新概念英语初中早读 （40）蓝色星球
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Blue Planet
蓝色星球
We all have a common home.
我们拥有一个共同的家
She provides us with enough food, enough water and enough living room.
她向我们提供足够的粮食，足够的水和足够的空间。
We get everything from nature to live better,
为了生活得更好，我们向自然界索取，
but we don’t do anything to protect her.
但我们却从不保护她
Now the air is polluted,the earth is poisoned,
现在空气被污染了，土地盐碱化了，
water is unsafe to drink and rubbish is burying the civili- zation that man owns
人们不能安全饮水，垃圾埋葬了现代文明。
Our environment is being polluted
我们的环境正在被污染
faster than nature and man’s efforts can prevent.
污染速度远远比自然界和人类现在尽力制止污染的速度快。
Time is bringing us more people,and more people will bring us more industry.
随着时间的推移，人口的增加，人们会发展更多的工业。
So many trees will be cut down,and more large cities will be set up.
于是大片森林被砍伐，更多的大型城市开始建立。
Lots of waste material,in turn,is produced and harms the environment.
这一切导致的结果是:产生大量的垃圾。环境也被破坏了。
So some experts declare that the balance of nature is being upset,
于是专家们宣称自然界正在失去平衡。
so that the very survival of man is in danger.
人们的生存环境正处在危险中。
What can solve this growing problem?
如何来解决这个正在扩大化的问题呢?
The answer is that we must control population growth,
答案是我们必须控制人口增长的速度,
forbid people to cut down trees and pour waste water into rivers and so on.
禁止滥伐和向河里排污
If we do this,the environment will become clean,
如果我们能够做到这些环境将会得到净化,
and our lives will be full of happiness
我们的生活间充满幸福。