Day 10——Humanity and Environment 人类与环境（重点句型）

1. Humans are responsible for nearly every loss of species in the past few thousand years.

人类对过去几千年中每个物种的灭亡几乎都负有责任。

2. Humans have destroyed forests, spoiled agriculture and polluted the air, water and soil.

人类破坏了森林和农业，污染了空气、水和土壤。

3. Our own survival depends on the survival of other species.

我们的生存依赖于其它物种的生存。

4. Low-lying Pacific Islands are suffering coastal erosion and crop failures.

地势低洼的太平洋岛屿正面临着海岸侵蚀和作物歉收的困境。

5. If pollution continues to increase at the present rate, aerosols in the atmosphere will cause the onset of an ice age in about fifty years’ time.

如果污染按目前的速度持续增加，大气中的悬浮物会导致未来五十年内一个冰河时代的开始。

6. The reduction in woods areas has already led to increased flooding, water-shortages in the dry seasons and the loss of farmland.

森林的减少已经导致洪水增加，干旱季节缺水以及农田的减少。

7. As much as 70% of the woods in Asia will be gone in 20 years unless actions are taken now to save them.

除非现在人们采取措施拯救树木，否则亚洲70%的森林在未来20年后会消失。

8. As a developing country, China is confronted with the dual task of developing the economy and protecting the environment.

作为一个发展中国家，中国正面临着发展经济和保护环境的双重任务。

9. The US decision to withdraw from the international accord on climate change has caused international alarm.

美国退出气关于候变化这一国际协议的决定引起了各国的担忧。

10. The weather around the world is changing from mild weather to weather that is growing warmer every year.

全世界的气候正在从温和变为越来越暖。