译林版(初中)八年级下册英语Unit 8 A green world课文音频

Unit 8 A green world 翻译：第八单元 绿色的世界

What are you going to do, Hobo? 翻译：霍波，你要去做什么？

Plant trees. 翻译：种树。

Will more trees be planted this year? 翻译：今年要种更多的树吗？

Yes. Trees are good for us. 翻译：是的。树对我们很有益。

OK. I'll go with you, I like digging in the garden. 翻译：好的。我跟你一起去。我喜欢在花园里挖洞。

Are you serious? 翻译：你是认真的吗？

Sure, I'll plant breadfruit trees. 翻译：当然。我要种面包果树。

Breadfruit ... Yummy! 翻译：面包果……好吃！

Welcome to the unit 翻译：欢迎来到本单元

A green life 翻译：绿色生活

B Mr Wu is asking the students how to live a green life. B 翻译：吴老师在问同学们如何过着绿色生活。

Work in groups and discuss what you can do. 翻译：小组练习，讨论你能做的事情。

Use the conversation below as a model. 翻译：使用下面的对话作为范例。

What should we do to live a green life, class? 翻译：同学们，对绿色生活我们应该做些什么呢？

My dad used to drive me to school, but now we take the underground. 翻译：我的爸爸以前常常开车送我去上学，但是现在我们坐地铁了。

More and more families own cars and this causes serious air pollution. 翻译：越来越多的家庭拥有汽车，导致严重的空气污染。

I agree. 翻译：我同意。

It's wise for people to choose public transport or ride bicycles. 翻译：人们选择公共交通或骑自行车是很明智的。

I think we can take shorter showers to save water. 翻译：我认为我们应该缩短淋浴时间，以节约用水。

Yes. And we should remember to turn off the lights when we leave a room. 翻译：是的。另外当我们离开房间的时候，应该记得关灯。

Reading 翻译：阅读

A Green Switzerland 翻译：A 绿色的瑞士

Kitty's online friend Martina is a middle school student in Switzerland. 翻译：基蒂的网友马丁娜在瑞士一所中学。

She is writing in her blog on 5 June, World Environment Day. 翻译：6月5日，世界环境日，她在她的博客写了一篇文章。

Here is her article. 翻译：这是她的文章。

I love Switzerland. 翻译：我喜欢瑞士。

It is a country with high mountains and clean blue lakes. 翻译：这是一个有着高山和干净湛蓝的湖水的国家。

It is beautiful, and we should try to keep it that way. 翻译：它很美丽，我们应该尽力让它一直保持那样。

In Switzerland, things like glass, plastic and paper are separated into different groups and then recycled. 翻译：在瑞士，玻璃、塑料和纸张被分成不同组并被回收。

Even old clothes and shoes can be recycled. 翻译：甚至旧衣服和鞋子也被回收。

I learnt about an organization for recycling clothes. 翻译：我了解到有一个组织回收衣服。

It collects old clothes from all over the country. 翻译：它从全国各地收集旧衣服。

Some of the clothes are sold in charity shops, some are given to the poor, and others are sent to factories for recycling. 翻译：一些衣服放在慈善店出售，一些分给穷人，还有一些则被运去工厂循环再生。

My family and I often send our old jeans and T-shirts to this organization. 翻译：我的家人和我常常将我们的旧牛仔裤和T恤送去这个组织。

Our government has many laws to protect the environment. 翻译：我们的政府有很多保护环境的法律。

For example,we are not allowed to cut down trees. 翻译：例如，我们不允许砍伐树木。

Otherwise, we will be punished. 翻译：否则，我们会受到处罚。

If we drop litter in a public place, we will be fined by the police. 翻译：如果我们在公共场合乱扔垃圾，我们会被警察罚款。

There are also laws to limit air and water pollution. 翻译：同样还有法律来限制空气和水污染。

Nature is our greatest treasure. 翻译：大自然是我们最大的财富。

We depend on its rich resources to live, so it is important for us to protect it wisely. 翻译：我们依靠其丰富的资源生存，所以要理智地保护它，这一点很重要。

Luckily, we are starting to use energy from the sun, wind and water. 翻译：幸运的是，我们开始利用太阳能、风能和水能。

These new types of energy cost very little and will never run out. 翻译：这些新型能源不仅成本低廉，而且用之不尽。