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Prohibitionists worry that any attempt to lower prices would both bring in more customers, leaving incentives to poach unchanged, and make it far easier to launder illegal, poached horn.
禁杀主义者也担心，任何降低价格的企图都可以带来更多的客户，同时让偷猎动机不变；也让原本非法交易的犀牛角更合法，
Launder 洗 (钱)
The House voted today to crack down on banks that launder drug money.
下议院今天投票打击为贩毒洗钱的银行。
bring in 引进
bring forth 引起
The good news brought forth a cheer.
这则好消息令人欢欣鼓舞。
bring off 实现，完成
bring off a successful advertising campaign.
赢得了一场广告战
bring out
1. 揭示，揭露
brought out the facts. 揭露事实
2. 推出，出版
bring out a new book. 出版一本新书
3. 深植，教育：教育，培养（例如一种品质）使至最佳境界
You bring out the best in me.
你使我把自己最好的方面都发挥出来了
bring up
1. 养育,
She brought up four children.
她养育了4个孩子。
2. 提出
He brought up a subject rarely raised during the course of this campaign.
他提出了一个在该运动进程中很少被提及的话题。

For them, the best form of conservation is to cut demand. A new study, requested by the Vietnamese and South African governments and overseen by the International Trade Centre, an independent arm of the WTO and the UN , provides information on where that demand comes from.
对于他们来说，最好的手段就是切断需求。一项新的研究调研犀牛消费需求的来源；这项研究是由WTO和UN监管国家交易中心监管越南和南非政府需求下完成
Oversee 监督
Use a surveyor or architect to oversee and inspect the different stages of the work.
用一名监察员或建筑师去监督和检查工程的不同阶段。
Superintend 管理; 监督
Meese was to superintend the administration's entire domestic policy.
米斯要监管政府的所有国内政策。

Thanks to contacts in the traditional-medicine business, the academic researchers who conducted the study interviewed rhino-horn users. Disproportionately, these were well-off older men. None used it as an aphrodisiac.
幸亏有中医交易中心的联系，研究员才能直接面谈犀牛角的用户。用户分布非常不均衡，都是集中在生活良好的老人。没有人用它作为激素的药物
Disproportionate 不成比例的，不均衡
A disproportionate amount of time was devoted to one topic.
不成比例被用在一个话题
well-off 富裕的 = better off
My grandparents were quite well-off.
我的祖父母生活很富裕。
well being 健康，幸福
It improves your physiological and psychological well being.
它改善你身体和心理的健康状态。
Trade-off 妥协; 交换
...the trade-off between inflation and unemployment.
..通胀和失业之间的妥协。

And nothing suggested any stigma in using it: if anything, illegality enhanced the product’s exclusivity and hence their willingness to pay. Asked how their demand would respond to price, users confirmed that cheaper horn would increase usage.
而且在使用犀牛角，是没有任何羞辱感：如果有什么区别的话，非法性加强产品的唯一性并且加强他们支付的意愿。询问他们对于价格的态度，他们确认，便宜的角会增加使用。
Stigma 耻辱的事
There is still a stigma attached to cancer.
癌症仍被人看作是一种见不得人的事。
Disgrace 丢脸
I have disgraced my family's name.
我玷污了家族的名声。
if anything 如果有什么区别的话
If anything, his father worked with even more enthusiasm than usual, because on Sundays he could catch the people who were usually out during the week.
如果硬说有什么区别的话，就是他父亲比平常工作的更热枕，因为在星期天可以找到那些在工作日不在的人。

But if legalisation is risky, so is main-taining the ban. The study finds a hard-core user base of around 30% of rhino-horn users, who want the stuff regardless of the penalties.
但是合法是有风险的，所以还是维持禁令。研究还发现，真正铁杆用户只有30%，他们是不计后果的使用者
hard-core
核心成员; 铁杆分子
We've got a hard core of customers that have stood by us.
我们拥有一批一直支持我们的忠实客户。

