminent fate as an underwater city.

威尼斯，意大利

      每年三月和九月多達40次洪災，威尼斯正在以每10年大約2.5英寸的速度慢慢下沉。威尼斯，一個美麗而富有魅力的城市，建在118個獨立的島嶼群上，完全依靠大約150條大部分很窄的運河渠系以及河上的400余座橋梁運行。 2008年12月的一次嚴重洪災再次讓人們注意到威尼斯脆弱的狀態(tài)和即將成為水下城市的命運。

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