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Recording 53
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You will hear two students discussing a presentation they are going to give.
你将听到两位学生讨论他们将要做的成果展示。
First, you have some time to look at questions 21 to 25.
首先，你有些时间看看第二十一题至第二十五题。
Hi, Robert. Hi, sorry I'm late. I was just printing off some pages about food waste in Britain.
罗伯特，你好。你好，抱歉，我来晚了。我刚刚在打印一些关于英国食品浪费的材料。
Do you want to include Britain in the presentation? I thought we were concentrating on the USA.
你想将英国纳入我们的展示吗？我还以为我们主要关注的是美国。
Well, it is a global problem, so I thought we ought to provide some statistics that show that. Fair enough. What did you find out?
这是个全球性问题，所以我认为，我们应提供一些数据来体现其全球性。好吧，你查到了什么？
Well, I was looking at a British study from 2013. It basically concluded that 12 billion pounds' worth of food and drink was thrown away each year-all of it ending up in landfill sites.
我在看一份2013年的英国研究报告。基本上，研究结果显示，每年有120亿磅的食物和饮品被丢弃，全都被埋在垃圾堆填区里了。
Over eight million tons! And that wasn't including packaging.
整整八百万吨啊！还没算包装呢。
An incredible amount.
这个数字可真是太不可思议了。
Yes, and they were only looking at what households threw away, so there's no information about restaurants and the catering industry.
对，而且研究人员只调查了家庭产生的垃圾，所以没有关于餐厅和饮食业的资料。
But one thing the study did investigate was the amount of milk and soft drinks that were wasted, and I think it was probably quite unique in that respect.
但该研究调查了一点：牛奶和软饮的浪费量。我认为，在这方面而言，这是很独特的。
Interesting. You know, in the other European reports I've read, there's one thing they have in common when they talk about carbon dioxide emissions.
这很有意思。我看过其它的欧洲研究报告，都有一个共同点——他们都提到了二氧化碳排放。
I know what you are going to say. They never refer to the fuel that farms and factories require to produce the food, and the carbon dioxide that releases?
我知道你想说什么。他们从来都不考虑农场和工厂生产食物所耗费的燃料，和因此排放的二氧化碳？
Exactly. We could really cut down on carbon emissions if less food was supplied in the first place.
没错。如果在一开始就减少食物供给，我们就能真正降低碳排放了。
To my mind, the reports talk too much about the carbon dioxide produced by the trucks that deliver the fresh goods to the shops and take the waste away.
对我而言，这些研究报告过多关注于用卡车将新鲜食品运输到商店以及运走废品所产生的二氧化碳了。
They forget about one of the key causes of carbon dioxide.
研究人员忘记了二氧化碳产生的其中一个关键原因。
Absolutely. If the reports are actually going to be useful to people, they need to be more comprehensive.
没错。如果研究人员想让这些研究报告真正对人们有用，就应该调查得更全面。
Who do you mean by "people"?
“人们”是指？
Well, the government, industries... people making television programs. Have you seen any documentaries about food waste? Not that I remember.
政府部门、各行各业……电视节目制作者。你有看过关于食品浪费的纪录片吗？印象中没有。
My point exactly. These days they all seem to be focusing on where your meat, fruit and vegetables are sourced from.
这正是我想说的。现在人们好像都在关注所使用的肉类、水果和蔬菜的来源。
We're being encouraged to buy locally, not from overseas. That's probably a good thing but I'd still like to see something about waste.
我们提倡购买本地产品，而非进口产品。这大概也是件好事，但我还是希望能有些关于（食品）浪费的措施。
Yes, it's the same with magazine articles: it's all about fat and sugar content and the kind of additives and coloring in food, but nothing about how it reaches your table and what happens after it ends up in the bin.
对，杂志文章也是这样的——全都在说脂肪含量、含糖量、食品中的添加剂和色素，但从来不谈食品是怎样送上饭桌的，也没谈过食品倒到垃圾桶后会发生什么。
Well, we've only got 15 minutes for this presentation, so I think we'll have to limit what we say about the consequences of food waste.
我们只有15分钟做展示，所以我认为，我们要限制一下关于浪费食品的后果的解说。
What do we want to concentrate on?
我们希望集中关注什么内容呢？
Well, I know some of the other presentations are looking at food and farming methods and what they do to the environment,
我知道有别的成果展示会谈到食品、耕作方法和对环境的影响，
so I think we'll avoid that, and the fact that in some countries, people can't afford the food grown on their own farms-that was covered last term.
所以，我觉得我们可以省去这些内容。还有一点：在一些国家，人们承受不起在自己的农场种植食物—上学期已经讲过了，也可以略过。
