英语导读1000句[27]:Environment
时间：2019-01-02 作者：英语课 分类：英语导读1000句
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 1 about 300 years ago.
That’s not very long, if you think how old the world is.
No. But most of the environmental 2 damage had been increasing dramatically 3 over the past 100 years.
Yes. But now we are aware of it, we are doing our best to rectify 4 it.
- The earth makes a yearly revolution around the sun.地球每年绕太阳一周。
- This volume records the history of the country's revolution.这卷书记载了这个国家的革命历史。
- A global environmental meeting is going to be held here.一个全球环境会议将在这里举行。
- We need to cure our environmental problems.我们需要解决环境问题。
- His quality of life has improved dramatically since the operation. 手术后他的生活质量大大改善了。
- Our way of life has changed dramatically over the last ten years. 在过去10年里我们的生活方式发生了巨大的变化。