策马优课（南京）丨海洋正在遭受人类破坏，科技提供解决方案

南京策马翻译 2022-10-02

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本期为大家讲解的这篇文章来自《Economist 经济学人》，是一篇关于海洋正在遭受人类破坏、海洋亟待保护的文章。

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Deep trouble

Humans are wrecking the ocean. Technology shows the scale of the problem—and offers some solutions

EARTH is poorly named. The ocean covers almost three-quarters of the planet. It is divided into ﬁve basins: the Paciﬁc, theAtlantic, the Indian, the Arctic and the Southern oceans.

Were all the planet’s water placed over the United States, it would form a column of liquid 132km tall. The ocean provides 3bn people with almost a ﬁfth of their protein(making ﬁsh a bigger source of the stuff than beef).

Fishing and aquaculture assure the livelihoods of one in ten of the world’s people.Climate and weather systems depend on the temperature patterns of the ocean and its interactions with the atmosphere. If anything ought to be too big to fail,it is the ocean.

Humans have long assumed that the ocean’s size allowed them to put anything they wanted into it and to take anything they wanted out.Changing temperatures and chemistry, over-ﬁshing and pollution have stressed its ecosystems for decades.

The ocean stores more than nine-tenths of the heat trapped on Earth by greenhouse-gas emissions. Coral reefs are sufferingas a result; scientists expect almost all corals to be gone by 2050.

By the middle of the century the ocean could contain more plastic than ﬁsh by weight. Ground down into tiny pieces, it is eatenby ﬁsh and then by people, with uncertain effects on human health.

词汇整理:

To wreck somethingmeans to completely destroy or ruin it.摧毁

the scale of：规模;范围

The basin：流域

A column：纪念柱; 圆形支柱

Protein：蛋白质

Aquaculture：水产养殖

livelihood：生计

If you assume that something is true, you imaginethat it is true, sometimes wrongly. 假设

Stress：施压

Coral reef：珊瑚礁

bleaching：白化