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No Impact Man: The Year of Living Environmentally

2016-11-25 07:15Track
瘋狂英語·初中天地 2016年2期
關(guān)鍵詞:柯林伊莎貝拉廁紙

Track 6

from NPR

翻譯:Roza

No Impact Man: The Year of Living Environmentally

零碳生活:極致環(huán)保的一年

Track 6

from NPR

翻譯:Roza

美國作家、博客寫手及環(huán)境保護(hù)論者柯林·比萬(Colin Beavan)帶動(dòng)妻女在紐約市進(jìn)行了為期一年的“零碳生活”無公害項(xiàng)目。他放棄了塑料,切斷了家里的電源,出行只騎自行車,不制造垃圾,不往水里排放有毒物質(zhì),不使用電梯,不購買帶外包裝的產(chǎn)品,不用空調(diào),不看電視,甚至不用廁紙!2009年,他出版了《摩登原始人:零碳生活的一年》(No Impact Man)一書,描述了他們一家有趣又感人的環(huán)保故事。同年,他推出同名紀(jì)錄片,廣獲好評。他的網(wǎng)站與博客NolmpactMan.com被美國《時(shí)代》雜志選為全球十五大環(huán)保網(wǎng)站之一。以下片段節(jié)選自柯林·比萬夫婦接受電臺(tái)采訪的一次節(jié)目,他們回答了聽眾和主持人關(guān)于“零碳生活”無公害項(xiàng)目的一些提問。

(Soundbite of “No Impact Man”)

Colin Beavan: One thing that’s really, really hard is for a1)consumer to figure out what’s okay to buy and what’s not okay to buy and what should be2)disposable and what’s not disposable, right?

lsabella Beavan(Colin’s two-year-old daughter): Yeah.

Colin: So, that research is really, really hard to do. And nobody can do it all.

lsabella: Yeah.

Colin: But, if you just cut out3)consuming the things you don’t really need…

lsabella: Yeah.

Colin: …you’ve already done it.

lsabella: Yeah!

Colin: You don’t have to do the research.

lsabella: No.

Colin: So, if you discover that really you don’t need toilet paper, you can just reuse cloths…

lsabella: Yeah.

Colin: Yeah. You don’t have to buy toilet paper and you don’t have to do the research about toilet paper.

lsabella: No!

Colin: You get it?

lsabella: Yeah!

Colin: Yeah!

1) consumer [k?n?sju?m?] n. 消費(fèi)者

2) disposable [d??sp??z?b?l]adj. 一次性的,用后即丟的

3) consume [k?n?sju?m] v. 消費(fèi)

4) impact [??mp?kt] n. 影響力,沖擊力

5) diaper [?da??p?] n. 尿布

6) versus [?v??s?s] prep. 與……相對

7) introduce [?ntr??dju?s] v. 引入,采用

8) detergent [d??t??d??nt] n. 清潔劑,去垢劑

9) debate [d??be?t] n. 爭論

10) fund [f?nd] v. 為……提供資金

11) landfill [?l?ndf?l] n. 垃圾填埋場

12) industry [??nd?str?] n. 工業(yè),企業(yè)

13) be back on the beam 回到正確方向

14) incher [??nt??] n. ……英寸的東西

15) resurface [ri??s??f?s] v. 重新露面

16) addicted [??d?kt?d] adj. 上了……癮的

17) entertain [ent??te?n] v. 娛樂

18) stick [st?k] v. 堅(jiān)持

19) distraction [d??str?k??n] n. 令人分心的事物,娛樂,消遣

Conan(Host): We want to get some callers in on the conversation.

Mary (Caller): Hi. I have a question about the purpose or the environmental4)impact that you are seeking when eh,the...using the choice of not using toilet paper. I recently had a baby and in doing some research on disposable5)diapers6)versus cloth diapers, I found that it could just be more of an impact on the environment to use a cloth diaper because of the amount of water and then place it and cleaning them, and you know, and God,7)introduce8)detergents. So eh, what was your environmental goal?

Colin: So, Mary, with, with the...the cloth diaper versus plastic diaper9)debate, one of the things we always have to look at when we...when we do this kind of research is who is10)funding the studies. And you can believe that it wasn’t the cloth diaper people that funded those studies.

And if you think about it, you...cloth...eh, plastic diapers注make up, um, just the largest single item that goes into the11)landfills every day here in the United States. So wi...without looking at the12)industry-funded studies, we just realized that the best thing environmentally for us to do is to use cloth diapers. But more importantly,my little girl who is old enough at that stage was able to tell me that she was much more comfortable in them.

注:指一次性紙尿布,其最外層都有防漏塑料膜。

Conan: Michelle, you mentioned13)you’re back on the beam a little bit. But I wonder, is there a television back in your house?

