Environment Flashcards
Environmentally-friendly
Earth-friendly or not harmful to the environment
The adoption of environmentally-friendly equipment can reduce waste and minimize pollution.
The term ‘environmentally-friendly’ means making choices that are better for environment.
کلمه equipment همیشه به صورت مفرد به کار می رود.
کلمه waste به معنی پسماند همیشه به صورت مفرد به کار می رود.
کلمه rubbish زباله های غذا یا کاغذ و … که دیگر قابل استفاده نیستند.
معادل آمریکایی rubbish کلمات trash و garbage هستند.
Environmentally-damaging
Some large industries in the past, when asked to make their production less environmentally-damaging, were worried about the rise in operational costs.
The government ordered to end environmentally-damaging industries.
Pay off
If something you do pays off, it is successful or has a good result
Teamwork paid off.
We put a lot of hard work, and that’s really starting to pay off now.
Revamp
To renovate, revise, or restructure
بازسازی کردن و بهبود بخشیدن
Many older companies are revamping their image.
Many money is needed to revamp the environment.
Degradation
The process by which something changes to a worse condition
فرسایش / تخریب
Environmental degradation has been recognized as one of the main challenges that people have to overcome in the 21st century.
The report speaks of extensive environmental degradation caused by high population growth.
Deterioration
Becoming worse
The rapid deterioration of environment is believed to impose a severe threat on people’s survival in the years ahead.
Air quality is rapidly deteriorating in our cities.
برای عبارت “سال های بعد” می توانید از ترکیب in the years ahead استفاده کنید.
Use up
To use all of something
He has used up all the hot water.
Air travel should be restricted because it causes serious pollution and will use up the world’s resources.
به خاطر داشته باشید که از کلمه travel در حالت اسم (غیر قابل شمارش) فقط وقتی منظورتان نوع مسافرت ها است استفاده کنید. مثلا مسافرت هوایی …
Noise pollution
Although it is difficult to measure the actual impact of noise pollution on people’s everyday lives, its ability to increase the anxiety and levels of annoyance has been confirmed.
Our survey revealed a noise pollution impact on the community.
عبارت sound pollution غلط است.
Neighborhood
To those living in the neighborhood of an airport, noise created by aircraft is a headache.
توجه داشته باشید که این کلمه با the به معنی همسایگی و بدون the به معنی محیط شهری است.
Replace something with something
By replacing old engines with cleaner ones, people can mitigate the environmental impact caused by flying.
They replaced the permanent staff with part-timers.
Optimal
People should make adjustments and improvements wherever appropriate to ensure the optimal use of this form of travel.
To make the optimal decision, I scan as many as possible of the various alternatives.
Restriction
Some people believe that restrictions should be imposed on air travel.
The law imposed new financial restrictions on private companies.
این عبارت معمولا به صورت impose/place restrictions on something استفاده می شود.
Fossil fuels
Environmentalists would like to see fossil fuels replaced by renewable energy sources.
In the USA around 71% of electricity is produced by burning fossil fuels.
Greenhouse gas
Burning coal or other fuels emits greenhouse gases and pollution in the environment.
But it might contribute to global warming because methane is a powerful greenhouse gas.
Renewable energy
Renewable energy such as solar power
An industry based on renewable resources
By using renewable energy as the primary power source, the reduction of pollution per household would be equivalent to that of planting 400 trees.
