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第160期:比尔·奈马萨诸塞大学2014(7)

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We will never run out of fossil fuels we'll never use it all up, not for centuries

化石燃料将永远烧不完几个世纪都用不完

Sure, there is less oil and less especially of that really sweet Appalachian crude than there ever used to be

没错 石油越来越少了特别是阿帕拉契山脉原油的数量正在减少

but there is also oil sand and tar sand and oil shale and they may be called by some new euphemism like shale tar

但我们还有油砂焦油砂 油页岩也许以后还会有人起新的名字 例如页岩焦油

and of course there are enormous quantities of coal, coal, coal nothing but coal, everywhere all over the world

当然还有大量的煤炭 煤炭 煤炭全世界各地都有煤炭

And it was left herewhen there were no termites to chew it all up

煤炭还有很多而且没有白蚁能够将它们吃完

Right now no one pays for the smoke and the gas that burning coal creates

现在 没人为燃烧煤炭产生的烟尘和废气付出代价

So people worldwide will just keep digging it up, keep burning it

世界各地的人只会不断将其挖起 然后燃烧使用

Now when I rode my bicycle to the first Earth Day on the National Mall in 1970

1970年 我骑自行车去参加国家广场的第一届地球日

I locked my bike to a US flag pole at the Washington Monument and Washington was a small town back then

我将自行车锁在华盛顿纪念碑的国旗杆上 当时华盛顿还是个小地方

and I celebrated that I had not produced any pollution because I had not driven a car

我庆祝自己没有对环境成任何污染因为我没有开车

It seems a little hard to believe now but here in United States along with rivers that caught on fire

现在看来可能有些难以置信原来在美国河流沿岸燃烧产生的有害物质

we had air pollution so thick, how thick was it?

让空气污染非常严重 有多严重呢

It was so thick that it killed people in their sleep

严重到甚至能让人死于睡梦之中

That would still be happening and it would almost certainly be a great deal worse now

如果不是那些为改变世界而奋斗的人

if we were not for the people who fought for change but with the air quality regulations in place lethal clouds of pollution don't happen here anymore

这种情况肯定还在发生 甚至可能更糟还好 得益于空气质量监管这里不再有致命烟雾污染发生

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chew [tʃu:]

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vt. 咀嚼,嚼碎,损坏
vi. 咀嚼

 
enormous [i'nɔ:məs]

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adj. 巨大的,庞大的

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quality ['kwɔliti]

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n. 品质,特质,才能
adj. 高品质的

 
shale [ʃeil]

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n. 页岩,泥板岩

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celebrated ['selibreitid]

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adj. 著名的,声誉卓著的 动词celebrate的过

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pole [pəul]

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n. 杆,柱,极点
v. (用杆)支撑

 
flag [flæg]

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n. 旗,旗帜,信号旗
vt. (以旗子)标出

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euphemism ['ju:fimizəm]

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n. 婉言,委婉的说法

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lethal ['li:θəl]

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adj. 致命的,毁灭性的,有效的
n. 基因

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pollution [pə'lu:ʃən]

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n. 污染,污染物

 

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