Michelle Beavan(Colin Beavan’s wife): No, there’s no—that 46-14)incher is gone. We gave it away. And it has not15)resurfaced. And I have to say, I thought the TV would be di...the most difficult thing ’cause I was pretty16)addicted to it, but it actually was, was…was just a lovely joy the night after we gave away the TV to be talking about childhood stuff and17)entertaining each other. And I think that was one of the best things that we did. And that has18)stuck.

Colin: I think Michelle would agree that it made us much better parents because as we gave up so many screens and so many consumer19)distractions, it taught us that we could spend a lot more time having fun with our little girl. Um, and...and that kind of just continues for us. And I think we’re both very grateful for that.

“be of+抽象名詞”構(gòu)成的短語相當(dāng)于be+該抽象名詞的同根形容詞,比如be of help=be helpful。這個(gè)用法常用到的抽象名詞還有use、value、help、importance和difference等。of和抽象名詞之間可用little、some、any、no、great或not much 等詞修飾。例:

1)This is of little significance. 這毫不重要。

2)My job is not of much value. 我的工作沒有什么價(jià)值。

(紀(jì)錄片《零碳生活》片段)

柯林·比萬:對于消費(fèi)者來說,有一件特別、特別艱難的事情,就是盤算什么該買,什么不該買,以及什么物品理應(yīng)是一次性的,什么不該是一次性的,對嗎?

伊莎貝拉·比萬(柯林兩歲的女兒):對。

柯林:所以,做調(diào)研特別、特別難。沒有人能做齊全。

伊莎貝拉:是啊。

柯林:但是,只要你不消費(fèi)不是真正需要的東西……

伊莎貝拉:對耶。

柯林:……你就已經(jīng)做到了。

伊莎貝拉:是耶!

柯林:你并不需要做調(diào)研。

伊莎貝拉:不需要。

柯林:所以,如果你發(fā)現(xiàn)其實(shí)你不需要廁紙,你只需要重復(fù)使用布料……

伊莎貝拉:對啊。

柯林:對。你不需要買廁紙,也不需要做關(guān)于廁紙(是否環(huán)保)的調(diào)查。

伊莎貝拉:不需要!

柯林:你明白了?

伊莎貝拉:明白啦!

柯林:耶!

科南(主持人):我們請聽眾來電加入到我們的談話中來。

瑪麗(來電聽眾):你好。我有一個(gè)問題,關(guān)于你,呃……選擇不使用廁紙的目的或是所尋求的對環(huán)境的影響。我最近生了孩子,在做關(guān)于一次性紙尿布和布尿片作對比的調(diào)查時(shí),我發(fā)現(xiàn)用布尿片對環(huán)境的影響也許更大,因?yàn)橛盟浚ù螅┑膯栴}以及處置和清潔布尿片的問題,還有你知道,天哪,還要用到清潔劑。那么,呃,你的環(huán)保目標(biāo)是什么呢?

柯林:嗯,瑪麗,對……對于布尿片和紙尿布之爭,當(dāng)我們……當(dāng)我們在作這類調(diào)查的時(shí)候,我們必須要留心的事情之一,就是資助這項(xiàng)調(diào)研的是什么人。而你可以肯定的就是資助這些調(diào)研的不是布尿片的生產(chǎn)商。

如果你思考一下,在美國,你……布……呃,紙尿布是,唔,每天流入垃圾填埋場的單件數(shù)量最多的垃圾。所以不……不用去看那些商家贊助的調(diào)研,我們就心知肚明,使用布尿片對環(huán)境是最有利的。但更重要的是,我的小女兒在她用尿布的時(shí)期就足夠懂事,能夠告訴我她穿著布尿片更舒適。

科南:米歇爾,你提到過你有點(diǎn)兒恢復(fù)了一般人的生活。不過我想知道,你們家里又有電視機(jī)了嗎?

米歇爾·比萬(柯林·比萬的妻子):不,并沒有—那臺(tái)46英寸的東西已經(jīng)不在了。我們把它送給了別人,之后它再也沒有出現(xiàn)過。我得說,我曾以為(不看)電視會(huì)是艱……最艱難的,因?yàn)槲以?jīng)挺迷戀看電視的。但事實(shí)上,在我們把電視送掉的第一個(gè)晚上,我們轉(zhuǎn)而談?wù)撏贻W事,互相逗樂,真的過得……過得很愉快。而我覺得,那是我們做得最正確的事情之一。于是就這樣一直保持著。

柯林:我想米歇爾也會(huì)同意我這么說,當(dāng)我們放棄了那么多的屏幕,遠(yuǎn)離了那么多消費(fèi)者才會(huì)有的干擾,我們就明白了該花更多時(shí)間陪我們的小女兒玩耍,我們因此變成了更優(yōu)秀的父母。唔,而……而我們應(yīng)該會(huì)繼續(xù)保持這種狀態(tài)。我覺得我們倆對此都心存感激。

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