新概念英語第三冊逐句精講語言點 第47課 代價太高? (1)

　　Too high price? 代價太高?

　　Pollution is the price we pay for anoverpopulated, over industrialized planet. Whenyou come to think about it, there are only fourways you can deal with rubbish: dump it, burnit, turn it into something you can use again,attempt to produce less of it. We keep trying allfour methods, but the sheer volume of rubbishwe produce worldwide threatens to overwhelmus.

　　1.Pollution is the price we pay for an overpopulated, over industrialized planet.

　　污染就是我們?yōu)檫@個人口過密，過度工業(yè)化的星球所付出的代價。

　　語言點:the price we pay for的意思是“我們?yōu)?hellip;而付出的代價”。

　　2.When you come to think about it, there are only four ways you can deal withrubbish: dump it, burn it, turn it into something you can use again, attempt to produceless of it.

　　當我們開始考慮垃圾問題時，我們只有4種對付垃圾的方法：傾倒、焚燒、把垃圾變成再生材料或試圖少產生一些垃圾。

　　3.We keep trying all four methods, but the sheer volume of rubbish we produceworldwide threatens to overwhelm us.

　　我們一直在試這4種方式，但是，我們在世界范圍內僅產生的垃圾的量就有把我們覆蓋的危險。

　　語言點:keep doing與try to do的含義不同，意為“一直在做某事(幾乎從未間斷過)”。