Name: 環境 | 用 Podcast 快速學英文 | 第 109 集 (Environment | Learn English quickly with podcast | Episode 109)
Uploaded: 2025-12-20T06:38:09.000Z
Duration: 34 min 5 s

And today's lesson is an advanced level lesson.

That means we'll be speaking using our normal English tone of voice and using some very, very difficult vocabulary and phrases.

這表示我們會用平常的英文語氣說話，並且會用到一些非常、非常難的單字和片語。

So this is really good practice for all of you out there.

所以這對各位來說是很好的練習。

We're going to change a little bit the dynamic of how it works.

我們會稍微改變一下進行的方式。

We're not going to look specifically at language takeaway or fluency builder.

我們不會特別著重在語言重點或流利度建立。

We are going to pick out a couple of different words and phrases that are used in the dialogue, but

我們會挑出對話中用到的幾個不同的單字和片語，但是

we're mainly going to talk, just have a conversation and you can just listen and study a little bit of what we're saying.

我們主要會哈拉，就只是對話，你們可以聽聽並稍微學習我們說的內容。

那麼，Marco，今天的主題是什麼？

Well, today we're going to talk about the environment, specifically about our carbon footprint.

嗯，今天我們要來聊聊環境，特別是關於我們的碳足跡。

Okay, that is the title of today's lesson.

好的，這就是今天課程的標題。

I encourage all of you to listen to the context of that phrase and we'll be back in a moment to talk talk about what it and some of these other phrases mean.

我鼓勵大家仔細聽聽這句話的語境，我們稍後會回來聊聊它和其中一些其他片語的意思。

So what's your guys take on all this global warming hysteria in the media?

那麼，你們對媒體上這些全球暖化的炒作有什麼看法？

There have been tons of scientific studies and the scientific community says that the Earth is heating up.

有大量的科學研究，科學界也說地球正在暖化。

We need to make some drastic changes to our lifestyle if we want to preserve our planet.

如果我們想保護地球，我們就得大幅改變生活方式。

I don't know, it sounds like a bunch of mumble jumbo if you ask me.

說真的，如果你問我，聽起來就像一堆胡言亂語。

I mean, honestly, we live in the boonies.

我是說，老實說，我們住在鳥不拉屎的地方。

There's no way anyone here is ever going to walk or bike to work, especially in the winter.

這裡根本沒人會走路或騎腳踏車去上班，尤其是在冬天。

My house is 40 years old and it would take a lot of money to get it refitted to be green and energy efficient.

我的房子已經40年了，要改造成綠能節能，得花很多錢。

Well, I don't really know if I believe in global warming either, or whether or not it was our doing or natural change the Earth is going through.

嗯，我也不太確定我到底信不信全球暖化，或者這是不是我們造成的，還是地球正在經歷的自然變化。

But you have to admit that we're living pretty irresponsibly here in the West, I guess.

但你得承認，我們在西方這裡的生活方式，真的有點太不負責任了，我猜。

I think the issue at hand is sustainability.

We've only got this one Earth we can live on and our resources are quickly disappearing because of our own carelessness and our inability to think of anyone but ourselves and anything but the present.

我們只有這一個地球可以住，而且因為我們的粗心大意，還有隻想到自己、想到現在，我們的資源正在快速消失。

So like I was saying, we need to change the way we live.

所以就像我剛才說的，我們要改變我們的生活方式。

Hybrid vehicles and solar panels are too expensive to be feasible right now and we don't have to be hippies living off the land and buying everything organic either.

油電混合車和太陽能板現在太貴了，不太可行，而且我們也不用像嬉皮一樣，靠土地維生，什麼都買有機的。

I carpool to work every day with some buddies of mine.

我每天都跟幾個朋友一起開車去上班。

I used to water my plants and my lawn in the summer and.

我以前夏天會拿來澆我的植物和草皮。

And I make sure I always bring reusable bags with me when I get my groceries.

而且我每次去買菜，一定會記得帶環保袋。

And we just started using biodegradable plastic made from corn oil for takeout orders at my family's restaurant.

我爸媽家餐廳也開始用紙漿做的外帶餐具，是玉米油做的。

這些都只是很小、很簡單的改變。

Like buying energy saving light bulbs, starting a compost bin, recycling bottles and papers using reusable water bottles.

像是買節能燈泡、開始做堆肥、用環保杯裝水、回收瓶子和紙類。

Stop using disposable cups and cutlery like the ones we're drinking out of.

