2016年ESL之日常生活 04 Air and Water Pollution
时间：2018-12-04 作者：英语课 分类：2016年ESL之日常生活
ESL Podcast 1183 – Air and Water Pollution
Julia: Stop poisoning us! Stop poisoning us!
Robert: Why are you picketing 2 in front of this factory?
Julia: This factory is polluting our air and water. They’re responsible for contaminating the environment with dangerous chemicals and waste.
Robert: But your entire family works here. Aren’t you concerned you’ll cause trouble for them and the other workers?
Julia: What’s more important is their health. The air quality in and out of this factory is at toxic 3 levels and it’s endangering their health, not to mention what it’s doing to the ozone 4.
Robert: That’s terrible. Maybe I should help you picket 1.
Julia: Here’s a sign.
Robert: Okay, but maybe picketing is taking things a little too far.
Julia: No way! Did you know that runoff from the factory has tainted 5 the groundwater? Did you know that workers and people in the community are breathing in dangerous particulate 6 matter?
Robert: I didn’t know that. Do you have proof of all that?
Julia: Of course I have proof. Environmental groups have done independent tests.
Robert: Then it’s actually dangerous for me to be standing 7 here talking to you and breathing in this toxic air.
Julia: That’s true and your willingness to help me picket is really commendable 8. Hey, where are you going?
Script by Dr. Lucy Tse
- They marched to the factory and formed a picket.他们向工厂前进,并组成了纠察队。
- Some of the union members did not want to picket.工会的一些会员不想担任罢工纠察员。
- mass picketing of the factory 罢工工人集体对工厂的封锁
- "And my chaps were also there to prevent picketing! “我的人也是防着女工们要拦厂！ 来自子夜部分
- The factory had accidentally released a quantity of toxic waste into the sea.这家工厂意外泄漏大量有毒废物到海中。
- There is a risk that toxic chemicals might be blasted into the atmosphere.爆炸后有毒化学物质可能会进入大气层。
- The ozone layer is a protective layer around the planet Earth.臭氧层是地球的保护层。
- The capacity of ozone can adjust according of requirement.臭氧的产量可根据需要或调节。
- The administration was tainted with scandal. 丑闻使得政府声名狼藉。
- He was considered tainted by association with the corrupt regime. 他因与腐败政府有牵连而名誉受损。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- A special group was organized to dig up the particulate of the case.成立了一个专门小组来查明该案件的各个细节。
- Lungs retain relatively insoluble particulate material.肺脏内留有不溶解的颗粒物质。
- After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震过后只有几幢房屋还立着。
- They're standing out against any change in the law.他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改。
- The government's action here is highly commendable.政府这样的行动值得高度赞扬。
- Such carping is not commendable.这样吹毛求疵真不大好。