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Can poetry fight air pollution?
僅憑詩歌可以治理空氣污染問題嗎？
Turns out it can—with the help of nanotechnology.
答案當然是可以，但要納米技術幫點忙。
Tony Ryan is a polymer chemist at the University of Sheffield.
托尼瑞安是英國謝菲爾德大學的高分子化學家。
He works with tiny particles of titanium dioxide, which can use sunlight to suck up smog-forming pollution and purify the air.
他目前研究二氧化鈦微粒，而這種物質可以利用陽光吸收污染物，達到凈化空氣的目的。
To demonstrate the effect, Ryan attached a poster 20 meters tall and 10 meters wide to the side of a building in Sheffield on May 14th.
為了演示治理污染的效果，瑞安于5月14日在謝菲爾德大學一棟建筑物的外墻上安置了一塊高20米寬10米的巨型廣告牌。
The poster is coated with titanium dioxide and can consume the nitrogen oxide exhaust of about 20 cars per day.
這面廣告牌的表面涂有二氧化鈦，可以吸收相當于20輛汽車一天排放的一氧化氮量。
He argues that every billboard could be similarly treated to suck up pollution at an extra cost of just a few hundred dollars.
他強調任何一塊普通廣告牌都可以輔以類似的功能，而且只比一般廣告牌貴幾百美元。
The Sheffield poster comments on its own function.
謝菲爾德在廣告牌上為自己作了總結。
Written on it is a new work by poet Simon Armitage entitled "In Praise of Air."
他所引用的是西蒙阿米里奇的作品《空氣頌》中的一段。
"on days when thoughts are fuddled with smog/or civilization crosses the street/with a white handkerchief over its mouth.
“腦中滿是霧霾/白手帕掩嘴穿過這孕育人類文明的街市。
and cars blow kisses to our lips from theirs/I turn the key, throw back the lid, breathe deep./My first word, everyone's first word, was air."
嘴中無奈接到汽車排氣管熱情的飛吻/我旋轉了鑰匙，旋即蓋上蓋子，之后深深呼吸/之后我和所有人所喊的第一個字是空氣。
