Tokyo Games may be canceled 东京奥运或因疫情取消?
A senior member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said Tuesday that if it proves被证明 too dangerous to hold the Olympics in Tokyo this summer because of the coronavirus outbreak, organizers are more likely to很可能 cancel it altogether than to postpone or move it.
国际奥委会(IOC)高级委员迪克·庞德25日表示，鉴于冠状病毒疫情暴发，如果事实证明今夏在东京举办奥运会太危险的话，组织者更有可能将其取消，而不是推迟或换地方。
Dick Pound estimated there is a three-month window窗口期 - perhaps a two-month one - to decide the fate of the Tokyo Olympics, meaning a decision could be put off推迟 until late May.
庞德估计，目前有三个月，也许是两个月的窗口期来决定东京奥运会的命运，这意味着可以推迟到五月下旬再做决定。
As the games draw near接近, he said, "a lot of things have to start happening. You've got to start ramping up提升 your security, your food, the Olympic Village, the hotels. The media folks will be in there building their studios." Pound said the future of the Tokyo Games is largely很大程度上 out of IOC's hands不在掌控之中 and depends on the course途径 the virus takes. "
他表示，随着比赛临近，很多事情要着手准备。必须开始加强安保、食物、奥运村、酒店等方面的工作。媒体人士将在那里建立他们的工作室。庞德表示，东京奥运的未来很大程度上不在国际奥委会的掌控之中，而是取决于病毒的传播途径。
If it gets to be变成 something like the Spanish flu," Pound said, referring to the deadly致命的 pandemic传染病 early in the 20th century that killed millions, "at that level of lethality致命性, then everybody's got to take their medicine."
如果这种病毒变成像西班牙流感一样，在如此高的致死率下，每个人都得吃药。西班牙流感发生在20世纪初，这场致命的全球性流行病曾夺去数百万人的生命。
