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经济学人:污水的社会经济学(2)

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  • Among many correlations detected, the researchers found that high levels of B vitamins
  • 在检测到的很多相关性中,研究人员发现高浓度的B族维生素
  • (abundant in red meat, whole grains and dark leafy greens),
  • (在红肉、全谷物和深色绿叶蔬菜中含量丰富)、
  • alcohol and caffeine were associated with high-rent districts, generally in the middle of cities,
  • 酒精和咖啡因与高租金的地区相关,这些地区通常都位于城市中心,
  • while opioids and antidepressants went hand in hand with an abundance of people with low-skilled occupations.
  • 而阿片类药物和抗抑郁药与大量低技能工作者相关。
  • These general correlations are not, perhaps, that surprising (though another,
  • 或许这些普遍的相关性并不令人惊讶(虽然另一种相关性,
  • between a lack of internet connection and an antihypertensive medication called atenolol, is intriguing—
  • 缺乏网络连接与一种叫做阿替洛尔的降压药之间的联系,很有趣——
  • possibly being mediated through people's age).
  • 可能会随着年纪调节)。
  • But Dr Samanipour found that in combination they could predict quite accurately the demographic make-up of a sewage plant's catchment area.
  • 但Samanipour博士发现,结合起来看,它们可以相当准确地预测污水厂集水区的人口构成。
  • He did this by taking the model he and his colleagues had devised, based on their 100 initial plants, and applying it to nine others.
  • 通过利用他和同事设计的模型,以他们最初的100个处理厂为基础,并将该模型应用到其他9个处理厂中。
  • For each of these they forecasted the socioeconomics of the surrounding area and then tested those forecasts against reality, as revealed by the census.
  • 他们对每一个周围区域的社会经济进行了预测,并将这些预测与人口普查披露的实际情况进行对比。
  • These forecasts were quite specific: how many people in an area had finished secondary school;
  • 这些预测相当详细:这片区域内有多少人中学毕业;
  • how many had cars; how many were single parents; and so on.
  • 多少人有车;多少人是单身父母等等。
  • Of the 37 questions asked by the census about education, occupation, income, social life and housing,
  • 在人口普查调查的37个关于教育、职业、收入、社交生活以及住房的问题中,
  • the model was able to predict the pattern of answers to 30 of them with 25% or less deviation from the values calculated by the census.
  • 该模型能够预测其中30个的答案模式,且与人口普查计算值的偏差不超过25%。
  • Based on these results the researchers argue that, considering the relative ease,
  • 基于这些结果,研究人员认为,鉴于收集和分析
  • low cost and high frequency with which wastewater samples can be collected and analysed, their model could profitably be used,
  • 这些污水样本的容易度、低成本和高频率,他们的模型可以被有效利用,
  • if not as a replacement for censuses, then at least as a way of keeping track of changes in the characteristics of populations more or less continuously,
  • 即便不能替代人口普查,至少也可以作为一种持续追踪人口特征变化的方法,
  • as they happen, rather than in a punctuated manner every five or ten years.
  • 而无需间断式的每五年或每十年一次。


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2.keep track of 记录;掌握

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census ['sensəs]

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n. 户口普查

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frequency ['fri:kwənsi]

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n. 频繁,频率

 
alcohol ['ælkəhɔl]

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n. 酒精,乙醇,酒

 
social ['səuʃəl]

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adj. 社会的,社交的
n. 社交聚会

 
demographic [.di:mə'græfik]

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adj. 人口统计学的

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combination [.kɔmbi'neiʃən]

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n. 结合,联合,联合体

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adventure [əd'ventʃə]

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n. 冒险,奇遇
vt. 冒险,尝试

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initial [i'niʃəl]

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n. (词)首字母
adj. 开始的,最初的,

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characteristics [,kærəktə'ristiks]

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n. 特性,特征;特质;特色(characteristi

 
caffeine ['kæfi:n]

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