Lo skyline di New York diventa arancione

New York City skyline turns orange

qualche giorno fa il cielo di New York è diventato arancione, A causa del fumo degli enormi incendi in corso in Canada.

Le foto e i video della grande Mela avvolta in una nuvola arancione sono subito diventati virali, con molti paragoni con le scene del film Blade Runner.

secondo i dati, per qualche ora New York è diventata la grande città con la peggiore qualità dell’aria in tutto il mondo.

Keywords

arancione: orange – 橙色

a causa di: due to – 因为

il fumo: smoke – 烟

l’ incendio: fire – 火灾

avvolto/a: wrapped, shrouded – 笼罩得, 遮盖的

la nuvola: cloud – 云

il paragone: comparison – 比较

la qualità dell’aria: air quality – 空气质量

Grammar

Peggiore = worse vs worst

“la grande città con la peggiore qualità dell’aria in tutto il mondo”
(the major city with the worst air quality in the world)

In Italian,”peggiore” can be used both as a comparative and superlative form of the adjective “cattivo” (bad).
Here’s the difference between the two:

Comparative:
The comparative form is used to compare two things, indicating that one is worse than the other.

  • Questo ristorante è peggiore di quello. (This restaurant is worse than that one.)

 

Superlative:
The superlative form is used to describe the highest degree of quality among three or more things.

  • Questo ristorante è il peggiore della città. (This restaurant is the worst in the city.)

 

In the first example, we compare two restaurants, stating that one is worse than the other. In the second example, we highlight that this specific restaurant is the worst among all the restaurants in the city.

Translation

A few days ago, the sky of New York turned orange due to the smoke from the massive ongoing fires in Canada.

The photos and videos of the Big Apple enveloped in an orange cloud quickly went viral, with many comparisons to scenes from the movie Blade Runner.

According to data, for a few hours, New York became the major city with the worst air quality in the world.