12 Recently the issue / problem / question of... has been in the limelight. / brought into focus. / brought to public attention. / posed among the general public.
12.1 The problem of development vs. environment has now been in the limelight. Nowhere is the clash more visible than in China, where the world's largest population faces pollution, deforestation and acid rain on a large scale.
現在發展與環境的問題已成為人們議論的中心。在中國這對矛盾表現得尤為明顯。這個世界上人口最多的國家正面臨著大量的環境污染、森林減少以及酸雨的襲擊。