Section 27
Environment
What exactly is the environment?
It’s the world around us.
You mean the sky and trees and things like that.
Well, yes. But it can be even closer to home.
In fact, your home is an environment.
So it is anything that is around us, yah?
Yah. But most people today think of it as nature.
That’s what I thought at first.
Well, it has become very important today to think of the natural environment.
Is that because we are afraid of what is happening in nature?
Sure. It is really only in the last 50 years that we have realized what harm we are causing to the natural environment.
But the damage was started long before that, wasn’t it?
I suppose it’s started with industrial revolution about 300 years ago.
That’s not very long, if you think how old the world is.
No. But most of the environmental damage had been increasing dramatically over the past 100 years.
Yes. But now we are aware of it, we are doing our best to rectify it.
Section 27 Environment二十七 環(huán)境
1.What exactly is the environment? 到底什么是環(huán)境?
2.It’s the world around us. 是我們周?chē)氖澜纭?/p>
3.You mean the sky and trees and things like that. 你指的是天空、樹(shù)木等等。
4.Well, yes. But it can be even closer to home. 沒(méi)錯(cuò),但可以說(shuō)它更接近我們的家。
5.In fact, your home is an environment. 實(shí)際上,你的家也是一個(gè)環(huán)境。
6.So it is anything that is around us, yah? 那么,就是指我們周?chē)囊磺袉?
7.Yah. But most people today think of it as nature. 是的,但現(xiàn)在大多數(shù)人認(rèn)為環(huán)境就是大自然。
8.That’s what I thought at first. 一開(kāi)始,我也這么想。
9.Well, it has become very important today to think of the natural environment. 嗯,現(xiàn)在人們對(duì)自然環(huán)境的關(guān)注已經(jīng)顯得十分重要地。
10.Is that because we are afraid of what is happening in nature? 是不是因?yàn)槲覀兌紦?dān)心大自然發(fā)生的變化?
11.Sure. It is really only in the last 50 years that we have realized what harm we are causing to the natural environment. 沒(méi)錯(cuò),只是到了近50年我們才真正認(rèn)識(shí)到我們對(duì)自然環(huán)境的破壞。
12.But the damage was started long before that, wasn’t it? 但危害的產(chǎn)生遠(yuǎn)比這個(gè)時(shí)間更久,不是嗎?
13.I suppose it’s started with industrial revolution about 300 years ago. 我認(rèn)為它大約始于300年前的工業(yè)苦命時(shí)期。
14.That’s not very long, if you think how old the world is. 與地球的年齡相比,這不算太久遠(yuǎn)。
15.No. But most of the environmental damage had been increasing dramatically over the past 100 years. 說(shuō)得對(duì),幾乎所有的環(huán)境破壞老師近百年來(lái)才開(kāi)始不斷加劇的。
16.Yes. But now we are aware of it, we are doing our best to rectify it. 是的,但是現(xiàn)在我們已經(jīng)意識(shí)到這一點(diǎn),并正在設(shè)法挽救。