At 1am, Halder’s alarm goes off(（闹钟）响起) and the 34-year-old Bangladeshi bank employee rises and heads to her kitchen. She is up at this time not for work but to cook for her family. An energy crisis paralysing the capital, Dhaka, a city of almost 40 million people, means this has become the only time when the piped gas supply is strong enough to allow cooking.(一场使首都达卡瘫痪的能源危机意味着，这已成为管道燃气压力唯一足以做饭的时段。)
凌晨1点，哈尔德的闹钟响了，这位34岁的孟加拉国银行职员起床走向厨房。她这么早起来不是为了工作，而是给家人做饭。一场能源危机正让首都达卡——这座拥有近4000万人口的城市——陷入瘫痪，这意味着凌晨1点已成为管道燃气压力唯一足以做饭的时段。
The city now operates(运转、运作) in darkness, as people try to continue their lives with power even in public areas shut off(切断、关闭) early in the evening to preserve(保存、节省) energy.
如今这座城市在黑暗中运转，人们努力维持生活，连公共区域的电力也在傍晚早早切断以节省能源。
It is a crisis created by the US war on Iran but exacerbated(使恶化、加剧) by Bangladesh’s reliance on(对……的依赖) imported energy. It is also a challenge that a government elected only weeks before the war began has struggled to meet.(这也是一个在战争爆发前几周才当选的政府难以应对的挑战。)
这场危机由美国对伊朗的战争引发，但孟加拉国对进口能源的依赖使其进一步恶化。这也是一个在战争爆发前几周才当选的政府难以应对的挑战。