英译汉-工程硕士英语作业.docVIP

Make comments on the presentations and choose 3 paragraphs of each video script to translate them into chinese. Im going to talk today about energy and climate. And that might seem a bit surprising because my full-time work at the foundation is mostly about vaccines and seeds, about the things that we need to invent and deliver to help the poorest two billion live better lives. But energy and climate are extremely important to these people, in fact, more important than to anyone else on the planet. The climate getting worse, means that many years their crops wont grow. There will be too much rain, not enough rain. Things will change in ways that their fragile environment simply cant support. And that leads to starvation. It leads to uncertainty. It leads to unrest. So, the climate changes will be terrible for them. 今天我想谈一谈关于能源和环境。虽然这或许显得有点奇怪，因为我在基金会的主要工作是负责疫苗和种子，我们需要开发和输送这些东西来帮助最贫穷的20亿人，使他们生活过的更好一些。但是能源和气候对这些人相当重要，实际上，其重要性超过了对地球上其他人所需要的。气候越来越坏，这意味着这些年来他们的庄稼面临减产。未来出现的大暴雨，大干旱，各种各样的变化使得他们脆弱的环境不堪重负。这些导致了饥饿、不确定性、动荡不安。因此气候的改变对他们来说非常可怕。 Also, the price of energy is very important to them. In fact, if you could pick just one thing to lower the price of, to reduce poverty, by far, you would pick energy. Now, the price of energy has come down over time. Really, advanced civilization is based on advances in energy. The coal revolution fueled the industrial revolution, and, even in the 1900s weve seen a very rapid decline in the price of electricity, and thats why we have refrigerators, air-conditioning, we can make modern materials and do so many things. And so, were in a wonderful situation with electricity in the rich world. But, as we make it cheaper -- and lets go for making it twice as cheap -- we need to meet a new constraint, and that constraint has to do with CO2. 而且，能源的价格对他们来说也是非常重要的。事实上，到目前为止如果你想通过降低某样东西的价格来减少贫穷，那么你要选择能源。现在能源的价格已经下降了一段时间，事实上先进的文明是建立在能源进步的基础上。煤炭革命点燃了工业革命，并且甚至在20世纪初我们都能看到电力价格大幅下降，这就是我们为什么拥有冰箱、空调，我们可以制造现代材料并且做很多事情。可以说在电力充沛的世界里，我们拥有一个美妙的环境。但是随着电力价