CRI听力:Adapting to Nature is Better Way to Deal with Natural Disasters

短语讲解：

1. With the presence of the Swedish King Carl. XVI Gustaf who is also the patron of the Stockholm Water Prize, the Laureates have discussed the challenges of dealing with large natural disasters such as floods and droughts.

deal with应付, 处理; 对待
例句：He must deal with many difficulties.
他必须应付许多困难。

2. And we found time and time again that cost much more of our money to put the safety grass in the place and maintain it and so on than let the nature take care of themselves by keeping the flood plain and allowing the flood to occur, allowing the flood to take out the nitrogen so that it doesn't cause the water pollution in the gulf of Mexico, and also allow it to build a delta in Louisiana so there wouldn't have another hurricane of Katrina.

take care of照顾
例句：They appointed her to take care of that old man.
他们委派她照顾那位老人。
take out清除, 除掉
例句：There's a nasty mark on the tablecloth, and I don't think the usual washing powder will take it out.
桌布上有一块污迹, 我想用普通洗衣粉是洗不掉的。

3. Professor Mitsch explained that it doesn't mean we will go back to the cave period, but people should take the advantage to find out what nature still can do for mankind within its capacity.

go back to回去
例句：They yearned to go back to their homeland.
他们念念不忘要回到祖国。
find out发现, 看穿, 揭发
例句：Please find out when the train starts.
请你查一下火车什么时候开。

4. Sunita Narain, Stockholm Water Prize Laureate in 2005 said urban culture should learn from the adapting capability of rural culture.

learn from向…学习; 从…获得〔吸取〕
例句：She learned everything from me.
她什么都是向我学的。

5. The rural culture is built on its productivity and its economic system by learning how to do best and optimize from what nature can give, if you look at the way for instance Indians can live with the scarcity of water as well as its access of water, it is incredible.

for instance例如, 比如
例句：You cannot rely on her; for instance, she arrived an hour late for an important meeting yesterday.
她这人靠不住, 例如昨天一个重要会议, 她迟到了一个小时。
live with学会去适应; 接受并忍受
例句：Whether you like it or not, you will have to live with the new tax law.
不管你喜欢与否, 你得接受新税法。

6. If we have a known specific kind of disturbance, it is possible to develop a specific kind of resilience to that disturbance, for example the cycle of the Monsoon, is something that one can adapt to, over a period of time, and humans have developed a huge capacity for this sort of resilience, we are now entering a time of uNPRecedented changes and that raises the issue of the general resilience, in other words, how can we become resilience to a set of changes that we don't really understand.

adapt to变得习惯于…, 使适应于, 能应付…
例句：I adapted quickly to the new climate.
我很快地适应了这种新的气候。

7. The experts pointed out that human beings did a lot of things which showed that we didn't learn from the past experience for example building houses in the river beds which sooner or later can be washed away by floods.

point out指出
例句：If I make any mistakes, please point them out.
如果我出了错, 请指出来。
wash away冲走, 清洗
例句：A ship got stranded along the shore, but last night sea waves washed it away again.
有条船在岸边搁浅了, 可昨天晚上海浪又把它冲走了。

8. Professor Carl Folke from Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences and an expert in resilience said that mankind cannot afford to lose resilience because we simply don't have that many resources on earth.

afford to (买)得起(某物); 承担，承受
例句：We can't afford to pay such a price.
我们付不起这个价钱。