美语场景讲解：环境

　　美语场景讲授：环境

       1. What exactly is the environment?

　　1。环境到底是什么?

　　2. It’s the world around us.

　　2。是我们周围的世界。

　　3. You mean the sky and trees and things like that.

　　3。你指的是天空和树，像那样的东西。

　　4. Well, yes. But it can be even closer to home. In fact, your home is an environment.

　　4。是的，是的。但它可以更接近家。事实上，你的家是一个环境。

　　5. So it is anything that is around us, yah?

　　5。所以这是我们身边的，对吧?

　　6. Yah. But most people today think of it as nature.

　　6。是的。但现在大多数人认为它是自然的。

　　7. That’s what I thought at first.

　　7。这是我第一次想的。

　　8. Well, it has become very important today to think of the natural environment.

　　8。很好，现在已经变得非常重要，认为自然环境。

　　9. Is that because we are afraid of what is happening in nature?

　　9。是因为我们害怕在自然中发生的事情吗?

　　10. Sure. It is really only in the last 50 years that we have realized what harm we are causing to the natural environment.

　　10。当然.这是真的，只有在过去的50年里，我们才意识到我们所造成的自然环境的危害。

　　11. But the damage was started long before that, wasn’t it?

　　11。但是损坏是在很久以前开始的，不是吗?

　　12. I suppose it’s started with industrial revolution about 300 years ago.

　　12。我想大约300年前的工业革命开始了。

　　13. That’s not very long, if you think how old the world is.

　　13。那不是很长，如果你认为世界是多么古老。

　　14. No. But most of the environmental damage had been increasing dramatically over the past 100 years.

　　14。不，但是大部分的环境伤害在过去的100年里一直在急剧增加。

　　15. Yes. But now we are aware of it, we are doing our best to rectify it.