实战口语情景对话 第692期:Saving Energy 节约能源

Jeff: So, you are pretty in tune with global warming. You are pretty in tune with the environment — conscious, environmentally conscious. What do you do to do your part for help protecting the environment?
杰夫：你非常认同全球变暖这个说法。你有环保意识。在保护环境方面你做了哪些努力？

Tim: Yeah, well, I think I do quite a bit. I grew up in an area that's really environmentally conscious. Oregon is pretty environmentally conscious, so I recycle. It's pretty easy to recycle in Oregon. They just pick it right up at your house. You don't have to separate it. They separate it for you, so I recycle as much as I possibly can.
蒂姆：嗯，我想我付出了很多努力。我在一个环保意识非常强的地区长大。俄勒冈州的环保意识非常强，我会进行一些循环利用。在俄勒冈州回收利用很容易。会有人去你家里收垃圾，你不用进行垃圾分类。会有人帮你进行分类，所以我们尽可能地进行回收利用。

Jeff: But maybe those are traditional things. Do you do anything sort of more advanced or more modern than just recycling? Is there anything in your life that's more more modern?杰夫：不过这些都是传统的事情。你有没有做过比回收利用更先进的事情？你在生活中有没有做过更现代的事情？Tim: Well, one thing: I recently bought a hybrid car.
蒂姆：有一件事：我最近买了一辆混合动力车。

Jeff: A hybrid car.
杰夫：混合动力车。

Tim: Yeah.
蒂姆：对。

Jeff: What's a hybrid car?
杰夫：什么是混合动力车？

Tim: So it is a car that basically gets better gas mileage cause what my car does is I have to put gas in it. I have to put gas in it but when I break it takes the energy created by the heat from the breaking and it charges the battery, and then the battery can help power the car, so it's half gasoline, half — just electric energy from the battery.
蒂姆：这种车更省油，当然也要加油。混合动力车也要加油，不过在刹车时它能利用刹车所创造出来的热量，为电池充电，这样电池就能辅助为汽车提供动力，所以这种车是一半用汽油，一半用电池提供的电能。

Jeff: Really. Electric and gas.
杰夫：真的吗？电能和汽油。

Tim: Yeah.
蒂姆：对。

Jeff: Really interesting. So do you have to charge the car at night? Do you have to plug it in or anything like that?
杰夫：真有意思。那你晚上要给汽车充电吗？你是要连上电源还是怎样做？

Tim: No, my car just by breaking it charges the battery completely. Occasionally, I've heard of some people that if they leave their car for like a year or something they have to go back and they'll have to plug in the battery and it will charge up, but for the most part I don't have to do very much at all.
蒂姆：不用，我的汽车完全通过刹车创造的热量为电池充电。我曾听别人说过，如果他们的车一年没有开，那就要重新连上电源充电，不过基本上我不用做太多事情。

Jeff: So that is a fancy watch you're wearing as well. Is that environmentally friendly at all?
杰夫：你戴的表也不错。这块手表也是环保的吗？

Tim: Oh, yeah. This watch actually doesn't take batteries. It's solar powered and so it just gets energy from the sun.
蒂姆：对。这块手表不用电池。这是太阳能手表，用的是太阳的能量。

Jeff: Wow. So you pretty environmentally conscious dude.
杰夫：哇。你真是个环保意识很强的人。

Tim: I try.
蒂姆：我努力这样做。