英语新闻听写 纯天然”绿色泳池,你见过吗?（在线收听）

A Green Chlorine Free Public Pool!

“纯天然”泳池，你见过吗?

Would you swim in a public pool that didn’t look like the pools of yore?

你是否想过在一个与众不同的公共泳池里畅游一番呢？

No blue water with the wafting smell of chlorine lingering about?

再也不是那种氯气扑鼻的蓝色泳池？

For a long time, there were only two ways to access a "naturally filtered" pool: live in Europe or be prepared to spend lots of money.

自古以来，“天然泳池”对多数人来说是一种奢望：除非你生活在欧洲或是已经准备好大肆挥霍银子。

Natural pools use plant life, rocks, and other biological filters to eliminate the need for cleansing chemicals and can resemble ponds or lakes on the interior.

天然泳池是指通过植物，岩石等一些生物的天然过滤作用代替化学清洗剂，与室内的人造池塘或人造湖类似。

For decades natural pools have existed in Europe, many of them open to the public now.

几十年来，天然泳池在欧洲比较普遍,并且有很多已经对公众开放。

In the States, with restrictions and state-mandated regulations around the use of chemicals for bacteria,

而美国对化学除菌有明文规定，

natural pools haven't been an option for most communities.

大多数地区并未修建天然泳池。

But that's about to change — at least, if you live in Minneapolis.

然而，这种泳池已经开始出现——至少在明尼阿波里斯市已初见苗头。

Minneapolis is about to open the first all-natural, chlorine-free public swimming pool in the United States.

明尼阿波利斯市即将成为美国首个修建纯天然，没有氯气的公共游泳的地区。

It's called the Webber natural pool, and the project has taken over four years and $6 million of funding,

这个天然泳池名为“韦伯”，泳池的修建已经历时4年，资金投入也多达600万美元，

not to mention the numerous legal hurdles and construction delays,

虽然修建期间出现法律障碍，施工延误等问题，

but it's finally coming to fruition and soon there will be swimmers heading into its green waters.

但总有一天这个项目会竣工，游泳爱好者们就能好好享受这池天然绿水啦。