VOA慢速英语:Experts Meet in Rome to Discuss Cleaner and Greener Information and Communication Technologi

短语讲解：

1. The event calls attention to the need for information and communication technologies to fight climate change and to build greener, more environmentally-friendly economies.

call for需要
例句：More work doesn't necessarily call for more men.
增加工作不一定要增加人员。

2. But the increasing use of information and communication technologies, also known as ICTs, also has led to more pollution, especially greenhouse gas emissions.

lead to导致, 引起
例句：In given conditions, a bad thing can lead to good results.
在一定条件下, 一件坏事可以导致好的结果。

3. When you’re look at greening with ITs, you’re looking at the impact of ICTs on the environment but also what ICTs can be used in order to improve the impact of other industries on the environment.

in order to为了
例句：We started early in order to arrive before dark.
为了在天黑前到达,我们很早就动身了。

4. And I think the overwhelming consensus is that you can’t throw the baby out with the bath water.

throw the baby out with the bath water不分良莠
例句：Do not throw out the baby with the bath water.
勿因小失大。

5. Mr. Finlay says the GISWatch report and events like the ITU’s Green Standards Week are meant to look at the ICT industry as a whole.

as a whole整体来看
例句：We must consider these matters as a whole.
我们必须从整体上考虑这些事情。

6. To our mind you can’t really divorce issues like e-waste --- which you see the massive negative consequences in Asia for instance, and direct impact on poor people’s lives and well being --- from the equation.

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。

7. The Rome meeting is taking place less than three months before the United Nations Climate Change Conference opens in Durban, South Africa.

take place发生; 举行
例句：The meeting will take place soon.会议即将举行。