环境工程专业英语第一章unit12.pptVIP

环境工程专业英语 Professional English for environmental engineering 遵守上课纪律，不要迟到、早退 授课方式：朗读专业单词、翻译、以小组形式讨论[制作PPT，上台讲解(占15）的成绩）] 考试方式：开卷，90 min 考试内容：书本上、课外降解的单词；句子的中英文翻译 成绩评定：平时成绩30%；考试成绩70% 相互沟通 PART 1 INTRODUCTION TO ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING Unit 1 Text: Environmental Engineering 环境工程 The objective of this book is to introduce engineering and science students to the interdisciplinary study of environmental problems: their causes, why they are of concern, and how we can control them 本书的目的是使工科和理科学生对环境问题的跨学科的研究有所了解：环境问题的起因，环境问题受关注的原因，如何控制环境问题。 Information on the basis causes of environmental disturbances 造成环境破坏的基本原因 Basis scientific knowledge necessary to understand the nature of environmental problems and to be able to quantify them 了解环境问题的性质并且量化环境问题所必需的基本科学知识 Current state of the technology environmental control in its application to water, air and pollution problems 环境控制技术在水、大气和固废污染问题方面应用的现状 Considerable gaps in our current scientific knowledge of understanding and controlling many of the complex interactions between human activities and nature 在理解和控制在人类活动和自然界复杂的相互作用上所需的科学知识的巨大差异 Many environmental problems which could be eliminated or reduced by the application of current technology, but which are not dealt with because of society’s lack of will to do so, or in many instances because of a lack of resources to do so. 很多环境问题利用现有的技术是能够得到消除或降低的，但为什么却没有实施，原因就在于社会不愿意去做，或者缺乏必需的资源。 Environment is the physical and biotic habitat which surrounds us; that which we can see, hear, touch, smell, and taste. 环境：是指我们周围的物理和生物生境，我们可以看到，听到，触到，闻到和感受到这些事物。 System. according to Wehster’ s dictionary , is defined as “a set or arrangement of things so related or connected as to form a unit or organic whole; as, a solar system, irrigation system, supply system, the world or universe”. 系统：根据韦氏字典的定义，就是“一系列有联系或有关系的事物形成的一个有机整体或一个单元”，像太阳系、灌溉系统、供应系统、世界或宇宙。 Pollution can be defined as an undesirable change in the physical, chemical, or biological characteristics of the air, water, or land that can