不要再用一次性杯子和餐具了，就像我們現在用的這種。

So, as you probably guessed, carbon footprint, it's pretty easy.

所以，就像你可能猜到的，碳足跡，這其實很簡單。

You're talking about a footprint is the evidence you leave if you're walking on sand, for example.

你說的足跡，就像你在沙子上走路時留下的痕跡。

And if we talk about carbon, we're talking about the element.

而如果我們說到碳，我們是在談論那個元素。

So carbon is something that is in everything.

所以碳是存在於萬物中的東西。

it can also, in the case of a carbon footprint, mean the amount of maybe waste or damage that we do to the earth or to the environment.

在碳足跡的情況下，它也可以指我們對地球或環境造成的浪費或損害的量。

So, for example, you're driving your car, we all know that the gas that is emitted from the exhaust pipe is CO2.

所以，舉個例子，你開車的時候，我們都知道從排氣管排出來的氣體是 CO2。

So the, that's a way of seeing that you're leaving a footprint of carbon.

所以，這就是一種看見你留下碳足跡的方式。

You are damaging the atmosphere a little bit by driving your car.

So in talking about a carbon footprint, we talk about having a low carbon footprint, which is good, or a very high carbon footprint, which is bad.

所以，在談論碳足跡時，我們會說有低碳足跡，這是好的，或者非常高的碳足跡，這是壞的。

So there were a lot of interesting things coming up in the dialogue.

所以對話中出現了很多有趣的東西。

Well, the first thing that they're talking about in this dialogue is they're having kind of an argument about whether or not global warming and global climate change really exists.

嗯，他們在對話中談到的第一件事，就是他們在爭論全球暖化和全球氣候變遷到底存不存在。

Yeah, this is a very interesting part because some people say, well, global warming is happening, global warming is real.

對，這部分很有趣，因為有些人說，嗯，全球暖化正在發生，全球暖化是真的。

And other people say, well, it's not real, it's not really a problem.

而另一些人說，嗯，它不是真的，它不是一個真正的問題。

This is just a phase that the Earth will go through and like everything, it'll disappear.

這只是地球會經歷的一個階段，就像所有事情一樣，它會消失。

Well, I agree with people who say that the Earth goes through phases because sometimes there are centuries that are hotter and sometimes there are centuries that are colder.

嗯，我同意那些說地球會經歷階段的人，因為有時候有些世紀比較熱，有些世紀比較冷。

But I think it's undeniable that there has been a large and immediate global climate change in the last maybe 20 years.

但是，我認為不可否認的是，在過去大概二十年裡，全球氣候發生了巨大且立即的變化。

Yeah, we're Definitely speeding up maybe that cycle.

對，我們絕對是在加速那個週期。

And I think what's great evidence of this and terrible evidence of this is the three earthquakes, massive earthquakes that have happened in the last couple of months.

而且我認為，這方面很棒的證據，也是很糟糕的證據，就是過去幾個月發生的三次大地震。

And I think that earthquakes like last year and like, this year are really, really important reminders that we do as humans influence the way that the world responds to us.

而且我認為，像去年和今年的地震，都是非常非常重要的提醒，提醒我們人類確實會影響世界對我們的回應方式。

I think I always see it as the earth kind of just shaking its back, kind of saying, like, get off me.

我總是把它看成是地球在甩背，好像在說「下來啦」。

I think that that's kind of the way I see earthquakes sometimes.

我認為這就是我對地震有時候的看法。

But when they were talking about, well, is it real?

但當他們在討論，嗯，這是真的嗎？

They use a really interesting phrase and says, it sounds like a bunch of mumbo jumbo.

他們用了一個很有趣的說法，說聽起來像一堆胡說八道。

So this is a way to say it sounds like a bunch of garbage, or it sounds like a bunch of gibberish.

所以這是一種說法，聽起來像一堆垃圾，或者聽起來像一堆胡言亂語。

It sounds like a bunch of people are talking about something that doesn't really exist.

聽起來像一堆人在討論根本不存在的事情。

So mumbo jumbo is basically something that's not really real but true, I think.

所以胡說八道基本上就是一些不真實但卻是真的東西，我認為。

Can you use it as somebody that's saying something that you don't really understand?

你可以用它來形容某人說了一些你不太懂的東西嗎？

So if maybe I'm talking to you about something that's very academic and very scholarly.

所以如果我可能在跟你談論一些非常學術、非常學術的東西。

You say, sounds like a bunch of mumbo jumbo to me.

你說，聽起來像一堆胡說八道。

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