(单词翻译:单击)
Four Chinese geological investigators who had been missing for a week were found dead in southwest China's Yunnan Province, local authorities reported on Monday.
据当地政府周一通报，失踪一周的4名中国地质调查人员，发现已于中国西南部的云南省遇难。
In a sweep across multiple counties,
救援队在多个县进行了地毯式搜查，
the rescue team found the bodies of three geologists without vital signs in the township of Shuitang on Sunday and another without vital signs on Monday.
其中3名地质人员于周日在水塘镇被找到，周一又找到了另外1名，他们在被发现时均已失去生命体征。
Ten helicopters and dozens of vehicles, drones, satellite phones as well as over 8,000 people had been deployed for the search and rescue mission,
10架直升机、数十辆汽车、无人机、卫星电话以及8000多人，都被部署参与此次搜索和救援任务，
which faced severe challenges due to a highly difficult terrain.
但由于地形极其复杂，搜索和救援任务面临严峻挑战。
The four geologists, all from Kunming Natural Resources Comprehensive Survey Center of the China Geological Survey,
这4名地质人员均来自中国地质调查局昆明自然资源综合调查中心，
entered the Ailao Mountains on November 13 to survey forestry resources.
他们于11月13日进入哀牢山调查森林资源。
Two days later, the local government of Zhenyuan County, from where the four set out, received a report that contact had been lost.
在这4名地质人员出发的两天后，镇沅县地方政府接到了失联报告。
Wang Hongdong, who works at the Ailao Mountains National Nature Reserve, said severe weather may have caused the geologists lose their way,
在哀牢山国家自然保护区工作的王洪东称，可能是恶劣天气导致这4名地质学家迷了路，
as continuous rainfall in previous days lowered the level of visibility in the mountains, making it easier for people to get lost.
前几天的持续降雨降低了山区的能见度，因此人们很容易迷路。
