自然 Flashcards
农业行为导致砍伐森林并造成严重的环境破坏
The farming practices led to deforestation and caused extensive environmental damage
伐木
log
偷猎
poach
生物多样性减少
biodiversity decrease
亚马逊森林
Amazon rainforest
撒哈拉沙漠
the Sahara Desert
黄石公园
the Yellowstone National Park
动物灭绝与人类无关
The extinction of some species have nothing to do with human activities.
超过人类的能力
The protection of some species is beyond human capacity/ability
紧急的社会问题
Some pressing social problems
一些紧急的问题比…更为重要
Some urgent problems of human society have higher priority than to save endangered species.
很多的动物给人来价值 他们的灭绝会带来损失
Some species possess great value on human race, some of them have not been realized by human yet. The extinction of them will bring great loss to human society.
触发连锁反应
trigger chain-reaction
动物灭绝对生态平衡的影响
Every species plays an important role in eco-system; their extinctions will trigger chain-reaction, therefore affecting the bigger eco-system.
动物的用处:科学研究 符号 朋友
Some species could provide materials for scientific research and medical, industrial use, or they could be an icon of a nation, or simply they are friends of human.
人类对动物生存环境的影响;并且造成他们的食物短缺
Human constructions and developments may ruin their living environment, destroy their habitat, result in vanishing of their food or humans have hunted them.
达尔文主义
The Darwinian argument that extinction results from the process of so-called “natural selection” in which stronger species survive while weaker ones do not. We humans are not exempt [ɪg’zem(p)t from the process.
好的句型:…应该超过什么
I agree that economic self-interest should take precedence[‘presɪd(ə)ns over vague notions about moral duty when it comes to saving endangered animals.
优先
take precedence over
消耗/浪费/过度开采
deplete/waste/over-exploit natural resources
(natural resources are being consumed at an alarming rate)
破坏环境
damage /cause (irreversible) damage to the environment/ have devastating effects on the environment
保护 自然资源
preserve natural resources
节约自然资源
conserve natural resources/energy/electricity