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Recording 53
錄音53
You will hear two students discussing a presentation they are going to give.
你將聽到兩位學生討論他們將要做的成果展示。
First, you have some time to look at questions 21 to 25.
首先，你有些時間看看第二十一題至第二十五題。
Hi, Robert. Hi, sorry I'm late. I was just printing off some pages about food waste in Britain.
羅伯特，你好。你好，抱歉，我來晚了。我剛剛在打印一些關于英國食品浪費的材料。
Do you want to include Britain in the presentation? I thought we were concentrating on the USA.
你想將英國納入我們的展示嗎？我還以為我們主要關注的是美國。
Well, it is a global problem, so I thought we ought to provide some statistics that show that. Fair enough. What did you find out?
這是個全球性問題，所以我認為，我們應提供一些數據來體現其全球性。好吧，你查到了什么？
Well, I was looking at a British study from 2013. It basically concluded that 12 billion pounds' worth of food and drink was thrown away each year-all of it ending up in landfill sites.
我在看一份2013年的英國研究報告。基本上，研究結果顯示，每年有120億磅的食物和飲品被丟棄，全都被埋在垃圾堆填區里了。
Over eight million tons! And that wasn't including packaging.
整整八百萬噸啊！還沒算包裝呢。
An incredible amount.
這個數字可真是太不可思議了。
Yes, and they were only looking at what households threw away, so there's no information about restaurants and the catering industry.
對，而且研究人員只調查了家庭產生的垃圾，所以沒有關于餐廳和飲食業的資料。
But one thing the study did investigate was the amount of milk and soft drinks that were wasted, and I think it was probably quite unique in that respect.
但該研究調查了一點：牛奶和軟飲的浪費量。我認為，在這方面而言，這是很獨特的。
Interesting. You know, in the other European reports I've read, there's one thing they have in common when they talk about carbon dioxide emissions.
這很有意思。我看過其它的歐洲研究報告，都有一個共同點——他們都提到了二氧化碳排放。
I know what you are going to say. They never refer to the fuel that farms and factories require to produce the food, and the carbon dioxide that releases?
我知道你想說什么。他們從來都不考慮農場和工廠生產食物所耗費的燃料，和因此排放的二氧化碳？
Exactly. We could really cut down on carbon emissions if less food was supplied in the first place.
沒錯。如果在一開始就減少食物供給，我們就能真正降低碳排放了。
To my mind, the reports talk too much about the carbon dioxide produced by the trucks that deliver the fresh goods to the shops and take the waste away.
對我而言，這些研究報告過多關注于用卡車將新鮮食品運輸到商店以及運走廢品所產生的二氧化碳了。
They forget about one of the key causes of carbon dioxide.
研究人員忘記了二氧化碳產生的其中一個關鍵原因。
Absolutely. If the reports are actually going to be useful to people, they need to be more comprehensive.
沒錯。如果研究人員想讓這些研究報告真正對人們有用，就應該調查得更全面。
Who do you mean by "people"?
“人們”是指？
Well, the government, industries... people making television programs. Have you seen any documentaries about food waste? Not that I remember.
政府部門、各行各業……電視節目制作者。你有看過關于食品浪費的紀錄片嗎？印象中沒有。
My point exactly. These days they all seem to be focusing on where your meat, fruit and vegetables are sourced from.
這正是我想說的。現在人們好像都在關注所使用的肉類、水果和蔬菜的來源。
We're being encouraged to buy locally, not from overseas. That's probably a good thing but I'd still like to see something about waste.
我們提倡購買本地產品，而非進口產品。這大概也是件好事，但我還是希望能有些關于（食品）浪費的措施。
Yes, it's the same with magazine articles: it's all about fat and sugar content and the kind of additives and coloring in food, but nothing about how it reaches your table and what happens after it ends up in the bin.
對，雜志文章也是這樣的——全都在說脂肪含量、含糖量、食品中的添加劑和色素，但從來不談食品是怎樣送上飯桌的，也沒談過食品倒到垃圾桶后會發生什么。
Well, we've only got 15 minutes for this presentation, so I think we'll have to limit what we say about the consequences of food waste.
我們只有15分鐘做展示，所以我認為，我們要限制一下關于浪費食品的后果的解說。
What do we want to concentrate on?
我們希望集中關注什么內容呢？
Well, I know some of the other presentations are looking at food and farming methods and what they do to the environment,
我知道有別的成果展示會談到食品、耕作方法和對環境的影響，
so I think we'll avoid that, and the fact that in some countries, people can't afford the food grown on their own farms-that was covered last term.
所以，我覺得我們可以省去這些內容。還有一點：在一些國家，人們承受不起在自己的農場種植食物—上學期已經講過了，也可以略過。
