实用职场英文口译教程Chapter Sven Environmental Protection.ppt

4. 中国是一个发展中国家，但与工业化国家一样面临着较大范围、较大规模的经济开发活动。同时人口压力较大，环境保护和生态平衡引起了政府和人民的极大关注。加强环境教育，尽快地提高公众的环境意识已成为教育界面临的重要任务之一。 5. The environmental problems we face today are thus mainly the results of this kind of behavior. The developed countries are still the main consumers of the world’s limited resources and remain the world’s major source of pollutants. 6. In certain poor areas, local people are pressed to exploit limited resources in order to survive. Exhaustion of natural resources and environmental deterioration has become the norm. Water shortages have become the leading obstacles to socio-economic development in Northwest and North China. 7. Ladies and gentlemen, it is my great pleasure to participate in this symposium on environmental security. We cannot narrow our vision to only railroads, bridges and factories. We must make economic prosperity foster intellectual and spiritual contributions which keep our civilizations alive and contribute to the onward march of human civilization. 8. Many wild animals are facing the danger of extinction, because the environment that they are living in has changed greatly. For example, with the development of cities, the using of insecticide and serious pollution, their living areas have become narrower and narrower. Many of the wild animals are now confronted with food crisis. At the same time, man is killing off species for their fur, skin, horns, teeth and meat. Part III Field Interpretation A. 汉英口译 Chinese-English Interpretation 过去几年，中国的国民经济发展迅速，增加了对生态环境的负担。中国在过去20年里经历了西方100年工业化进程中所经历的所有环境问题。尽管政府在控制污染方面做了不少努力，也取得了显著成绩，但生态环境仍然十分脆弱。我们需要投入更多的资金、人力和时间，以实现人和自然的和谐发展。 1. 国民经济 national economy 2. 工业化 industrialization 3. 取得显著成绩 achieve remarkable results 4. 脆弱的生态环境 fragile ecological environment 5. 和谐发展harmonious development 中国政府历来十分重视保护生态环境，早在1999年就颁布了生态环境保护方面的条例。多年来，在各级政府和有关部门的共同努力下，全国的生态保护工作取得了显著成绩。然而，生态环境恶化的趋势并没有得到遏制。人类活动是问题的主要根源。这主要体现在一下几个方面： 1. 十分重视attach great importance to… 2. 颁布条例promulgate a program/issue a regul