时间:2018-12-08 作者:英语课 分类:VOA标准英语2017年(三月)


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Eight million metric tons of plastic wind up each year in the oceans, harming marine 1 life and entering the food chain.


A film crew traveled the globe to document the rubbish, producing a new documentary film called A Plastic Ocean that looks at the problem, and its solutions.


Plastic sludge and garbage, a blight 2 on the world’s oceans


Julie Andersen of the Plastic Oceans Foundation said what is seen is just the tip of the problem.


“Half of the waste actually sinks to the bottom, some plastic sinks to the bottom, and what remains 3 on the surface actually breaks down," Andersen said.


The filmmakers found trash in ocean gyres, the circulating currents that trap large concentrations of pollution in the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans, home of what some have called a plastic island.


“What we found in the center of the Pacific was not a floating island of plastic. What we found was a plastic smog that permeated 4 all the water," Andersen said.


The debris 5 infects the food chain, sometimes visibly, and more so at the microscopic 6 level, where the plastic particles interact with other pollutants 7.


Adam Leipzig, producer of A Plastic Ocean, said, “Heavy metals, pharmaceuticals 8, industrial runoff. It acts like magnets. These toxins 9 hitchhike on the plastic, and when seafood 10 ingests the plastics, those toxins offload into the fatty tissues.”


Those fish are then consumed by other sea life and by people.


China, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam are the worst plastic polluters. The United States, although a leader in recycling, is in the top 20, since it produces and consumes so much plastic.


There are efforts around the world to address the problem, including at this newly opened recycling center in Lebanon.


But Andersen said there is more people can do.


“Cut back on single-use plastics, straws, plastic cups, plastic water bottles, plastic bags and find alternatives like reusable materials," she said.


She said healthy oceans are essential to our survival.



1 marine
adj.海的;海生的;航海的;海事的;n.水兵
  • Marine creatures are those which live in the sea. 海洋生物是生存在海里的生物。
  • When the war broke out,he volunteered for the Marine Corps.战争爆发时,他自愿参加了海军陆战队。
2 blight
n.枯萎病;造成破坏的因素;vt.破坏,摧残
  • The apple crop was wiped out by blight.枯萎病使苹果全无收成。
  • There is a blight on all his efforts.他的一切努力都遭到挫折。
3 remains
n.剩余物,残留物;遗体,遗迹
  • He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
  • The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。
4 permeated
弥漫( permeate的过去式和过去分词 ); 遍布; 渗入; 渗透
  • The smell of leather permeated the room. 屋子里弥漫着皮革的气味。
  • His public speeches were permeated with hatred of injustice. 在他对民众的演说里,充满了对不公正的愤慨。
5 debris
n.瓦砾堆,废墟,碎片
  • After the bombing there was a lot of debris everywhere.轰炸之后到处瓦砾成堆。
  • Bacteria sticks to food debris in the teeth,causing decay.细菌附着在牙缝中的食物残渣上,导致蛀牙。
6 microscopic
adj.微小的,细微的,极小的,显微的
  • It's impossible to read his microscopic handwriting.不可能看清他那极小的书写字迹。
  • A plant's lungs are the microscopic pores in its leaves.植物的肺就是其叶片上微细的气孔。
7 pollutants
污染物质(尤指工业废物)( pollutant的名词复数 )
  • Pollutants are constantly being released into the atmosphere. 污染物质正在不断地被排放到大气中去。
  • The 1987 Amendments limit 301(g) discharges to a few well-studied nonconventional pollutants. 1987年的修正案把第301条(g)的普通排放限制施加在一些认真研究过的几种非常规污染物上。 来自英汉非文学 - 环境法 - 环境法
8 pharmaceuticals
n.医药品;药物( pharmaceutical的名词复数 )
  • the development of new pharmaceuticals 新药的开发
  • The companies are pouring trillions of yen into biotechnology research,especially for pharmaceuticals and new seeds. 这些公司将大量资金投入生物工艺学研究,尤其是药品和新种子方面。 来自《简明英汉词典》
9 toxins
n.毒素( toxin的名词复数 )
  • The seas have been used as a receptacle for a range of industrial toxins. 海洋成了各种有毒工业废料的大容器。
  • Most toxins are naturally excreted from the body. 大部分毒素被自然排出体外。 来自《简明英汉词典》
10 seafood
n.海产食品,海味,海鲜
  • There's an excellent seafood restaurant near here.离这儿不远有家非常不错的海鲜馆。
  • Shrimps are a popular type of seafood.小虾是比较普遍的一种海味。
学英语单词
3-methylbutyramide
abunimah
action-research
adiabatic calorlmeter
am-fm
aphoristical
belt sizer
bursae musculi sartorii propria
busy-ness
calender bonding
calenderability
carey i.
cascadia land
ceos
cetoxime
circly
cmo
complementary null character
cuif
cuttingness
Dactylopteridae
dead on one's feet
degree of moderation
dials
dimish
Dioscorea tenuipes
dispunged
distribution of personal income
Dondra
double shield bearing
electric stimulus
electron-beam pumping
euproctis angulata
excess concentration technique
extreme low water level spring-tides
fickenscher
final exploration
flare up
Foiano della Chiana
forecasting problem
gang mill
geothermal depth
give the blessing
goofballs
hydraulic fill method
hyperglycosuria
instrument rack
Internet traffic
jihadistic
kabuki
kampf
lamini-
least squaress
length calibration
lentiform nucleuss
line justification
lolium multiflorums
Lopanka
malignances
manganese oxyhydroxide
Mapireme
medicinal soft soap
nasotracheal tube
nitrogen-arc welding
not care a fig
Nyanga, Prov.du
palace guard
palpifer sexnotatus
pennyfarthings
Pernmet
philatelic esthetics
poking borax
record and process input table
rejuvenated platform
RPI clasp
scrub palmetto
separation of niche
short shunt
shoulderbelts
shuttlecraft
sidrie
sipeimine
snow grass
somarts
thallane
the Gracchi
theory of chaos
there is no comparison between them
thermal technology
thermospheric circulation index
translating nozzle
undersea surveillance
useful heat
variable speed motor
very long instruction word
Wenlock R.
white-wines
wire lath
withholding tax offset
z flap
zoshchenko
zullino