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Say what? Big cities affect the trees in the countryside?
你說什么？大都市的環境污染對農村的樹有影響？
You got it! According to a study conducted by Jillian Gregg,who now works at the EPA's western-ecology division in Oregon, Eastern Cottonwood trees grew twice as big inside the Bronx as they did growing in small towns on Long Island.
沒錯！一項由Jillian Gregg發起的研究表明，在布朗克斯生長的美洲黑楊比小鎮紐約長島的高大兩倍，Jillian Greg在美國環保署西部生態分署的俄勒岡州工作。
But that just seems backwards.
我怎么覺得好像說反了，
Cities are where all pollution, should that hamper the growth ofthe trees?
城市污染嚴重，就會影響到農村樹木的生長嗎？
Cities are full of pollution, and it does have a detrimental effect on plant life–to say nothing of people life!
城市的環境污染確實有害植物生長，更不要說人的生活了。
But that doesn't mean, unfortunately, that the converse is true-that once you get outside of the city, the environment is clean.
但是不幸的是，這并不能說明相反的是對的：遠離城市的環境就是無污染的。
Regions can suffer from pollution that blows in from the cities and then lingers around the countryside.
城市的污染會從城市擴散到農村，
In particular, ozone does this.Second-hand ozone?
特別是污染農村的新鮮空氣?！岸帧毙迈r空氣？
Indeed, Gregg's study, along with others, are fingering ozone as the factor that most significantly affects plant growth.
事實上，Greg和其他人的研究都指出影響植物生長的就是空氣被污染了。
So Cities make the pollution but it blows over the countryside and hurts trees there instead.That seems so unfair.
也就是說城市是污染的源頭，又擴散到農村，還不利農村樹木的生長，聽起來太不公平了。
It's just another warning about the surprising effects of pollution-and how we all suffer from it,even when we think it's someone else's problem.
這可能是另一個有關環境污染出人意料的影響：雖然我們認為環境污染不是自己的問題，但是我們都承受著其帶來的不良后果。
