新概念英语第三册课文翻译及学习笔记lesson47

新概念英语第三册课文翻译及学习笔记Lesson47Pollution is the pricewe payfor anoverpopulated,over industrializedplanet.When youcome tothink aboutit,there areonly fourways youcan deal with rubbishdump it,burn it,turn itintosomething youcan useagain,attempt toproduce lessof it.We keeptrying allfour methods,but thesheervolume ofrubbish weproduce worldwidethreatens tooverwhelm us.Rubbish,however,is onlypart ofthe problemof pollutingour planet.The needto produceever-increasing quantitiesof cheapfood leadsto adifferent kind of pollution.Industrialized farmingmethods producecheap meatproducts beefpork andchicken.The useof pesticidesand fertilizersproduces cheapgrain andvegetables.The pricewe payfor cheapfood maybe alreadytoo highMadCow DiseaseBSE incattle,salmonella inchicken andeggs,and wisteriain dairyproducts.And ifyouthink youllabandon meatand becomea vegetarian,you havethe choiceof veryexpensiveorganically-grown vegetablesor asteady dietof pesticidesevery timeyou thinkyoure eatingfreshsalads andvegetables,or justhaving aninnocent glassof water!However;there isan evenmore insidiouskindofpollution thatparticularly affectsurban areasandinvades ourdaily lives,and thatis noise.Burglar alarmsgoing offat anytime ofthe dayor nightserveonly toannoy passersbyand actuallyassist burglarsto burgle.Car alarmsconstantly screamat usin thestreet andare asource of profoundirritation.A recentsurvey ofthe effectsof noiserevealed surprisinglythat dogsbarkingincessantly inthe nightrated thehighest formof noisepollution ona scaleranging from1to

7.The surveyrevealed alarge numberof sourcesof noisethat wereally dislike.Lawn mowerswhiningona summersday,late-night partiesin apartmentblocks,noisy neighbors,vehicles ofall kinds,especially largecontainer trucksthundering throughquiet village,planes andhelicopters flyingoverhead,large radioscarried roundin publicplaces andplayed atmaximum volume.Newtechnologyhas alsomade itsown contributionto noise.A lotof peopleobject tomobile phones,especially whenthey are usedin publicplaces likerestaurants oron publictransport.Loud conversationson mobilephonesinvade ourthoughts orinterruptthe pleasureof meetingfriends fora quietchat.The noisepollution surveyrevealed aratherspurring andpossibly amusingold fashionedsource ofnoise.It turnedout to be snoring!Menwere foundtobethe worstoffenders.It wasrevealed that20%of menin theirmid-thirties snore.This figurerises toa staggering60%of menin theirsixties.Against thesefigures,it wasfound thatonly5%of womensnore regularly,while therest areconstantly wokenor keptawake bytheir trumpetingpartners.Whatever thesourceofnoise,one thingis certainsilence,it seems,hasbecome agolden memory.【课文翻译】污染就是我们为这个人口过密，过度工业化的星球所付出的代价当我们开始考虑垃圾问题时，我们只有种对付垃圾的方法倾倒、4焚烧、把垃圾变成再生材料或试图少产生一些垃圾我们一直在试这种方式，但是，我们在4世界范围内仅产生的垃圾的量就有把我们覆盖的危险不过，垃圾仅仅我们这个星球的污染问题的一个方面日益增长的对廉价食物的需求导致了另一种形式的污染工业化的农作方式生产出廉价的肉类制品——牛肉、猪肉和鸡肉使用杀虫剂和化肥生产出廉价的谷物和蔬菜为了廉价食物我们付出代价已经太高了牛肉中的疯牛病，鸡肉和鸡蛋中的沙门氏菌，奶制品中的利斯特杆菌如果你想放弃肉类而变成一位素食者，那么你能够两者择一或是选用价格昂贵、有机培植的蔬菜，或是当你认为在享用新鲜色拉和新鲜蔬菜或饮用一杯无害的水的时候，实际上每次都持续吃进杀虫剂但是，还有一种更加隐蔽有害的污染，它专门影响城镇地区，侵袭我们的日常生活，那就是噪音防盗警报器在白天和黑夜的任何时候都会响起来，它的作用仅仅骚扰过路行人，而实际上却协助窃贼入室行窃在街上，汽车的防盗警报持续对我们吼叫，这是人们极度烦燥的一个原因，最近一个相关噪音的作用的调查（令人吃惊地）指出，夜间连续持续的狗叫声，在一个从级至级刻度表上应列为最严重的噪间污染这个调查揭示了我们所不喜欢的大量的噪间17的来源夏天呜呜作响的割草机，公寓楼里深夜聚会的喧哗声，大声吵闹的邻居，各式各样的车辆，特别是穿越寂静的村庄的集装箱卡车，从头顶飞过的飞机和直升机，被带到公共场所、音量开到的大功率收音机新技术也为噪音作了它的贡献很多人都反对移动式电话，特别是在如饭店，公共交通车等公共场所使用移动电话用移动电话大声交谈干扰我们的思路，破坏我们和朋友在一起轻声聊天所得到的乐趣这个相关噪音的污染调查还揭示了一种出人意外而同时可能会引人意外而同时可能会引人发笑的老式噪音源它竟然是鼾声人类是这方面的罪魁祸首调查指出，的岁左右的男人打鼾;而到岁这个年龄段，这20%3560个数字上升到令人惊愕的与这些数字相比，只有的女60%5%性经常打鼾;而其余则经常被与她们同睡、像吹号似地打着呼噜的男人吵醒或弄得睡不着不管噪声来自何方，有一点是肯定的:看来寂静已变成一种珍贵的回忆【词汇】污染pollution n.人口多的overpopulated adj.过度工业化的over-industrialized adj.纯粹的，不掺杂的sheer adj.在全世界worldwide adv.制服，使不知所措overwhelm v.污染pollute v.杀虫剂pesticide n.肥料fertilizer n.沙门氏菌salmonella n.利斯特杆菌listeia n.吃素的人vegetarian n..有机培植的（不施化肥和其他化学品培植）organically-grown adj暗中为害的insidious adj.城市的urban adj.窃贼burglar n.入室偷窃burgle v.尖叫scream v.极度的profound adj.烦躁irritation n.连续持续地incessantly adv.发呜呜声whine v.直升飞机helicopter n.的maximum adj.技术technology n.贡献contribution n.可移动的mobile adj.打鼾snore v.冒犯者offender n.令人惊愕的staggering adj.吹号trumpet v.伙伴partner n.【重点词汇讲解】[sheer]例句

