January 5 1月5日

Let's Recycle! 一起做资源回收！

Read it! 读读看！

Susie meets Abby in the kitchen. 苏希在厨房里看见雅碧，

Abby is the new secretary at the station. 雅碧是电视台里新来的秘书，

She is starting a recycling program. 她发起了一项资源回收计划。

Susie can help. 苏希可以帮忙，

She can remind people to wash their bottles and cans. 她可以提醒大家把瓶子和罐子洗干净。

They should also separate paper, glass, metal and plastic garbage, too. 他们也应该把纸张、玻璃、金属类和塑料类的垃圾区分开来，

Then put them into the right recycling bins. 然后各别丢入正确的回收桶里。

Recycling is good for the environment. 资源回收再利用有益环境。

Conversation A 会话A

Hi, Abby! How is your first day going? 雅碧，嗨！妳的第一天过得怎么样？

It's great! I love being a secretary. 很棒！ 我很喜欢当秘书。

I'm glad. 那就好。

What are you doing now? 妳在做什么？

I'm taking bottles and cans out of the garbage. 我在把垃圾桶里的瓶子和罐子捡出来，

Then I can wash them. 这样我就可以把它们洗一洗。

Why do you need to wash them? 为什么要洗？

Aren't you just going to throw them away? 妳不是要把这些瓶罐丢掉吗？

No. I'm going to recycle them! 不是，我要回收这些瓶罐！

But first they need to be clean. 可是必须先把它们洗干净。

Conversation B 会话B

But we don't have a recycling bin here. 可是我们这里没有回收桶，

Where will you put them? 妳要把这些瓶罐放在哪里？

I'm getting some new recycling bins for the office today. 我今天要去为办公室买些回收桶。

Bins? You're getting more than one? 一些回收桶？妳要买不只一个？

Yes. We need to separate the garbage into groups. 没错，我们必须把垃圾分类。

So we'll have one bin for paper, one for glass, one for metal and one for plastic? 所以，我们要有一个放纸的桶子，一个放玻璃，一个放金属类和一个放塑料类的桶子吗？

That's right! We can start recycling today. 没错！ 我们今天就可以开始回收。

Conversation C 会话C

We should recycle more. 我们应该多回收资源。

Yes, we should. So I'm starting a recycling program. 确实如此， 所以我要发起一项资源回收计划。

Recycling is good for the environment. 资源回收再利用对环境很好，

I can remind everyone to put things in the right recycling bins. 我可以提醒大家把垃圾丢进正确的回收桶。

That would be great. 那就太好了。

I'll remember to wash things before I recycle them, too. 我也会记得先把要回收的东西洗干净。

Thanks, Susie. 苏希，谢了。

No problem, Abby. 不客气，雅碧，

It's good to have you at this station! 电视台里能够有妳真好！