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Even as the first day of autumn hovers over American shores, traces of summer linger. So, every year at this time, nearly half a million people step forward to help, to volunteer in an international coastal cleanup and the results can be staggering. In the last couple of years alone, an average of 8 million pounds of trash is collected worldwide.
秋天的第一天已經徘徊在美國海岸，夏天的痕跡依然存在。因此，每年這個時候，近50萬人站出來幫助，自愿參與國際海岸清理工作，結果可能十分驚人。僅在過去的幾年里，全世界平均收集了800萬磅的垃圾。
Please, watch where you put your feet, watch what you grab with your hands, we have found in the past hypodermic needles, we found drug paraphernalia.
請注意你腳踩的地方，注意你手抓的東西，我們以前發(fā)現過皮下注射針，我們發(fā)現了吸毒用具。
From California to New Jersey, and here along the banks of the Potomac River just outside Washington DC, people don protective gear and comb the coast for trash.
從加利福尼亞到新澤西，沿著華盛頓特區(qū)外的波托馬克河河岸，人們戴著防護裝備，在海岸上搜尋垃圾。
Thirty-five glass bottles...
35個玻璃瓶……
From cigarette butts to candy wrappers, every little item is recorded by the Ocean Conservancy, the sponsor of the cleanup since it started in 1986.
從煙頭到糖紙，每一件小物品海洋保護協(xié)都會做記錄。海洋保護協(xié)會自1986年成立以來一直是海洋清理工作的發(fā)起者。
Because a lot of our trash that's found unfortunately is not coming off ships in the dark of night, it's coming from land, you know, areas, people who were at the beaches, people who were inland, and things are washing downstream.
因為很不幸，我們發(fā)現的很多垃圾不是在黑夜里從船上掉下來的，而是來自陸地，你知道的，那些在海灘上的人和內陸的人扔的垃圾，還有被沖到下游的東西。
Disgusting, all that's out here, I was so shocked. When I came out here, I thought, oh, you know, people don't litter that much, and I just see stuff on the side of the road, then we've come up here, it's just everywhere.
真惡心，看到外面的一切，我都震驚了。我出來的時候，你知道，我還以為人們不怎么亂扔垃圾，我只是看到路邊的東西，然后我們來到這里，發(fā)現到處都是。
Yeah, it's pretty amazing. Actually we can pick a lot of that up one day and then, the next day come back, and there just twice as much as it was the day before. So, it seems like there is no end to the, the trash.
是的，真的讓人大吃一驚。實際上，我們一天內可能收集很多垃圾，然后，第二天再回來，垃圾是前一天的兩倍。所以，垃圾似乎是無窮無盡的。
At this site, 2,000 pounds of trash were collected in just an hour and a half. Despite their obvious progress, in many places such as here along the Potomac River, the work is far from over.
在這個地方，一個半小時內就收集了2000磅的垃圾。盡管取得了明顯的進展，但在許多地方，比如波托馬克河沿岸，這項工作遠未結束。
The river is going to require continued, maintained efforts for many generations to come but we are getting there, this is a sign that the next generation is going to care about the resource and is gonna wanna pass it on to the next generation improved.
這條河河岸的清理需要未來幾代人持續(xù)的努力，但我們也正在努力，有跡象表明下一代會關心資源問題，并想把這種觀念傳遞給更加進步的下一代。
Everywhere water meets land the goal of this cleanup is the same, to beautify and restore coastlines and to get people to think about how they dispose of their own garbage. So autumn's wind will blow cold but perhaps not so clattered.
無論在哪里，只要是水陸相交的地方，這種清理都有一個同樣的目標，那就是美化和恢復海岸線，讓人們思考如何處理自己的垃圾。那樣秋天的風可能會很冷，但可能不會那么吵。