1.The sheersize ofthe finehad anelement ofgrandstanding aboutit.仅仅是这笔罚款的数额就不免有哗众取宠的成分

2.Nobody toldme whereto findyou.It wassheer intuition.没有人告诉我到那去找你，我纯粹是凭直觉找到你的[overwhelm]英英overcome,as withemotions orperceptual stimuli例句

1.Can youfeel yourinstincts overwhelmyour reason本能的直觉，是否已淹没你的理性？

2.Dont overwhelmyourself withtoo muchchange allat once.不要让太多的改变一下子将你压倒

3.The trivialannoyances,even thoughtheyarevirtually meaningless,can overwhelmyou ifyou letthem.那些琐细的烦恼，甚至毫无疑义，如果你放纵它就能够把你压倒[insidious]例句

1.The mostinsidious formof institutionisthetoobig tofail bank,not thesmall,richly-rewarded partnership.潜在危害的那类机构是“大到不能倒”的银行，而非带来丰厚回报的小型合伙企业

2.But somehave arguedthat theforms ofprotectionism beingused todayare farmore subtleandinsidious,and arenotcaptured bytraditional measuresof tradebarriers.但一些人提出，今天所使用的保护主义措施远比过去更加隐晦和阴险，而且不会被贸易壁垒的传统衡量标准捕捉到[profound]例句

1.The1992collapse ofthe codstocks afterdecades ofoverfishing dealta profoundpsychologicalblow tothe province.因为几十年的过度捕捞，年野鱼储量下降，对本省人的心理造成严重打击

19922.By thetime Ileft forcollege,my familywas inprofound disarray.在我离开家上大学时，家里正处于一片混乱当中[incessantly]例句

1.Most ofus ploughincessantly thesoil ofthe mind,but wenever seemto sow.我们中绝大部分人都在孜孜不倦的开垦我们思维的土壤，但是我们似乎总是不播种

2.He wenton chippingaway incessantly,and forthefirst timewith somesuccess.他持续地钻空子，这是他第一次得手[staggering]例句

1.The scaleof theirtask isstaggering.政府的任务是艰巨的

2.Um,the size,the scale,the scopeis trulystaggering.这些城市的数量和规模真的是让我吃惊【常用表达】处理，处置[dealwith]变为[turn into][leadto]导致,通向做出贡献[make contributionto]。