A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
环境
Environment
Help save our environment.
帮助拯救我们的环境。
Big fish do not live in small ponds.
大鱼不生活在小池塘里。
Today's business climate is not for me.
今天的商业环境不适合我。
Monkeys must disperse once their tree falls.
一旦他们的树倒了,猴子必须四散。
To shake your rump is to be environmentally aware.
摇动你的臀部就是要有环保意识。
I enjoy being recognized whatever environment I'm in.
我喜欢被认可,无论我在什么环境。
This is a tough environment, and it's tough for everybody.
这是一个艰难的环境,对每个人来说都是艰难的。
When we’ve ceased hearing or changing, we need a new environment.
当我们停止听力或改变时,我们需要一个新的环境。
I grew up in a fun-loving environment - you work hard and play hard.
我在一个充满乐趣的环境中长大——你努力工作,尽情玩乐。
The world is not going to survive very much longer as humanity’s captive.
作为人类的俘虏,这个世界将活不了多久。
Greenlanders' heart is the environment. You can't sell your heart for oil.
格陵兰人的心是环境。你不能为了石油而出卖你的心脏。
The economy is a wholly owned subsidiary of the environment, not the reverse.
经济是环境的全资子公司,而不是相反。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
We've got to search back to our last known safe landmark. I can't say exactly where, but I think it's back there at the start of the Industrial Revolution, we began applying energy in vast amounts to tools with which we began tearing the environment apart.
我们必须回到我们最后知道的安全地标。我不能确切地说在哪里,但我认为在工业革命开始的时候,我们开始把大量的能源投入到工具中,我们开始用这些工具破坏环境。
In other words, we are interested in the anatomical and mental characteristics of men living under the same biological, geographical, and social environment, and as determined by their past.
换句话说,我们感兴趣的是生活在相同的生物、地理和社会环境中,并由他们的过去所决定的人的解剖和心理特征。
What a man can be is born with him; what he becomes is a result of his environment.
一个人能成为什么样的人是与生俱来的;他成为什么样的人是他所处环境的结果。
We call ourselves “products of environment” forgetting that we are also its producers.
我们称自己为“环境的产物”,却忘记了我们也是环境的生产者。
Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe.
也许灾难是自然的人类环境,尽管我们花费了大量的精力试图摆脱它,但我们已经为在灾难中生存做好了准备。
I find littering very annoying. It's a minor but also a major thing: a society that litters is one that also has so little respect for the environment and, consequently, other people. If we had clean streets, a lot of other things would be fixed almost effortlessly.
我发现乱丢垃圾很烦人。这是一件小事,但也是一件大事:一个乱丢垃圾的社会是一个对环境和他人都不尊重的社会。如果我们有干净的街道,许多其他的事情将几乎毫不费力地得到解决。