英语精读1第10单元介绍.ppt

Paragraph 9 There are small actions which we can all take and which can make a big difference. For example, lighting uses 20 per cent of the world’s electricity, the equivalent of burning 600,000 tonnes of coal a day. If we all used energy-efficient light bulbs, we would avoid the release of 700 million tons of carbon into the atmosphere every year. Shopping locally can help lower your carbon footprint in terms of the amount of energy used to bring your food to you, and can contribute to the wealth of the local community. Recycling one glass jar saves enough energy to light a 100-watt bulb for four hours. Turning down your thermostat by two degrees can save 2,000 pounds of carbon every year. Imagine if everyone in your family, school or office did the same. 1 ton = 1016.04 kilograms 吨 1 tonne = 1000 kilograms 公吨 （英国=metric ton） ton tonne energy-efficient: saving or using less energy e.g. energy-efficient 划算的 省时的 节约空间的 cost-efficient time-efficient space-efficient Translation 有些人人都能做到的小事能引起巨大的效应。例如，照明消耗了全球 20% 的电能，相当于每天燃烧 60 万公吨煤炭。如果我们都使用节能灯炮，那么我们每年向大气层排放的碳就会减少 7 亿吨。将食品带回家会消耗很多能源，因此在本地购物能减少碳排放，还能给当地社区增加财富。回收一个玻璃罐节约的能量足以维持一个 100 瓦的灯泡 4 个小时的照明。将你的恒温器调低两度每年就可以减少 2,000 磅的碳排放。试想一下，如果你们家、学校或办公室的每个人都这么做，会有什么效果? Paragraph 10 Above all, we need to be realistic about the challenges we face. There are no quick one-size-fits-all solutions. We need the support and the peer group pressure of like-minded people to share the experience of making changes, of checking progress and supporting each other through the inevitable setbacks. “Think local, act global” seems to be the message. one-size-fits-all solutions： （贬义）快速万全的解决办法 Peer group pressure: 同伴间的压力 Peer group pressure is a term describing the pressure exerted by the people of the same age group or generation in encouraging a person to change attitude, behavior and/or morals, to conform to, for example, the groups actions, fashion sense, taste in music and television, or outlook on life.