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环境
Environmental
Maintaining healthy forests is essential to those who make a living from the land and for those of us who use them for recreational purposes.
维持健康的森林对那些以土地为生的人以及我们这些将其用于娱乐目的的人来说是必不可少的。
The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making.
与所有政治进程一样,环境运动对灾难的反应最好。但这些都是非常缓慢,非常渐进的灾难。
God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.
上帝眷顾着这些树木,把它们从干旱、疾病、雪崩、一千次暴风雨和洪水中拯救出来。但他不能把他们从愚人手中救出来。
I don't see this planet being... they're talking about how they're turning around the environmental problems here, but I think it's already too late.
我不认为这个星球…他们正在谈论如何扭转这里的环境问题,但我认为已经太晚了。
In the auto industry, there's one thing you can always count on: if a new environmental or safety rule is proposed, executives will prophesy disaster.
在汽车行业,有一件事你总是可以指望的:如果提出新的环境或安全规则,高管们将预言灾难。
I think part of that is to create an environment where it's like real life, where you don't really know what's going to happen to you in a certain scene.
我认为部分原因是要创造一个环境,在那里就像现实生活一样,你不知道在某个场景中你会发生什么。
Every time I have some moment on a seashore, or in the mountains, or sometimes in a quiet forest, I think this is why the environment has to be preserved.
每当我有时间在海边,或在山上,或有时在一个安静的森林,我想这就是为什么必须保护环境。
It is futile for an artist to try to create an environment because you have an environment around you all the time. Any living organism has an environment.
艺术家试图创造一种环境是徒劳的,因为你周围一直都有一种环境。任何生物都有生存环境。
They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings and their refuse.
他们把我们的母亲——地球——据为己有,把邻居们与她隔开,用他们的房屋和垃圾玷污她。
I don't think we're going to save anything if we go around talking about saving plants and animals only; we've got to translate that into what's in it for us.
我不认为我们会拯救任何东西,如果我们到处谈论拯救植物和动物;我们必须把它转化为对我们有利的东西。
If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers.
如果人们破坏了人类创造的可替换的东西,他们被称为破坏者;如果他们破坏了上帝创造的不可替代的东西,他们就被称为开发者。
It is absolutely imperative that we protect, preserve and pass on this genetic heritage for man and every other living thing in as good a condition as we received it.
我们绝对有必要保护、保存和传承这种基因遗产,使人类和所有其他生物都能像我们所接受的那样保持良好的状态。
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I think an old style of addressing environmental problems is ebbing, but the rise of the so-called conservative, political movement in this country is not a trend towards the future but a reaction to this very broad shift that we are undergoing.
我认为,一种解决环境问题的旧方式正在消失,但是,这个国家所谓的保守派政治运动的兴起并不是走向未来的趋势,而是对我们正在经历的这种非常广泛的转变的反应。
While the climate crisis gathers front-page attention on a regular basis, people - even those who profess great environmental consciousness - continue to eat fish as if it were a sustainable practice.
尽管气候危机经常在头版引起关注,但人们——甚至是那些自称具有良好环境意识的人——继续吃鱼,仿佛这是一种可持续的做法。
One of the responsibilities faced by the Environmental Genome Project is to provide the science base upon which society can make better informed risk management decisions.
环境基因组计划面临的责任之一是为社会提供科学基础,使社会能够更好地作出知情的风险管理决策。
In a finite world this means that the per capita share of the world's goods must steadily decrease.
在一个有限的世界里,这意味着世界商品的人均份额必须稳步下降。
The North Pole will be ice-free during summer in years to come, and that itself will put the Arctic Sea basin on a very high risk of... environmental disasters that might be there.
北极在未来几年的夏季将是无冰的,这本身就将把北冰洋盆地置于一个非常高的风险…可能存在的环境灾难。
There is no place where we can safely store worn-out reactors or their garbage. No place!
我们没有一个地方可以安全地储存破损的反应堆或它们的垃圾。没有地方!