时间:2018-12-26 作者:英语课 分类:VOA标准英语2018年(十二月)


英语课

Anything and everything is being recycled at the Canberra Environment Center, and in the war on waste, these soldiers are on the front lines, repairing anything from clothing to bikes to doorbells.


堪培拉环境中心回收着各式各样的东西。在与废品作战的过程中,堪培拉环境中心这样的战士一直站在前线,修复着各种东西,从衣服到自行车再到门铃,不一而足。


So they don’t end up in the trash. There’s so much stuff 1 that goes to landfill totally unnecessarily. We’re constantly buying new things, again, a bit unnecessarily.


所以成为垃圾并非它们的终点站。有太多进了垃圾填埋场的东西本不必有这样的命运。我们一直在买新东西,买了又买,但买的并非都是有必要的。


Using skills from his day job, Tate Leaney spent about an hour fixing the set of headphones. Anything that we can repair is one less thing that we’ve thrown out, especially when a lot of the problems are very simple.


在全职工作技巧的帮助下,塔特·林利用了大概一小时就修好了耳机。多修一件东西,就少扔一件东西,尤其是废弃品很容易修理的时候更是如此。


And after a visit to the repair cafe, this once broken doorbell alerts 2 Pearl 3 when someone’s at the front door.


在到访维修咖啡馆后,这个曾经坏了的门铃在每当有人站在前门的时候,都会提醒珀尔。


I would have probably thrown this away if I couldn’t have got it fixed 4.


如果我没把它修好,大概早就已经把它扔了。


And it’s not just about reducing waste, it’s also about gaining skills.


这不只是减少废弃品,也是在获得技能。


My mother was a child of the depression in World War II, so she had all those skills that people used to have, but we’re losing them and I think it’s really important for those of us who still have those skills to pass them on.


我母亲曾经历过二战期间的大萧条,所以她有以前人都有的技能,但我们这一代人却失去了这些技能。我觉得很重要的一点是——我们这辈人如果还有技能的话,就要传下去。


We focus on clothing and textile 5 fee, mainly because that funny thing I really know how to repay 6, proving that one man’s trash can be another as treasure.


我们专注于衣服和纺织品的费用,这主要是因为我知道怎样让这些有意思的东西变成值钱的东西,证明甲之蜜糖,乙之砒霜。



1 stuff
n.原料,材料,东西;vt.填满;吃饱
  • We could supply you with the stuff in the raw tomorrow.明天我们可以供应你原材料。
  • He is not the stuff.他不是这个材料。
2 alerts
n.警戒( alert的名词复数 );警报期间;警戒状态;报警信号v.使(某人)保持警觉( alert的第三人称单数 );使意识到;提醒(某人)注意(某事);使(部队)处于待命状态
  • Folder level alerts are not available on this server. 此服务器上不支持文件夹级的通知。 来自互联网
  • Monitor daily customer FTP site for Compatibility Matrix & Quality Alerts. 实时注意客户FTP上的兼容性列表和质量警报。 来自互联网
3 pearl
n.珍珠,珍珠母
  • He bought his girlfriend a pearl necklace.他给他女朋友买了一条珍珠项链。
  • The crane and the mother-of-pearl fight to death.鹬蚌相争。
4 fixed
adj.固定的,不变的,准备好的;(计算机)固定的
  • Have you two fixed on a date for the wedding yet?你们俩选定婚期了吗?
  • Once the aim is fixed,we should not change it arbitrarily.目标一旦确定,我们就不应该随意改变。
5 textile
n.纺织品;adj.纺织的
  • Japan imports textile materials from Britain.日本从英国进口纺织材料。
  • He haunted textile mills, and learned all he could.他常到纺织厂去,尽可能多学点东西。
6 repay
v.偿还,报答,还钱给
  • I feel honor bound to repay the money I borrowed.我觉得有责任归还我借的钱。
  • I must repay her for her kindness.我必须报答她的恩惠。
学英语单词
abundance ratio of isotopes
aerating the sand
angulations
Apple Islander
articulationes ossiculorum auditus
atomic chemistry
axial box cover
azotenesis
bagmen
balick
biliosus
broad money
Bukum, Pulau
butadiene- styrene-vinylpyridine latex
calls someone out
cancellation charges
Casein-apatite
Centauro event
coal-tar products
colicystopylitis
conference key distribution system
Connerre
counterweighed
cranial nerve lesion syndrome
creatings by mental acts
crocodyliform
degree of stomach contents
dishonoured bills
durene crystal symmetry
edt.
emergency overload
engine hood upper side panel
enwind
exfoliated vermiculite
eyebrowlike
factor through
Fall River
fiber of polymers
float type carburettor
geotechnical test
ghadiyah
gravity equipotential surface
growth of crystals
hexamerous
Hoslundia
incendiary munitions
inchambered
isovaleryl diethylamide
jacques-yves
jinshajiangense
largeleaf holly
lavatory paper
magnetic bottles
manganese bronze catching finger
mediate friction
membranelike
metapodialia
mispricings
modifyings
monoxide
moving spirits
nontrip-free circuit breaker
north lobe
nuclear magnetic resonance log
ovastacin
paperscale
Pedicularis ramosissima
peniophora spathulata
periellipsoidal lymphatic sheath
permuted indexes
persuasion
phegopteriss
picked
plate bulkhead
play of light
pondweed families
porcelain type oil circuit breaker
pored
rhizo-
sabra dermatitis
schoolfellows
self locking angle cock
sheep-farmings
ship-wave interaction
shut their light
sliding fit
spadefuls
staple of money
static MOS RAM
steel ladle
switching coefficient
team-taught
uninhabitedness
usda-ers
Venus clam
Victoria, Queen
videocentric
vouchsafer
white-handedly
window cabin
zicoes