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第九期外刊视频课…………………………………………………………………………… 第四讲 ########################################################### 我们需要在创新、教育和建设方面超过世界上其他国家和地区。We need to out-innovate, out-educate and out-build the rest of the world. Hybrid cars outperform conventional cars in terms of energy efficiency. gasoline 汽油gas guzzler 油老虎 Electric cars are all the rage in China, but they may not be helping to clean up the environment or protect human health from pollution. protect = safeguard = defend = shield 保护（from） Pinterest is all the rage in America, with its traffic having surpassed that of twitter this week. Your plan may work in the long run, but it may not be helping to fix imminent problems. It’s unspoken, but every driver gliding around town behind the wheel of a Prius is thinking the same thing: I am saving the planet. What are you doing, you dirt-fossil-fuel burner? Stability should be put on the front burner. on the front burner 处于重要地位 on the middle burner 处于一般地位 on the back burner 处于次要地位put … on the front burner … 是第一要务，放在首要位置 What’s implied in this cartoon is that …What’s implied in this cartoon is that cooperation may be helping to boost the successful development of a person. internal combustion engine 内燃机 oxygen 氧气 / hydrogen 氢气 / nitrogen 氮气carbon monoxide 一氧化碳 = carbonic oxide … this pollution has been linked to respiratory and heart problems and cancer. martial status 婚姻状况 According to the study published in the journal Environmental Science Technology, it turns out that the use of electronic vehicles may not be that clean after all, particularly in the world’s most populated country, China. be sparsely populated // be densely populated The web is populated with a wide variety of viruses.be populated with = be packed with 充斥者，充满了 The nation is packed with a variety of pollution control policies and regulations, but they, it turns out, don’t work at all in combating pollution. The web, it turns out, cut both ways. The web, it turns out, is a double-edged