新概念英語第三冊
Lesson 47 Too high a price
1 . Industrialized farming methods produce cheap meat products: beef, pork and chicken.工業化的農作方式生產出廉價的肉類製品——牛肉、豬肉和雞肉。
2 . And if you think you'll abandon meat and become a vegetarian,如果你想放棄肉類而變成一位素食者，
3 . The noise pollution survey revealed a rather spurring and possibly amusing old fashioned source of noise.這個有關噪音的污染調查還揭示了一種出人意外而同時可能會引人意外而同時可能會引人發笑的老式噪音源。
4 . It turned out to be snoring! Men were found to be the worst offenders.它竟然是鼾聲。人類是這方面的罪魁禍首。
5 . Loud conversations on mobile phones invade our thoughts or interrupt the pleasure of meeting friends for a quiet chat.用移動電話大聲交談干擾我們的思路，破壞我們和朋友在一起輕聲聊天所得到的樂趣。
6 . The use of pesticides and fertilizers produces cheap grain and vegetables.使用殺蟲劑和化肥生產出廉價的穀物和蔬菜。
7 . A lot of people object to mobile phones, especially when they are used in public places like restaurants or on public transport.許多人都反對移動式電話，特別是在如飯店，公共交通車等公共場所使用移動電話。
8 . New technology has also made its own contribution to noise.新技術也為噪音作了它的貢獻。
9 . Pollution is the price we pay for an overpopulated, over industrialized planet.污染就是我們為這個人口過密，過度工業化的星球所付出的代價。
10 . Car alarms constantly scream at us in the street and are a source of profound irritation.在街上，汽車的防盜警報不斷對我們吼叫，這是人們極度煩燥的一個原因，
11 . It was revealed that 20% of men in their mid-thirties snore.調查指出，20%的35歲左右的男人打鼾；
12 . The survey revealed a large number of sources of noise that we really dislike.這個調查顯示出很大數目我們不喜歡的噪音源：
13 . However, there is an even more insidious kind of pollution that particularly affects urban areas and invades our daily lives, and that is noise.但是，還有一種更加隱蔽有害的污染，它專門影響城鎮地區，侵襲我們的日常生活，那就是噪音。
14 . Against these figures, it was found that only 5% of women snore regularly,與這些數字相比，只有5% 的女性經常打鼾；
15 . The price we pay for cheap food may be already too high: Mad Cow Disease (BSE) in cattle, salmonella in chicken and eggs, and wisteria in dairy products.牛肉中的瘋牛病，雞肉和雞蛋中的沙門氏菌，奶製品中的利斯特桿菌。
16 . while the rest are constantly woken or kept awake by their trumpeting partners.而其餘則經常被與她們同睡、像吹號似地打著呼嚕的男人吵醒或弄得睡不著。
17 . A recent survey of the effects of noise revealed (surprisingly?) that dogs barking incessantly in the night rated the highest form of noise pollution on a scale ranging from 1 to 7.最近一個有關噪音的作用的調查（令人吃驚地）指出，夜間連續不斷的狗叫聲，在一個從1級至7級刻度表上應列為最嚴重的噪間污染。
18 . Lawn mowers whining on a summer's day, late-night parties in apartment blocks, noisy neighbors, vehicles of al kinds, especially large container trucks thundering through quiet village, planes and helicopters flying overhead, large radios carried round in夏天嗚嗚作響的割草機，公寓樓裡深夜聚會的喧嘩聲，大聲吵鬧的鄰居，各式各樣的車輛，特別是穿越寂靜的村莊的集裝箱卡車，從頭頂飛過的飛機和直升機，被帶到公共場所、音量開到最大的大功率收音機。
19 . Whatever the source of noise, one thing is certain: silence, it seems, has become a golden memory.看來寂靜已變成一種珍貴的回憶。
20 . When you come to think about it, there are only four ways you can deal with rubbish: dump it, burn it, turn it into something you can use again, attempt to produce less of it.傾倒、焚燒、把垃圾變成再生材料或試圖少產生一些垃圾。
21 . The need to produce ever-increasing quantities of cheap food leads to a different kind of pollution.日益增長的對廉價食物的需求導致了另一種形式的污染。
22 . We keep trying all four methods, but he sheer volume of rubbish we produce worldwide threatens to overwhelm us.我們一直在試這4種方式，但是，我們在世界範圍內僅產生的垃圾的量就有把我們覆蓋的危險。
23 . Rubbish, however, is only part of the problem of polluting our planet.然而，垃圾只是我們這個星球的污染問題的一個方面。
24 . This figure rises to a staggering 60% of men in their sixties.而到60歲這個年齡段，這個數字上升到令人驚愕的60%。
25 . Burglar alarms going off at any time of the day or night serve only to annoy passers-by and actually assist burglars to burgle.防盜警報器在白天和黑夜的任何時候都會響起來，它的作用只是騷擾過路行人，而實際上卻幫助竊賊入室行竊。
26 . you have the choice of very expensive organically-grown vegetables or a steady diet of pesticides every time you think you're eating fresh salads and vegetables, or just having an innocent glass of water!或是選用價格昂貴、有機培植的蔬菜，或是當你認為在享用新鮮色拉和新鮮蔬菜或飲用一杯無害的水的時候，實際上每次都不斷吃進殺蟲劑。