評(píng)論
打印
Lesson 4 Car Culture
第四課 汽車文化
The Road to Destruction
毀滅之路
"This morning it took me forty minutes to get to work. More road construction works on the A10!"
“今天早上我上班用了40分鐘。A10有較多的道路在施工！”
"Oh really? It took me over an hour. There was an accident on the M11."
“真的嗎？我用了1個(gè)多小時(shí)。M11發(fā)生了一場(chǎng)交通事故。”
"You're both lucky. It took me two hours! You don't have to use the M25."
“你們都很幸運(yùn)。我用了2個(gè)小時(shí)！你們不用非得走M(jìn)25。”
How often have you heard these conversations? How often do we get stuck in traffic jams?
有多少次你們聽到這樣的對(duì)話？有多少次我們遇到塞車？
How often do we arrive at work or school stressed out, tired and angry?
有多少次我們?cè)跇O度焦慮、疲憊、惱怒的狀態(tài)下到達(dá)辦公室或?qū)W校？
For many people in Britain, the answer is every day.
對(duì)于許多英國(guó)人來說，答案是每天。
But anger and stress are nothing compared to the real costs of the motor car.
但是比起汽車的實(shí)際代價(jià)，緊張和惱怒還是微不足道的。
Here are some figures: In the last ten years, the number of cars on the roads in Britain has gone up by 30%.
這有一些數(shù)字：在過去10年中，英國(guó)路上行駛的汽車數(shù)量上升了30%。
There are now 25 million cars in this country.
現(xiàn)在，這個(gè)國(guó)家有2.5億輛汽車。
Over three thousand people die every year in road accidents in Britain.
在英國(guó)，每年有3千多人死于交通意外。
In London, car engines produce 99% of all carbon monoxide in the atmosphere.
在倫敦，大氣中99%的一氧化碳來自汽車發(fā)動(dòng)機(jī)。
Twenty-five thousand deaths per year are caused by air pollution.
每年有25‰的死亡原因是空氣污染。
Some types of cancer are related to traffic pollution.
一些癌癥和交通污染有關(guān)。
Traffic is one of the major causes of global warming and climate change.
交通車輛是全球變暖和氣候變化的主要原因。
