环境工程专业英语unit1 ,华南理工大学,钟理.ppt

环境工程专业英语 Professional English for environmental engineering Foshan University Yongli ZHANG 2016.09 PART 1 INTRODUCTION TO ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING Unit 1 Text: What are Environmental Science and Engineering?环境科学与工程是什么？ Natural Science In the broadest sense, science is systematized knowledge derived from and tested by recognition and formulation of a problem, collection of data through observation, and experimentation. 自然科学 在最广泛的意义上,科学是系统化的知识，来源于并且实践于对问题的认识和构想, 以及通过观察和实验的数据的收集。 Unit 1 Text: What are Environmental Science and Engineering?环境科学与工程是什么？ We differentiate between social science and natural science in that the former deals with the study of people and how they live together as families, tribes, communities, races, and nations, and the latter deals with the study of nature and the physical world. 我们用来区分社会科学和自然科学的是，前者从事研究人作为家庭、部落、社区,种族,和国家如何生活在一起的,后者从事自然和物理世界的研究。 Natural science includes such diverse disciplines as biology, chemistry, geology, physics, and environmental science. 自然科学包括生物学、化学、地质学、物理学和环境科学等不同的学科。 Environmental Science Whereas the disciplines of biology, chemistry, and physics (and their subdisciplines of microbiology, organic chemistry, nuclear physics, etc.) are focused on a particular aspect of natural science, environmental science in its broadest sense encompasses all the fields of natural science. 环境科学 而生物学、化学和物理的学科 (及其分支学科的微生物学,有机化学,核物理,等等)的重点是自然科学的一个特定方面,环境科学在其广义上包括所有的自然科学领域。 The historical focus of study for environmental scientists has been, of course, the natural environment. 历来环境科学家研究的焦点，理所应当是自然环境。 因此,我们指的是大气,土壤,水和居住环境，这些不同于建设的环境。 By this, we mean the atmosphere, the land, the water and their inhabitants as differentiated from the built environment. 现代环境科学还建立了相应的建设环境应用,或者更准确的说,来应对建筑环境的排污。 Modern environmental science has also found applications to the built environment or, perhaps more correctly, to the effusions [?fju:?ns] from the built environment. Quantitative Environmental Science Science or, perhaps more correct