A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
环境
Environmental
I see humanity now as one vast plant, needing for its highest fulfillment only love, the natural blessings of the great outdoors, and intelligent crossing and selection.
我现在把人类看作是一棵巨大的植物,只需要爱、大自然的祝福、智慧的交叉和选择,就能获得最高的满足。
Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what they have to say is new to the general public, and the new is always alarming.
为什么生态学家和环保主义者如此恐惧和憎恨?这在一定程度上是因为他们所说的东西对公众来说是新鲜的,而新鲜的东西总是令人担忧的。
Nuclear power will help provide the electricity that our growing economy needs without increasing emissions. This is truly an environmentally responsible source of energy.
核能将有助于在不增加排放的情况下提供我们不断增长的经济所需的电力。这确实是一种对环境负责任的能源。
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。
I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?
我认为环境应该归入我们国家安全的范畴。保卫我们的资源和保卫国外一样重要。否则还有什么好辩护的呢?
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。
We are now heading down a centuries-long path toward increasing the productivity of our natural capital - the resource systems upon which we depend to live - instead of our human capital.
我们现在正朝着提高自然资本(我们赖以生存的资源系统)的生产率、而不是提高人力资本的生产率迈进,这条道路已经走过了几个世纪。
There is no 'need' for us to eat meat, dairy or eggs. Indeed, these foods are increasingly linked to various human diseases and animal agriculture is an environmental disaster for the planet.
我们没有必要吃肉、奶制品或鸡蛋。事实上,这些食物越来越多地与各种人类疾病联系在一起,而畜牧业对地球来说是一场环境灾难。
There should be more attention paid to scientific research in the ecology area, and I think that such attention to proper environmental concerns would make the public feel much better about it.
应该更多地关注生态领域的科学研究,我认为这种对适当的环境问题的关注会让公众感觉更好。
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。
I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth, environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.
我主动推动了一系列对我国经济增长、环境保护和教育体系改善都非常重要的举措。
You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
你会死,但是碳不会;它的事业不会随着你而结束。它会回到土壤中,在那里植物可能会及时再次吸收它,让它再次进入植物和动物生命的循环。
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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。
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。
We must return to nature and nature's god.
我们必须回归自然,回归自然的上帝。
Not all is doom and gloom. We are beginning to understand the natural world and are gaining a reverence for life - all life.
并非所有的一切都是厄运和悲观。我们开始了解自然世界,并对生命——所有生命——产生敬畏之情。
If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.
如果我们不允许地球产生美和欢乐,它最终也不会产生食物。
Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.
本地的创新和主动性可以帮助我们更好地了解如何保护我们的环境。