2009年考研英語翻譯最新模擬題及答案詳解(五)

　　(4) Whatever its underlying reasons, there is no doubt that much of the pollution cause could be controlled if only companies, individuals and governments would make more efforts. In the home there is an obvious need to control litter and waste. Food comes wrapped up three of four times in packages that all have to be disposed of; drinks are increasingly sold in bottles or tins which cannot be reused. This not only causes a litter problem, but also is a great waste of resources, in terms of glass, metals and paper. (5) Advertising has helped this process by persuading many of us not only to buy things we neither want nor need, but also throw away much of what we do buy. Pollution and waste combine to be problem everyone can help to solve by cutting out unnecessary buying, excess consumption and careless disposal of the products we use in our daily lives.

　　參考譯文

　　1. 污染的形成，是由于人類向環(huán)境中排放一些全新的、通常是人造的物質(zhì);或者是由于向環(huán)境中大量排放天然物質(zhì)，如油輪中的石油排放到海洋中。

　　2. 工業(yè)生產(chǎn)的整個過程制造出許多日常生活所需要和使用的東西，同時，必然產(chǎn)生大量的廢棄物，從而破壞環(huán)境平衡，即人們常說的生態(tài)平衡。

　　3. 有的人則把環(huán)境污染問題主要看成是農(nóng)業(yè)中的問題，農(nóng)業(yè)中采用新的生產(chǎn)方式，使得農(nóng)民能夠從地里收獲更多的糧食以養(yǎng)活不斷增長的人口。

　　4. 不管形成污染的潛在原因是什么，只要公司、個人，以及政府做出進(jìn)一步的努力，毫無疑問，許多污染問題都能夠得到控制。

　　5. 廣告助長了這種浪費(fèi)，因?yàn)閺V告不但誘使人們購買他們既不想要也不需要的東西，而且使人們?nèi)拥粼S多已經(jīng)買到手的東西。

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