希望我们能从节约身边的每一滴水做起！
关键词： sky high 非常高
Drought 遭遇干旱
Paddy: Do you know that China is suffering a fairly serious drought at the moment(此刻)?
帕迪： 你知道现在中国正经历着严重的干旱灾情吗？
Jim: I saw something the newspaper about it. What’s going on?
吉姆：我在报纸上看到一些。发生什么事了？
Paddy: Apparently 50 million people have been affected by it. In some places there is not even enough water for showers and laundry(n.洗衣服)!
帕迪：显然5亿人都受此影响。在一些地方，甚至没有足够的水用来洗澡和洗衣服。
Jim: Which parts of China are affected?
吉姆：中国的哪些地方受到影响了？
Paddy: Mostly Yunnan, Guangxi, Sichuan, Guizhou, and Chongqing. The problem is
that it is pushing food prices sky high…
帕迪：大多数在云南、广西、四川、贵州和重庆。问题是这样的情况迫使食品价格飙升。
Jim: So what has caused this drought?
吉姆：是什么引起了这次旱灾的？
Paddy: Deforestation and mining mainly. It doesn’t help when the price of gold is at an all time high. Companies will just clear the land and uproot trees to make money.
帕迪：主要是森林砍伐和矿采。当黄金价格总是很高的时候，这在所难免。公司只会去清理土地，将树连根拔起，以此赚钱。
Jim: Oh dear, it looks like tough times ahead for a lot of people in western china.
吉姆：天哪，看样子对于中国西部地区的很多人来说，之后会有一段艰苦岁月了。
Let’s go over some phrases now. 让我们一起来回顾一下有用的短语吧！
Drought:(n.)干旱
sky high: (adj.)非常高
deforestation: 森林砍伐
uproot trees: get rid of trees 根除树木 |
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