So long as doctors prescribe it demand will be difficult to eradicate. Douglas MacMillan, an author of the study, is sceptical that information campaigns persuade many people to shun it.
只要医生继续用牛角开药，牛角的需求就难以消除。麦克米伦作为这项研究的作者很怀疑，现在的宣传信息还能劝服他们不用吗？
Eradicate 根除
They are already battling to eradicate illnesses such as malaria and tetanus.
他们已经在为根除疟疾、破伤风等疾病而斗争。
Shun 有意回避
From that time forward everybody shunned him.
从那时起，人人都有意回避他。

Vietnam has already seen vigorous initiatives pointing out that rhino horn is the chemical equivalent ofhuman hair and toe nails.
越南已经看到强烈需求并指出，犀牛角的化学成分和人类的头发以及脚趾甲一样。
Vigorous
1. 强烈地
The police vigorously denied that excessive force had been used.
警方坚决否认曾过度使用武力
2. 精力充沛的 (人); 强有力的 (运动、活动)
He was a strong and vigorous politician.
他是一位身体强壮、精力充沛的政治家。
Initiative
1. 主动性
She was disappointed by his lack of initiative.
她对他缺乏主动性感到失望。
2. 法案; 倡议
Local initiatives to help young people have been inadequate.
当地对年轻人的扶助法案一直不够完善。

Changes in the law may yield more evidence. On March 30th South Africa’s constitutional court overturned the ban on domestic trade. Now, if they have the right permit, people can trade rhino horn, but not export it.
法律的变化的确表明了很多迹象。在3月30日，南非宪法已经推翻了国内交易禁令。现在，如果他们有合法渠道，人们是可以进行交易，但不能出口
Evidence 痕迹：征兆；表面上的迹象：
evidence of grief on a mourner's face.
哀悼者的脸上带着悲伤的迹象
Overturn 推翻
“his continuing legal battles to overturn a draft-evasion conviction”(Robert Lipsyte)
“他为使一偷漏泄票的定罪无效而进行的持续、合法的斗争”(罗伯特•利普塞特)
Court
名词时
1. 法院，球场，王宫等
做动词
2. 讨好; 取悦
Both parties are courting former supporters of Ross
两党都在讨好以前罗斯的支持者。
3. 设法获得
Having spent a lifetime avidly courting publicity, Paul has suddenly become secretive.
花了一生的时间狂热地追求出名之后，保罗突然变得遮遮掩掩起来了。
4. 对…求爱; 谈恋爱
I was courting Billy at 19 and married him when I was 21.
我19岁时和比利谈恋爱，21岁时嫁给了他。

TRAFFIC ’s Mr Milliken worries that this will lead to the worst of all worlds. Allowing some legal trade while the authorities are not properly enforcing the ban on illegal trade will muddy already murky waters.
米利肯担心，这会导致最坏的结果！允许一些合法交易但是却不能有效组织非法的交易，这将把这摊浑水越搅越浊
Muddy
1. 泥泞的
...a muddy track.
…一条泥泞的小路。
2. 搅乱 (局势、问题等)
It's difficult enough without muddying the issue with religion.
即使不和宗教搅在一起，这个问题也已够难的了。
Muddy Waters 浑水公司！
Murky
1. 混浊的
...the deep, murky waters of Ness.
…尼斯湖混浊的深水。
2. 含糊不清的; 晦涩难懂的
The law here is a little bit murky.
该法律此处有点含糊不清。

Once out of the country, legal and illegal horn will be all but indistinguishable. So users in Vietnam will have cheaper supplies; the illegal dealers still in control of the export trade will pocket the profits; and rhinos will keep falling to the poachers’ bullets.
一旦在这个国家之外，合法和非法交易都是难以区分.那么越南的使用者会有更加廉价的供货渠道，非法交易商依然会控制出口贸易然后挣得钵满盆满，犀牛还是会偷猎者射杀。

all but 几乎跟…一样，差不多
Indistinguishable
难以区别的
Replica weapons are indistinguishable from the real thing. 仿真武器与真武器难以辨别
Pocket
(轻松或不公正地) 获得 (奖赏、金钱等)
He pocketed more money from this tournament than in his entire three years as a professional.
他从这次锦标赛中捞到的钱比他作为一名职业运动员整整3年赚的还要多。