环球慢速英语 塑料袋废物(5)

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Voice 1: Conserve¹ has expanded over the years. Now the company turns plastic into many different things — paper holders², shoe holders, storage boxes, and table covers. Conserve makes about one hundred fifty thousand dollars a year.

声音1：这些年来Conserve公司一直在扩大规模。现在该公司可以将塑料制作成许多不同的物品，比如纸架、鞋架、储物盒和桌布等。Conserve公司每年可以赚15万美元左右。

Voice 2: The Ahujas are doing good work. They are cleaning plastic off of the streets. And they employ many of Delhi’s poorest people. Anita said,

声音2：阿费加一家做得很不错。他们正在清理街道上的塑料废物。而且他们还雇佣了许多新德里最贫穷的人。安妮塔说：

Voice 3: "I am doing something that is useful. Polythene (plastic) bags block our (pipes). Cows eat them and get sick. By making them into hand bags, they get used. And unemployed³ people get jobs. I feel it is good for the city too. We are taking the waste off of the streets."

声音3：“我正在做有用的事情。聚乙烯袋阻塞了我们的管道。牛会吃这些塑料袋，然后它们就会生病。把塑料袋制成手提包，它们就可以使用了。而且失业的人们也能得到工作。我认为这对我们的城市也有益处。我们正在清理街道上的废物。”

1 conserve   

vt.保存，保护，节约，节省，守恒，不灭

参考例句：

• He writes on both sides of the sheet to conserve paper.他在纸张的两面都写字以节省用纸。
• Conserve your energy,you'll need it!保存你的精力，你会用得着的！

2 holders   

支持物( holder的名词复数 )； 持有者； （支票等）持有人； 支托（或握持）…之物

参考例句：

• Slaves were mercilessly ground down by slave holders. 奴隶受奴隶主的残酷压迫。
• It is recognition of compassion's part that leads the up-holders of capital punishment to accuse the abolitionists of sentimentality in being more sorry for the murderer than for his victim. 正是对怜悯的作用有了认识，才使得死刑的提倡者指控主张废除死刑的人感情用事，同情谋杀犯胜过同情受害者。

3 unemployed   

adj.失业的，没有工作的；未动用的，闲置的

参考例句：

• There are now over four million unemployed workers in this country.这个国家现有四百万失业人员。
• The unemployed hunger for jobs.失业者渴望得到工作。