第47课

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Pollution is the price we pay for an overpopulated, overindustrialized planet.

污染是人口过剩、过度工业化的地球所付出的代价。

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When you come to think about it, there are only four ways you can deal with rubbish:

仔细想想，处理垃圾只有四种方法：

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dump it, burn it, turn it into something you can use again, attempt to produce less of it.

倾倒、焚烧、回收利用，或者试图减少垃圾产量。

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We keep trying all four methods, but sheer volume of rubbish we produce worldwide threatens to overwhelm us.

我们一直在尝试这四种方法，但全球垃圾的巨大产量正威胁着要将我们淹没。

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Rubbish, however, is only part of the problem of polluting our planet.

然而，垃圾只是污染地球问题的一部分。

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The need to produce ever increasing quantities of cheap food leads to a different kind of pollution.

生产日益增长的廉价食物的需求导致了另一种污染。

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Industriallized farming metheods produce cheap meat products: beef, pork and chicken.

工业化农业方法生产廉价肉类产品：牛肉、猪肉和鸡肉。

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The use of pesticides and fertilizers produces cheap grain and vegetables.

杀虫剂和化肥的使用生产廉价谷物和蔬菜。

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The price we pay for cheap food may be already too high:

我们为廉价食物付出的代价可能已经太高了：

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Mad Cow Disease (BSE) in cattle, salmonella in chicken and eggs, and listeria in dairy products.

牛身上的疯牛病（BSE），鸡肉和鸡蛋中的沙门氏菌，以及奶制品中的李斯特菌。

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And if you think you'll abandon meat and become a vegetarian,

如果你认为你会放弃肉类成为素食者，

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you have the choice of very expensive organically-grown vegetables

你可以选择非常昂贵的有机蔬菜，

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or a steady diet of pesticides every time you think you're eating fresh salads and vegetables,

或者每次你以为在吃新鲜沙拉和蔬菜时，都伴随着大量的农药，

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or just having an innocent glass of water!

或者仅仅是喝一杯纯净的水！

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However, there is an even more insidious kind of pollution that particularly affects urban area and invades our daily lives, and that is noise.

然而，还有一种更阴险的污染，它尤其影响城市地区并侵入我们的日常生活，那就是噪音。

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Burglar alarms going off at any time of the day or night serve only to annoy passers-by and actually assist burglars to burgle.

昼夜不停响起的防盗警报只会惹恼路人，并实际上帮助窃贼入室盗窃。

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Car alarms constantly scream at us in the street and are a source of profound irritation.

汽车警报在街上不断对我们尖叫，是极度恼人的来源。

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A recent survey of the effects of noise revealed (surprisingly?)

最近一项关于噪音影响的调查显示（令人惊讶的是？）

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that dogs barking incessantly in the night rated the highest form of noise pollution on a scale ranging from 1 to 7.

狗在夜间不停吠叫被评为1到7级噪音污染中最高的形式。

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The survey revealed a large number of sources of noise that we really dislike.

该调查揭示了许多我们真正不喜欢的噪音来源。

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Lawn mowers whining on a summer's day, late-night parties in apartment blocks,

夏日里割草机的嗡嗡声，公寓楼里的深夜派对，

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noisy neighbours, vehicles of all kinds,

吵闹的邻居，各种车辆，

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especially large container trucks thundering through quiet villages,

特别是大型集装箱卡车轰隆隆地穿过宁静的村庄，

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planes and helicopters flying overhead, large radios carried round in public places and played at maximum volume.

飞机和直升机从头顶飞过，公共场所里大声播放的收音机。

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New technology has also made its own contribution to noise.

新技术也对噪音有所“贡献”。

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A lot of people object to mobile phones, especially when they are used in public places like restaurant or on public transport.

很多人反对手机，尤其是在餐馆或公共交通工具等公共场所使用手机。

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Loud conversations on mobile phones invade our thoughts or interrupt the pleasure of meeting friends for a quiet chat.

手机上的大声对话侵扰我们的思绪，或者打断我们与朋友安静聊天的乐趣。

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The noise pollution survey revealed a rather surprising and possibly amusing old-fashioned source of noise.

噪音污染调查揭示了一个相当令人惊讶且可能有趣的、老式的噪音来源。

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It turned out to be snoring! Men were found to be the worst offenders.

结果是打鼾！男性被发现是最大的“罪魁祸首”。

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It was revealed that 20% of men in their mid-thirties snore.

调查显示，20%的三十多岁男性会打鼾。

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This figure rises to a staggering 60% of men in their sixties.

这个数字在六十多岁男性中飙升至惊人的60%。

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Against these figures, it was found that only 5% of women snore regularly,

与这些数字相比，只有5%的女性会规律性打鼾，

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while the rest are constantly woken or kept awake by their trumpeting partners.

而其余的女性则不断地被她们打鼾的伴侣吵醒或保持清醒。

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Whatever the source of noise, one thing is certain: silence, it seems, has become a golden memory.

无论噪音来源是什么，有一件事是肯定的：宁静，似乎已成为一段美好的回忆。