VOA常速英语:Community Efforts Help Reclaim In Mumbai Beaches

It’s Sunday. The day a group of young volunteers arrive early morning at a once-forgotten beachfront in central Mumbai on a mission to scoop out the trash left behind by citizens, all washed up by the sea.
这是一个星期天。这天，一群年轻的志愿者来到孟买市中心一处曾经被遗忘的海滨，他们的任务是清除被海水冲上岸的居民留下的垃圾。

Nobody knows that there were only the senior citizens, a dozen doing it, gradually grew to be…The youngsters are not aware of the beach. The bands of the Beach Warriors fill up quickly.
没有人知道一开始只有十几位老人做这件事，渐渐变为…年轻人并不知道这片海滩。海滩卫士的队伍很快就壮大了。

The laborious cleanup is showing results:more than 60 weeks after it began, the two kilometers sandy stretch is again attracting joggers, families, children and is giving residents a sense of pride.Till now, we have removed close to 700 tons of garbage from this Beach.A lot of people have joined the hands with us, and I can truly say that now it has become a movement. Several of the volunteers come from distant corners to get their hands dirty. They were inspired by a similar effort that has already restored on another beach in Mumbai. And after the community-support truck removes the trash, the eyes refocus on the sea and the birds. When we used to game that used to be like a layers of large rubbish, now we can see a better vision of it...at least the view if you see exactly...it’s...it sent tremendous view, but we don’t value this view...so we just wanted to uplift this the image of this in India.
这项艰苦的清理工作已初见成效：开始60多周后，两公里长的沙路再次吸引了慢跑者、家庭和儿童，并给当地居民带来了自豪感。到目前为止，我们已经从这个海滩上清除了近700吨垃圾。许多人与我们携手合作，我可以真诚地说，现在这已经成为一场运动。一些志愿者从很远的地方赶来捡拾垃圾。孟买另一处海滩已经恢复原貌，他们颇受激励。在社区支援车清理完垃圾后，人们重新看到了大海和鸟儿。以前我们在这个沙滩上玩游戏的时候，全是一层层的垃圾，现在我们可以看到一个较好的景色…至少，你可以看得很清楚的这片景色...视野开阔，但我们不只是为了看这片…我们想要提升它在印度的形象。

Prachi is optimistic that as such initiatives raise consciousness about how plastic is choking the oceans and the earth,future generations will treat the environment with greater care. Although Mumbai enforced a ban on single use plastic five months ago, plastic litter is still commonplace.
帕拉奇乐观地认为，随着这种行动的开展，人们开始意识到塑料是阻塞了海洋和地球，子孙后代将更加关心环境。尽管孟买在5个月前就颁布了法令禁止使用一次性塑料制品，但塑料垃圾仍然随处可见。

Someone if used to come here to throw the garbage, he or she used, to throw...and...in front of him,we would go there and pick his own garbage, and just to have a high contact with him:that this thing has done by you and we are someone with some help.If you help that boy or someone, then you can bring definitely the change.
有人如果在这里扔垃圾，用完就扔在面前….我们就会走过去让他捡起来，并教育他：这东西是你自己扔的，我们是来帮你的。如果你帮助了这个人，肯定会有所改观。

Many citizens who have witnessed the transformation acknowledged the need to do more. It ceases to require instigate and also to do so you are a more in the such kind of moment, um, I think, not you know not only enjoy, it is also required by the changes. That is the aim to encourage millions living in megacities like Mumbai to literally take the Earth’s future in their own hands.
许多人目睹了这一转变，他们承认，有必要采取更多行动。不再需要敦促，而是发自内心主动去做。嗯，我认为，这不仅是享受，也是变化所需要的。也就达到了这一目的：鼓励生活在像孟买这样的大城市里的数百万人把地球的未来掌握在自己手中。

I’m Anjana Pasricha, for VOA news Mumbai.
美国之音新闻记者Anjana Pasricha孟买报道。